Jharkhand GK MCQ Question and Answer | State Gk MCQ

Loamy soil is called Charaka or Kharsi in local language and loamy alluvial soil is called Ghoris.

Shifting cultivation is a mode of farming long followed in the humid tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. In the practice of “slash and burn”, farmers would cut the native vegetation and burn it, then plant crops in the exposed, ash-fertilized soil for two or three seasons in succession. It increases soil erosion rate.

Basalt releases much calcium and will produce only clay and silt when it weathers to soil. It is one of the most common rocks in the area, so that the black clay soils, uniform texture, coarse structure and grey clay soils which develop on the basalt, or the alluvium from it, are widespread.

The Sandy Loam soil is known as Goris. In local language of Jharkhand.