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Soils support terrestrial ecosystems and human life. They largely determine the agricultural capacity of the land in spite of the increasing artificial inputs in cropping systems.
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Vallejo, R. (1999). Evaluation of Soils for Land Use Allocation. In: Golley, F.B., Bellot, J. (eds) Rural Planning from an Environmental Systems Perspective. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1448-9_6
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