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            Profile features


                     Except for areas where poor drainage occurs, Acrisols have

            an ochric horizon. This horizon may be underlain by an albic horizon
            with yellowish colours. The argic horizon is usually reddish with a

            maximum clay content reached in the upper part below, in which
            the amount gradually decreases. In many cases, a strongly mottled

            of plinthic horizon occurs in the deeper subsoils.


            Environment and landforms


                     Acrisols are developed in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions on old

            landscapes with undulating topography. They frequently occur in associations with Petric
            Plinthosols and Ferralsols upslope, and with Greysols downslope.



            Use and management


                     Acrisols are acid and nutrient-poor soil. Most areas are used for subsistence agriculture.
            Lacking amendments with lime and fertilizer, these soils are rapidly being degraded. Without

            sufficiently long fallow intervals of liming and fertilizer, crops have problems with aluminum
            toxicity and phosphorus deficiency because of fixation. They are also extremely risky to erosion

            when the surface has no cover crops.






































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