Ghosh, J.J.George, U.Barpujari, N.Jain, N.K.2008-12-172008-12-172006Ghosh, JJ, George, U & Barpujari, N 2006, 'Available Sulphur Status of Dooars Tea Soils', International Journal of Tea Science, vol. 5, no. 3&4, pp. 1-9.0972-544Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/8455This item was scanned with a HP 4850 Scanjet at 300 dpi and consists of 9 pages.Available sulphur was determined on 5077 soils from the tea growing areas of Dooars (North Bengal), received for routine soil testing between 2000-2003. Over 43% of the soils had more than the critical limit of 40 ppm available sulphur. A distinct geographical trend in sulphur availability was observed, with the four western sub-districts showing a greater frequency of high available sulphur than the three eastern sub-districts. As expected, increased organic carbon in the soils could be correlated by a quadratic equation to the available sulphur status. Three sub-districts, Chulsa, Binnaguri and Dalgaon did not show a high correlation between organic carbon and available sulphur. Surprisingly, a negative linear relationship could be observed between soil pH and available sulphur, in all but the Jainti sub-district. This may be compounded by a negative correlation between soil pH and organic carbon status, in all but the Binnaguri, Kalchini and Jainti sub-districts.enInternational Society of Tea Science (ISTS)Camellia sinensisSoil organic carbonTea -- India -- DooarsSulphurSoil aciditySoils -- TestingSoil physical chemistryArticle