Abstract
Index and engineering properties (like moisture content, liquid limit, plastic limit, plasticity etc.) of soils of deltaic region of West Bengal were studied and reported in Part-I of this paper. In Part-II of this paper, the physicochemical properties of soils like moisture content pH, EC, exchangeable cations (K + , Na + , Ca 2+ , Mg 2+ ) and cations under stress conditions were determined. The results were utilized to determine SAR (sodium absorption ratio), K G (Gapon constant). PBC K (potential buffering capacity of K) and K-status of soils. The parameters are important for the proper management of soils in agronomy. Exchangeable Na + ions appears to be considerable and may affect K G but it is not usually taken into consideration. Attempts to correlate the engineering property of soils (like particle size distribution) with concentrations of exchangeable ions are not successful.
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