Potatoes grow well on Anhad’s farm which has soil with a pH of 5.5. Anhad decides to add lot of lime to soil so that he can grow broccoli in the same farm:(a) Do potatoes grow better in acidic or alkaline soil?
(b) Does broccoli grow better in acidic or alkaline soil?

Academic Chemistry NCERT Class 10

Potatoes grow well on Anhad’s farm which has soil with a pH of 5.5.

(a) Potatoes grow in the soil having acidic soil as it had a pH of 5.5.

(b) Broccoli grows better in alkaline soil as Anhad added a lot of lime to the acidic soil to make it basic.

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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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