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Abstract
India is an agriculture-based economy and in agriculture soil properties plays the major role in deciding the yield quality and yield quantity. The major properties of soil are soil pH, conductivity of soil and soil Volumetric Moisture Content (VMC) content. Soil pH, conductivity and its VMC are the important soil parameters as they affects the physical and chemical properties of the soil, availability of water to plants and availability of nutrients in soil that can be absorbed by plants. This paper discusses the soil pH, soil conductivity and soil VMC and the effect of pH, conductivity and VMC on soil properties and plant growth. The various factors affecting the soil pH, conductivity and available moisture content for plant absorption are also presented. The different methods used for altering these major properties in order to make the soil suitable for agriculture provides are also presented in the paper.