Fertility Capability Classification of Soils in Two Agro Ecological Zones in the Basement Complex Zone of Nigeria

Abstract

The development and survival of human of the human race is based on the performance of soils and its ability to productive in other to meet human food demand (Hillel, 2009) and the sustainable use of the soil in other to ensure food supply to the geometrically increasing world population have become one of the global issues of the 21 st century (Lal, 2008, 2009; Jones et al., 2009; Lichtfouse et al., 2009).