Microbial Biomass and Enzymatic Activity of Major Cropping Systems in Soils of Inceptisols and Vertisols at Northern Telangana

Under cropping systems, microbial biomass plays a major role in nutrient and energy flow of soil. Similarly, urease dehydrogenase activities are essential for nitrogen cycle determining biological index soils, respectively. However, their information is minimal at systems this region. Therefore, surface soil (00-15 cm) samples were collected after 8 years from rice-rice, rice-maize, cotton turmeric-sesame soils Inceptisols Vertisols Northern Telangana zone during kharif 2019. A five replicated collected, assessed statistically analyzed with factorial randomized block design. The results revealed that the forms carbon (14%) (22%), (29%) (20%) activity found to be higher under compared Inceptisols. Among rice-rice showed significantly properties than others. interactions significant activity. Urease positively correlated available organic content respectively systems.