This book is written to serve as a reference/ guide book for the students of Agriculture and field practitoners. This book fills the need for an update comperhensive text on soils for the students at under graduate and post graduate levels. the coverage of thirty three chapters bring out different aspects ofsoils which inclouds Origin, minerals, soil farming factors, carbon sequestration, Carbon trading, soil organisms, asoil water potential and soil reactions etc. Each chapter is complete and illustrative in easy and simple language.