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The first soil survey in the Philippines was done by Mr. Clarence
Dorsey, an American soil scientist in the province of Batangas in
1903. The Soils of the Philippines, however, is the first
comprehensive summary of more than a century of soil-survey work in
this country. It integrates the soil concepts of the reconnaissance
soil-survey results, which commenced as early as 1934 and continued
until the mid 1960s, with the semi-detailed soil surveys that
continue to this day. The result is the first-ever genetic
key for classifying Philippine soils at soil series level; thus,
making it possible for any newcomers to the soil survey field to
confidently produce their own soil map, at a more detailed map
scale, to suit the project requirements. This book brings together
discussions on soils and soil mapping units and up-to-date
international techniques and technologies. It makes soils relevant
to current political realities and national issues. As soil survey
moves from a reductionist agricultural-development planning tool to
a more holistic and integrated approach, to enable us to understand
our dynamic and complex environment, The Soils of the Philippines
will be the only source of authoritative and updated data on soil
resources for macro-level resource management planning for decades
to come. With a vanishing breed of experienced soil surveyors, not
only in the Philippines but also worldwide, it may remain the only
book on Philippine soils for the next hundred years or more. Since
soils follow a geological and not a human time frame, the contents
of this volume will stay relevant for soil surveyors even in a fast
changing world. As the country leaps from an agricultural economy
towards modernization and a more diversified economic base, some of
the soil series in the Philippines, for example the Guadalupe
series underlying the skyscrapers of Makati City,
are becoming extinct as a result of urban development.
Therefore, this book serves as the repository for the soils that we
possess, the soils that have been lost through decades of
urbanization while, at the same time, it creates a soil
classification system for the soils we are yet to discover.
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