Table 1.

Classification of climate zones of India and locations (state and city) in which soil solarization trials were carried out.

Climate zone	State (city)
Humid	Karnataka (Shimoga)
	Manipur (Manipur)
Moist sub-humid	Himachal Pradesh (Shimla, Solan)
	Kerala (Trivandrum)
	Uttarakhand (Haldwani, Pantnagar)
	West Bengal (Burdwan)
Dry sub-humid	Madhya Pradesh (Akola, Gwalior, Jabalpur)
Semi-arid	Delhi (Delhi)
	Karnataka (Bangalore)
	Gujarat (Gandhinagar)
	Punjab (Abohar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana)
	Tamil Nadu (Chidambaram)
	Telangana (Hyderabad)
	Uttar Pradesh (Allahabad, Lucknow)
Arid	Rajasthan (Jodhpur)