Pomegranate and ber are important fruits find favour especially in arid/ semi-arid
areas of tropics all across the globe. Bright sun-shine and light soil offer premium quality in
harvest unmatching to the harvest obtained from any where else in the world. However, the
share of India in world trade is abysmally low. Quality of the produce matching to international
standard is proved as the hard impediment in this regard. It is obvious that the quality of produce
depends a lot upon the inherent fertility and productivity of soil. To have an account of all such
factors study was undertaken selecting ten representative orchards of pomegranate cv. Ganesh
and also of ber cv. Gola of Bikaner district and it was attempted to study the inherent nutrient
status of orchards and its impact on physicochemical characteristics of fruits. Soil samples were
collected from each orchard from 0-60 cm soil depth. From the investigation it was found that the
level of organic carbon, nitrogen, zinc, phosphorus and sulphur was low to medium and
potassium content was in medium range in soils of selected sites in orchards in Bikaner district.
All soil nutrients were found positively correlated with nutrient status of leaves, fruit yield and
qualitative attributes of ber except phosphorous and zinc contents in leaves.