This zone includes Adilabad, Komaram Bheem Asifabad, Nirmal, Mancherial, Nizamabad, Jagtial, Peddapalli, Kamareddy, Rajanna Sircilla and Karimnagar districts. Annual rainfall ranges from 867 mm to 1189 mm, received mostly from the south-west monsoon rainfall. During this seasonmaximumtemperatures ranges between 31 and 390C and minimum ranges between 14 and 250C. There are 16 types of soils in NTZ. It has shallow black soils (18.4%), deep calcareous soils (16.6%) and red clayey soils (15.2% of area). However, as a whole, red soils of different textures are predominant in this zone to an extent of 45 per cent and is followed by black soils (24%) and calcareous soils (20%). Predominant crops in this zone include rice, maize, soybean, sesame, cotton, redgram, sugarcane and turmeric.