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Keywords: the laterite exaggeration, soil organic matter, soils of the tropics, high base status (Alfisols, Vertisols, Mollisols) and low base status soils (Oxisols, Ultisols, some Inceptisols) are highly leached but have excellent physical properties which facilitate tillage and reduce erosion hazards, intensive production in high base status soils, extensive production in low base status soils, prognosis for increasing food production in the tropics,