India, an agricultural country, has diverse soil types crucial for crop growth. The major types of soil found in India are ...

India’s farming future depends on healthy soil. Explore the urgent challenges, innovative solutions, and bold policies ...

AT the last meeting of the International Society of Soil Science it was decided to prepare a soil map of Asia, and the work of compiling the available materials was entrusted to a sub-commission ...

Who would have imagined that India, which lived from “ship to mouth” with heavy dependence on food aid under the US Public Law 480 programme in the 1960s, would emerge as the world’s largest rice ...

Soil hydraulic properties are important for irrigation scheduling and proper land-use planning. Field capacity, permanent wilting point and infiltration rate are the three vital hydraulic properties ...

Comprehensive reports on land-use changes and their impact on soil biological properties, specifically microbial population in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of India, are lacking. Since IGP is the ...