Improving response of crops to nutrients in dominant soil groups of India.

Developing efficient integrated plant nutrient supply and management systems for sustainable agriculture in different agro-ecological regions.

Identifying and quantifying basic soil and crop factors and processes responsible for gains and losses, storage, release and movement of nutrients in dominate soil groups of India.

Determining the quality of organic carbon pools, capacity for sequestering carbon and its quantification in soils.

Defining, identifying and quantifying of soil health parameters.

Quantifying nutrient-water-tillage interaction and root growth dynamics in the soil environment for the sustainability of important agricultural systems.

Developing and validating of models describing the fate of applied nutrients and water for efficient nutrients and water management for sustainable agriculture.

Quantifying the role of soil microbial biomass, VAM, root exudates, legumes in N, S, Z n and Fe solubilization and/or mineralization to enhance their use-efficiency in soil with diverse properties.

Developing technology for efficient recycling of urban solid wastes & agro-industrial effluents.

Developing methods for the quality assessment of manures.

Studying ecological impacts of nutrient input and waste management practices on soil health.

Quantifying processes responsible for retention, release and bioavailability of heavy metals and their upper threshold values in soils.

Fine-tuning, on farmers' fields the technologies generated.

Carrying out diagnostic surveys.

Strengthening weak research database on soil and nutrient management to provide a sound base for further carrying out basic and strategic research.