Research Divisions
Dr. R. S. Chaudhary, Head of Soil Physics, Email: rsc@iiss.res.in
Soil Chemistry and
Fertility
Dr. A. K. Biswas, HOD, Email: akb@iiss.res.in
Soil Biology
Dr. M.C. Manna, HOD, Email: mcm@iiss.res.in
Environmental Soil
Science
Dr. J.K. Saha, HOD, Email: jks@iiss.res.in
Dr. Manoranjan Mohanty, In-Charge,
Email:
mmohanty@iiss.res.in
Dr. J. Somasundaram, In-Charge, somasundaram@iiss.res.in,aris@iiss.res.in
Soil Physics- Soil Chemistry and Fertility
- Soil Biology
- Environmental Soil Science
- Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory
- Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit (AKMU)
- Library,Information and documentation Services
- Infrastrusture Development
Dr. R. S. Chaudhary, Head of Soil Physics, Email: rsc@iiss.res.in
 The
major focus of research of this division is on enhancing/
sustaining soil quality, productivity and input use
efficiency through studies on conservation tillage,
interaction of water and nutrient/ tillage, crop
diversification, rain-water harvesting and moisture
conservation, simulation models for water and nutrient
transmission and uptake, management of soil physical
properties, soil aggregation dynamics, soil organic carbon
conservation and sequestration in relation climate change
etc. The divisional laboratory is equipped with sophisticated equipments (pressure plate apparatus, sand box, neutron moisture meter, depth density gauge, Guelph permeameter, K-permeameter, rainfall simulator, wet sieving apparatus, root scanner and image analysis system, automatic runoff recorder and sediment collection, automatic weather station etc.) |
Dr. A. K. Biswas, HOD, Email: akb@iiss.res.in
The Division is poised to play a key role in meeting out the
challenges enumerated in the vision 2050 of the institute,
especially, the challenges for ensuring food and nutritional
security from shrinking land resources and achieving self
reliance in crop fertilization through indigenous mineral
and by-product sources. The Division will also be playing a
key role in generating wisdom, and techniques for sustaining
soil health and improving nutrient use efficiency through
precision agriculture, nanotechnology and biotechnology.
Besides, the Division will continue to collaborate with
scientists from other divisions in meeting out the
challenges of characterizing and conserving large
soil-biodiversity for appropriate deployment in agriculture;
developing efficient technologies of waste recycling;
maintaining soil quality and ecological balance, and
developing energy efficient agriculture, carbon
sequestration etc.. |
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Dr. M.C. Manna, HOD, Email: mcm@iiss.res.in
 Division
of Soil Biology is entrusted with responsibility to
undertake research on maintaining soil biodiversity in
agro-ecosystem. Soil biochemical attributes and produce
quality indices, development of technologies of recycling of
various C: N ratio wastes, assessment of soil quality
parameters, quality of organic pools, soil C/C sequestration
under different agro system, characterization of functional
communities of soil organisms and microbial biodiversities
have been taken up as major programme of research.
Important equipments in this divisional
laboratory include HPLC, GLC, laminar flow, BOD incubator,
research microscope with camera and CCTV system, automatic
media distributor, incubator shaker and other basic
facilities like muffle furnace, vacuum driver, water
purification system, Gerhardt block digester and
inoculation room.
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Dr. J.K. Saha, HOD, Email: jks@iiss.res.in
 The
Division is entrusted with the responsibility to create a
database on the extent of soil pollution due to
indiscriminate use of fertilizers, city, industrial and
agricultural wastes for crop production and to develop
suitable prescriptions and technologies for safe recycling
of these wastes into agriculturally productive soils. The
division is also engaged in evaluating sink capacity of
soils for heavy metal pollutants and major environmental
issues related to organic farming.
The divisional laboratory is equipped with
the equipments like, Polarographic analyzer, Water
analyzer, Soxlet apparatus, BOD and COD analyzer, Infra
red gas analyzer (IRGA), Water potential system, TLC, Ion
chromatograph, UV-visible spectrophotometer, N
distillation system, Flame photometer, Nephalometer
besides other basic facilities.
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The Remote sensing and GIS laboratory has been established to
disseminate knowledge of geospatial technologies in natural resource management
and to support advanced research and education in environmental remote sensing, GIS,
spatial analysis and modeling. The laboratory is well equipped with work stations,
digitiser, plotter, ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine and SPSS. It provides state-of-art facility for
GIS, image processing, modelling, statistical analysis and visualisation.
Agricultural Knowledge
Management Unit (AKMU)
Dr. J. Somasundaram, In-Charge, somasundaram@iiss.res.in,aris@iiss.res.in
Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit (AKMU) is
equipped with all modern facilities to provide e-mail
connectivity and browsing facility through Internet to all the
scientists and officials. Local Area Network (LAN) Server has
been connected to Internet through our own VSAT. LAN is in
operation with 75 nodes. AKMU is maintaining its own e-mail
server (iiss) using Linux (Red Hat 9.0). E-mail accounts of all
the scientists and officials have been created. The AKMU is also
engaged in creating database related to soil nutrients. Home
page and website for the Institute have been launched.
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Mrs. Nirmala Mahajan,
In-Charge, Email:
nmahajan1@iiss.res.in The library is well maintained with facilities lending, reference service, reprographic services etc. The Library also exchanges the institute publication with the other ICAR Institutes, SAUs and renowned Scientists in the field of Soil Science. The institute library has been further strengthened with following new additions.
 The
library is well maintained with the facilities of
Document Lending Service, Reference service,
Reprographic Service. During this year, library has
acquired AGRIS database of FAO under the NATP scheme in
order to strengthen the library. The library is already
having SOIL-CD on the CD media and is providing search
facilities to users. The databases of books, annual
reports, and other documents are being maintained on
Window version of CDS/ISIS, i.e., WINISIS. Current
Awareness Service (CAS) is also being provided to the
users by content page of the journal(s). | ||||||||||||||||||||
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