Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH NOTE

  71st Annual Convention of the Indian Society of Soil Science: A brief report

  • Author: R.K. Rattan

• Address by the Chief Guest*

  • Author: Rameshwar Thakur

• Future of Soil Science

  • Author: J.S. Samra

• Enhancing nitrogen use efficiency in rice and wheat – Challenges and Options

  • Author: Bijay-Singh

• Exploiting water nutrient synergy – A must for evergreen revolution

  • Author: Anil Kumar Singh

• Natural Resource Management in Indian cold arid region

  • Author: P.D. Sharma

• Organic farming for sustainability

  • Author: K.M. Ramanathan

• Future of Soil Science: In splendid isolation or spirited collaboration?

  • Author: G. Narayanasamy

• Resource conserving technologies for Management of Natural Resources

  • Author: Raj K. Gupta

• Efficient management of land resources for sustainable agriculture in Bihar

  • Author: S.K. Chandra

• Participatory watershed management – A key to sustainable agriculture

  • Author: K.D. Singh

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Cracking of a vertisol as influenced by puddling and residue management under rice-wheat cropping system

  • Author: M. Mohanty, D.K. Painuli, K.G. Mandal, N.K. Pachlaniya, A.K. Misra

• Clay mineralogy of the salt-affected soils of South-West Punjab

  • Author: Jagmohan Singh, J.S. Sawhney

• Use of information technology for mapping of DTPA-extractable micronutrients in soils of Amritsar District, Punjab

  • Author: P.K. Sharma, Anil Sood, R.K. Setia, V.K. Verma, Deepak Mehra, N.S. Tur, V.K. Nayyar

• Temporal changes of IARI farm soils under mechanized and intensive cultivation

  • Author: Ashis Maity, Nayan Ahmed, S.K. Mahapatra

• Development and use of indicators in assessing sustain ability of soil and water resources – A case study in the cotton-wheat system of Northern India

  • Author: S. Chatterji, M.V. Venugopalan, P. Ramasundaram, P. Tiwary, U.K. Singh

• Effect of land uses on relationship between organic carbon and available nutrients in dry temperate zone of Himachal Pradesh

  • Author: Pradeep Kumar, T.S. Verma, Pradeep K. Sharma

• Effect of micronutrient fertilizers on release of nutrients in saline-sorlic soil#

  • Author: P.B. Jagtap, J.D. Patil, C.A. Nimbalkar, A.D. Kadlag

• Effect of Zn and Fe enriched FYM on mustard yield and micronutrient availability in Loamy sand soil (Typic Haplustept) of Anand

  • Author: M.C. Meena, K.P. Patel, D.D. Rathod

• Effect of nitrogen-15 labelled urea application alone and in combination with farmyard manure or green manure on yield of and nitrogen use efficiency by rice

  • Author: Ranjan Bhattacharyya, M.S. Sachdev, K.S. Uppal, G. Narayanasamy, S.P. Datta, A.K. Singh

• Response of French Bean to moisture regimes, P levels and P solubiliser in vertisol of Malaprabha Command, Karnataka

  • Author: P.L. Patil, B.M. Radder, S.G. Patil, Y.R. Aladakatti, C.B. Meti, A.B. Khot

• SHORT COMMUNICATION

  Status of Macro- and Micronutrients in some soils of Tonk District of Rajasthan

  • Author: H.B. Meena, R.P. Sharma, U.S. Rawat

• Targeted yield approach for assessing the fertilizer requirments of onion in vertisols

  • Author: B.S. Kadam, K.R. Sonar

• Interaction effect of sulphur and boron on yield, nutrient uptake and quality characters of soybean (Glycine max L. Merill) grown in acidic upland soil

  • Author: R.N. Singh, Surendra Singh, Binod Kumar

• OBITUARIES

  Obituary 1

• Obituary 2