Research Group and Themes

A. Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition:

ü         Fine tune fertilizer recommendations based on soil tests and nutrient dynamics in different cropping systems.

ü         Devise strategies for efficient nutrient management under stress land conditions.

ü                   Development of multinutrient foliar fertilizers and devise strategies for their efficient use by farmers.

ü                   Advisory service to farmers pertaining to nutrient status of soil and plants. 

B. Soil and Water Chemistry and Environment

ü                   Cost-effective technology development for reclaiming salt-affected soils.

ü        Treatment and management strategies for the use of brackish waters use.

ü                   Development of water quality standards for irrigation under different agroecological conditions of Pakistan

ü                   Salinity/sodicity analysis, advisory services to farmers and others.

C. Saline Agriculture

ü                   Improving the productivity of salt-affected lands through the use of salt tolerant varieties of crops and other plant species.

ü         Amelioration of salt-affected soils through improved biological activity in soils.

ü                   Improvement of existing saline agriculture technology.

ü                   Render Advisory Services to farmers pertaining to transplantation on stress lands

D. Soil Physics, Survey, Genesis and Classification

ü         Development of technologies for improvement of crop yields on compacted soils.

ü         Studies on effect of brackish water on soil physical properties and crop yields.

ü         Development of technology for the improvement of physical conditions of soils under rice-wheat cropping system.

ü                   Development and use of GIS and remote sensing system for classification of natural resources for their production potential and mapping of land degradation.

E. Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry  

ü                   Microbial cycling of nutrients in soils.

ü         Development of biofertilizers for different crops.

ü         Enzymatic transformations in soils.

ü                   Biodegradation of toxic materials in soils.

F. Environmental Sciences

ü                   Investigate hazards of city and industrial effluents on soil and plant health.

ü                   Chemical as well as biological and phyto-amelioration of heavy metal-contaminated soils.

ü                   Monitoring the impact of fertilizer use on soil, water and environment.

ü                   Modeling movement of environmental pollutants in soil.

ü                   Bioremediation of contaminated industrial wastes