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Research
Group and Themes
A. Soil
Fertility and Plant Nutrition:
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Fine tune fertilizer recommendations based on soil tests and nutrient
dynamics in different cropping systems.
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Devise strategies for efficient nutrient management under stress land
conditions.
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Development of
multinutrient foliar fertilizers and devise strategies for their
efficient use by farmers.
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Advisory
service to farmers pertaining to nutrient status of soil and
plants.
B.
Soil and Water Chemistry and Environment
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Cost-effective
technology development for reclaiming salt-affected soils.
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Treatment and management strategies for the use of brackish waters use.
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Development of
water quality standards for irrigation under different
agroecological conditions of
Pakistan
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Salinity/sodicity
analysis, advisory services to farmers and others.
C.
Saline Agriculture
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Improving the
productivity of salt-affected lands through the use of salt
tolerant varieties of crops and other plant species.
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Amelioration of
salt-affected soils through improved biological activity in soils.
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Improvement of
existing saline agriculture technology.
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Render
Advisory Services to farmers pertaining to transplantation on stress
lands
D. Soil
Physics, Survey, Genesis and Classification
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Development of technologies for improvement of crop yields on compacted
soils.
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Studies on effect of brackish water on soil physical properties and crop
yields.
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Development of technology for the improvement of physical conditions of soils
under
rice-wheat cropping system.
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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
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Microbial
cycling of nutrients in soils.
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Development of biofertilizers for different crops.
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Enzymatic transformations in soils.
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Biodegradation
of toxic materials in soils.
F.
Environmental Sciences
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Investigate
hazards of city and industrial effluents on soil and plant health.
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Chemical as
well as biological and phyto-amelioration of heavy metal-contaminated soils.
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Monitoring the
impact of fertilizer use on soil, water and environment.
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Modeling
movement of environmental pollutants in soil.
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Bioremediation
of contaminated industrial wastes |