agronomy agricultural physics agricultural meteorology soil science

Singh, Dhyan, Chhonkar, P.K. and Pandey, R.N. 1999. Soil Plant Water Analysis.
A Methods Manual. Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, pp. 160.
Tisdale, S.L, Nelson, W.L., Beaton, J.D. and Havlin, J.L. 1990. Soil Fertility and
Fertilizers (5th edn). Macmillan Pub. New York, pp.754.
Wild, A. (ed) 1988. Soil Conditions and Plant Growth (11th edn.) Longman, London,
pp.991.
2. Soil technology (2+1)
Scope and introduction; Extent, distribution and chemistry of problem soils; management
of acid and acid sulphate, saline, sodic and calcareous; Management principles
of sandy, clayey, red and lateritic, and dryland soils; Soil-plant adjustment principles;
Quality of irrigation water and management of saline water for irrigation.
Practical
Characterization of acid, acid sulphate, saline, sodic and calcareous soils; Lime requirement
of acid soils; gypsum requirement of sodic soils; Quality aspects of irrigation
water.
Suggested Readings
Bear, F.E. 1964.Chemistry of Soil, Oxford & IBH Pub. New Delhi 515.
Black, C.A. 1968. Soil Plant Relationships. John Wiley, New York, pp.792.
Tu Tram Rou. Physical Chemistry of Problem Soils.
Ghassemi, F., Jakeman, A.J. and Nix H.A. 1995. Salinization of Land and Water
Resources, CAB International, Wallingford, U.K. 526.
3. Soil survey and land use planning (2+1)
Soil survey procedures; Remote sensing techniques including aerial photointerpretation;
Cartography- principles and techniques for preparation of soil and other interpretative
maps, processing of field sheets, compilation and abstraction of maps on
different scales; Soil correlation; Criteria for classification at different levels in Soil
Taxonomy; Soil quality assessment; Interpretation of soil resource information for
agricultural and non- agricultural uses;. Land use planning concepts of benchmark
soils for agrotechnology transfer in soils; Geographic information; Systems for resource
inventorilization.
Practical
Study of soil profiles developed in different moisture and temperature regimes and