Indian Institute of Soil Science

The division maintains a database of the effect of soil pollution due to overuse of chemicals and tracks major environmental issues related to organic farming.

[9] The research activities of the division is focused on managing nutrient and water levels by applying statistics and computer applications.

IISS hosts an Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit (AKMU) to provide communication facilities to the scientists and the institute, in general.

It provides document lending, reference and reprographic Services and has AGRIS database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The project is now known as Long-term fertilizer experiments to study changes in soil quality, crop productivity and sustainability after its mandate was expanded.