Delegates to the University’s agriculture workshop at Kharagpur
Scientists attending an agriculture workshop in India organised by the University of Sydney have called for a detailed soil mapping program to help policy makers and farmers draw up effective land management proposals. The Soil and Water National Networking Workshop, organised jointly with the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, involved 40 scientists from India and Australia. They discussed key issues including soil security, digital soil mapping, India's participation in the Global Soil Map project, national level spectral libraries, soil data requirement in crop simulations, soil health mapping, hydrological model behaviour, and using soil digital and satellite data for hydrologic models. A number of speakers urged India to participate in the Global Soil Map and accelerate the provision of fine scale information on soil fertility and conditions in India. The information could also be used to monitor and understand the change over time in soil nutrients. The workshop's soil group was led by Professor Budiman Minasny, Professor Bhabani Das and Dr Kanika Singh from the University of Sydney. The hydrology group was led by A/Professor Willem Vervoort from Sydney, Dr Rajib Maity and Mr Dipangkar Kundu.
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