Pedological and taxonomical research of Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the UN SDGs: Current status and the future scope
The tropical soils of the world including India have hardly been considered as a viable substrate for successful agriculture. Although ample research in India has been conducted but sustaining their productivity is a challenge for the land managers. To fulfil this challenge, acquiring new knowledge...
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| author | D.K. Pal Ashim Datta D. Vasu Ranjan Paul K. Karthikeyan Pramod Tiwary |
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| description | The tropical soils of the world including India have hardly been considered as a viable substrate for successful agriculture. Although ample research in India has been conducted but sustaining their productivity is a challenge for the land managers. To fulfil this challenge, acquiring new knowledge through soil care programmes become mandatory. Without such initiative, any attempt to bridge the disparity between food production and future population will be an uphill task. Realizing this urgency, during the last few decades, Indian pedologists and edaphologists took up research endeavours on the pedological and taxonomical nuances and subtilities on benchmark (BM) and identified large number of soil series. The main purpose was to provide a “carrier of information” of the major soil orders (Inceptisols, Mollisols, Alfisols, Ultisols, and Vertisols) of tropical India. Based on this, scientists developed a current status on soil health, greenhouse gas emissions and soil degradation and resilience. We explicitly reviewed these research endeavours on Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the United Nations Sustainable Developments Goals (UN SDGs). This information may possibly remove the long-standing misgivings about positive pedological functionalities, which may prove the Indian tropical soils as one of the important contributors in strengthening India's economic status. This status of Indian tropical soils, however, still needs to be worked out to establish a relationship between soil properties and ecosystem services at a larger scale, while accomplishing the UNSDGs for increasing crop productivity and sustaining soil and human wellbeing in Indian agricultural soils in the immediate future and beyond. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b5e1b96a84f848c2ae697a9ebb52f41a2025-08-20T03:42:39ZengElsevierSoil Security2667-00622025-03-011810017910.1016/j.soisec.2025.100179Pedological and taxonomical research of Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the UN SDGs: Current status and the future scopeD.K. Pal0Ashim Datta1D. Vasu2Ranjan Paul3K. Karthikeyan4Pramod Tiwary5Division of Soil Resource Studies, ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Amravati Road, Nagpur 440 033, India; Corresponding author.Division of Soil and Crop Management, ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana 132001, IndiaDivision of Soil Resource Studies, ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Amravati Road, Nagpur 440 033, IndiaDivision of Soil Resource Studies, ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Amravati Road, Nagpur 440 033, IndiaDivision of Soil Resource Studies, ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Amravati Road, Nagpur 440 033, IndiaDivision of Soil Resource Studies, ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Amravati Road, Nagpur 440 033, IndiaThe tropical soils of the world including India have hardly been considered as a viable substrate for successful agriculture. Although ample research in India has been conducted but sustaining their productivity is a challenge for the land managers. To fulfil this challenge, acquiring new knowledge through soil care programmes become mandatory. Without such initiative, any attempt to bridge the disparity between food production and future population will be an uphill task. Realizing this urgency, during the last few decades, Indian pedologists and edaphologists took up research endeavours on the pedological and taxonomical nuances and subtilities on benchmark (BM) and identified large number of soil series. The main purpose was to provide a “carrier of information” of the major soil orders (Inceptisols, Mollisols, Alfisols, Ultisols, and Vertisols) of tropical India. Based on this, scientists developed a current status on soil health, greenhouse gas emissions and soil degradation and resilience. We explicitly reviewed these research endeavours on Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the United Nations Sustainable Developments Goals (UN SDGs). This information may possibly remove the long-standing misgivings about positive pedological functionalities, which may prove the Indian tropical soils as one of the important contributors in strengthening India's economic status. This status of Indian tropical soils, however, still needs to be worked out to establish a relationship between soil properties and ecosystem services at a larger scale, while accomplishing the UNSDGs for increasing crop productivity and sustaining soil and human wellbeing in Indian agricultural soils in the immediate future and beyond.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667006225000048Indian agricultural soilsOptions to enhance OC in SAT soilsPedo-chemical and mineralogical control on GHGs emissionsSoil degradationResilience of degraded soilsRevision of degradation status |
| spellingShingle | D.K. Pal Ashim Datta D. Vasu Ranjan Paul K. Karthikeyan Pramod Tiwary Pedological and taxonomical research of Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the UN SDGs: Current status and the future scope Soil Security Indian agricultural soils Options to enhance OC in SAT soils Pedo-chemical and mineralogical control on GHGs emissions Soil degradation Resilience of degraded soils Revision of degradation status |
| title | Pedological and taxonomical research of Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the UN SDGs: Current status and the future scope |
| title_full | Pedological and taxonomical research of Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the UN SDGs: Current status and the future scope |
| title_fullStr | Pedological and taxonomical research of Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the UN SDGs: Current status and the future scope |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pedological and taxonomical research of Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the UN SDGs: Current status and the future scope |
| title_short | Pedological and taxonomical research of Indian tropical soils for fulfilling the UN SDGs: Current status and the future scope |
| title_sort | pedological and taxonomical research of indian tropical soils for fulfilling the un sdgs current status and the future scope |
| topic | Indian agricultural soils Options to enhance OC in SAT soils Pedo-chemical and mineralogical control on GHGs emissions Soil degradation Resilience of degraded soils Revision of degradation status |
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