Background

The Western Regional Centre of National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning sanctioned during the Vth Five Year Plan became functional at Vadodara in 1981 to cater the needs of the stats of Rajasthan and Gujarat. The center was shifted to Udaipur, Rajasthan in 1990 and functioned in the space provided by the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur. Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur has transferred 1 ha land in University Campus, Udaipur for construction of office-cum-laboratory building and presently the office is functioning in this new premises.   

List of Scientists

Mandate

• 	Soil survey and mapping of the soils of the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat at tehsil, district, state and regional level to promote scientific land use programmes in collaboration with state soil survey and land use organization, state agricultural universities and other user agencies.
  	To conduct and promote research in areas of pedology, soil survey, land evaluation and land use planning.
  	Soil correlation, classification and characterization of benchmark soils at soil series level in liaison with state soil survey agencies.
  	Teaching and research activities in collaboration with Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur towards M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees.