1.Soil survey procedures
2.Soil morphology, profile description, examination and description of soils in the field
3.Soil monoliths their collection and display
4.Cartography principles and techniques for preparation of soil and other interpretative maps
5.Processing of field sheets, compilation and abstraction on different scales
6.Soil series concept and criteria
7.Benchmark soils
8.Procedure of soil correlation
9.Soil grouping on maps
10.Criteria for classification at different levels of soil taxonomy
11.Evaluation of soil quality
12.Interpretation of soil resource information for agricultural and non-agricultural uses
13.Remote sensing techniques and its application in agriculture and land use
14.Aerial photography
15.Assessment of degraded lands using remote sensing technology
16.Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for resource inventorization
17.Land evaluation
18.Land use planning
19.Role of land use planning and its emerging issues
20.Methods of land evaluation
21.Factors determining land capability classification
22.Landform-soil relationship
23.Watershed management
24.Watershed planning of non-arable lands based on land resources