Contents: 1. Soil quality and soil sustainability. 2. Fertility grouping of Vedavati river basin soils based on soil characteristics in plow layer. 3. Analysis of agricultural soil quality with special reference to heavy metals. 4. Advances and application of soil fertility for sustainable crop production. 5. Impacts of phosphate amendments at a contaminated site. 6. Soil and sediment quality monitoring at Larsemann hills, East Antarctica. 7. Isolation of bacteria from oil contaminated soils having hydrocarbon degrading and nitrogen fixing ability. 8. Soil amendments with bio-char. 9. Phytoremediation of arsenic-contaminated soils. 10. Soil sampling, analysis and rock phosphate amendments.