It has 4 Research fields, namely Resources and Information Technology of Soil, Fertilizer resources utilization and environment, Mechanism and Regulation of Plant Nutrition, Soil Ecology and Environmental Protection.

Resources and Information Technology of Soil: take the sustainable utilization of soil resources as a goal, use new technology such as remote sensing and GIS, do some research in the dynamic monitoring, evaluation, development utilization and protection of soil resources.

Fertilizer Resources Utilization and Environment: Based on circulation of farmland nutrition elements and migration transformation mechanism, with new fertilizers for technical carrier to study how to improve the efficiency of fertilizer use, reduce the chemical pollution to agricultural environment.

Mechanism and Regulation of Plant Nutrition: to set reveal the plant nutrition physiological and nutrient use of microscopic regulation mechanism as the research target. Make further study of basic plant nutrition theory and application technology in view of the problems of high yield and crop nutrient obstacle in China 's regional agricultural production.

Soil Ecology and Environmental Protection: The regulation of soil ecosystem, soil environment and monitoring are the main study areas. The study in soil ecology and vegetation restoration, soil erosion and soil conservation and other fields have already gain distinct characteristics.