Adaptive soil management

Adaptive soil management (ASM) is an important doctrine of sustainable agriculture and is the need of the hour for feeding a current population of seven billion people and more in the future. Although the concept of adaptive management was introduced in the late 1970s and has been applied to a wide range of resources and ecosystem management, there is a dearth of knowledge about the interdependen-cies and interlinking of this concept among academicians, policy-makers and regulatory agencies super(1,2). As a result, this strategy is still applied to various ecosystems without due consideration of the system principles. This letter summarizes a brief outlook on the ecological and economic benefits of ASM so that this concept can be interlinked with a wide range of resource management like adaptive environment management, adaptive nutrient management, adaptive water management, adaptive forest management, adaptive wetland management, etc. super(1,2).