The responsibility of the department of soil and water resources is to ;
- Develop the proper method and technology for efficency of water use in agriculture.
- Conduct agricultural irrigation and field breeding studies,
- Search for solutions to the problems of application institutes and manufacturers,
- Determine essentials of sustainable field management to protect long term quality of soil and water resources
- Protect and develop soil quality
- Conduct Project on irrigation and drenaige and water supply networks and develop Technologies to operate and manage them , increase efficency of water use,
- prevent pollution and determine factors of soil and water pollution,
- Determine economic,acceptable and applicable soil protection methods to save water and soil resources from erosion effects,
- Determine pollution factors of water and soil resources and decontaminate,
- Develop methods for soil mositure protection on site and decrease risk for agricultural production in arid area.
- Compose proper technology and irrigation programmes for optimum water use in limited conditions,
- Determine sustainable usage conditions of low qualified irrigation water,
- Increase yield and infrastructure efficency for irrigated agriculture and storage investments by determining hydrologic properties of basins,
- Search use possibilities of waste in agriculture without affecting its soil quality,
- Construct and develop a laboratory, help other institutes
- Determine possible changes of climate changes on vegetative production and develop proper adaptation offers,
- Determine primary search topics in the country , coordinate integrated projects and publish at least one refereed journal in search areas,
- Publish seach results in turkish and english and conduct studies which will contribute to the institute scientifically in long term.
- Other duties assigned by the directorate.
