NEIGAE will sponsor a new journal entitled Soil and Crop in 2012. Soil and Crop (ISSN: 2095-2961, CN: 23-1580/S）is a quarterly published journal in Chinese, which will come into publication in March, 2012. This research journal is sponsored jointly by Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences and Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is one of the integrated academic periodicals in soil science, agroecology and other fundamental disciplines related to soil and ecology.

　　 Soil and Crop aims at introducing the up-to-date achievements and advances in the entire field of soil and crop system, improving the optimization of soil management and continued increase in farmland productivity, providing communication platform for domestic and international academic exchanges and personnel training of relevant disciplines, and promoting the sustainable development of regional agriculture.