The Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry was founded in 1920 as the Institute of Soil Science and Geobotany at Turkestan State University. In 1932 it was reorganized as the Central Station for Fertilizers and Agro-Soil Science at the All-Union Cotton Research Institute, and in 1943 it was re-established as the Institute of Soil Science within the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. From 1972, after an agrochemistry division was set up, it operated as the Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry.
In 1998–2014 the institute was part of the State Committee “Yergeodezkadastr” of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in 2014–2017 of the Agricultural Research and Production Centre of Uzbekistan, and in 2017–2020 of the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre.
Under Decree No. PF-6061 of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of 7 September 2020 “On measures to radically improve the system of land accounting and state cadastres” and Resolution No. PQ-4819 of 7 September 2020 “On measures to organize the activities of the Cadastre Agency under the State Tax Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan”, the institute operates under the National Centre for Knowledge and Innovation in Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture.
