On October 20th, a seminar entitled, ‘Developmental Possibilities of Natural Resources’ was conducted as part of the worldwide efforts to celebrate 2015 as the soil conservation year.The main speech was made by Dr. E. J. James, the famous scientist and ex-Executive Director of Soil Resources Development Centre. 48 Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University In the second session held in the afternoon, Dr. Babu Ambat of the ‘Centre for Environment and Development’ presented the paper entitled, ‘Resource Conservation and Waste Disposal’. Dr. E. Abdul Hameed of Water Resource Development Centre’, presented his paper on ‘Need for Soil Conservation’.