Experiment was conducted at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidhyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh during kharif-rabi 2013-14 to study nutrient management in soybean based cropping system for enhancing productivity, economics and employment generation efficiencies to the farmers. Nutrient management practices adopted were NM1 (100% organic), NM2 (75% organic), NM3 (50:50% integrated through organic inorganic), NM4 (75:25% through organic inorganic), NM5 (100% inorganic) and lastly, NM6 (100% inorganic + 5t FYM ha-1). Across the six main horizontal strips of nutrient management practices, four soybean based cropping systems in vertical strips were laid out namely Soybean-Maize (CS1), Soybean-Pea (CS2), Soybean-Chilli (CS3) and Soybean-Onion (CS4). The organic manures were applied based on the nitrogen equivalent basis and nutrient requirement of each crop. The result reveals that incorporation of FYM along with inorganic fertilizers (100% inorganic) in soybean based cropping system was found better in enhancing and sustaining productivity, profitability and creating maximum employment generation efficiency so that farmers need not migrate during lean crop periods and the land use efficiency can be increased.