Journal article
Salt‐tolerant forage cultivation on a saline‐sodic field for biomass production and soil reclamation
Abstract
Chemical reclamation of sodic and saline‐sodic soils has become cost‐intensive. Cultivation of plants tolerant of salinity and sodicity may mobilize the CaCO3 present in saline‐sodic soils instead of using a chemical approach. Four forage plant species, sesbania (Sesbania aculeata), kallar grass (Leptochloa fusca), millet rice (Echinochloa colona) and finger millet (Eleusine coracana), were planted in a calcareous saline‐sodic field (ECe = …
Authors
Qadir M; Qureshi RH; Ahmad N; Ilyas M
Journal
Land Degradation and Development, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 11–18
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
March 1996
DOI
10.1002/(sici)1099-145x(199603)7:1<11::aid-ldr211>3.0.co;2-c
ISSN
1085-3278