The Use of Saline Waters for Crop Production
Author: J. D. Rhoades
Publisher: Artabras
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
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Towards the Rational Use of High Salinity Tolerant Plants
Author: Helmut Lieth
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1993-01-31
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Symposium on high salinity tolerant plants, held at the University of Al Ain in December 1990, dealt primarily with plants tolerating salinity levels exceeding that of ocean water and which at the same time are promising for utilization in agriculture or forestry. These plants could be very useful for a country like the UAE where fresh water resources are very scarce and the groundwater available at some places is already very salty. More than 60 million woody trees/shrubs have been planted so far and more are planned for the inland plains underlain with brackish groundwater. These species were no solution for the widely barren shoreline of the UAE. Here mangrove species were of potential use, and one species, Avicennia Marina, occurs widely and has been successfully planted for about a decade. Converting the tree plantations into economically useful cropping systems is still a problem requiring much research and development. The book deals in several sections with conventional irrigation systems using marginal water. The species used in these systems are mostly hybrids of conventional crops. The irrigation systems, however, have similar problems as may be expected for irrigation with seawater. Papers show the participants' experiments in this area. The volume serves as a link between scientists working for the improvement of classical irrigation systems and those interested in the application of a new dimension of salinity levels for irrigation water.
Use of Saline Water in Agriculture
Biosalinity in Action: Bioproduction with Saline Water
Author: D. Pasternak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1985-11-30
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9789024731596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historically, scientists and laymen have regarded salinity as a hazar dous, detrimental phenomenon. This negative view was a principal reason for the lack of agricultural development of most arid and semi arid zones of the world where the major sources of water for biological production are saline. The late Hugo Boyko was probably the first scientist in recent times to challenge this commonly held, pessimistic view of salinity. His research in Israel indicated that many plants can be irrigated with saline water, even at seawater strength, if they are in sandy soil - a technique that could open much barren land to agriculture. This new, even radical, approach to salinity was clearly enunciated in the book he edited and most appropriately entitled 'Salinity and Aridity: New Approaches to Old Problems' (1966). A decade later, three members of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), Lewis Mayfield, James Aller and Oskar Zaborsky, formulated the 'Biosaline Concept'; namely, that poor soils, high solar insolation and saline water, which prevail in arid lands, should be viewed as useful resources rather than as disadvantages, and that these resources can be used for non-traditional production of food, fuels and chemicals. The First International Workshop on Biosaline Research was con vened at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, in 1977 by A. San Pietro.
Guideline for Salinity Assessment, Mitigation and Adaptation Using Nuclear and Related Techniques
Author: Mohammad Zaman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-11-28
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 331996190X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This open access book is an outcome of the collaboration between the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, and Dr. Shabbir A Shahid, Senior Salinity Management Expert, Freelancer based in United Arab Emirates.The objective of this book is to develop protocols for salinity and sodicity assessment and develop mitigation and adaptation measures to use saline and sodic soils sustainably. The focus is on important issues related to salinity and sodicity and to describe these in an easy and user friendly way. The information has been compiled from the latest published literature and from the authors’ publications specific to the subject matter. The book consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the terms salinity and sodicity and describes various salinity classification systems commonly used around the world. Chapter 2 reviews global distribution of salinization and socioeconomic aspects related to salinity and crop production. Chapters 3 covers comprehensively salinity and sodicity adaptation and mitigation options including physical, chemical, hydrological and biological methods. Chapter 4 discusses the efforts that have been made to demonstrate the development of soil salinity zones under different irrigation systems. Chapter 5 discusses the quality of irrigation water, boron toxicity and relative tolerance to boron, the effects of chlorides on crops. Chapter 6 introduces the role of nuclear techniques in saline agriculture.
The Use of Saline Waters for Crop Production
Author: J. D. Rhoades
Publisher:
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9788172330934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Conclusion Of The Expert Panel Was That There Is Good Potential For The Safe Use Of Saline-Water For Crop Production. It Recommended The Integrated Management Of Water Of Different Qualities At The Levels Of The Farm, Irrigation System And Drainage Ba
Irrigation Water Salinity and Crop Production
Author:
Publisher: UCANR Publications
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 9
ISBN-13: 1601072449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is reference sheet 9.10 in the Farm Water Quality Planning series. All irrigation water contains dissolved mineral salts, and these can have a profound effect on crop performance. This publication helps you understand the basics of this relationship.
Use of Saline Water in Agriculture, 3rd Revised Ed.
Author: I.C. Gupta
Publisher: Scientific Publishers
Published: 2002-03-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9387991385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The scarcity of good quality irrigation water is a serious problem in arid and semiarid zones of the world which comprise one third of the earth. Fresh water resources which are very scarce, forming only 3% of the total water reserves are overexploited and consequently have been tending to cause salinisation. Remaining 97% water in sea is excessively saline and generally not suitable for large scale exploitation in agriculture. More than half of the world's ground water supplies are also saline. Although, to cope with the increasing requirements of the accelerating population, irrigated area in the world in last two centuries has increased from 8 mha (1800) to 220 mha (1990), but development of salinity on about half the irrigated land, caused due to indiscriminate use of waters, has been a serious constraint for optimum crop production. In this context, the rational use of irrigation waters, without development of salinity, is the most important challenging task and herein lies the value of scientific knowledge on the use of saline water in agriculture. The first edition of this monograph was published in 1979 and second revised edition was published in 1990. The purpose of the present third revised edition was to update the relevant information so that the latest synthesised knowledge becomes easily accessible to research workers, teachers, postgraduate students, extension people, and planners, who can utilise it profitably in the diagnosis and improvement of saline water irrigated agriculture. Although, the book contains most of the research work pertaining to India, but the principles and practices of the utilisation of saline waters can be extended safely to many countries of the world, confronted with the similar problems.
Salinity: Environment — Plants — Molecules
Author: André Läuchli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-05-08
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 0306481553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In biology, the very big global and thevery small molecular issues currently appear to be in the limelight ofpublic interest and research funding policies. They are in danger of drifting apart from each other. They apply very coarse and very fine scaling, respectively, but coherence is lost when the various intermediate levels of different scales are neglected. Regarding SALINITY we are clearly dealing with a global problem, which due to progressing salinization of arable land is of vital interest for society. Explanations and basic understanding as well as solutions and remedies may finally lie at the molecular level. It is a general approach in science to look for understanding of any system under study at the next finer (or "lower") level of scaling. This in itself shows that we need a whole ladder of levels with increasingly finer steps from the global impact to the molecular bases of SALINITY relations. It is in this vein that the 22 chapters of this book aim at providing an integrated view of SALINITY.
Crop Production in Saline Environments
Author: Sham S. Goyal
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Strategies for Managing Crop Production in Saline Environments; Enhancing Salt Tolerance in Crops Through Molecular Breeding; Molecular Approaches to Improve Salt Resistance in Crops; Can the Quest for Drought Tolerant Crops Avoid Arabidopsis; Use and Reuse of Saline - Sodic Waters for Irrigation of Crops; Comprehensive reclamation of Salt - Affected Soils in China 's; Management of Soil Salinity and Alkalinity Problems in India; Modeling Pumped Water Salinity and Sait Water Upconing; Soil Salinity in south India: Problems and Solutions; Producctivity Enhancement in the Salt - Affected Lands of Joint Satiana Pilot Project Area of Pakistan; The Use of Saline Water in Agriculture in the Near East and North Africa Region; Salt, Water, and Groundwater Management Models to Determine Sustainable Cropping Patterns in Shallow Saline Groundwater Regions of Australia; Crop Production in Ares with Saline Soils and Shallow saline Groundwater in the San Jaquim Valley of California; Progress in Plant Salinity Resistance Research;
