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    Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization. Salts occur naturally within soils...
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    Soil salinity control refers to controlling the process and progress of soil salinity to prevent soil degradation by salination and reclamation of already...
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    Salinity (/səˈlɪnɪti/) is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity). It is usually measured...
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    third of the earth's arable land. Soil salinity adversely affects crop metabolism and erosion usually follows. Salinity occurs on drylands from overirrigation...
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  • The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute (CSSRI) is an autonomous institute of higher learning, established under the umbrella of Indian Council of...
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    physical properties. Alkaline soils, in principle, are not saline since the alkalinity problem is worse as the salinity is less. Alkalinity problems are...
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    with water with high chloride-based salinity. Purslane can remove salt from the cultivation medium under saline conditions. As an intercrop or during...
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    at the root zone to gauge salinity impact and develop management options, whereas at the regional and national level salinity monitoring may help with...
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    that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts...
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    yield to soil salinity. Examples of the application of the logistic S-curve to the response of crop yield (wheat) to both the soil salinity and depth...
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  • Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) is a satellite which forms part of ESA's Living Planet Programme. It is intended to provide new insights into Earth's...
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    Environmental effects of irrigation (category Environmental issues with soil)
    salinity requiring watertable control by some form of subsurface land drainage. However, if the soil is under irrigated, it gives poor soil salinity control...
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    underlying water table. Rapid salination occurs when the land surface is within the capillary fringe of saline groundwater. Soil salinity control involves watertable...
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    Soil salinity and dryland salinity are two problems degrading the environment of Australia. Salinity is a concern in most states, but especially in the...
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    and modeling. Soil salinity is the result of insufficient rainwater precipitation which leads to accumulation of soluble salt in soil horizon. The spectral...
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    waterlogging. Soil salinity also increased because the distance between the surface and the groundwater table was small enough (1–2 m depending on soil conditions...
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  • salinity induced by irrigation with seawater.Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Salinity control – Controlling the problem of soil salinityPages...
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    The U.S. Salinity Laboratory is a National Laboratory for research on salt-affected soil-plant-water systems. It resorts under the Agricultural Research...
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    Karnal (pronunciation) is a city located in the state of Haryana, India and is the administrative headquarters of Karnal District. City is well connected...
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    can be seen that initially, i.e. at low soil salinity, the crop yield reduces slowly at increasing soil salinity, while thereafter the decrease progresses...
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  • water are scarce and needed for drinking, and saline water is able to be used for agriculture. Soil salinity can vary between extremes in a relatively small...
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    relatively low temperatures and well-drained soil to grow. It is relatively tolerant of drought and soil salinity but is less winter-hardy than wheat or rye...
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    important factor for assessing floodplain salinity" and "soils under Tamarix canopies had lower surface soil salinity than open areas deprived of flooding...
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  • Crop tolerance to seawater (category Agricultural soil science)
    Adaptation to high salinity Sodium in biology – Use of Sodium by organisms Soil salinity – Salt content in the soil Soil salinity control – Controlling...
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    Tamarix plants has also been shown to boost soil fertility in a number of studies, and it also increases soil salinity. Two studies found that Tamarix plants...
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  • Salinization is the process of increasing: Soil salinity Salinity of bodies of water Freshwater salinization -- increases in water salinity due to water...
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    Leaching (agriculture) (category Soil)
    water has a high salt content to avoid salts from building up in the soil (salinity control). Where this is practiced, drainage must also usually be employed...
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    Salt tolerance of crops (category Soil science)
    the soil salinity or the salinity of the irrigation water. Salt tolerance is of importance in irrigated lands in (semi)arid regions where the soil salinity...
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    behaves differently in the various segments. The figure shows that the soil salinity (X) initially exerts no influence on the crop yield (Y) of mustard,...
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  • that crop yields tolerate a soil salinity up to ECe = 8 dS/m (ECe is the electric conductivity of an extract of a saturated soil sample), while beyond that...
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