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Liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra): a potential salt-tolerant, highly remunerative medicinal crop for remediation of alkali soils

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Title Liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra): a potential salt-tolerant, highly remunerative medicinal crop for remediation of alkali soils
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Creator R. K. Yadav,
J. C. Dagar,
S. R. Dar,
Sharif Ahamad
 
Subject Alkali soils,
Glycyrrhiza glabra,
exchangeable sodium percentage,
medicinal crops,
secondary salinization.
 
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Alkali lands in India occupy about 3.8 m ha. Due to
poor physical properties, excessive exchangeable sodium
and high pH, most of these lands support a poor
vegetative cover. These lands are reclaimed using
costly amendments such as gypsum, phospho-gypsum
or press mud. In recent times many of the medicinal
plants are in great demand for both internal requirements
and export. However, as these crops are nonconventional
in nature, farmers are not convinced to
cultivate them on fertile lands. The marginal lands,
specially those affected by salinity, sodicity and waterlogging
problems when profitable returns are not
possible through routine food or agricultural crops,
could be successfully utilized for the cultivation of
some high-value stress-tolerant medicinal crops with
marginal inputs. Results reported in this study indicate
that liquorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn.) also
known as Mulahatti, which is quite remunerative and
high in demand, could successfully be grown on alkali
soils. Besides getting (2.4–6.1 tonnes/ha forage per annum),
a root biomass of 6.0–7.9 tonnes/ha could be obtained
in three years of growth fetching about Rs 6.0 to
8.0 lakhs/ha, i.e. Rs 2–2.65 lakhs/annum/ha. Besides, the
sodic lands could also be reclaimed substantially in
terms of reducing soil pH and exchangeable sodium
percentage by growing this crop.
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Date 2019-11-29T09:55:08Z
2019-11-29T09:55:08Z
2014-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
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Language English
 
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