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Role of ICAR-CSSRI in sustainable management of salt-affected soils- achievements, current trends and future perspectives

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Title Role of ICAR-CSSRI in sustainable management of salt-affected soils- achievements, current trends and future perspectives
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Creator D. K. Sharma Anshuman Singh & P. C. Sharma
 
Subject Salinity
Crop production
Sustainable agriculture
Land degradation
Reclamation
Secondary salinity
 
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A range of constraints are adversely impacting the sustainability of agricultural systems across the world. While
productive agricultural lands are being usurped by municipal and industrial sectors of the economy, freshwater resources
face heavy risks of depletion and pollution. Adverse impacts of climate change on soil health, water availability
and crop productivity are increasingly becoming noticeable. Given the fact that both prime land and water
resources have shrunk over the years, it has become absolutely essential to harness the productivity of degraded
lands and low-quality water to meet the growing food and nutritional needs of an expanding global population.
Salt-affected soils constitute a significant proportion of global degraded lands; especially in arid, semi-arid and
coastal regions where poor-quality saline and sodic water are also a severe obstacle to sustainable crop production.
The ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute (CSSRI) has made earnest efforts since the beginning to
address these challenges, to bring degraded and abandoned agricultural lands under crop production. Different
salinity-management technologies have become highly popular among the farmers in salt-affected regions of the
country. Concerted research efforts are underway to devise novel and low-cost interventions for increasing farmers’
income in saline-affected environments. In this paper, a summary of past breakthroughs, latest developments
and emerging constraints is critically analyzed to delineate the future course of action for sustainable salinity management
in agriculture.
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Date 2017-03-26T09:44:52Z
2017-03-26T09:44:52Z
2016-11-11
 
Type Technical Report
 
Identifier Sharma, D. K., Singh, Anshuman & Sharma, P. C. 2016. Role of ICAR-CSSRI in sustainable management of salt-affected soils—achievements, current trends and future perspectives. In: The Proceedings of the Fourth International Agronomy Congress (November 22-26, 2016, New Delhi). pp. 91-103.
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/3364
 
Language English
 
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Publisher The Indian Society of Agronomy