Soil salinity and sodicity in drylands: A review of causes, effects, monitoring, and restoration measures

I Stavi, N Thevs, S Priori - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Soil salinization and sodification are common processes that particularly characterize
drylands. These processes can be attributed either to natural conditions or anthropogenic …

Irrigation induced salinity and sodicity hazards on soil and groundwater: An overview of its causes, impacts and mitigation strategies

A Mohanavelu, SR Naganna, N Al-Ansari - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Salinity and sodicity have been a major environmental hazard of the past century since more
than 25% of the total land and 33% of the irrigated land globally are affected by salinity and …

Crop and irrigation management strategies for saline-sodic soils and waters aimed at environmentally sustainable agriculture

M Qadir, JD Oster - Science of the total environment, 2004 - Elsevier
Irrigation has long played a key role in feeding the expanding world population and is
expected to play a still greater role in the future. As supplies of good-quality irrigation water …

Phytoremediation of sodic and saline‐sodic soils

M Qadir, JD Oster, S Schubert, AD Noble… - Advances in …, 2007 - Elsevier
Sodicity‐induced soil degradation is a major environmental constraint with severe negative
impacts on agricultural productivity and sustainability in arid and semiarid regions. As an …

Productivity enhancement of salt‐affected environments through crop diversification

M Qadir, A Tubeileh, J Akhtar, A Larbi… - Land degradation & …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Recent trends and future demographic projections suggest that the need to produce more
food and fibre will necessitate effective utilization of salt‐affected land and saline water …

Potassium substitution by sodium in plants

A Wakeel, M Farooq, M Qadir… - Critical reviews in plant …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Soil salinity is an ever-increasing constraint to crop productivity worldwide especially in
countries with irrigated agriculture. In contrast to all the soil reclamation strategies to …

Degraded land rehabilitation through agroforestry in India: Achievements, current understanding, and future prospectives

D Jinger, R Kaushal, R Kumar, V Paramesh… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Land degradation is one of the most important factors responsible for the alarming situation
of food security, human health, and socioeconomic development in the country. Currently …

Sodicity‐induced land degradation and its sustainable management: Problems and prospects

M Qadir, AD Noble, S Schubert… - Land Degradation & …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Currently at least 20 per cent of the world's irrigated land is salt‐affected. However,
projections of global population growth, and of an increased demand for food and fibre …

Soil salinity and sodicity effects of wastewater irrigation in South East Australia

Z Muyen, GA Moore, RJ Wrigley - Agricultural water management, 2011 - Elsevier
Although 'sewage farming'or wastewater irrigation started in Australia in the latter parts of the
19th century, it was in the late 1960s that a considerable interest was revived in arid and …

Soil carbon sequestration in India

R Lal - Climatic Change, 2004 - Springer
With a large land area and diverse ecoregions, there is a considerable potential of
terrestrial/soil carbon sequestration in India. Of the total land area of 329 million hectares …