Soil degradation in India is estimated to be occurring on 147 million hectares (Mha) of land,
including 94 Mha from water erosion, 16 Mha from acidification, 14 Mha from flooding, 9 …

Developing urbanization, water shortage, watercourse pollution, and demands for more food
due to population growth require a more efficient water irrigation and fertilizer application …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Vertisols in the tropics occur in a range of climates and are used in a range of production
systems. This review is a synthesis of the recent developments in pedology of vertisols …

Carbon dioxide (CO₂), one of the major components of greenhouse gases, is of major
concern in terms of the global warming phenomenon. To mitigate the effect of atmospheric …

Derived from a wide range of rocks and minerals, a large variety of soils occur in the Indian
subcontinent. Soil-forming factors like climate, vegetation and topography acting for varying …

One billion hectares of land worldwide is affected by several kinds of salinity and associated
problems. The soil quality (SQ) in salt-affected soil (SAS) is impaired because of the …

Current widespread and intensive soil degradation in India has been driven by
unprecedented levels of population growth, large‐scale industrialization, high‐yield …

The land spreading of olive mill wastewater (OMW) derived from olive oil production can
represent a suitable option to enrich and maintain agriculture soils under south …

Smectitic parent material from the weathering Deccan basalt has been deposited in the
lower piedmont plains, valleys and microdepressions during a previous wetter climate. The …