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Tackling salinity in Indian vertisols for food security [1]

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Land degradation is a serious menace to food security. Salinity-related land degradation is becoming a serious challenge to food and nutritional security in developing countries. Order vertisols has problem of salinity throughout the country. The vertisols and their associates cover nearly 257 m ha of the earth

Publication Date: 
24/09/2010
Subhash Chand [2]
Current Science [3]
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Tags:
Soil Salinisation [4], Land Degradation [5], Food Security [6], India [7], Dryland Farming [8], Agriculture [9], Land Reclamation [10]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/tackling-salinity-indian-vertisols-food-security
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/subhash-chand
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/current-science
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/soil-salinisation
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-degradation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/dryland-farming
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-reclamation