How will you correct the salinity and alkalinity of soil?

Like the problem of salt-affected soils afflicting many other countries with arid and semi-arid climates, these lands occupy about 8.6 M ha in India out of which 3.5 M ha are in canal commands, commonly referred to as man made or wet deserts. Starting from the early systematic work of Dr. read more

Soil salinity levels below 1 dS/m (deciSeimens per meter) are normal in the arid west. Salinity values above 2 dS/m will cause difficulties for salt-sensitive plants, such as beans, carrots, corn, lettuce, sugar maples, and Scotch pine. Soil salinity levels above 4 dS/m are problematic for a large variety of landscape and garden plants. read more