Salt-tolerant forage cultivation on a saline-sodic field for biomass production and soil reclamation

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-18

  Qadir, M ^a   Qureshi, R H ^a   Ahmad, N ^a   Ilyas, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b Department of Agronomy University College of Agricultur   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Forage yield; Salt tolerant plants; Soil reclamation; Soil salination; Soil sodication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002083746     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-145x(199603)7:1<11::aid-ldr211>3.0.co;2-c     Document Type: Article

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