1. Identification, Evaluation, and Domestication of Alternative Crops for Saline Environments
- Author
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Shoaib Ismail, N.K. Rao, and J. C. Dagar
- Subjects
Food security ,business.industry ,Agroforestry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Crop yield ,Climate change ,Salinity ,Scarcity ,Agriculture ,Environmental science ,Agricultural productivity ,business ,media_common ,Waterlogging (agriculture) - Abstract
Increased population pressure, climate change impacts, degradation of productive agricultural lands, and scarcity and poor-quality of water have significantly increased the gap between potential and actual crop yields, especially in developing countries. Salinity and associated problems like sodicity, waterlogging, and droughts reportedly lead to about 2000 ha of land to produce lesser amount of crop productivity per day. In order to meet the future food security challenges, not only the physical resources, including marginal lands and poor-quality waters, need to be managed and used more efficiently, but also new and alternative crops that could produce economic yields under the harsh climatic conditions have to be identified and introduced to sustain agricultural production.
- Published
- 2019