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Salt Tolerance Studies Of Selected Crop Plants, Cyril Reed Funk Jr.
Salt Tolerance Studies Of Selected Crop Plants, Cyril Reed Funk Jr.
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Extensive land areas in arid and semi-arid regions contain excessive amounts of salt which inhibit or prevent the growth of desirable crop plants. This problem is increasing with the development of extensive irrigation projects. The future of irrigation agriculture will depend upon the development and the utilization of means of (1) preventing salt accumulation, (2) reclaiming salted soils, and (3) making the best use of those soils which by reason of drainage problems, soil texture and permeability, poor quality irrigation water, etc. are unsuited for economic reclamation.
The utilization of land that is not feasible to completely reclaim, at least …