Soil salinity management in agriculture : technological advances and applications

454 Pages·2017·50.61 MB·English

by  Goyal

SOIL SALINITY
MANAGEMENT IN
AGRICULTURE
Technological Advances and Applications

Innovations in Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SOIL SALINITY
MANAGEMENT IN
AGRICULTURE
Technological Advances and Applications
Edited by
S. K. Gupta, PhD, CE
Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE
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1. Soil salinization. 2. Soils, Salts in. 3. Soil management. 4. Reclamation of land. I. Gupta, S. K. (Suresh
Kumar), 1949-, author, editor II. Goyal, Megh Raj, editor III. Series: Innovations in agricultural and biological
engineering
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Names: Gupta, S. K. (Suresh Kumar), 1949- editor. | Goyal, Megh Raj, editor.
Title: Soil salinity management in agriculture : technological advances and applications / editors: S.K. Gupta,
Megh R. Goyal.
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors ....................................................................................vii
List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................xi
Foreword by Gurbachan Singh ................................................................xvii
Preface 1 by S. K. Gupta ...........................................................................xix
Preface 2 by Megh R. Goyal .....................................................................xxv
Warning/Disclaimer .................................................................................xxix
Book Endorsement ...................................................................................xxx
Other Books on Agricultural and Biological Engineering by AAP..........xxxi
About the Editor ....................................................................................xxxiii
About the Senior Editor-in-Chief ............................................................xxxv
Editorial ................................................................................................xxxvii
PART I: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TRENDS
IN SALINITY MANAGEMENT ..............................................................1
1. Emerging Trends in Salinity Research: An Indian Perspective .............3
D. K. Sharma and Anshuman Singh
2. Living with Salts in Irrigation Water .....................................................25
S. K. Gupta
3. Coastal Ecosystems: Risk Factors for Development
and Threats Due to Climate Change ......................................................63
H. S. Sen and Dipankar Ghorai
4. Ground Water Contamination: Recent Advances
in Identifying Sources ..............................................................................97
Deepesh Machiwal and Madan Kumar Jha
vi Contents
PART II: TOLERANCE TO SOIL SALINITY ...........................................135
5. Physiology of Salt Tolerance of Salvadora persica and
Halophytic Grasses in Saline Vertisols: A Review ...............................137
G. Gururaja Rao, J. C. Dagar, Sanjay Arora, and
Anil R. Chinchmalatpure
6. Effect of Soil Salinization on Plant Growth and Physiology
of Plectranthus Species ...........................................................................171
G. V. Ramana, Ch. Ramakrishna, Sk. Khasim Beebi,
and K. V. Chaitanya
7. Effect of Salinity Stress on Growth Parameters and Metabolites
of Medicinal Plants: A Review ..............................................................197
Yogita Deshmukh and Puja Khare
PART III: SOIL SALINITY MANAGEMENT IN
CROP PRODUCTION ..........................................................................235
8. Bacterial-Mediated Amelioration Processes to Plants Under
Salt Stress: A Review ..............................................................................237
Amrita Kasotia, Ajit Varma, and Devendra Kumar Choudhary
9. Sustainable Reclamation and Management of Sodic Soils:
Farmers’ Participatory Approaches .....................................................289
Y. P. Singh
10. Pokkali Rice Cultivation in India: A Technique for Multi-Stress
Management ...........................................................................................317
A. K. Sreelatha and K. S. Shylaraj
11. Prevention, Reclamation and Management of Acid and
Acid Sulfate Soils ....................................................................................337
A. Krishna Chaitanya, Shrikant Badole, Arbind Kumar Gupta,
and Biplab Pal
12. Nutrient Management for Sustained Crop Productivity
in Sodic Soils: A Review .........................................................................365
N. P. S. Yaduvanshi
Index .........................................................................................................395
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Sanjay Arora, PhD
Senior Scientist, ICAR – Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Lucknow
– 226002, Uttar Pradesh, India. Mobile: [phone]; E-mail: [email protected]
Shrikant Badole, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture,
Golegaon, VNMKV, Parbhani – 431705, Maharashtra, India. Mobile: [phone], E-mail:
[email protected]
A. Krishna Chaitanya
PhD Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, Bidhan Chandra
Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia – 741252, West Bengal, India. Mobile: [phone],
E-mail: [email protected]
K. V. Chaitanya, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam – 530045,
Andhra Pradesh, India. Mobile: [phone], E-mail: [email protected]
Anil R. Chinchmalatpure, PhD
Principal Scientist and Head, ICAR – Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Regional Research
Station, Bharuch 392012, Gujarat, India. E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: [phone]
Devendra Kumar Choudhary, PhD
Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (AIMT), Block E-3, 4th Floor, Amity
University Campus, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Sector-125, Noida – 201313, UP, India, Mobile: +91-
120-2431182, E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
J. C. Dagar, PhD
Ex Assistant Director General (ICAR), ICAR – Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal 132
001, Haryana, India, Mobile: [phone], E-mail: [email protected].
Yogita Deshmukh
PhD Research Scholar, Agronomy and Soil Science Division, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and
Aromatic Plants, Lucknow – 226015, India, Mobile: [phone], E-mail: yogita.deshmukh2@
gmail.com
Dipankar Ghorai, PhD
Subject Matter Specialist (I/C), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, ICAR – Central Research Institute of Jute and
Allied Fibers (ICAR), Burdwan – 713403, West Bengal, India, Mobile: [phone], E-mail:
[email protected]
Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE
Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez
Campus; and Senior Technical Editor-in-Chief in Agriculture Sciences and Biomedical Engineering,
Apple Academic Press Inc., PO Box 86, Rincon – PR – 00677, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
viii List of Contributors
Arbind Kumar Gupta
PhD Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, Bidhan Chandra
Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia – 741252, West Bengal, India. Mobile: [phone],
E-mail: [email protected]
S. K. Gupta, PhD
INAE Distinguished Professor, ICAR – Central Soil Salinity Research Institute (Zarifa Farm), Karnal
– 132001, Haryana, India. Mobile: [phone]; E-mail: [email protected]
Madan Kumar Jha, PhD
Professor, AgFE Department, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur – 721302, West Bengal, India. Tel: +91-
3222-283116(O), E-mail: [email protected]
Amrita Kasotia, PhD
UGC-RGNF Senior Research Fellow, Department of Science, Faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce,
Mody University of Science and Technology, Lakshmangarh, Sikar – 332311, Rajasthan, India,
Mobile: [phone], E-mail: [email protected]
Puja Khare, PhD
Scientist, Agronomy and Soil Science Division, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic
Plants, Lucknow – 226015, India, Mobile: [phone], E-mail: [email protected]
Sk. Khasim Beebi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, GITAM University Visakhapatnam – 530045,
Andhra Pradesh, India, Mobile, [phone], E-mail: [email protected]
Deepesh Machiwal, PhD
Senior Scientist, Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), Regional Research Station, Kukma –
370105, Bhuj, Gujarat, India; Tel.: [phone](O); E-mail: [email protected]
Biplab Pal
PhD Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, Bidhan Chandra
Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia – 741252, West Bengal, India. Mobile: [phone],
E-mail: [email protected]
Ch. Ramakrishna, PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, GITAM Institute of Sciences, GITAM University,
Visakhapatnam – 530045, Andhra Pradesh, India Mobile: [phone], E-mail:[email protected]
G. V. Ramana, PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Biotechnology, GITAM Institute of Technology, GITAM
University, Visakhapatnam – 530045, Andhra Pradesh, India. Mobile: [phone], E-mail:
[email protected]
H. S. Sen, PhD
Former Director, ICAR – Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibers, Barrackpore – 700120,
West Bengal, India. Present address: 2/74 Naktala, Kolkata – 700047, West Bengal, India, Mobile:
[phone], E-mail: [email protected]
D. K. Sharma, PhD
Director, ICAR – Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal – 132001, Haryana, India. Tel.: +91-
184-2290501, E-mail: [email protected]
K. S. Shylaraj, PhD
Professor, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Rice Research Station, Kerala Agricultural University, Vyttila,
Kochi – 682019, Kerala, India. Mobile: [phone]; E-mail: [email protected]
List of Contributors ix
Anshuman Singh, PhD
Scientist (Horticulture), ICAR – Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal – 132001, Haryana,
India. Tel.: [phone], E-mail: [email protected]
Y. P. Singh, PhD
Principal Scientist, ICAR – Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Regional Research Station,
Lucknow – 226005, Uttar Pradesh, India, Mobile: [phone], E-mail: [email protected]
A. K. Sreelatha, PhD
Assistant Professor, Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Rice Research Station, Kerala
Agricultural University, Vyttila, Kochi – 682019, India, Mobile: [phone], E-mail: sreelatha.
[email protected]; [email protected]
Ajit Varma, PhD
Distinguished Scientist & Professor of Eminence, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (AIMT),
Block E-3, 4th Floor, Amity University Campus, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Sector-125, Noida – 201313,
UP, India, Tel.: [phone], E-mail: [email protected]
N. P. S. Yaduvanshi, PhD
Principal Scientist, Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Indian Agricultural Research
Institute, New Delhi – 110012, India. Mobile: [phone], E-mail: [email protected]