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Salt Management: The Australian Experience
Salinity is the accumulation of soluble salts (predominantly NaCl) in soil and water, usually over an extended period of time. For most people the term has negative connotations, associated as it is with long-term land and ...
Spatial Modelling of the Biophysical Potential for Supplemental Irrigation: Methodology and a Case Study in Syria
This study describes a modelling methodology for using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to identify potential areas for the introduction of supplemental irrigation. In their most simple concept, such areas would ...
Halophytes as forages in saline landscapes: interactions between plant genotype and environment change their feeding value to ruminants
This report focuses on three factors that affect livestock production using halophytes – biomass production, nutritive value (NV) of the biomass and voluntary feed intake (VFI). The growth of halophytic forages is widely ...
Report B2.1 Historical agricultural production data in Iraq
This report is part of a series analyzing historic and current agricultural production in Iraq. The aim of this analysis is to identify the areas in the Mesopotamian plain where changes in agricultural production have ...
Salinity management in Central and Southern Iraq: Prospects under existing drainage conditions
Excessive irrigation and poor drainage conditions have contributed to rising groundwater tables leading to salinity-induced land degradation in the irrigated areas of central and southern Iraq. Soil salinity problems have ...
Report B1.4: Water and salt trends and balances for the Mesopotamian plain
This report is part of a series analyzing water and salt flow through the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Mesopotamian plain. The series provide an insight in the layout and operation of the water and salt flow to allow ...
CGIAR Regional Program for Central Asia and the Caucasus Annual Report 2003- 2004
During the last five years, through a bottom-up approach involving scientists from national programs
as partners, considerable progress has been made in the area of collaborative research, national
research organization ...
CGIAR Regional Program for Central Asia and the Caucasus Annual Report 1999-2000
APPROVED PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES FOR 1999/2000
The Program Steering Committee (PSC) in its First Meeting held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 28-29 September 1998, approved the following projects and activities for the 1998/99 ...
Adaptation of Crop and Forage Genotypes to Soils Affected by Salinity
This report presents the research in progress for the Iraq Salinity Research project’s research component on the adaptation of crop and forage genotypes to soils affected by salinity. It describes the outcome of three ...
CGIAR Regional Program for Central Asia and the Caucasus Annual Report 2008 - 2009
During the last ten years, the CAC Program has achieved considerable progress in three areas of
research and development activities, namely conservation of genetic resources, germplasm
enhancement and crop diversification, ...