Week 10: Amelioration strategies and economic feasibility for salt-affected soils (Chemical and biological methods of reclamation)
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Course Material
- Week 1: Course File for SAES-7106, Time Table for Spring Semester 2020, Introduction and importance of the course
- Week 2: Classification systems of salt-affected soils and basic terminology
- Week 3: Global perspectives of salt-affected soils
- Week 4: Genesis of saline and sodic soils
- Week 5: Plant responses to saline and sodic conditions
- Week 6: Effects of salinity and sodicity on soil characteristics (Chemistry of soil solution)
- Week 7: Effects of salinity and sodicity on soil characteristics
- Week 8: Derivation and applications of Gapon equation; Introduction of exchange equations
- Week 9: Amelioration strategies and economic feasibility for salt-affected soils (Pre-requisites of reclamation and physical methods of reclamation)
- Week 10: Amelioration strategies and economic feasibility for salt-affected soils (Chemical and biological methods of reclamation)
- Week 11: Water requirements for reclamation (Salinity management and irrigation systems
- Week 12: Concept of leaching fraction and its applications
- Week 13: Irrigation water quality
- Week 14: Irrigation water quality
- Week 15: Soil water logging: causes, soil and plant responses and amelioration strategies
- Week 16: Environmental and economic impacts of salinity and water logging
- Chapters 16
- Department Soil and Environmental Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. Ghulam Sarwar
