Few soils can be called problem soils in their natural state. During their genesis and evolution under a set or sets of soil forming factors, they have acquired certain unique characteristics which may not suit our intended use. The problem lies with our dire necessity to use them for different ways and purposes for ever increasing human population, increasing demand of food, wood, and others, and continuous loss of arable soils due to land-use changes. Since more such areas will be brought under crop production in future to meet our demand, special, innovative and sustainable management options should be adopted for them. Soil limitations may be physical such as dryness, wetness, steepness, extreme textures, erosion hazard, compaction, shallowness, shallow groundwater table and flooding; chemical such as acidity, salinity, sodicity, lack of fertility, phosphate fixation, and pollution; and biological such as reduction in the activities of benefi-cial soil organisms, for example earthworms and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM), or an increase in pathogens or plant parasitic nematodes.
- ISBN: 978-3-319-75525-0
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 23/06/2018
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés