Leptochloa Fusca Cultivation for Utilization of Salt-Affected Soil and Water Resources in the Cholistan Desert

Farooq Ahmad

Leptochloa Fusca Cultivation for Utilization of Salt-Affected Soil and Water Resources in the Cholistan Desert

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Abstract

In the Cholistan Desert, 0.44 million ha are salt-affected low lying and clayey in nature locally known as ‘dhars’, where rainwater as well as saline groundwater could be utilized for growing salt grasses like Leptochloa fusca as forage during summer. L. fusca is a promising candidate grass for economic utilization and better management of sodic, high p H, saline soil and water resources of the Cholistan Desert. L. fusca is known to be a versatile, halophytic, primary colonizer, easily propagatable, perennial, nutritive and palatable forage plant species. The grass has the good biomass producing potential and can grow equally well both under upland and submerged saline soil environment.

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Farooq Ahmad. 2013. "Leptochloa Fusca Cultivation for Utilization of Salt-Affected Soil and Water Resources in the Cholistan Desert". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - B: Geography, Environmental Science & Disaster Management GJHSS-B Volume 13 (GJHSS Volume 13 Issue 29 (B6)).

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Cholistan Leptochloa fusca saline irrigation salt-affected soil reclamation

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Submission ReceivedDecember 16, 2012
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