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Resilience of the Semi-Arid Tropical Soils


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1 ICRISAT Development Center, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, India
2 Formerly at National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
 

Soils in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) are subject to chemical degradation mostly due to climatic reasons which make the pedo-environment hostile to form calcium carbonate. This triggers an overall deterioration of soil properties affecting its physical and chemical parameters. Such soils require management interventions which may include chemical and other phytoremediation process. The present paper details this process of degradation in light of resilience of these soils of SAT.

Keywords

Chemical Degradation, SAT, Soil Properties, Soil Resilience.
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T. Bhattacharyya
ICRISAT Development Center, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, India
D. K. Pal
Formerly at National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
Suhas P. Wani
ICRISAT Development Center, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, India
K. L. Sahrawat
ICRISAT Development Center, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, India

Abstract


Soils in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) are subject to chemical degradation mostly due to climatic reasons which make the pedo-environment hostile to form calcium carbonate. This triggers an overall deterioration of soil properties affecting its physical and chemical parameters. Such soils require management interventions which may include chemical and other phytoremediation process. The present paper details this process of degradation in light of resilience of these soils of SAT.

Keywords


Chemical Degradation, SAT, Soil Properties, Soil Resilience.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv110%2Fi9%2F1784-1788