By Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Javaid Akhtar, Muhammad Sabir
Soil is crucial normal non-renewable source built over an extended time period as a result of weathering of rocks and to that end enrichment of natural topic. Soil offers habitat for various microorganisms and serves as a traditional medium for plant development, thereby offering the vegetation with anchorage, foodstuff and water to maintain the expansion. Soil additionally serves as a common sink for every type of pollution, purifies floor water and is an immense reserve of carbon within the universe. The function of soils to supply atmosphere companies, upkeep of environmental/human wellbeing and fitness and making sure the nutrition safeguard makes it because the most crucial and easy usual source. Soil technology is helping us to tricky and know how the soils offer most of these companies. Soil technological know-how additionally presents us the fundamental wisdom facing the foundation of the soil father or mother fabric, weathering of mother or father fabric and the formation of soils, morphological, physico-chemical and organic positive factors of soils, category of soils and function of soils within the provision and upkeep of environment companies, nutrients defense and environmental caliber. This e-book encompasses some of the methods, services and behavior of soils very comprehensively to acquaint the scholars of soil, plant and environmental sciences approximately their position to accomplish diverse agricultural and environmental functions.
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2 Origin of Salt Effected Soils ...................................................................................... 1 Soil Weathering Process ................................................................................. 2 Accumulation on the Surface Due to Irrigation Under Inadequate Drainage ....................................................... 3 Shallow Water Table....................................................................................... 4 Fossil Salts......................................................................................................
5 Reclamation of Salt-Affected Soils............................................................................ 1 Physical Methods ........................................................................................... 2 Chemical Process ........................................................................................... 3 Organic Matter ............................................................................................... 4 Biological Methods ........................................................................................
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