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Salinity is an important land degradation problem. Salinity is more widely known and refers to the amount of soluble salt in a soil. Sodicity refers to the amount of sodium in soils. The consequences of salinity have detrimental effects on plant growth and final yield damage, reduction of water quality for users, sedimentation problems, and soil erosion. When crops are too strongly affected by the amounts of salts, they disrupt the uptake of water into roots and interfere with the uptake of competitive nutrients.
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Ali, M. (2011). Management of Salt-Affected Soils. In: Practices of Irrigation & On-farm Water Management: Volume 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7637-6_8
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