Irrigating Crops With Seawater
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Brown J. Jed, Glenn Edward P., and O’Leary James W. 1998. Irrigating Crops with
Seawater. Scientific American.
“” talks about the global problem of finding enough water and land for the world’s population to survive. An estimated 494.2 million acres of cropland ....
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.... however have been testing halophytes, which, is a salt-tolerant plant that can be used for food, forage and oilseed crops. They first gathered several hundred halophytes and began testing these plants in the desert of Puerto Peñasco. They irrigated the plants daily by flooding the fields with seawater from the Gulf of California. The best halophytes produced roughly the yield of alfalfa using freshwater irrigation. In order to show that these halophytes could replace other crops for u ....
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