Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) is a multipurpose, hardy, deciduous shrub, an ideal plant for soil erosion control, land reclamation, wildlife habitat enhancement, and farmstead protection. It has high nutritional and medicinal values for humans. The majority of sea buckthorn research has been conducted in Asia and Europe. It is a promising new crop for North America, and recently it ha...

Cuiping Ge, Jun Zhao, Shaoliang Zhang, Lei Shang and Sheng Yin 1* Hailun Station of the National Field Station of Scientific Research and Observation, Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Black Soil Ecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agro-ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, 150081 Email: [email protected] Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,...

Reclamation of salt-affected soil has been identified by the FAO as being critical to meet needs increase agricultural productivity. This paper reviews commonly used reclamation methods for soils, and provides identifiers an effective practice soil. There are widely reduce salinity sodicity including salt leaching, addition amendments, revegetation using halophytes scrapping. Not all techniques...

General guidelines to reclaim saline or sodic soils do not adequately consider variables such as pH and the presence of organic matter that are known to affect soil stability. Poor structural stability of sodic, saline-sodic, and high-pH soils adversely influences crop yields; promotes piping, tunneling, and slope erosion; and can accelerate the failure of water conveyance systems. We evaluated...