Millet for reclaiming irrigated saline soils

Agriculture Primefact
Primefact Number: 242    Edition: First edition    Released/reviewed: 01 Aug 2006

Millet is is a relatively salt-tolerant annual and could be grown to reclaim saline land using irrigation water. The millet crop does not remove the salt. Rather, it is a good crop to grow while leaching is occurring. It is this leaching of accumulated salts from the root zone using good quality irrigation water or rainfall which achieves land reclamation.