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Soil Health and fertility

Salinity

General information

  • Draining and reusing irrigation water
  • Dryland salinity – causes and impacts
  • How do I test water salinity?
  • How salinity is measured
  • How to texture soils and test for salinity
  • Irrigation salinity – causes and impacts
  • Key Sites – Land use to manage water and salt
  • Measuring water salinity
  • Products for salinity training & monitoring  427.0 kb
  • Salinity Glove Box Guide booklets & order form  135.4 kb
  • Salinity symptoms
  • Salt bag - water and salinity monitoring kit
  • Tree planting to control salinity 
  • Urban salinity – causes and impacts

Posters

  • Lateral salt seepage into shallow coastal aquifers from tidal drains after floodgate opening
  • Source of salinity in low coastal floodplains and effects on sugar cane yield

Research

  • Key Sites research project 
    Investigating the impact of all major land uses on water and salt movement.
  • Salinity and catchment hydrology research unit 

Salinity and crops

  • Millet for reclaiming irrigated saline soils
  • Salinity tolerance in irrigated crops
  • Using saline water for irrigation

Salinity and pastures

  • Puccinellia 
  • Strawberry clover 
  • Tall wheatgrass 
Salt affected land 

Salinity CRC

  • Publications

Key websites

  • Future Farm Industries CRC
  • NDSP - The National Dryland Salinity Program
  • National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality

Other websites

  • Australian Salinity Action Network newsletter
  • Inquiry into the coordination of the science to combat the nation's salinity problem
  • Salinity on Australian farms ABS report

Salinity in tsunami-affected Indonesia

  • Rapid assessment of soil salinity
  • Reducing impacts of salinity on crops
  • Fertilisers and soil improvement
  • Soil types, structure and condition
  • Soil biology
  • Soil carbon
  • Soil management guides
  • Soil acidity
  • Acid sulfate soils
  • Sodic soils
  • Soil erosion
  • Testing and assessing soil
  • Salinity
  • Contacts
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