Productivity of sodic soils can be enhanced through the use of salt tolerant rice varieties and proper agronomic practices.

ABSTRACT: Regaining the agricultural potential of sodic soils in the Indo-Gangetic plains necessitates the development of suitable salt tolerant rice varieties to provide an entry for other affordable agronomic and soil manipulation measures. Thus selection of high yielding rice varieties across a range of sodic soils is central. Evaluation of breeding lines through on-station and on-farm farmers' participatory varietal selection (FPVS) resulted in the identification of a short duration (110-115 days), high yielding and disease resistant salt-tolerant rice genotype 'CSR-89IR-8', which was later released as 'CSR43' in 2011. Several agronomic traits coupled with good grain quality and market value contributed to commercialization and quick adoption of this variety in the sodic areas of the Indo-Ganget

SUBMITTER: Singh YP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4862441 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature