Farming With Salty Water Is Possible
One of the many adverse effects of global climate change is the rise of sea levels, which scientists say can increase the salinity level of fresh water reserves. As saline water cannot be used for irrigation, farm fields close to the seashore are lost to agriculture. But a farm in Netherlands has managed to grow healthy and tasty vegetables in soil irrigated with salt water. VOA’s George Putic reports. Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/media/video/farming-with-salty-water-is-possible/2509863.html
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Great job!
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I am glad that VOA is spreading this important step to see ahead in to the future.
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surely with the Netherlands getting plenty of rainwater this dilutes the effect of any saline water.
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all this contents about salt build up....untill enough salt builds up and nothing will grow....hmmm... isn't the ocean bioshfere one of the richest on the planet? You know what, even so, asuming that all the salt will build up and there will be mostly salt, i bet there are species of microorganism that just love salt. The question is if anyone figure it out what those are.
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using saline water and sea water for cultivation is only solution to world drought problems
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There is planty of salty soils around the world. And it is sure: Irrigation with salt water has fatal consequences to soil fertility.
To manage this problem (rising salinity levels in subsoil water) we should prevent to get salt into the soil from subsoil water (by drainage for example). -
My brother and i had been talking about it for years.Farming with sea water......
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They should start label their produce as 'raised from saltwater irrigated farm' right?
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is that gru?
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Brawndo?
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Salt will build up in soil when the yearly evaporation is higher than the yearly rainfall + irrigation(more salty than rain water). When you add salts to the soil by for instance fertilizing or adding irrigation water, you need more water to clean the soil. In the Netherlands there is a rainfall surplus, so the added salt will finally get into the groundwater and will end up in the ocean.
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and the obvious conclusion is that some crops like potatoes are more salt-tolerants untill a certain level of salinity, beyond this level nothing can be grown. It's a pity that a non-salt-saturated soil is getting artificially salinized for that experiment. The big challenge is how to lower salt level in soils.
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this may prove to be very useful,what about onions,and of course sea buckthorn.
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How many harvests did they have?
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