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Dose Optimization of NPK Fertilizers for Growing Linseed Crop under Saline Sodic Soil Environment

Ayesha Zafar¹, Ghulam Sarwar^1*, Muhammad Sarfraz², Muhammad Zeeshan Manzoor¹, Sher Muhammad³ and Ghulam Murtaza¹

...: justify;">Salinity and sodicity are the major issues to the sustainability of agriculture in Pakistan. The plants in saline environment are negatively affected due to several issues like low osmotic potential, specific ion effect, and nutritional imbalance. The fertilizer behavior in salt stress conditions is quite different as compared to the normal soils. Linseed is an important oil seed crop. Its 50 % yield reduction occurs at ECe 5.9 dSm-1 and ESP value ...

Quantification of Plant available Zinc, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Boron, and Visualization of their Spatial Distribution through GIS in District Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, Pakistan

Zahid Hassan Tarar¹, Muhammad Salik Ali Khan^2*, Shahzada Munawar Mehdi³, Raza Salim4, Irfan Ahmad Saleem1, Saima Nazar5, Munir David², Tahir Majeed⁶, Muhammad Sufyan Mughal⁷, Muhammad Saleem⁸, Umer Iqbal9, Muhammad Mazhar Iqbal¹⁰ and Muhammad Khalid Shaheen³

...s free from salinity and sodicity menace. However, soil was deficient regarding SOM with mean value of 0.69%. The correlations between soil pH and plant available Zn, Fe, Mn, and B were significant and negative. The ordinary kriging technique was used to assess the micronutrient status at non-sampling sites and research area was classified into low, marginal, and adequate categories according to plant available micronutrient status. Digital maps thus developed...

Zohaib Ahmad Hassan¹, Ghulam Sarwar¹*, Noor-Us-Sabah¹, Mukkram Ali Tahir¹, Muhammad Aftab², Muhammad Zeeshan Manzoor¹, Usman Saleem³, Ayesha Zafar¹, Imran Shehzad¹, Aneela Riaz⁴, Khurshid Ahmad Mufti⁵ and Aamer Sattar²

Toxic Effects of Sodium Bicarbonate (NaHCO3) on Growth and Yield of Rice

...wed to accomplish chosen sodicity levels. Later on, rice nursery was transplanted in all the pots. Various agronomical operations were carried out as per crop requirement. At maturity, rice was harvested from all pots. Various yield contributing components like plant height, fertile tillers, total biomass, straw and paddy yield were noted for all pots of the experiment. Statistical analysis of all collected data was accomplished. It was noted from the results ...

Evaluation of Temporal and Differential Fertilizer Application on Growth, Yield and Quality of Wheat

Raheela Naz¹*, Muhammad Aftab¹, Ghulam Sarwar², Ana Aslam¹, Qudsia Nazir¹, Asifa Naz³, Abid Niaz⁴, Farah Rasheed¹, Amina Kalsom¹, Nisa Mukhtar¹, Sadia Sultana¹, Ifra Saleem¹, Arfan ul Haq¹, Muhammad Arif¹, Aamer Sattar¹, Sarfraz Hussain⁵ and Muhammad Adnan Rafique⁶

...d free from salinity and sodicity hazards. Wheat grains were analyzed for mineral contents. The results revealed that maximum grain yield was obtained from treatment T6 (Half N at sowing time + spray of 2% N after 30 & 45 DAS + half K at sowing time + spray of 2% K after 30 & 45 DAS) as compared to other treatments. Furthermore, the chemical analysis showed the maximum quantity of N, P and K in wheat grains obtained from T6. This study concluded that s...

Irrigation Water Characteristics, Their Correlations and Suitability for Agriculture in District Gujranwala (A Survey Study)

Abid Ali¹*, Safia Naureen Malik³, Muhammad Akmal², Hafeez Ullah Rafa² and Abid Subhani³

...e of salinity as well as sodicity for soils of the district. The ‘maximum values’ of Cl ion and ‘mean values’ of Na ion were observed higher than their permissible values (4 me L-1 and 3 me L-1 respectively) in all the four tehsils, indicating that groundwater is toxic to crop growth at certain locations of the district. The data manifested that the quality deciding parameters i.e., EC, SAR and RSC of irrigation water were statistically...

Biomass Yield Response of Different Medicinal Plants Under Dual Stress of Salinity and Sodicity

Ghulam Qadir¹, Khalil Ahmed¹*, Muhammad Ashfaq Anjum¹, Quais Muhammad Affan², Muhammad Zaighum Mushtaq³, Muhammad Amjad Qureshi⁴, Amar Iqbal Saqib¹, Hafeezullah Rafa¹, Abdul Wakeel¹, Ghulam Shabir¹, Muhammad Rizwan¹, Muhammad Qaisar Nawaz¹ and Muhammad Faisal Nawaz¹

... the medium salinity and sodicity level of (6 dS m-1 + 25 SAR). However, biomass yield decreased linearly with increasing levels of salinity and sodicity and a maximum reduction of 63.25% for Podeena, 48.15% for Hina, 54.74% for Qulfa, 32.87% for Methi, 59.77% for Dill and 45.18% for Kalwanji was recorded at the highest level of salinity + sodicity (ECe 8 dS m-1 + SAR 35).

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Response of Seventeen Advance Rice Lines to Salinity and Sodicity

Muhammad Khalid Bhatti, Khalil Ahmed*, Ghulam Shabir, Muhammad Irfan, Muhammad Ashfaq Anjum, Muhammad Sarfraz, Amar Iqbal Saqib, Abdul Wakeel, Hafeezullah Rafa, Nadeem Iqbal, Muhammad Qaisar Nawaz, Ghulam Qadir, Muhammad Rizwan and Muhammad Faisal Nawaz

Exploring the Genetic Diversity of Citrullus vulgaris L. Against Salinity Stress

Muhammad Zeeshan Siddiqui¹, Mujahid Ali²*, Shoaib ur Rehman³, Shahid Iqbal⁴, Malik Abdur Rehman⁵, Hafiz M. Tayyab Khan⁴, Muhammad Ali⁶, Muhammad Azher Nawaz⁴ and Saqib Ayyub¹

... sodium contents lead to sodicity. Finally, selected genotypes displayed significantly dissimilar responses toward the concentration of sodium ions according to their genetic potential. Various agronomic traits and physiological traits along with seedlings’ ionic content of sodium, phosphorous, potassium, and sodium in leaves revealed that ‘Round ball’ has better NaCl tolerance ability compared with other genotypes used in this study. The hig...

Identification of fast growing salt tolerant tree species

Sahibazada M. Hafeez

...urposes due to salinity, sodicity and waterlogging in the irrigated plains of the province of Punjab and Sindh. These were the major food, fuelwood and timber producing areas in the plains. Pakistan has acute wood deficits and firewood is still the principal source of fuel for heating and cooking. There is an urgent need to reforest such areas and other waste lands with salt tolerant, fast-growing trees.

In order to identify salt tolerant tree spec...

Sodium Chloride stress studies on growth of some leguminous forest tree seedlings

Muhammad Arif Chaudhry and Altaf Hussain

...e to study the effect of sodicity, created through three NaCl stresses: 0.044% to 0.351%, 0.132% to 0.878% and 0.308 to 1.580%, on soil pH, plant height and apical dieback in Leucaena leucocephala, Albizzia lebbek, Acaica nilotica and A. ampliceps. The results indicated that the highest salt concentrations (.0.878% - 1.580%) produced deleterious changes in soil pH and resulted in dieback injury in A. nilotica, A. lebbek and L. l...

Effect of forest vegetation on salinity sodicity and infiltration capacity of soil

Bashir Hussain Shah, Altaf Hussain and Raja M. Omer

...ect of soil salinity and sodicity was investigated on the infiltration capacity of four soil types; normal, saline, sodic and saline-sodic. Bulk density, porosity, moisture holding capacity, and texture of soil samples were also determined in the laboratory. The results showed that the infiltration capacity was highest in normal soil (0.17cm/hr). The infiltration capacity of saline-sodic soil under different vegetation e.g. tree plantations, grass cove...

Nature and magnitude of salinity and drainage problems in relation to agricultural development in Pakistan

M. Bashir Chaudhry (Dr.), M. Alim Mian and M. Rafiq

...ls with topsoil salinity sodicity occurring in cultivated fields, (2) party reclaimed saline-sodic soils, together occupying about three million areas only. Water logging is a problem of some importance in about 0.7 million acres of non-saline cultivated land only. The SCARP programme has been examined and it has come out that these projects have not met the expected success because they were formulated without proper diagnosis of the problems of salinity and...

Soil variations in relation to Forest Management in Lalsohanra irrigated plantation

Jalal-ud-Din and M. Farooq

...lar relief. Salinity and sodicity, dense soil mass and sandy natures are the main soil problems that adversely affect the suitability of the area for shisham and other tree species under irrigation. Under the existing conditions of arid climate and shortage of irrigation water the problematic soils could better be used for original flora or drought/salt resistant tree species. If, however, sufficient water is made available for intensive forestry, the reclamat...

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