Saline creeping into Bangladeshs croplands

As fresh water flow has tapered off on the upper stream of rivers over the last four decades, due to human intervention mainly in neighbouring India, salinity has intruded into 100 rivers and affected 15 per cent of Bangladesh's total cropland in the southwestern coastal districts. This was revealed in a study, Soil Salinity Map, by Soil Resource and Development Institute (SRDI) based on … [Read More]

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