Salt-tolerant plants eyed as crops of the future as sea level rises

20 per cent of world's irrigated farmland already contaminated with salt

On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing,…

Full text: http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/technology/saltwater-plants-1.3193535

Author

Katy Daigle

Source

CBC News, 2015-08-18.

Supplier

Boeing
Central Soil Salinity Research Institute (ICAR-CSSRI)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
National Portal of India (Indian Government)
University of Arizona
World Bank

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