Crop Rotation Maintains Soil Sustainability

Ouda, Samiha; Zohry, Abd El-Hafeez; Noreldin, Tahany

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05351-2_4

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“…However, soil salinization is a long-term side effect which will limit its effectiveness over time and the high environmental cost incurred could offset any savings achieved through its application. In order to be sustainable biomass production using reject brine will need to adopt techniques such as crop rotation, maintaining soil health and enhancing biodiversity in the cultivation area [20]. As an emerging field biomass production using concentrate management has focused on monocropping [17], [19], [21].…”

Section: Reject Brine Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Desalination Concentrate Quantification and Management Through Multi-Stage Biomass Production: A Conceptual Framework for Further Research

Hampaul¹,

Sengupta

2021

EJGEO

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Global population growth and climate change are adding pressure on conventional water sources to meet the rising demand. Reliance on unconventional water sources utilizing desalination technologies is increasing to ensure water security. A major economic and environmental challenge in the sustainable adoption of desalination is the hypersaline concentrate that is generated as a byproduct. Brine quantification estimation process and disposal strategies along with the associated costs are provided. Brine re-use for biomass production offers a promising solution to help mitigate the environmental and economic challenges related to brine disposal. Soil salinization is a key issue with the land application of brine impacting its sustainability and applicability in the long run. The paper proposes a methodology for multi-stage biomass production using desalination brine. Added advantage of the proposed methodology is the potential to manage soil salinization, adopt sustainable agricultural practices such as crop rotation and enhancing biodiversity through inclusion of marshlands and wetlands as part of the brine disposal strategy. The paper also proposes an experimental setup for lab scale experimentation and identifies research priorities and provides recommendations for further evaluation.

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Section: Reject Brine Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Desalination Concentrate Quantification and Management Through Multi-Stage Biomass Production: A Conceptual Framework for Further Research

Hampaul¹,

Sengupta

2021

EJGEO

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“…According to Rhoades (1987) and Oster (1994), using waters of different salinities can be sustainable in maintaining crop rotations only if there is an introduction of both saltsensitive and salt-tolerant crops. However, referring to the studies of Leteinturier et al (2006), Castellazzi et al (2008), andOuda et al (2018), the evolution of salinity in the soil depends mainly on crop sequences which are related to the order of the crop succession on the same parcel of land, the crop diversity, and the return period which correspond to the appearance of the same crop during a fixed period. In saltaffected soil in Egypt, high reduction in soil pH and EC was found after the implementation of diversified 3-year crop rotation, compared to prevailing 2-year crop rotation whereas the percentage of soil EC reduction was 24% (Ouda et al 2018).…”

Section: Crop Rotationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, referring to the studies of Leteinturier et al (2006), Castellazzi et al (2008), andOuda et al (2018), the evolution of salinity in the soil depends mainly on crop sequences which are related to the order of the crop succession on the same parcel of land, the crop diversity, and the return period which correspond to the appearance of the same crop during a fixed period. In saltaffected soil in Egypt, high reduction in soil pH and EC was found after the implementation of diversified 3-year crop rotation, compared to prevailing 2-year crop rotation whereas the percentage of soil EC reduction was 24% (Ouda et al 2018). In Korba, the return period of tomato must be, at least, 1 year if the fallow is introduced in the rotation because the soil EC decreases around 63.4% (~4.4 dS/m) after fallow (Fig.…”

Section: Crop Rotationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The regeneration of a degraded soil is an extremely slow process (Lal 2015). Thus, it needs to be properly managed to achieve sustainability (Ouda et al 2018). The agroenvironmental advantages of a good crop sequence system, crop rotation, are widely recognized in "integrated farming" because of its ability to maintain soil fertility and increase productivity (Leteinturier et al 2006;Castellazzi 2008).…”

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“…The agroenvironmental advantages of a good crop sequence system, crop rotation, are widely recognized in "integrated farming" because of its ability to maintain soil fertility and increase productivity (Leteinturier et al 2006;Castellazzi 2008). The implemented crop rotations in Egypt showed a high reduction in soil pH and the average soil salinity and then an improvement in soil fertility when legume were crops included in the rotation (Ouda et al 2018).…”

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Sustainable management of a cropping system under salt stress conditions (Korba, Cap-Bon, Tunisia)

Bani

Daghari

Hatira

et al. 2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Korba is a coastal region and the main production area for strawberries, tomatoes, and peppers in Tunisia. Due to the use of saline groundwater in irrigation, soil salinization increases in the area. Farmers are therefore forced to reduce the salinity in the soil by adopting a suitable water management strategy "blended water," with the appropriate irrigation system "drip irrigation," and new farming techniques "crop combinations and crop rotations" to achieve sustainability. Based on the electrical conductivity (EC) of the groundwater (5.05 dS/m) and freshwater (1.7 dS/m), in our pilot plot, we determine that the blended water used in irrigation must contain 28.55% of groundwater with 71.45% freshwater to have a 50%strawberry yield potential because strawberry is the most salt-sensitive crop produced in the region. The strawberry-pepper's combination is a way to improve farmers' incomes with a 200% intensification rate, taking advantage of the rains and the availability of surface water during the wet season. However, the soil salinity used to increase under these crops from 1.28 dS/m in November 2018 to 3.04 dS/m of soil EC in September 2019. This is beyond the strawberry salt tolerance threshold (1 dS/m). Even after planting summer crops, tomatoes, and peppers, the rate of evolution of soil salinity exceeds 200% (~4.5 dS/m) and 122% (~3 dS/m), respectively. Therefore, the rotation becomes necessary to reduce the soil salinity and thus prepare the soil for the next planting of tomatoes, peppers, and strawberry-pepper's combination. The introduction of rainfed crops or fallow in the agricultural rotation system helped farmers to reduce soil salinity with about 56% and 67.2% for crop rotations including summer crops and the strawberry-pepper's combination, respectively, with a return period of 1 year.

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Land Degradation and Agricultural Sustainability in Kendujhar District, Odisha

Abhay

Patra

2021

Sustainable Development Goals Series

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Crop Rotation Maintains Soil Sustainability

Cited by 16 publications

References 93 publications

Desalination Concentrate Quantification and Management Through Multi-Stage Biomass Production: A Conceptual Framework for Further Research

Desalination Concentrate Quantification and Management Through Multi-Stage Biomass Production: A Conceptual Framework for Further Research

Sustainable management of a cropping system under salt stress conditions (Korba, Cap-Bon, Tunisia)

Land Degradation and Agricultural Sustainability in Kendujhar District, Odisha

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