Turning saline land into soil that produces China's best-known rice brands seems incredible. But that is what Chinese scientists in northeastern Jilin Province have done. Click on the details for more on this impressive achievement.
Chinese researchers have discovered that saline land may be reclaimed by the irrigation method of freezing saline water over the soil in winter. In addition, they found that the desalination depth of saline ice meltwater into the saline-alkali soil was greater than that of salt-free ice, according to a recent study paper published in the European Journal of Soil Science.
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