Title: Irrigation and soil salinity in the Indian subcontinent : past and present /
Authors: Singh, N. T.
Publisher: Lehigh University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Irrigation India History.; Irrigation farming India History.; Soils, Salts in India History.; Soil salinization India History.
Abstract: "High-intensity irrigated agriculture has fed the rising world population but degraded the land resource through water logging and secondary salinization. This book expresses fears about the permanency of irrigated agriculture. In this context, the history of irrigation and accompanying soil degradation in the Indian Subcontinent is unparalleled."--Jacket.
Contents: General features of the Indian subcontinent -- Water resources of the subcontinent and their management -- History of irrigation up to 1858 -- Irrigation works of the British and Post-Independence Period -- Soils of the subcontinent and sources of salt accretion -- Irrigated agriculture and waterlogging -- Irrigation and soil salinity : the connection -- Nature and distribution of saltlands and their native flora -- Research into saltlands -- Reclamation and management of saltlands and saline irrigation -- Plantation forestry and other uses of saltlands.