Practice Name:

Making Saline Land More Fertile

Details
Category	Soil Management
Crop	Cotton
Crop Family	Malvaceae
Scientific Name	(Gossypium spp.)
Vernacular Name	Kapas
Scout	HBN
Ingredients
Details of Innovation	For making saline farmland more fertile, debris of farm and crop is collected. Then it is spread on the field and burned. This burns the salinity of the upper crust of the field. Also, branches and sticks of mesquite (gaanda baaval) (Prosopis juliflora), cotton (Gossypium herbaceum), castor (Ricinus communis), pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), pearl millet (Pennisetum typhoides) are burned. Thus, debris is put to good use, and land qualityis improved. The farmer has developed this practice. He would cut the thorns of mesquite grown on the fence. These thorns were burned so as not to inconvenience the pedestrians. During monsoons, it was observed that good quality grass and weeds grew in the area where the thorns were burned. (Ashes of organic debris neutralise land salinity because they also contain saline).

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Balvantsingh Anopsingh Zala
City / District	Ahmedabad
KVK District	KrishiVigyan Kendra, Anand Agricultural University, Arnej – 382 230. Tel:02714-242028
Address	At. Karkathal Viramgam Ahmadabad Gujarat
Languages Spoken	Gujarati
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	382150

PAS_1	Soil salinity: A serious environmental issue and plant growth promoting bacteria as one of the tools for its alleviation.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336437/
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Western plain, kachchh and part of kathiawar peninsula, hot arid eco-region (2.3), Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) Coastal Plains and Hills (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Bhal and Coastal area (GJ-8) 14.26% North Gujarat ( GJ-4) 19.87% North west zone (GJ-5) 36.38 North Saurashtra (GJ-6) 29.49
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000000062
Reference	Ahmedabad-95/5
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/665
Reference	Ahmedabad-95/5
Scout	HBN