3rd November, 2020, Karnal
The ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana in collaboration with the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) organized an International Salinity Webinar on “Resilient Agriculture in Saline Environments under Changing Climate” today.
In his inaugural address, Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR) emphasized that other than the natural and climate change processes, the over use of irrigation and changing land use patterns are major drivers in bringing cultivable area under the salt affected lands. He also stressed that the major river basins has witnessed the phenomenon of salinity induced stresses caused by over and under irrigation.
Dr. Ismahane Elouafi, Director General, International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai stressed on the current Pandemic COVID-19 that has changed the business as usual and compounded natural and man-made factors affecting the agriculture in general and salinity in particular in the Asian region. She highlighted that the current situation demands the exploration of under-utilized crops in the marginal areas instead of mono-cropping by major food crops to make the resilience a reality.
Dr. S.K. Chaudhari, Deputy Director General (Natural Resource Management), ICAR highlighted the major issues needed for SAS. He opined to have a need-based collaborative programme and network to take the prioritized issues of SAS at policy and practice levels to address them at the local and regional scales.
Dr. P.C. Sharma, Director, ICAR-CSSRI, Karnal, Haryana outlined the overview of the current situations of salt affected soils in India and their sustainable management approaches through various technologies developed by institute.
The Internation Webinar registered a total participation by 967 participants.
(Source: ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana)
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