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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 3

Keywords

Western Australia, Saline soils, Salt land, Sodic soils.

First Page Number

113

Last Page Number

120

ISSN

0021-8618

Abstract

Farmers in Western Australia have reported that they have 181,556 acres of land which has been used for crops or pastures but is now badly affected by salt encroachment. Two thousand, three hundred and five out of a total of 10,576 said that salt land is increasing on their farms. But, on the brighter side, 9,741 said that, on their farms, salt encroachment is not a major problem. Only 835 regard it as a major problem. The 10,576 farms cover 27 million acres.

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