Peculiarities in Changes of Soil Salinity in Restructuring
Irrigated Agricultural Lands of Deltaic Areas

G. S. Kust1

Institute of Ecological Soil Science, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992 Russia

e-mail: gkust@yandex.ru

Received November 12, 2012

Abstract—The issue of cultivating fewer water-retaining plants on soils with a stratified texture upon a sharp
decrease in irrigation norms is examined based on the case of a test plot in the Southern Pre-Aral Sea region.
For layered soils, it is very important that the location of drainage and irrigating canals is coordinated with the
direction of the groundwater flow by the upper waterbed, which is determined by the lithological structure of
the root inhabited stratum.

Keywords: soil, salinity conditions, stratified soils, waterbed, land restructuring, irrigation

DOI: 10.1134/S2079096113030086


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