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The major limiting factor on the expansion of irrigated agriculture throughout the world is the lack of water.Water demand is increasing due to fast population growth rates, improvement in living standards, improvement in industry and municipality, and global warming. Nowadays, there is an increasing tendency to use saline irrigation water in arid and semi-arid regions of the world because of rising water demands for irrigation. Slightly and moderately saline water can be used for irrigation successfully to grow salt tolerant and moderately salt-tolerant crops without adverse long-term effects on soil provided appropriate soil water management practices are followed [1].
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Kirnak, H. (2006). Effects of irrigation water salinity on yield and evapotranspiration of drip irrigated cucumber in a semiarid environment. In: Öztürk, M., Waisel, Y., Khan, M.A., Görk, G. (eds) Biosaline Agriculture and Salinity Tolerance in Plants. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7610-4_17
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