Ancient crop beats salt
Amaranth, an ancient cereal plant from South America, is making a comeback. Researchers have found that the plant tolerates saline soils and produces very nutritious food from land that has been abandoned to salt. Millions of hectares of farmland...
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
1996
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/47251 |