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...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1996
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/47251