Spanish Ebro Delta acts as testing lab to make rice cultivation resistant to soil salinisation

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Publication date	Friday, 8 November, 2019
Keywords	salinisation

The future of the rice in the Spanish Ebro Delta is threatened by soil salinisation, caused by rising sea levels and erosion of the Delta. Besides, the apple snail, a tropical pest introduced in the area, is ravaging rice crops by eating and uprooting young plants. A local Operational Group is testing how rice dry seeding can reduce the apple snail population and how this affects soil salinity.

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