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Water and Salt Movement in Soils of the Nile Delta

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This chapter concerns the water and salt movement in the fields of the Nile Delta, which are critical factors determining the ability of soils to sustain reasonable production of different crops. First, the present status of the soil quality, especially the salt accumulation in soils affected by the water and salt movement in the soils is described. Then, various factors affecting soil salinity are discussed, including the use of drain water or mixed water as irrigation water and the fluctuation in the water table level, which is closely related with the efficiency of the embedded drainage systems. Finally our field experimental results regarding the effects of rice cultivation on salt leaching from surface soils are presented.

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  1. Rural Development Division (Crop and Soil Science), Engineering Department, NTC International Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

    A. Kubota

  2. Rice Research and Training Center (Crop Management under Salt Stresses), Agricultural Research Center, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

    B. Zayed

  3. Arid Land Research Center (Soil Physics), Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

    H. Fujimaki

  4. Office of Global Initiatives (Soil Chemistry), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    T. Higashi

  5. Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering (Soil Physics), Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    S. Yoshida

  6. Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute (Water Requirement and Field Irrigation), Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

    M. M. A. Mahmoud

  7. Arid Land Research Center (Irrigation and Drainage in Arid Lands), Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

    Y. Kitamura

  8. Water Management Research Institute (Field Irrigation and Drainage), National Water Research Center, Delta Barrage, Egypt

    W. H. Abou El Hassan

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Kubota, A. et al. (2017). Water and Salt Movement in Soils of the Nile Delta. In: Satoh, M., Aboulroos , S. (eds) Irrigated Agriculture in Egypt. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30216-4_7

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