TESTING PEAK SALINITY FOR PISTACHIO

摘要

IN TERMS OF land usage, the pistachio industry frequently takes what other growers have forsaken. Approximately a quarter of the industry's annual U.S. acreage is grown on "marginal soils" — saline and saline-sodic grounds that curb the water infiltration in the soil profile and the ability of a plant's roots to absorb water.But pistachio growers are limited in their opportunism.