"The plains area of central and southern Iraq, renowned for its fertility in the 1970s, had turned into salinised land. It is estimated that about 25,000 hectares annually are affected by salinisation and becoming too saline for major agricrops to grow." (Thanks Marcy)
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=84142
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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