Soil-environmental relationships on the Brahmaputra and Ganges floodplains in Bangladesh

The reconnaissance soil survey of Pakistan 1961-71 produced important new information on the environmental relationships of soils on the Brahmaputra and Ganges floodplains in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which provided a sound basis for agricultural land use planning in the country. The greater pa...

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Published in:International journal of environmental studies 2022-09, Vol.79 (5), p.935-950
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Agricultural land
Alluvial deposits
Alluvium
Bangladesh
Cultivation
Environmental science
Environmental studies
Estuaries
ferrolysis
Flood levels
Flooding
floodplain soil
Floodplains
Foothills
Grain cultivation
Land use
Land use management
Land use planning
Landscape
paddy soil
Puddling
Rain water
Rivers
Sediments
soil coatings
Soil surveys
Soils
Tidal floods
toposequence
Topsoil
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Flooding
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Puddling
Rain water
Rivers
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Tidal floods
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