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By: Abigail Klein Leichman - October 13, 2020
Too dry, too hot, too cold, too salty – the devasting results of extreme weather and overuse of natural resources threaten crop production worldwide.
The problems are vast, so Israeli ag-tech company SaliCrop zeroed in on the salinity issue. Its non-genetically modified seed treatment allows crops such as wheat, corn and rice to grow well in high-salinity soil or soil irrigated with brackish water.
From North Carolina’s coastal plain to the isles of West Bengal, India, salt from flooding or rising seawater plagues approximately 20 percent of the world’s irrigated agricultural fields at a loss of $12 billion annually.
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