“Soil salinity – its classification and effects”. From a global perspective October 2011 is an extremely important month, for the world population will pass seven billion (7,000,000,000). We believe the fact that this milestone is reached earlier than forecasted is a very strong reminder that we have to work even harder to make food security a reality. It is clear to us that we in SOPIB, as the suppliers of specialty fertilizers, have an important role to play to ensure not only higher crop yields, but also produce with an improved quality.

We will continue to highlight in our SOPIB Newsletter key issues that impact modern food production. Salinity is one of those very complex issues presenting a threat to agricultural productivity in many areas where irrigation is necessary. We hope that the next two articles in the series on salinity will answer some of the questions you may have. Looking ahead, we are planning further articles on salinity and also hope to cover specific plant nutrition issues of crops grown on salt-affected fields or are irrigated with saline water.

Meanwhile, we keep on working to inform a broad audience and are proud to announce that the Spanish SOPIB website is now online. We are looking forward to provide a Spanish newsletter soon as well.

We hope you find these articles of interest. As always we certainly welcome your feedback and would be delighted, if you could recommend the SOPIB Newsletter to your colleagues and friends. Subscribe to the SOPIB newsletter here