Reclamation procedures:

A. Temporary procedures:

1. Removing the salt on the temporary basis of the soil
2. Ploughing salt surface crust deep into the soil.
3. Neutralizing the effect of certain salts by adding other salts.

B) Permanent procedures:

1. Lowering the water table if high.
2. Improving the infiltration rate of the soil
3. Leaching of salts in saline soils and providing adequate surface drainage
4. Replacing the excessive exchangeable sodium and calcium salts and removing the replaced products.

Reclamation of saline soil

• Flood the field after making ridges on levels at the boundaries.
• This results into carrying the dissolved salts into lower levels below the root zone.

Reclamation of Alkaline soil

• More difficult than saline soils because alkali soils have a very low permeability and require the replacement of excessive exchangeable Na by calcium.
• Use of calcium chloride, Magnesium chloride and gypsum soluble calcium and magnesium are suitable for reclamation of alkali soils.

Reclamation of saline-Alkali Soils:

• Excess salts can be leached by flooding.
• Maintenance of adequate drainage.
• In case of sub-soil, hard pan should be broken by deep ploughing.