What are the Problems and solutions for Acid-sulphate soils?
Acid sulphate soils are unproductive. The lands look barren and the water is very clear, devoid of silt and life. The soils can be colourful. Indigenous populations have managed to develop acid sulphate soils, e.g. for rice cultivation. It has taken them many years of careful management and toil. The soils are hardly attractive for large scale and commercial exploitation. However, there have been efforts in that direction at deplorable loss of environmental quality and of financial resources. The best cure would be to restore the original conditions. Unfortunately most undertakers are not interested to spend additional funds in repairing of what was damaged already at a large expense. The indigenous efforts have led to soils thar are no longer acid due to long lasting drainage and removal of the acids. These soils have acquired an excellent and stable soil structure coupled with a high permeability. Their fertility, however, has gone.
