Tidal Swamp development by Pump Irrigation and Gravity Drainage, Acid Sulphate Soils, Kalimantan, Indonesia

This report is a study on the possibilities of practising irrigation & drainage at a large scale in tidal lowlands with acid sulphate soils in the humid tropics. The first chapters concern lowlands and their development in Indonesia. It appears that many of these lands become unfertile shortly after reclamation due to oxidation of pyrite,...