A two years field study on rice was conducted to see the efficacy of gypsum to improve soil productivity with green manuring (GM) and crop residue (CR) incorporation and its impact on paddy yield of direct seeded rice and transplanted rice grown under saline-sodic soil..................................................Soil organic matter (SOM) intensity was also improved due to GM and CR incorporation particularly during the second year of crop harvest.

An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of different levels of Zn (0, 5, 10, 15kg/ha) on growth and yield of direct seeded and transplanted rice (Oryza sativa) under naturally salt-affected soil having pH=8.32; ECe=6.41dS/m; SAR=26.71(mmolc/L)½ at the farm of Soil Salinity ResearchInstitute, Pindi Bhattian during 2013. Plant height, number of tillers/plant, panicle length and number ofgrains/panicle were higher in transplanted rice than direct seeded rice at all Zn levels. Maximum paddyyield (2.61 t/ha) of direct seeded rice was attained with the application of 10 kg Zn/ha closely followedby 15 kg Zn/ha application (2.41 t/ha) which was statistical at par with paddy yield (2.45 t/ha) of transplantedrice in salt-affected field. However, overall paddy yield of direct seeded rice was 5 % higher than thetransplanted rice.