Effect of industrial effluent on soil properties, essential nutrient and pollutant element status of soils and plants in a vegetable growing near Jajmau industrial area of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Effect of Industries on Soils of Adjoining Areas

“…Other researchers found that application of wastewater irrigation resulted in about 4, 10 and 8 fold increases in N, P, K, respectively, above the recommended fertilizer rates for forage crops (Burns et al, 1985). Similar results were obtained by Rajput et al, (2017) they found that the industrial effluentirrigated soils have higher total N, P, K and S indicating their significant addition through industrial effluent. The higher availability of S under industrial land use soil may be due to high pH as the availability of sulphur increases with increase in pH or due to presence of sulphur in industrial effluents.…”

“…It was found that higher content of these nutrients were found in soils that is in vicinity of the industries than those that is away from industries. This may be due to application of industrial effluents or due to presence of higher organic matter under industrial land use (Rajput et al, (2017).…”