“…Most of the surrounding tannery areas, crops are cultivated, which is having harmful microbial load and trace metal, specially Cr (Dotaniya et al, 2017 ). It categorized as a carcinogenic metal for a human being (Singh et al, 2020 ), and in plant it is reducing germination (Dotaniya et al, 2014 ), plant growth and made plants look bushy (Coumar et al, 2016a ; Dotaniya et al, 2014 ). The use of this metal-contaminated water in pulse production reduced the crop germination rate and N fixation capacity of the crop.…”