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Assessment of soil contamination in Industrial area of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Zoology, D.B.S.(P.G.) College, Kanpur, India
  • 2Department of Botany, D.A-V. (P.G.) College, Kanpur, India
  • 3Department of Botany, D.A-V. (P.G.) College, Kanpur, India
  • 4Department of Zoology, D.B.S.(P.G.) College, Kanpur, India
  • 5Department of Botany, D.A-V. (P.G.) College, Kanpur, India

Res. J. Agriculture & Forestry Sci., Volume 13, Issue (2), Pages 15-18, April,8 (2025)

Abstract

Geo-chemical studies were conducted to find out the of chemical pollution of Panki, Unnao and Jajmau industrial areas, located in Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh due to industrial waste in soil. Unnao and Jajmau industrial area situated on the bank of river Ganga is a major center of leather processing and tannery industries. Apart from Unnao and Jajmau industrial area. Another industrial area is Panki. This area is spread over 20,000, acres. Panki is famous for the thermal power station which is one of the few thermal power units in Northern India. There are total 800 industrial areas in Panki, Unnao and Jajmau. Nine soil samples were collected from different layers of soil at a distance of about 1 kilometer around the industrial area of Panki, Unnao and Jajmau. To study the heavy metals like Pb, Ni, Cu, Zn, Hg and Ar in the soil samples around Panki, Jajmau and Unnao industrial area. This is one of the known and polluted areas and have smalland largescale manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, chemicals, steel, leather, paint, machinery parts automobiles, plastic items and metal production has been going on here for many decades. The presence of heavy metal in soil is severe threat to the environment, crop production, human health and all other living organisms. The entry of poisonous and toxic metals in human food chain by the vegetables, crops is of great concern. Higher concentration of heavy metals in fields are often not caused by pedogenesis but by human activities, such as mining and smelting, combustion of fossil fuels, application of agrochemicals and wastewater irrigation. Indiscriminate dumping of hazardous waste in the study area could be the main cause of soil contamination which is spread by water, rain, wind and human activities.

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