Presence of toxic substances or chemicals in the soil in enough quantity to pose risk to humanbeing and other organisms associated with the soil ecosystem is called as soil pollution. Soil also is being called as mother of farmers or all of us and we have no right to damage the soil.we should not add chemicals either in forms of fertilizers or pesticides in excess quantity or indiscriminately and should make it poisonous. It is a kind of natural media or resource required to produce the crop or food . Hence soil pollution is also posing risk to the humanbeing or other animals.
Let's make the following efforts to reduce or avoid soil pollution.
1. Do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides indiscriminately.Use them only after testing of the soil of particular field and use them as per the recommendation suggested in the soil health card.
2. Do not use polluted or salty water for irrigation purpose in agriculture.3.Lets not use the industrial water for irrigation purposes in agriculture.
4.Adopt IPM to avoid excess use of chemicals in agriculture.
5.Soil pollution can also lead air and water pollution.
6.Lets promote biopesticides and biofertilizers in place of chemical pesticides and chemical fertilizers to avoid soil pollution.
7.Use decomposable materials in our daily use.
8.Lets stop single use plastic in our daily life activities.
9.Implement organic compost system in our work place.
10.polluted Soil can also pollute the air and water.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Let's reduce soil pollution.
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