Study on Impact of Vehicular Emission on Road Side Agricultural Land at Chapra, with Particular Reference to pH, Organic and Selected Nutrients

Authors

  • Abhishek Kumar  Research Scholar, P.G. Department of Chemistry, P.G. Department of Chemistry, K.R. College, Gopalganj, J.P. University, Chapra, Bihar, India
  • Satish Chandra Shankram  Associate Professor, P.G. Department of Chemistry, K.R. College, Gopalganj, J.P. University, Chapra, Bihar, India
  • Sarvesh Kumar Diwakar  Research Scholar, P.G. Department of Chemistry, P.G. Department of Chemistry, K.R. College, Gopalganj, J.P. University, Chapra, Bihar, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST2310120

Keywords:

Vehicular pollutants, Global problem, Road side land, Organic carbon, Available nutrients, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium.

Abstract

Due to extraordinary growth in population, and transport facilities, vehicular emission has also increased tremendously. It has become a global problem as it is damaging our environment, water bodies, soil and human health as well. The present research was conducted with the objectives to assess the impact of vehicular pollutants on the health of the agricultural lands along the main road of Chapra that is head quarter of Saran district in Bihar. Along the road side two sites were selected and soil samples were collected from four locations such as L1, L2, L3 and L4 which were 10M, 20M, 30M and 500M away from the road side. Soil samples were collected randomly from these sites in four different season’s such as spring, autumn, summer and winter for the analysis of nutrients, pH was also taken at these sites in different seasons. However, organic matters were also analyzed from these sites. It was observed that pH mean was highest 7.98 at L1 in all the seasons, which gradually decreased along the increasing distance of the location. Further even at L1 pH were 8.0 that were at SITE-2 and higher than SITE-1. Organic matter was higher in summer at all the locations at both SITE-1 and SITE-2. Contents of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) were also analyzed at different location in different seasons. Here L4 site of SITE-2 revealed the higher concentrations of N (238.8 mg/kg), phosphorus (P) 26.42 mg/kg, and potassium (K) 112.74 mg/kg of the soil in summer. This was followed by Autumn N (209.6 mg/k) P 21.52 mg/kg, and K 95.20 mg/kg of soil. In this way minimum concentrations of (N), (P) and (K) at L4 of Site1 and Site2 was obtained in spring.

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Abhishek Kumar, Satish Chandra Shankram, Sarvesh Kumar Diwakar "Study on Impact of Vehicular Emission on Road Side Agricultural Land at Chapra, with Particular Reference to pH, Organic and Selected Nutrients" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 10, Issue 1, pp.232-238, January-February-2023. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST2310120