Relationship of arsenic accumulation with irrigation practices and crop type in agriculture soils of Bengal Delta, India

Abstract The present study investigates the current state and distribution of As in the upper soil horizons (i.e. rhizospheric zone, 0–15 cm) of two different agricultural fields: (1) paddy-cultivating agricultural field that was irrigated with groundwater containing 137 µg/L of As and (2) wheat-cul...

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Main Authors: S. H. Farooq, D. Chandrasekharam, W. Dhanachandra, K. Ram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-06-01
Series:Applied Water Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13201-019-0904-1