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Impact of Biofertilisers on Crop Production Under Contaminated Soils
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Researchers reviewed how soil contamination from microplastics, agrochemicals, and industrial waste threatens crop production, and examined the potential of biofertilizers — beneficial microbes — to help restore soil health and improve yields in contaminated agricultural lands.
Soil contamination is becoming a major problem in many parts of the globe owing to indiscriminate use of agrochemicals, industrial effluents, microplastics, petrochemicals, waste disposal, etc. Actually, surface water which interacts with contaminated soil and goes...
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