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Contaminants in Agriculture and Environment: Health Risks and Remediation
Summary
This book chapter reviewed contaminants in agricultural environments and their health risks, covering heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging pollutants including microplastics, and summarizing remediation strategies for both soil and crop systems. The authors discuss the intersection of food security and environmental contamination in modern agricultural production systems.
This book is a forge guide to the students and researchers working in the field of agricultural pollution and seeking to get relevant material to understand the current trends of generation, impacts and remediation of pollutants affecting agricultural systems. The book provides the collection of most pertinent material about themes to the readers. The book is helpful in understanding the basic concepts of agricultural pollution as well as the sources of pollutants in agriculture system. The enhancement of agricultural productivity by various environmental friendly methods and their limitations is also implemented. Furthermore, the book comprises the information about impact of pollutants on growth and productivity of agricultural crops followed by various diseases and impacts of agricultural pollutants on human health as well as to other components of ecosystem. The case studies of some countries showing impacts on its population which is caused by such pollutants. The current status of generation of agricultural wastes and its best utilization by means of environmental friendly approaches is the emergence need in this book.
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