date:Sep 04, 2018
After decades of intensive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, its negative impacts are reaching new heights. Heavy metal contamination is now reported in several banana fields of South India.
An extensive study of over 250 soil samples from three south Indian States -Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu - has shown that most of the banana fields contain amounts of copper, magnesium, chromium and cobalt that are higher than the threshold levels.
Researchers from the Laboratory of Plant Sci