date:Sep 04, 2018
ence and Ecology at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, collected the different soil samples, categorised them according to soil taxonomy and used atomic absorption spectroscopy studies to analyse the level of different heavy metals.
We found an unusually high level of magnesium in the fields studied. While the magnesium content of soil in South Indian soil is known to be between 30 and 220 mg/kg, the average of the samples tested was above 900 mg/kg, says dr. K.S. Nidheesh, from St Josephs Un