Effect of Sugar Industry Waste Water on Rural Agricultural Crops

Anteneh Worku, Om Prakash Sahu

Abstract


Industrialisation is back born of any developing country, with increasing of industry pollution level also increases. Increase in the pollution level affect and alter the quality parameter of human, flora and fauna. Some of the industries which located even outer circumference of urban area are directly or indirectly affect the ecosystem. In that kind industry sugar industry is one of them. The effluent coming out from the sugar industry contains high percentage of organic and inorganic pollutant. These pollutant effluents if directly discharges to agricultural land it affect the crops. In this regard’s an attempted has been made to study the effect of sugar industry waste on Vigna angularis, and Oryza sativa L. The result show that untreated waste water reduces 50% of the seed germination of both the crops and treated waste water increase up to 99% seed germination. The untreated wastewater also affects the percentage of amino acid, protein and chlorophyll of crops.

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Biochemical; Contamination; Effluents; Growths; Organic; Waste

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