Monitoring of Heavy Metal Content in Leafy Vegetables Irrigated with Different Water Sources

DOI: 10.22161/ijeab.56.30

Keyword: Heavy metals, vegetables, daily requirement, waste water effluent, human health.

Abstract: The present research was conducted to calculate levels of different heavy metals like Fe, Mn, Cu, and Zn in leafy vegetables when grown with different water sources. The result showed quite high range of accumulation when the vegetables were irrigated with wastewater. Wastewater irrigated vegetables showed variations (115-377), (12-68), (5.2-16.8), (21-45) mg/kg for iron, manganese, copper and zinc. Highest toxic level of iron and manganese were detected in mint and spinach and carrot showed highest value of copper and zinc. From the present study we can conclude that the vegetables grown from these water resources will lead to heavy metal accumulation in human body i.e for both adult and children if they continuously consume these vegetables. For this regular monitoring of these heavy metals is needed in order to prevent excessive metal accumulation in the body. However the results obtained from the present study shows that the ranges of heavy metal were below the permissible limitsset by WHO/FAO.

Article Info: Received: 01 Nov 2020; Received in revised form: 11 Dec 2020; Accepted: 22 Dec 2020; Available online: 30 Dec 2020

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Swati Singh Chandel, Amar Singh Rana, Ram Bharose et al."Monitoring of Heavy Metal Content in Leafy Vegetables Irrigated with Different Water Sources". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878),vol 5, no. 6, 2020, pp.1641-1645 AI Publications doi:10.22161/ijeab.56.30

Swati Singh Chandel, Amar Singh Rana, Ram Bharose, P.(2020).Monitoring of Heavy Metal Content in Leafy Vegetables Irrigated with Different Water Sources. International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).5(6), 1641-1645.10.22161/ijeab.56.30

Swati Singh Chandel, Amar Singh Rana, Ram Bharose, P.(2020).Monitoring of Heavy Metal Content in Leafy Vegetables Irrigated with Different Water Sources. International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).5(6), pp.1641-1645.

Swati Singh Chandel, Amar Singh Rana, Ram Bharose. 2020."Monitoring of Heavy Metal Content in Leafy Vegetables Irrigated with Different Water Sources". International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology(ISSN: 2456-1878).5(6):1641-1645.Doi:10.22161/ijeab.56.30

Swati Singh Chandel, Amar Singh Rana, Ram Bharose."Monitoring of Heavy Metal Content in Leafy Vegetables Irrigated with Different Water Sources", International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology,vol.5,no. 6, pp.1641-1645,2020.

@article { swatisinghchandel2020monitoring,
title={Monitoring of Heavy Metal Content in Leafy Vegetables Irrigated with Different Water Sources},
author={Swati Singh Chandel, Amar Singh Rana, Ram Bharose , R},
journal={International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology},
volume={5},
year= {2020} ,
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