April- thematic report soil pollution

Soil pollution is invisible but everyone is affected and Is worldwide problem and poisons foods, the after we drink the air we breath posing a serious food risk to food security human health soil has great potential to filter and buffer contaminants degrading and attenuating but this capacity is finite. 

Humans can get affected by soil pollution via the inhalation of gases coming from soils moving upward, soil matter that is disturbed and transported by the wind because of the various human activities on the ground. Soil pollution can cause serious health problem, soil are sensitive to erosion and compaction and using trees and their roots to maintain structure is the future of farming

-Agrofarming is the solution as it allow farmer to diverse their crop

-Another way is creating awareness among farmers and people to use fertilizers efficiently based on scientific recommendation and can adopt organic and natural farming.

soil pollution has an adverse impact on food security at different levels –it can reduce crop yields due to levels of contaminants, and crops grown in polluted soils can affect human health as soil get imbalance the food grown on that particular region get imbalance which can increase the rate of cancer in a region,

Case study approach

In india In March 2009, the issue of Uranium poisoning in Punjab was a issue. Which were caused by fly ash ponds of thermal power stations, which lead to severe birth abnormalities including physical deformities, neurological and mental disorders. birth defects in children in the many districts of Punjab. many news reports claimed the uranium levels were more than 60 times the maximum safe limit. In 2012, the Government of India confirmed that the ground water in Malwa belt of Punjab has uranium metal that is 50% above the trace limits set by the United Nations' World Health Organization- source Wikipedia