Environmental Impact of leather Industrial Pollution on Agricultural Production in Vellore District

Abstract

Water plays a vital role on agricultural production and industrial process, but this valuable resource is gradually declining from the past few decades due to increasing industrial activities, irrigation, drinking and domestic usage etc. Leather and leather goods manufacturing industry is one of the traditional business in India. It requires huge amount of water and chemical, dye and dye intermediates, distilleries etc for leather process. The wastewater produces during the process which released into the lands and water sources. It leads to damage of crops and declining the agricultural productivity. The rate of environmental degradation was identified by the decline of agricultural productivity and the quality of surface and ground water has decline at very high rate. This study focused on impact of leather industrial pollution on agricultural production and to give the remedial measures for reducing water pollution. In order to obtain the objectives of this study, we used secondary data sources.