Abstract
The impact of environmental pollution (such as air pollution) on agricultural costs has received a great deal of global attention in the last 20 years. In recent years, air pollution has received serious concerns from researchers, media and the public sectors, but air pollution from agricultural production activities has not received enough attention. Air pollution is considered to be one of the major reasons for the deterioration in crops growth and productivity. The present study was carried out to explore the effect of total suspended particulate matter (SPM) deposition prevailing in the air shed (10km radius) of Thermal Power Plant (TPP), Auraiya on yield of of rice cultivars (PB1509 and Arize6444). The rice cultivars were grown for two consecutive years on farmers field of selected 8 villages located within the air shed. The SPM deposition on rice cultivars flag leaves was maximum (3.1mgcm-2) at Singanpur within 2-4 km area on the leeward side from the TPP and less impact was seen on the windward side 7-9 km at Hajiyapur (1.7 mgcm-2). Leaf area index (LAI) range of both cultivars was from 1.3 to 3.9. Yield and LAI were adversely affected by SPM deposition. Among two cultivars, the yield of Arize6444 was more adversely affected than PB1509.
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