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Residues of Pesticides and Herbicides in Soils from Agriculture
Areas of Delhi Region, India
Kumar...
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Journal of Environment and Earth Science www.
iiste.
org
ISSN 2224-3216 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0948 (Online)
Vol 1, No.
2, 2011
1 | P a g e
www.
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org
Residues of Pesticides and Herbicides in Soils from Agriculture
Areas of Delhi Region, India
Kumar Bhupander (corresponding Author)
National Reference Trace Organics Laboratory, Central Pollution Control Board, East Arjun Nagar, Delhi110032, India
Tel: +91-011-43102378, E-mail: bhupander_kumar@yahoo.
com
Gaur Richa, Goel Gargi, Mishra Meenu, Singh Satish Kumar, Prakash Dev, Kumar Sanjay,
and Sharma Chander Sekhar
National Reference Trace Organics Laboratory, Central Pollution Control Board, East Arjun Nagar, Delhi110032, India
Abstract
This paper presents the residue levels of organochlorine, organophosphate pesticides and herbicides in
agricultural soils from Delhi region.
Among OCPs, HCH, DDT endosulphan and dieldrin ranged between
<0.
01-104.
14 ng g-1
, <0.
01-15.
79 ng g-1
, <0.
01-7.
57 ng g-1
and <0.
01-2.
38 ng g-1
, respectivel
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