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Recent Development in Bioremediation of Soil Pollutants Through Biochar for Environmental Sustainability

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Biochar Applications in Agriculture and Environment Management

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Soil contamination due to heavy metals has become a great concern nowadays. The main reasons for soil contamination are both natural as well as anthropogenic. Natural processes like volcanic eruption, weathering of rocks, landslides and soil erosion while anthropogenic involves several activities like smelting, mining, application of agrochemicals (pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers) and industrial wastes. Heavy metals pollution has a direct influence on the fertility of agricultural soils. The removal of heavy metals from soil is very difficult as it stored in the environment for a long time, because of its persistent nature. Several in-situ bioremediation technologies are used for removal of heavy metals from the environment. Out of that in-situ biochar application is one of the prominent technologies for remediation of heavy metals and it was found to be effective in reducing the mobility of heavy metals in soils. Biochar effectively adsorbs heavy metals and decreases bioavailability and toxin-induced stress to the biotic component of soil. In this chapter, the emphasis has been given on heavy metal pollution and types of biochar used for remediation of heavy metals from the soil and water.

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  1. National Bureau of soil Survey and Land Use Planning, RC, Jorhat, Assam, India

    Gulshan Kumar Sharma, Roomesh Kumar Jena, Surabhi Hota, Prasenjit Ray & S. K. Ray

  2. Host Plant Section, Central Muga Eri Research & Training Institute, Jorhat, Assam, India

    Amit Kumar

  3. Division of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, CSSRI, Karnal, Haryana, India

    Ram Kishor Fagodiya

  4. National Bureau of soil Survey and Land Use Planning, RC, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

    Lal Chand Malav

  5. Institute of Environment and Development Studies, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India

    Krishna Kumar Yadav

  6. ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Pali Marwar, Rajasthan, India

    Dipak Kumar Gupta

  7. Centre for Environmental Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, IARI, New Delhi, India

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Sharma, G.K. et al. (2020). Recent Development in Bioremediation of Soil Pollutants Through Biochar for Environmental Sustainability. In: Singh, J., Singh, C. (eds) Biochar Applications in Agriculture and Environment Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40997-5_6

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