Pesticide Pollution in Agricultural Soils and Sustainable Remediation Methods: a Review

• Published in: Current pollution reports Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 240 - 250
• Main Authors: Sun, Shixian, Sidhu, Virinder, Rong, Yuhong, Zheng, Yi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.09.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural ecosystems; Agricultural land; Agricultural pollution; Agricultural production; agricultural soils; Agriculture; Agrochemicals; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Contaminants; Corn; Crops; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Enzymes; Farm buildings; Farms; Food chains; Food contamination & poisoning; Fungicides; genes; greenhouses; Groundwater; Herbicides; Industrial Pollution Prevention; Insecticides; Land Pollution (GM Hettiarachchi; Metabolites; Microbial contamination; Microorganisms; monitoring; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Organic chemicals; Oxidation; Pesticide pollution; Pesticide residues; Pesticides; Pests; Plant protection; Poisons; Pollutant removal; Pollutants; polluted soils; Pollution; Remediation; Rhizosphere; risk; Section Editor; Soil contamination; Soil pollution; Soil remediation; Soils; Sulfur; Sustainable remediation; Topical Collection on Land Pollution; vegetation; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; weeds; China; Pollution; Sustainable remediation; Agricultural soil; Pesticides

An increasing number of pesticides have been used in agriculture for protecting the crops from pests, weeds, and diseases but as much as 80 to 90% of applied pesticides hit non-target vegetation and stay as pesticide residue in the environment which is potentially a grave risk to the agricultural ec...