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What do you understand by soil pollution? Delineate the areas vulnerable to it in India and suggest remedial measures.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Contemporary Issues

The accumulation in the soil body of substances in concentrations that impair its productive, filtering and habitat functions and pass into the food chain through the crop. Its defining feature is residence time: the load is cumulative and outlives the activity that caused it.

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  • What soil pollution is
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