Abstract:
The concern about industrial pollution and food safety is growing due to crop contamination and a major route to human exposure. The experiment was completed at a net house of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University during November 2021 to April 2022 to find out the effect of industrial soil pollution and fertiliser management on growth, yield and metal accumulation by BARI Tomato 8.
Industrially polluted soils were collected from contaminated areas considering the soil pollution
intensity. The physico-chemical properties were determined in soils. The experiment consists of twofactor,
as Factor A: Six different soils (S
0
: Non-polluted soil; S
1
: Polluted soil-1, S
2
: Polluted soil-2; S
3
:
Polluted soil-3, S
4
: Polluted soil-4 and S
5
: Polluted soil-5) and Factor B: Three fertilizer treatments (T
0
:
Control; T
1
: 100% soil test basis dose of fertilizer; T
2
: 50% soil test basis dose of fertilizer and 50%
nutrient from cowdung). High yielding tomato variety BARI Tomato 8 was used for experiment.
Among the soils, the highest tomato yield was found in S
1
and S
5
polluted soils, while the lowest was
obtained in S
4
and S
0
soils. The highest tomato yield was recorded in T
2
treatment and the lowest in
T
0
treatment. The highest tomato fruit dry matter, Pb (1.359 mg kg
-1
) and Cd (0.759 mg kg
)
concentrations were found in T
0
treatment and the lower levels were obtained in T
1
(100% RDCF)
and T
2
(100% RDCF + 50% nutrient from cowdung) treatments. The higher tomato Pb and Cd
concentrations were recorded in polluted soils with T
0
and T
1
treatments and the lower with T
2
. The
highest tomato Pb concentration (1.656 mg kg
-1
) was obtained in S
4
T
1
and the lowest (0.501 mg kg
)
in S
3
T
2
. The highest tomato Cd concentration (1.149 mg kg
-1
) was obtained in S
5
T
0
and the lowest
(0.097 mg kg
-1
) in S
2
T
2
treatment combinations.
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