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INFLUENCE OF SEWAGE EFFLUENT ON SOIL ORGANIC MATTER AND EXCHANGEABLE CATIONS

Volume : 71
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 171 - 176
Published: September 26, 2023
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Abstract


Irrigating the soll with municipal sewage effluent over a period of 25 years and 16 years found to accumulate higher amount of organic matter and higher concentration of cations like calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. The concentration of exchangeable cations decreased with the increase in depth in both sewege irrigated and sewage unirrigated fields.

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171 - 176
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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