Organochlorine insecticide residues in agricultural soils of the Indo-Gangetic plain

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 279-288

  Agnihotri, N P ^a   Kulshrestha, G ^a   Gajbhiye, V T ^a   Mohapatra, S P ^a   Singh, S B ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; METABOLITES; SOILS; TOXICITY; TROPICS; WATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; ALDRIN; DICHLORODIPHENYL TRICHLOROETHANE; DIELDRIN; ENDOSULFAN; HEPTACHLOR; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ISOMERS; LIPOPHILICITY; ORGANOCHLORINE;

INSECTICIDES;

ALDRIN; ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; ENDOSULFAN; HEPTACHLOR; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; LEACHING; RIVER; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION;

DDT; HCH; INSECTICIDE; POLLUTION; SUBTROPICAL AREA; TROPICAL AREA;

INDIA, GANGA RIVER, FARRUKHABAD;

EID: 0030131779     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00398873     Document Type: Article

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