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Agricultural Pollution: An Assessment of Synthetic Fertilizer Application in Sudano- Sahelian Zone of Nigeria

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  • Yunusa Hassan
  • Nazmul Hussain

    (Department of Geography, NIMS University, India)

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The current pace of intensive agricultural practices in arid and semi-arid regions of Nigeria is frightening due to the modern indiscriminate use of synthetic fertilizer. Being a permanent agricultural land of the country, the soil strength, and quality of the region is threatened, and agricultural supplement remain the only option. With scarcity and high cost of organic fertilizer, the farmers are left with the preferred choice of inorganic fertilizer (synthetically made). Farmers maximize their productions though intensively use of chemical fertilizers, which consequently leached and contaminates underground water reservoir. Moreover, this residue further runoff to nearby surface water bodies and eventually caused eutrophication.

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  • Yunusa Hassan & Nazmul Hussain, 2018. "Agricultural Pollution: An Assessment of Synthetic Fertilizer Application in Sudano- Sahelian Zone of Nigeria," Annals of Social Sciences & Management studies, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 2(1), pages 18-24, October.
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    DOI: 10.19080/ASM.2018.02.555579
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