The Effect of Environmental Pollution on Changing Areas and Productivity of Agricultural Lands in Basra Governorate
Abstract
The current study is an attempt to shed light on the impact of environmental pollution on changing areas and productivity of agricultural lands in Basra governorate by knowing the amount that hit air gases and some of the qualitative properties of Shatt al- Arab water and the reflection of that on the agricultural environmental reality. The results showed that there was a tendency towards an increase in the amount of change of air pollutants in all the selected sites in the study area, such as mono gas, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and hydrogen sulfide. As for the specific properties of Shatt al-Arab water, the chemical properties of all sites along the Shatt al- Arab stream witnessed an increase in the amount of their change. Whereas, nutrients recorded a decrease in the amount of their change, which gives aclear indication of a decline in agricultural land areas. As they recorded a decrease with a negative change rate of about (70%, 3-), and the retreat of what remains of them along the lands of the rivers in the form of a strip at the banks and branches of the Shatt al-Arab as shown in the visual image, which had the effect of decline in the productivity of one acres, which recorded a decrease in negative direction.
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1 - مقابلة شخصية مع الفلاح طالب عبد الرسول كان صاحب أرض زراعية بتاريخ 21/8/2019
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