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Effects of Soil Pollution

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DESCRIBE SOIL POLLUTION

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When normal composition of soil is contaminated through several human activities like industrial wastes, pesticides, harmful chemicals, dump wastes etc it is termed as soil pollution. Soil pollution degrades the quality of soil, its fertility decreases due to death of microorganisms present in the soil.

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