Effect of Fly Ash on Crop Coverage around coal-fired Thermal Power Plant in Rural India

Effect of Fly Ash on Crop Coverage around coal-fired Thermal Power Plant in Rural India



Subhas Adak, Kalyan Adhikari, Koushik Brahmachari



Fly ash coming out from Kolaghat thermal power plant,
West Bengal, India affects the crop coverage in the surrounding area
(<4km). The arable areas under different crops, rice ( -4.87%) ,
wheat ( -67.6%), maize ( -10%), mustard ( -29.1%), sesame ( -8.33%),
jute ( -10%), vegetables ( -14.8%), flowers ( -8.06%) and pulses (
-32.4%) have been gradually losing due to fly ash (<4km) except
spices ( 4.76%) during last four years (2011-2015) whereas the area
beyond 4km has gained the space for more cultivation ( overall 1.7%)
except rice( -0.09%) and jute( -1.41%) due to low price and demand. The
nearer circles, Kola-I ,Kola-II, Gopalnagar, Pulsita, Sagarbarh and
Amalhanda has lost cultivable land by 0.95% to 2.86% recording overall
change 67.64% to 65.52% while the rest circles shows the change from
76.27% to 75.12%. The average cropping system (<4km) has dropped down
from 181.3% to 166.8% whereas it has shifted from 195.1% to 183.6% in
the outer side (>4km). As the consequence of fly ash, agricultural
land (<4km) has been converted to non-agricultural one by 1.096%
(Sagarbarh) to 5.184% (Kola-II) contrasting the transformation to
non-arable in the area (>4km) from 0.537 % (Siddha-I) to 2.383%
(Baishnabchak). Site-specific evaluation and recommendation as well as
organic farming and precision agriculture should be adopted to abate the
impact of coal-burned thermal power plant for agricultural
sustainability in rural India. 



10.22161/ijeab/1.3.34



http://ijeab.com/upload_document/issue_files/34%20IJEAB-OCT-2016-21-Effect%20of%20Fly%20Ash%20on%20Crop%20Coverage%20around%20coal-fired%20Thermal%20Power%20Plant%20in%20Rural%20India.pdf



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