title: Status and effect of pesticide residues in soils under different land uses of Andaman Islands, India.
abstract: Pesticides are shown to have a great effect on soil organisms, but the effect varies with pesticide group and concentration, and is modified by soil organic carbon content and soil texture. In the humid tropical islands of Andaman, India, no systematic study was carried out on pesticide residues in soils of different land uses. The present study used the modified QuEChERS method for multiresidue extraction from soils and detection with a gas chromatograph. DDT and its various metabolites, α-endosulfan, β-endosulfan, endosulfan sulfate, aldrin, and fenvalerate, were detected from the study area. Among the different pesticide groups detected, endosulfan and DDT accounted for 41.7 % each followed by aldrin (16.7 %) and synthetic pyrethroid (8.3 %). A significantly higher concentration of pesticide residues was detected in rice-vegetable grown in the valley followed by rice-fallow and vegetable-fallow in the coastal plains. Soil microbial biomass carbon is negatively correlated with the total pesticide residues in soils, and it varied from 181.2 to 350.6 mg kg(-1). Pesticide residues have adversely affected the soil microbial populations, more significantly the bacterial population. The Azotobacter population has decreased to the extent of 51.8 % while actinomycetes were the least affected though accounted for 32 % when compared to the soils with no residue.
authors.affiliation: Division of Natural Resource Management, Central Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, 744 101, India. vels_21@yahoo.com
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Murugan
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Swarnam
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gnanasambandan
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D007194:India; D010573:Pesticide Residues / Q000032:analysis*; D012987:Soil / Q000145:classification*; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D010573:Pesticide Residues; D012987:Soil; D012989:Soil Pollutants
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