SCOPE

摘要

Agriculture, due to its large-scale use of chemicals, is the most conspicuous activity domaincausing non-point source (NPS) pollution of the farm lands, the surface water and thegroundwater. Added to this is the pollution due to particulate matter such as sediment andsewage disposal, both of which have physical and chemical ramifi cations. The land, thesurface water and the groundwater are used for purposes other than agriculture, therebyposing a greater ecological danger of a much larger dimension than what is generally thought.Many times and in many regions, unsuspecting people who are not even connected withagriculture fall prey to this danger. The Congress has consciously included this topic in theSymposium to get a world view of the problem and its probable remedies.