Evaluation of Grasses Raised through Sewage Water in Musi, Hyderabad

Growing of various crops utilizing sewage is a common scenario in many urban and sub-urban areas. The crops mostly include forage crops, leafy vegetables, vegetables and sometimes food grains. These sewage waters are known to contain undesirable constituents like heavy metals, pesticide residues besides, harmful pathogens. These undesirable components can make way very possibly from sewage to soils, plant parts; there by to even milk, thus entering into food chain. Musi, a tributary of Krishna on whose banks Hyderabad lays is the main fodder bank of the city. Thousand of hactares of land resembling vast grassland ecosystem is under cultivation of forage crops. Para grass (Bracharia mutica) is the dominant crop grown in and around Musi along with several other crops. So far the path of the undesirable factors in sewage into forage crops and thereby food chain is not studied. Hence, this work is emphasized to study the level of pesticide residues in soil, water and plant