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Table 8 The percentage of polluted and unpolluted soil samples

From: Assessment of soil quality for agricultural purposes around the Barapukuria coal mining industrial area, Bangladesh: insights from chemical and multivariate statistical analysis

Chemical parameters

Percentage of slightly polluted samples (low)

Percentage of highly polluted samples (high)

Unpolluted sample (%)

pH

50.00

0

50.00

Total Nitrogen

100

0

0

OM

0

40

60

K

0

30

70

P

0

5

95

S

0

5

95

Fe

33.33

53.34

13.33

As

0

0

100

Cu

6.67

83.33

10

  1. Criteria of ranking pollution level are taken from the standard reference value of RSRDIB