Faculty of Arts – University of Kufa Official Site – Faculty of Arts
The two researchers from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Kufa, Dr. Safaa Al-Muzaffar and Dr. Kamil Hamza Fleifel, conducted a spatial analysis of the environmental factors affecting soil properties in Al-Abbasiya district, north of Najaf Governorate.
The two researchers said that their study aimed to uncover the effect of natural factors represented by climate, soil, water sources, and natural plant characteristics on soil properties in the sub-district in addition to human factors represented by various human activities such as dumping household waste in the soil or slums or increasing housing units in agricultural lands Weak municipal services, as well as agricultural expansion, not following agricultural rotations, using fertilizers and pesticides for more than one plant, following wrong and traditional irrigation methods, incorrect drainage method, or using drainage water in irrigation, indicating that these factors combined have greatly affected soil properties in The study area, which in turn led to high concentrations of total dissolved salts, sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium sulfate and chlorine nitrate, especially in the soils of cultivated and uncultivated ponds and swamps. The researchers pointed out that this rise in concentrations was higher than the international standard compared to the soils of river banks, which were within the permissible limits.
