Abstract
Most industrial wastes including distillery effluent, are disposed on land or into the near by river. Subsequently, this effluent contaminated water is recycled for irrigation purpose in most developing countries. Hence an attempt was made to study the impact of distillery effluent on some biochemical aspects of crop plants. The higher concentrations of distillery effluent have an adverse impact on crop plants. The activities of catalase, peroxidase and nitrite reductase declined at higher concentrations of distillery effluent. The morphological parameters of crop plants were also studied and discussed. The raw effluent analysed had high BUD and total solids with nil dissolved oxygen. The inhibition of enzyme activity and growth of crop plants may be due to high BUD and inhibition of enzyme activity and growth of crop plants may be due to high BUD and absence of dissolved oxygen. Though the crop plants were affected at higher concentrations no adverse effect was noticed with 25 % effluent treatment. Therefore, it is suggested that the disposal of distillery effluent at below 25 % concentration may have implications for the protection of health criteria of crop plants in agriculture.
