Issues and Challenges for Stone Mining Affected Forest Area Restoration Through Probiotic Interventions

Issues and Challenges for Stone Mining Affected Forest Area Restoration Through Probiotic Interventions

Kumud Dubey, K. P. Dubey
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0014-9.ch012
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Abstract

The sandstone quarrying and mining in Vidhyan region of Uttar Pradesh has severely devastated the floral biodiversity of the adjacent forest area. It is necessary to conserve these areas for the protection and sustainable use of forest resources. In most of the conservation program, microbial deficiency creates problems in establishment of the vegetation and delays the natural succession. Therefore, probiotic interventions were applied to conserve these areas promptly. The probiotic beneficial microbes' interventions, due to their multifarious beneficial characters, may facilitate the upcoming of flora through enrichment of the soil, better nutrient absorption, providing resistance against different stresses, etc. Probiotic interventions may positively impact the conservation of floral diversity and restoration of stone mining-affected forest area.
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Stone Mining

There are an estimated 1,000 million tons of stone in India. India accounts for around 27% of the total natural stone production of the World. The Sandstone quarrying and mining in Vindhyan region, consisting mainly of tropical dry deciduous forest is mainly opencast type and carried out predominantly by private parties as artisanal mines and marketed as Slab stone, Millstone and Building stone and for cement production. The environmental impacts of these quarry operations can be large and far-reaching. Sandstone mining scars the landscape, disrupts ecosystems and destroys microbial communities (Srivastava, 1999; Sharma et. al., 2000; Liu et. al., 2009; Sarma, 2013; Verma et. al., 2014; Chaturvedi and Singh, 2017; Dubey, 2010; 2017; 2018; 2019, Upadhyay et. al., 2016; Jitendra et. al. 2019). Most of the mining areas are associated with forest, this exploration and exploitation of mineral wealth brings in complete destruction of forest and vegetation in the area and formation of new wastelands in the form of barren dumps of mine overburdens with consequential ecological disturbances and environmental hazards.

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