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Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2011 | Volume: 11 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 210-215
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Biswapriya Das

Sudipta Tripathi

Ashis Chakraborty

Kalyan Chakrabarti

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The aim of the research was to study the effect of jute retting on various physico-chemical and microbiological parameters of retting water and water samples were collected before and after retting, from three well-known jute growing areas of N-24 Parganas viz., Sonatikari, Baduria and Swarupnagar, West Bengal, India. Standard methods were applied to determine pH, Ec, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), hardness, Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), bicarbonate, chloride content, bacterial, fungal, pectinolytic and spore forming bacterial colony forming units. Irrespective of the locations, the pH of the post-retting water samples was more acidic than the pre-retting water samples. Other physico-chemical parameters like Ec, COD, hardness and metal contents increased in the post-retting water samples. The post-retting water samples also registered higher bacterial, fungal, pectinolytic and spore forming bacterial colony forming units.
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