Bioaugmentation: A Novel Strategy To Cope With Environmental Impacts Of Agrochemicals

Agrochemical-contaminated soil imposes several environmental hazards, and the existing physical and chemical methods have various difficulties such as inefficacy, higher cost of chemicals, soil degradation which resulted into further soil pollution. Bioaugmentation is a sustainable and viable technology that effectively removes contaminants from agrochemical contaminated soils by using microorganisms, their enzymes and other bioremediation additives such as vermicompost. This chapter comprehensively explored the toxic effects of agrochemicals on soil and water environment, microbial structure, nutrient cycling, and human health. Bioaugmentation methods and their degrading mechanism for the contaminated soils are also discussed here.