Land Degradation
Causes
- Physical Factors: The loss of rich top spoil leads to a decline in soil quality due to rainfall, surface runoff, floods, wind erosion, tillage, and mass movements.
- Biological Factors: Biological variables include human and plant activities that have a tendency to degrade the soil's quality.
- A region's microbial activity may be significantly impacted by an overgrowth of certain bacteria and fungus through biochemical processes, which lowers agricultural production and the appropriateness of the soil's productivity potential.
- Chemical Factors: Alkalinity, acidity, and water logging are all examples of chemical factors that contribute to the loss of soil nutrients.
- Deforestation: By removing ....
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