India’s Problem of Land Degradation

Recently, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has released Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India. It has been published by Space Application Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad.

The Atlas provides state-wise area of degraded lands for the time frame 2018-19. It also provides the change analysis for the duration of 15 years, from 2003-05 to 2018-19.

Challenges

• Globally, India is the second largest producer of food and has the second-largest arable land area covering 1.53 billion hectare. However, the blend of high population, high agriculture production and diverse agro-climatic conditions create a scenario of excessive pressure on land and ....