Explain about degraded land in india on different parameters with diagram .
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Soil degradation in India is estimated to be occurring on 147 million hectares (Mha) of land, including 94 Mha from water erosion, 16 Mha from acidification, 14 Mha from flooding, 9 Mha from wind erosion, 6 Mha from salinity, and 7 Mha from a combination of factors.
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Land uses in india is degrading the quality of the landmass and its losing its fertility.
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- Indian landmass supports about 18% of the world population and about 2.4% of the surface area of the earth.
- Land degradation in India accounts for 30% of the land in all India and climate change can be seen as one of the major drivers of land degradation and its estimated that India will lose 1,730 billion lands till 2050.
- The land degradation is associated with the fall of productivity. Erosion of the topsoils due to the heavy rainfall, reduction of land capacity, and ability to attract the carbon sinks.
- Extreme weather conditions and contamination of reserves and loss of water retention quality.
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