Question

suggest any six measures to solve the problem of Land Degradation in India​

Answer 1

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→The Decrease in Quality of Soil or Decrease in the Fertility of soil, due to Human and Natural activities making it unfit for Cultivation is known as Land-Degradation.

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•Mainly Caused by:-

→Overgazing

→Over-irrigation

→Industrial Waste

→Deforestation

→Over burning of Fossil fuels

→Mineral Processing

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♦Measures to Prevent it:-

•Afforestation→ Planting more trees leads to the strengthening of Land and increasing Soil-Fertility.

•Proper Management of Gazing→Animals should be made to gaze over a limit.

•Industrial Waste Management→Industries should make sure their waste is suitable for river, if not they must make it suitable, or decompose it in a proper place.

•Mining Activities→Mining causes land degradation and polluting the enviroment, we must do it in a limit.

•Terrace Farming→Practicing terrace Farming on Mountainous slopes, To create stairs like platforms and plant trees, to have an even flow of water to increase soil Fertility.

•High/Long Grasses must be grown→Growing Large grasses will unstable the flow of wind and wont allow wind to take off the important soil nutrients and Soil cover.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Land degradation can be checked in the following ways:

Afforestation, i.e. by planting trees.

Control and proper management over grazing.

Control on mining activities.

To plan for proper discharge of industrial effluents.

Proper management of waste lands.

Stabilisation of dunes by growing thorny bushes.