Question

What are the causes of land degradation? What are the way to solve this problem

Answer 1

Answer:

Land degradation is caused by multiple forces, including extreme weather conditions, particularly droughts. It is also caused by human activities that pollute or degrade the quality of soils.

The ways to solve this problem are:

1. Afforestation

2. Control on overgrazing

3. Control on mining activities

4. Proper management of waste lands

Answer 2

Some of the causes of land degradation are

- Deforestation

- Overgrazing

- Mining

- Quarrying

- Excessive use of chemical fertilizers /pesticides.

- Improper waste management.

- Unscientific way of industrial waste disposal.

Some measures to solve land degradation are

- Afforestation

- Control overgrazing

- proper waste management or proper disposal of industrial effluents.

- controlling mining or quarrying

- Planting shelter belts