What do you mean by land degradation
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Land degradation is a process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land. It is viewed as any change or disturbance to the land perceived to be deleterious or undesirable.
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✴️ Continuous use of land over a long period of time without taking appropriate measures to conserve and manage it, has resulted in land degradation.
✴️ At present there is about 130 million hectares of degraded land in India.
✴️ Approximately, 28 per cent of it belongs to the category of forest degraded area.
✴️ 56% of it is water eroded area.
✴️ The rest affected by saline and alkaline deposited.
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