what is the percentage of land degradation in India
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The total cultivable land of the country is about 144 million hectares of which 56% (80.6 million hectares) is degraded due to faulty agricultural practices and the dense forest cover has been reduced to 11% (36.2 million hectares) of the total geographical area.
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More than a quarter of the total geographic area (TGA)-96.4 million hectares (mha) or 29.32%-in India is undergoing degradation as per decadal information compiled for the the period 2011-13, posing a major challenge to the country's commitment to the UN of achieving a land degradation neutral status by 2030.
The information is for the years 2011-13, as per the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas, released in June by Isro Space Applications Centre (SAC) using remore sensing data. The Atlas was commissioned by the ministry of environment, Forests and Climate Change.
India has managed to reclaim about 1.87mha of land that was under degradation in 2003-05 period, but that has been offset by nearly double the area of productive land (3.63mha) lost to degradation from then to 2011-13.
The most significant process of degradation is water erosion (loss of soil cover mainly due to rainfall and surface runoff water) at 10.98%, followed by vegetation degradation (mainly as deforestation) at 8.91% and wind erosion (denotes the spread of sand by various processes) at 5.55%.
Of the 96.4mha, just nine states, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana account for 23.95% of land degradation, while all other remaining states are have less than 1% each of degradation.
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The information is for the years 2011-13, as per the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas, released in June by Isro Space Applications Centre (SAC) using remore sensing data. The Atlas was commissioned by the ministry of environment, Forests and Climate Change.
India has managed to reclaim about 1.87mha of land that was under degradation in 2003-05 period, but that has been offset by nearly double the area of productive land (3.63mha) lost to degradation from then to 2011-13.
The most significant process of degradation is water erosion (loss of soil cover mainly due to rainfall and surface runoff water) at 10.98%, followed by vegetation degradation (mainly as deforestation) at 8.91% and wind erosion (denotes the spread of sand by various processes) at 5.55%.
Of the 96.4mha, just nine states, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana account for 23.95% of land degradation, while all other remaining states are have less than 1% each of degradation.
I hope my answer help to u and right but the my answer is long but fully explaination.
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