Name: Land Resources of India
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 27 s
Description: What are the land use patterns in India? By focusing on net sown areas, forests, pastures, and land degradation, we can understand these patterns.

Question

What is meant by land degradation? Describe how land degradation can be controlled?

Accepted Answer

Land degradation is defined as the reduction or loss of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rainfed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest or woodlands resulting from natural processes, land uses or other human activities. Some human activities, such as deforestation, over grazing, mining and quarrying to have contributed significantly in land degradation.

There are many ways to solve the problems of land degradation. Afforestation and proper management of grazing can help to some extent. Planting of shelter belts of plants, control on over grazing, stabilisation of sand dunes by growing thorny bushes are some methods to check land degradation in arid areas. Proper management of wastelands, control of mining activities, proper discharge and disposal of industrial effluents and wastes after treatment can reduce land and water degradation in industrial and suburban areas.

What is meant by land degradation? Describe how land degradation can be controlled?

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