Answer:
Continuous use of land
over a long period of time without taking appropriate measures to conserve and manage
it, has resulted in land degradation.
India's degraded land:
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 per cent of
it is water eroded area. The rest is affected by saline and alkaline deposits.
Some human activities such as deforestation. Overgrazing, mining and quarrying
too have contributed significantly to
Land
degradation.
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