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Causes of land degradation and how to prevent from this

Posted by Sushree Behera 7 years, 11 months ago

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Yogita Ingle 7 years, 11 months ago

Land degradation: When land becomes barren, infertile for cultivation, it is called land degradation.
Causes:

Overgrazing by animals
Deforestation
Over mining and quarrying
Over irrigation resulting in water logging leading to salinity and alkalinity.
Mineral processing, like grinding of limestone for cement industry and calcite and soapstone for ceramic industries, generates heavy amount of dust and pollutes atmosphere. It later settles down on land and reduces infiltration of water into the soil besides degrading land and surface water.
Discharge of industrial effluents into water bodies and on land.

Prevents:

Terrace farming
Construction of dams
Afforestation
Preparation of shelter belts
Control on overgrazing by animals
Stabilization of sand dunes by growing thorny bushes.

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