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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF SOIL DEGRADATION IN INDIA - A REVIEW
1National Bureau of Soil SUlVey and Land Use Planning,
Amravati Road, Nagpur - 440 010, India
ABSTRACT
Soil is a finite and non-renewable natural resource forms a basic medium of life support for its inhabitants but due to anthropogenic factors or climatic factor there is quantum jump in degradation of various types and intensity (57.1% land area) in India. Even proud achievement through ‘Green Revolution’ has been followed by pain and protest for degrading environmental quality. The alarming rate of degradation is to be corrected/prevented through suitable and tested methodologies so that productivity and quality of both soil and produce can be maintained to feed the swelling population of human and animals or otherwise face the consequence like perished civilizations of past.
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