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Soil Conservation Issues in India

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Title Soil Conservation Issues in India
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Creator Ranjan Bhattacharyya 1,*, Birendra Nath Ghosh 2, Pradeep Dogra 2, Prasanta Kumar Mishra 2, Priyabrata Santra 3, Suresh Kumar 3, Michael Augustine Fullen 4, Uttam Kumar Mandal 5, Kokkuvayil Sankaranarayanan Anil 6, Manickam Lalitha 6, Dibyendu Sarkar 7, Dibyendu Mukhopadhyay 8, Krishnendu Das 9, Madan Pal 1, Rajbir Yadav 1, Ved Prakash Chaudhary 10 and Brajendra Parmar
 
Subject soil erosion control; conservation agriculture; cover cropping; environmental issues; economic issues; social issues
 
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Despite years of study and substantial investment in remediation and prevention, soil
erosion continues to be a major environmental problem with regard to land use in India and elsewhere
around the world. Furthermore, changing climate and/or weather patterns are exacerbating the
problem. Our objective was to review past and current soil conservation programmes in India to
better understand how production-, environmental-, social-, economic- and policy-related issues have
affected soil and water conservation and the incentives needed to address the most critical problems.
We found that to achieve success in soil and water conservation policies, institutions and operations
must be co-ordinated using a holistic approach. Watershed programmes have been shown to be
one of the most effective strategies for bringing socio-economic change to different parts of India.
Within both dryland and rainfed areas, watershed management has quietly revolutionized agriculture
by aligning various sectors through technological soil and water conservation interventions and
land-use diversification. Significant results associated with various watershed-scale soil and water
conservation programmes and interventions that were effective for reducing land degradation and
improving productivity in different parts of the country are discussed.
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Date 2019-12-04T04:42:31Z
2019-12-04T04:42:31Z
2016-06-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/26841
 
Language English
 
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