Land Degradation is generally understood either as a temporary for a permanent decline in productive capacity of the land.
The causes or factor responsible for land degradation in India are given below:
1. Soil erosion.
2. Water logging
3. Salinisation
4. Alkalinisation of land
Land is constantly used without managing its fertility, it is degraded and its productivity decline. Deforestation, overgrazing, mining and quarrying too are responsible for land degradation in India. Land Degradation caused by human processes are more harmful than natural processes in India. Man-made degraded wasteland such as degraded shifting cultivation area, degraded land under plantation crops, degraded forest, mining and industrial waste land are 5.8 % of the total geographical area. In states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha deforestation due to mining have caused severe Land Degradation. In states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra overgrazing is one of the main reasons for the land degradation
