The Degradation of the soil is an important problem connected with land use and environment. It affects, apart from many other or indirect implications, the productivity and fertility of soils which is factor of great agricultural importance, and its more so for an agricultural dependent state like Punjab.
Human activity is the main cause of soil degradation. Agriculture plays a large part in soil degradation, especially clearing, irrigation, the spreading of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, overgrazing and even the passage of heavy farming equipment. Tillage and the clearing and deforestation of large plots of land also lead to soil degradation. Improper drainage in agricultural fields also contributes to soil degradation.
Soil erosion and depletion are the major threats to soil as a resource. Both human and natural factors can lead to degradation of soils . Factors which lead to soil degradation are deforestation, overgrazing, overuse of chemical fertilisers or pesticides, rain wash, landslides and floods.
Land degradation is the land that is being degraded in some form that is negative. Soil erosion is when rock and soil is removed from one location of land to another.
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land degradation causes soil errosion which further lead to drought and desertification.
the main causes for the land degradation in the punjab is theintensive cultivation.
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Human activity is the main cause of soil degradation. Agriculture plays a large part in soil degradation, especially clearing, irrigation, the spreading of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, overgrazing and even the passage of heavy farming equipment. Tillage and the clearing and deforestation of large plots of land also lead to soil degradation. Improper drainage in agricultural fields also contributes to soil degradation.
Heavy rains are responsible for most soil degradation in the prairies of the United states. There are not enough plants to keep the soil in place.
Soil erosion and depletion are the major threats to soil as a resource. Both human and natural factors can lead to degradation of soils . Factors which lead to soil degradation are deforestation, overgrazing, overuse of chemical fertilisers or pesticides, rain wash, landslides and floods.
Land degradation is the land that is being degraded in some form that is negative. Soil erosion is when rock and soil is removed from one location of land to another.
In the Punjab
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land degradation causes soil errosion which further lead to drought and desertification.