About 68.4% of total eroded soil in India is affected by water-driven erosion, and rainfall erosivity is a major contributor to that erosion and land degradation.

It’s a scary scenario. Some studies indicate that half of India’s geographical area is “degraded”, and suffers from soil erosion. On an average, the erosion rate led to an annual soil loss ...

According to recent estimates, nearly 115 to 120 million hectares (Mha)—roughly 33% of the country’s total geographic area (TGA)—are affected by soil degradation, including water erosion ...

The national average soil loss in India is 15.59 t/ha/year,” said director of ICAR-CCARI Parveen Kumar. The permissible soil loss limit for India is 11.2 t/ha/year. Kumar said that soil erosion ...

For years, India’s renowned Badlands — rugged landscapes carved by relentless erosion in central and western parts of the country — have been thought as the worst-affected, but a new study ...

The study reveals that Assam and Meghalaya have the highest potential soil loss (PSL) values in India, at 78.16 and 77 tons per hectare per year, respectively, nearly four times the national ...

A study in Netranahalli in Karnataka found soil erosion could be reduced by improving groundwater levels, ... Pesticides destroy a large part of Indian soil. India has about 5.8 million cotton ...

According to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), nearly 30 percent of India’s agricultural land is affected by soil degradation due to erosion, salinisation, waterlogging, and ...

India’s soil biodiversity is in grave peril, according to the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas prepared by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The WWF’s ‘risk index’ for the globe — indicating ...

Soil erosion in the Western Ghats Region (WGR) increased by 94 per cent between 1990 to 2020, a trend that is detrimental in an area known to be a biodiversity hotspot, a study by the Indian ...

IIT-Delhi Researchers Claim To Have Done India's First Soil Erodibility Mapping ... "Soil erosion is a significant trigger for land degradation and a major global geo-environmental issue.