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Land Degradation and its Management: A Review

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  • Muhammad Danish Toor

    (Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Pakistan)

  • Muhammad Adnan
  • Ali Raza
  • Rehan Ahmed
  • Anosha Arshad
  • Hassan Maqsood

    (Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Pakistan)

  • Fakhar Abbas
  • Muhammad Mughees-ud-din

    (Department of Management sciences, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan)

  • Muhammad Hanzla Shehzad
  • Muhammad Khubaib Zafar

    (Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Pakistan)

Abstract

Land is the essential component which provides us food, shelter, and fiber. It is non-renewable resource which is degraded day by day. Some major factors like climatic, natural and anthropogenic deteriorate quality of land and degraded it for agriculture use. Agriculture sector is directly linked with land while most of the agriculture land is degraded by some factors. Due to rapid changes in climatic conditions, deforestation, desertification, erosion, salinization, waterlogging, and organic matter depletion lead to land degradation. For restoration of land, it is important to minimize these activities and properly managed all factors. We can manage our land by ground covers, alternate fuels, timber replantation, dams and by making the policies. Furthermore, organic agriculture may be an alternative to save our land from degradation. The present review focuses on effect of land degradation on agriculture and environment; and how we can manage our lands from further degradation.

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  • Muhammad Danish Toor & Muhammad Adnan & Ali Raza & Rehan Ahmed & Anosha Arshad & Hassan Maqsood & Fakhar Abbas & Muhammad Mughees-ud-din & Muhammad Hanzla Shehzad & Muhammad Khubaib Zafar, 2020. "Land Degradation and its Management: A Review," International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 25(2), pages 63-66, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:ijesnr:v:25:y:2020:i:2:p:63-66
    DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2020.25.556157
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