This book by NAAS and ICAR builds-on and integrates work done by different institutes of the ICAR and the Department of Space in the area of degraded and wastelands in India. NRSA had already published the state level and country level information earlier. In addition, the nature and causes of the land degradation, and the degree and extent of damaged lands needed to be determined, so that appropriate management strategies could be designed and implemented in a defined time-frame to bring these lands to ‘productive health’.
This task undertook harmonization of disparate databases on degraded and wastelands into most practical classes that respond to amendments. To be useful to the planners, administrators, decision-makers and fund managers of the land-based agricultural development programmes for varied purposes, district-level data in agro-ecological regional framework has been used to develop an innovative database analytic system. The chapter-wise contents of the report are outlined here –
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