Benefit of soil
- Food security🌱
- Maintains disaster resilient landscape 🌊
- Restores Carbon (2nd largest C sink after Ocean)🌿 (2/10)
- Food security🌱
- Maintains disaster resilient landscape 🌊
- Restores Carbon (2nd largest C sink after Ocean)🌿 (2/10)
➡️ World Soil Day: December 5 🥰
➡️ 2022 Theme: “Soils: Where Food Begins” 🌾(3/10)
➡️ 2022 Theme: “Soils: Where Food Begins” 🌾(3/10)
Degradation & Consequences 🔴
▪️Nutrient Loss
- Runoff
- Leaching
- Soil erosion
- Residue burning (4/10)
▪️Nutrient Loss
- Runoff
- Leaching
- Soil erosion
- Residue burning (4/10)
▪️Pollution
- Mining
- Fertilisers
- Agriculture
- Industrial waste
- Waste treatment
- Transport emissions
- Fossil fuel extraction (5/10)
- Mining
- Fertilisers
- Agriculture
- Industrial waste
- Waste treatment
- Transport emissions
- Fossil fuel extraction (5/10)
Stats 📈
🔺29% of Indian land impacted
🔺3.7 mn ha land suffer from nutrient loss (6/10)
🔺29% of Indian land impacted
🔺3.7 mn ha land suffer from nutrient loss (6/10)
Indian strategy: 5 pronged
🔹Save soil biodiversity
🔹Preventing soil erosion
🔹Make soil chemical free
🔹Enhance organic matter
🔹Mitigate soil degradation (7/10)
🔹Save soil biodiversity
🔹Preventing soil erosion
🔹Make soil chemical free
🔹Enhance organic matter
🔹Mitigate soil degradation (7/10)
3 GoI schemes
1. Soil Health Card Scheme 2015
- Assess current status
- Make necessary data based amends (8/10)
1. Soil Health Card Scheme 2015
- Assess current status
- Make necessary data based amends (8/10)
2. PM Krishi Sinchayee Yojana
- Prevent erosion
- Rainwater harvesting
- Regenerate natural vegetation
- Recharge groundwater table
3. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
- Promote indigenous practices
- Lower chemical(s) dependency (9/10)
- Prevent erosion
- Rainwater harvesting
- Regenerate natural vegetation
- Recharge groundwater table
3. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
- Promote indigenous practices
- Lower chemical(s) dependency (9/10)
Way Forward🫡
➖Increased cooperation & partnerships to ensure knowledge availability
➖Strengthen communication channels among various stakeholders
➖LiFE like individual measures (plant tress etc) (10/10)
➖Increased cooperation & partnerships to ensure knowledge availability
➖Strengthen communication channels among various stakeholders
➖LiFE like individual measures (plant tress etc) (10/10)
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