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AFGHANISTAN

Wind erosion

Jammu and Kashmir

Himachal Pradesh

Punjab

Uttaranchal

Haryana
DELHI

Arunachal Pradesh

Sikkim BHUTAN

Assam

Uttar Pradesh

Rajasthan

Nagaland

Meghalaya

Bihar

Manipur
Tribura Mizoram

BANGLADESH

Jharkhand

Madhya Pradesh We st Bengal

Gujarat

Chhattisgarh

Orissa

Maharashtra

Andhra Pradesh

Goa

Karnataka

Legend

Moderate
Severe
Very severe
Others

Tamil Nadu

Kecala

(c)

FIGURE 16.2 (Continued) (a) Physical land degradation in India. (b) Soil loss by water ero-
sion (>10 Mg ha -1 year -1 ). (c) Wind erosion in India (>10 Mg ha -1 year -1 ). (From Venkateswarlu,
B. et al., Natural Resource Management for Accelerating Agricultural Productivity , Studium
Press (India) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India, 2012.)

FIGURE 16.3 Degraded soils: a predominant feature of rainfed regions.