Soil degradation is one of the important environment degradation disturbing mankind for many years..

The visible economic impact of land degradation is on agricultural productivity. In a country like India, where 70 per cent of the population is entirely dependent on agriculture, the reducing in productivity of land resources has a telling effect on the socioeconomic conditions.

Immediate effects of land degradation includes reduced crop yields, increasing need for agricultural inputs and decreasing profits, reduction in the value of land, losses of water resources in frequency and severity of floods, siltation of reservoirs, rivers etc., and adverse effect power generation.

Standard of living, which depends upon farm income greatly, declines with decrease in the  availability of land. Increasingly less remunerative subsistence farm' systems lead the farmers to leave the land uncultivated which then tends to become barren, the above said reasons ultimately result in shifting the land resources from agriculture to other uses including industry, which bring environmental degradation.

 The dangers caused burning of fossil fuel, the emission of green house gases through soil degradation has not given special importance till now. These gases emitted through soil degradation are C0₂, CO, N₂0,

Strategies

1. Sustainable and effective land use system should be followed.

 2 Industrial activities in the nearby areas, which are hazardous to the environment, should be regulated through laws.

3. Waste and marginal lands should be amended properly so that they can be brought under crop cover, so as to reduce their further degradation.

4. Proper records of land productivity status should be prepared with the help of so scientists along with the latest technologies like remote sensing.

5. Implementation of agro-forest ecosystem wherever water erosion is a serious threat

6. Adoption of integrated watershed management system and integrated balanced nutrient management system.

7. For each soil properties there should be a clear demarcation of boundary in order monitor soil, which is stressed by external degrading agencies.

8. Auto regenerating the soil fertility by adding organic matter through microorganisms and incorporation of crop residues should be facilitated.

9. In areas of high water, requirements like cropped areas, effective soil and water conservation techniques should be adopted