India, May 30 -- India's farmers are finding it increasingly harder to coax yields from their fields, as soil stress and land degradation add to the challenges, they al-ready face in feeding a rapidly growing population in an age of climate change.
Nearly a third (32%% of India's land area is degraded while a quarter (25%) is undergoing desertification, the Food and Agriculture Organiza-tion (FAO) said in an article published last year citing reports.
Moreover, the country loses 5.3 billion tons of soil every year due to water and wind erosion according to the Indian Council of Agricultural Re-search (ICAR).
Soil stress, with the impact of the climate crisis only exacerbating it, is acting as a drag on farmland productivity, driving up...
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