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You and I will Die the day Soil Dies! 🥵

How’s soils degrading and what’s GoI doing to #SaveSoil? 🤔

Important Notes for #UPSC Mains on Soil Management📚🧵(1/10)

Benefit of soil

- 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)

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Degradation & Consequences 🔴

▪️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)

Stats 📈

🔺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)

3 GoI schemes

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)

Way Forward🫡

➖Increased cooperation & partnerships to ensure knowledge availability
➖Strengthen communication channels among various stakeholders
➖LiFE like individual measures (plant tress etc) (10/10)