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Arid and semiarid regions come under dry lands which cover approximately 40–42 % of land area of planet Earth and support about two billion people of the world and 90 % live in developing countries. A variety of factors influence the process of desertification and land degradation in semiarid region; therefore, the area under this land category is expanding year by year. India occupies only 2.4 % of the world’s geographical area, yet supports about 16.7 % of the world’s human population; it has only 0.5 % of the world’s grazing land, but supports 18 % of the world’s cattle population.
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Ajai AAS, Dhinwa PS, Pathan SK, Ganesh Raj K (2009) Desertification/land degradation status mapping of India. Curr Sci 97:1478–1483
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Nautiyal, S., Bhaskar, K., Imran Khan, Y.D. (2015). Conclusion and Recommendations. In: Biodiversity of Semiarid Landscape. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15464-0_7
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