Soil Crisis in India
On the World Soil Day, a consortium of agriculture institutes released a report on the health of soil in India.
- World Soil Day is celebrated annually on the 5th of December at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) headquarters in Rome and across the world.
- The Theme for 2018 World Soil Day was “Be the Solution of Soil Pollution”. India is on the verge of a looming soil crisis which can potentially impact its agriculture in the near future. A third of the total 350 million hectares has already turned problematic.
- Soil is turning either acidic, saline, sodic or ....
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