India, Aug. 10 -- The Centre has not undertaken any assessment on agricultural land affected by degradation and its impact on crop productivity. However, according to the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India (2021) published by the Space Applications Centre (ISRO), an area of 0.638 million ha is manmade desertification and land degradation in the country as on 2018-19, Ramnath Thakur, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare told the Rajya Sabha.

Crop diversification and monsoon contingency strategy

The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is promoting Crop Diversification Programme (CDP) under the Pradhan Mantri-Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana since 2013-14 in the original Green Revolution States of H...