Agriculture is the only business in India which has been going on for centuries. In this growing era of modernity, many changes have taken place in the agriculture sector. Chemical fertilizers and low-cost formulas are being adopted to get more productivity and profits in less time. Due to this, the soil is gradually becoming weak from inside.

Apart from this, due to global warming, there has been a lot of change in the behaviour of the weather. Due to this, there have been floods and some droughts have been seen. Where about 80% of the farmers of the country depend on rain, due to this the most impact of the weather has been on the agriculture sector. In such a situation, to get the benefit, the farmers make many mistakes during the cultivation, which affects the yield potential of the soil.

The reason for the depletion of nutrients from the soil

• The first reason for this is not to use cow dung, green manure or vermicompost in crops.

• Indiscriminate application of fertilizers without soil testing

• not cultivating according to crop rotation

• cultivating a consistently high yielding crop

• using saline water for irrigation

• Deep ploughing, leads to depletion of zinc, sulfur and nitrogen in the soil

• Do not close the weeds of the fields, due to which the nutrients of the soil are also washed away along with the water

According to government data, this situation has been seen more in the states like Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. If these mistakes are not rectified, it will be difficult to stop the land from becoming barren.

Source: Aaj Tak

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