Not AvailableRainfed areas currently constitute 55% of the
net sown area of the country are home to twothirds
of livestock and 40% of human population
in the Eastern Region of India. The region has a
predominance of tribal (54 tribal communities)
constituting about 30% of the total population
(Chauhan, 1998). It's also observed that around
62.5% of the total geographical area of Eastern
Region is degraded exclusively by water induced
soil erosion which in conjunction with saltaffected
and acid soils works out to be 73.9%.
Data on soil loss tolerance limits indicate that
the tolerance (T) value varies between 7.5 and
12.5 t/ha/yr across the region (Lenka et al., 2013).
Indiscriminate deforestation and practice of
Jhum cultivation lead to accelerated erosion for
which proper conservation measures need to be
established, especially on very steep slopes.Not Availabl
