Question

The total degraded land in our country is?

• A. 133 million hectares
• B. 130 million sq. km
• C. )140 million hectares
• D. 130 million hectares

Answer 1

The correct option is D

130 million hectares

The answer is d. The total degraded land in our country is 130 million hectares. India became part of the “Bonn Challenge”, a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.National Afforestation & Eco Development Board (NAEB) Division of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is implementing the ‘National Afforestation Programme (NAP)’ for ecological restoration of degraded forest areas under which an area of over 2 million ha has been approved for afforestation.