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As per the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India, 2007, the percentage of country under dry lands is 69.6%. The total area undergoing the process of land degradation in India is 105.48 million hectares, which constitutes 32.07 percentage of India’s total land area.
8 1.45 million hectares area of the country is under desertification (land degradation within drylands).