On Tuesday, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said that India has set a target to make fertile over the next 10 years 50 lakh hectares of land affected by desertification or degradation. The minister for environment said that the process will be carried out by adopting the landscape restoration approach, which is crucial to converting the infertile land to fertile. The process also involves a scientific approach and techniques.

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This year, India is hosting the Conference of Parties (COP) 14 of United Nations convention from September 2 to 13 to combat desertification. Javadekar pointed out that the conference was crucial as one-third of the world's land area was either affected by desertification or degraded which turns out to be 40,000 lakh hectares.