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marginal land

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marginal land

Land with little immediate usefulness because of problems with access, water control,topography,environmental restrictions,or other such factors.



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This is mainly caused by increased cultivation of marginal land with high slopes and shallow soils, destruction of natural vegetation for fuel and fodder, overgrazing, and other environmentally destructive uses.
Farmers are being advised to withdraw marginal land from grass seed production and perhaps switch to other crops - though growers of other commodities are also suffering.
It is also beginning to look as though jatropha can be grown on marginal land only with intensive fertiliser and irrigation use.
 
 
 
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