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Assam’s soil erosion worsening with climate change and floods -Gurvinder Singh

-VillageSquare.in

With intensifying monsoons and deepening soil erosion, Assam is becoming one of India’s states most vulnerable to climate change, hurting food production and livelihoods in the process.

Each year, during the monsoon, the mighty Brahmaputra River and its tributaries burst their banks and engulf huge tracts of farming and residential land in the remote north-eastern state of Assam, home to 34 million people.

The state government, engineers and other experts are exploring new ways to manage the effects of the annual flooding and increasingly intense bouts of rainfall.

But small landholder Bhakto Bahadur Chhetri said it is already too late to save his home and one-hectare plot of land that provides food and a livelihood for his family.

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