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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s Thar desert is turning green. That isn’t a good thing -Rishika Pardikar

India’s Thar desert is turning green. That isn’t a good thing -Rishika Pardikar

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published Published on Aug 22, 2020   modified Modified on Aug 24, 2020

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The trend is also linked to recent locust outbreaks, as large quantities of vegetation provide food for locust swarms.

Ravindranath lives in the heart of the Thar desert in India. He and his family are agropastoralists – people who grow crops and rear livestock – in the village of Kalu in Bikaner district, Rajasthan.

But the dry grasslands that people like Ravindranath have depended on for centuries for pasture are slowly being depleted. “Sometimes we have to pay money and buy cattle feed” instead of grazing our animals, he said.

Debulal Bawri, a gram panchayat officer for Kalu, explained that in Bikaner and other districts in the state of Rajasthan, “Rainfall has become unreliable and herders and farmers in the area rely a lot on monsoon rainfall.” As of August 17, this year’s monsoon in Bikaner is 23% deficient.

“Monsoons have been erratic [in this region] over the past few decades and pasture productivity is dependent on good monsoons,” said Sutirtha Dutta, a research associate at the Wildlife Institute of India.

A “good monsoon” in Bikaner means between 200 millimetres-300 millimetres of rain between June and September. More erratic monsoons mean there is often a high amount of rain over fewer days.

Another problem, Bawri said, is that “many buildings are coming up on pastures”.

Rewant Jaipal, a programme manager at NGO the Urmul Trust, said that pastures across Bikaner are shrinking due to the growth of agricultural farms and the expansion of built-up areas because of population changes.

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