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As applied nutrients, leads to nutrient per the latest estimates, about 1/3rd of the mining, i.e., depletion of the organic total land area and about 1/5th of the matter in soils. [...] Also, the response of Figure 1.2: Status of Organic Carbon (SHC Cycle II) in Indian Soils Source: Soil and Land Use Survey of India Following the implementation of the Moreover, synthetic fertilizer inputs nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) regime for P, contribute to the decline of beneficial soil and K fertilizers in 2010, the prices of these micro-organisms, thereby impairing soil nutrients experienc. [...] Whatever the dominant motivation, and it is certainly The extraction of groundwater for possible that both were at work, the result irrigation is closely linked to the was a gradual de-metering, the availability of subsidized or free electricity introduction of water use patterns and across the country. [...] consumes 65 percent of the irrigation Correspondingly, the stage of water (Shah, 2019), while in Karnataka, groundwater development in 2023 rice and sugarcane covering 20 percent reveals that 79 percent of the assessment of the cropped area, uses 70 percent of blocks are classified as critical and over- the irrigation water (Karnataka exploited in Rajasthan, 78 percent in Knowledge Commission, 201. [...] Alarmed by the continued loss of systems, contributing to agriculture biodiversity and the threat this poses to sustainability (pillar 1); (ii) consumption nature and human wellbeing, the and markets, contributing to healthy diets Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity (pillar 1); and (iii) genetic resource Framework (GBF) was adopted during conservation, contributing to the 15th meeting of the Conf.