India has rich natural resources but they are being depleted rapidly due to overpopulation, overconsumption, and lack of conservation efforts. The government has implemented various programs and missions to promote sustainable management of resources through conservation agriculture, afforestation, population control measures, and educating people on responsible resource use. However, continued conservation efforts are needed to protect India's resources for future generations.

1. National
resource
conservation

2. About my country
• Area: 3,287,590 sq km
• Population: 1,188,310,000
• Literacy: 61%
• Government: Federal Democratic Republic
• Unemployment:10.7%
• GDP: $3.57 trillion
• Chief Occupations:Agriculture is the chief occupation of the country
followed by service and industrial jobs.

3. Our Natural Resources
Wealth

4. • Land
• Arable Land: 48%
• Forests: 22%
• Water
• Total renewable water resources: 1,907.8 km3/year
• Soil
• Many fertile soils including alluvial soil which comprises 80% of the total fertile soil
available
• Minerals
• India occupies a prominent place in the world in the production of many minerals. The
chief minerals include Coal, iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore,
chromite, diamonds, limestone, thorium, petroleum, natural gas

5. • Energy
• India makes use of both renewable and non renewable energy resources. Energy resources
include natural gas, thermal, hydro, nuclear and other renewable sources.
• Vegetation
• India has diverse vegetation which includes tropical rainforests, deciduous forests and
coniferous forests. India has 6 % of the world’s flowering plants.
• Wildlife
• India has many species of animals, birds and reptiles which includes 7.6% of all mammalian,
12.6% of avian, 6.2% of reptilian of the wildlife population in the world Asian
Elephant, Bengal Tiger, Asiatic Lion, Leopard, Sloth Bear and Indian Rhinoceros, antelopes are
some of the important animals.

6. What is our attention?
• India as country is blessed with rich natural resources. But from our
research on the usage of natural resources in our country, we found
that the resources are depleting every day. For example:
• Forest and arable land is being depleted due to urbanization,
overpopulation and overconsumption
• Wild life resources are being lost due to illegal poaching, hunting
and industrialization.
• Water resources are being contaminated are drying up due to
industrialization.

7. Threats to our country
• Urbanization and Industrialization
• Overpopulation
• Overconsumption and irresponsible use
• Deforestation
• Erosion
• Habitat Destruction
• Natural Hazards
• No proper access to resources such as water

8. Problems Solutions
Overpopulation Develop population control measures and
educate people on the advantages of a small
family.
Overconsumption and irresponsible use Educate people on the importance of
conservation of resources using mass media.
Develop partnerships with advocacy groups
and environmental NGOs for spreading the
message.
No proper access to resources Privatization of the some of the resource
management function will help in better
developing the delivery mechanism
Deforestation and Habitat destruction Have stringent regulations for the protection
of the resources and ensure that the defaulters
are punished
Natural Hazards Develop and employ tools for monitoring the
possibility of natural hazards and providing
preventive measures
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10. • What is conservation ?
• Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its
primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world,
its fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity.
• Secondary focus is on material conservation, including non-renewable
resources such as metals, minerals and fossil fuels, and energy
conservation, which is important to protect the natural world.
• Those who follow the conservation ethic and, especially, those who advocate
or work toward conservation goals are termed conservationists.

11. • The terms conservation and preservation are frequently conflated outside the
academic, scientific, and professional kinds of literature.
• The US National Park Service offers the following explanation of the important
ways in which these two terms represent very different conceptions of
environmental protection ethics:
• ″Conservation and preservation are closely linked and may indeed seem to
mean the same thing. Both terms involve a degree of protection, but how that
protection is carried out is the key difference.
• Conservation is generally associated with the protection of natural resources,

12. • while preservation is associated with the protection of buildings, objects, and
landscapes. Put simply, conservation seeks the proper use of nature, while
preservation seeks protection of nature from use.
• During the environmental movement of the early 20th century, two opposing
factions emerged: conservationists and preservationists.
• Conservationists sought to regulate human use while preservationists sought
to eliminate human impact altogether.

14. • Natural Resource Management Division:
• Natural Resource Management Division of ICAR is conducting basic and
strategic researches to develop technologies for conservation,
management and sustainable utilization of the natural resources
ensuring food, nutritional and environmental security in the country
through 16 research institutes, 10 All India Coordinated Research
Projects, 3 network projects and 2 Consortia Research Platforms namely
on Water and Conservation Agriculture with a wide network of the
Cooperating Centers and State Agricultural Universities.

15. • About the programs taken place in India :
• The NRM research programmers have been prioritized within the perspective
of different themes, viz; Soil Inventory and Characterization, integrated Soil-
Water-Nutrient Management, Watershed Management, Resource Conservation
Technologies, Crop diversification, integrated weed management, integrated
farming System including Agro forestry, dry land farming, arid, coastal and hill
agriculture, abiotic stress management, climate resilient agriculture,
conservation agriculture, waste water utilization, solid waste management
and applications of nanotechnology to enhance nutrient and water use
efficiency.

16. • The Division is conducting research in farmers' participatory mode
addressing issues at ground level and developing location specific, cost
effective, ecofriendly, socially acceptable scientific farming practices keeping
in view the farmers' resource availability, traditional indigenous technology
knowhow and grassroots farm innovations.
• The outcome of NRM research has been promoted through various
developmental Plan schemes of the Government and contributing towards
increase in agricultural productivity in the country.

18. • The plans and missions
• Vision
Sustainable management of natural resources for achieving food, nutritional,
environmental and livelihood security in the country.
• Mission
developing location specific, cost effective, eco-friendly conservation and management
technologies for higher input use efficiency, agricultural productivity & profitability
without deteriorating natural resource base.
• Mandate
To plan, coordinate and monitor R & D programmers for sustainable agricultural
production and resource conservation and to serve as knowledge repository in the
field of natural resource management.

19. Organizational Structure

20. • Priority Areas
The major concerns of NRM Division are low farm
productivity & profitability, land degradation, low water
productivity, soil health deterioration & low nutrient use
efficiency, abiotic stresses including climatic aberrations and
loss of tree cover & deterioration in ecosystem services.

21. • How a substance becomes a resource :
• All the materials and energy essential for the survival and
welfare of living beings including humans-are provided by
nature. They are called natural resources.
• A thing becomes resource only when it is used by humans to
perform a function. Man lives in nature and depends on the
resources of nature.

22. • The sustenance and welfare of mankind depend upon the
exploitation of different natural resources. The utilization of
soil, water minerals, coal, electricity, oil, gas and nuclear
energy is very important for the development of nation
These resources have changed the level of living standard of
man.

23. The most important way
to save a resource

24. • Of the world’s total population of six billion, one billion in
U.S.A. and Europe alone use 84% of world’s total energy.
Three billion people of India, China, Brazil and few other
countries use only 15% India contains the world’s second
largest resource of coal and third and four largest resource of
manganese and iron. Fossil fuels (coal, petrol, and natural
gas) on which modem industrial centers are based are limited.

25. • At present rate of consumption, the fossil may be drastically depleted
leading to severe energy crisis. Coal reserves of the world are higher
than petroleum and natural gas and they may last longer. The
leading coal producing countries are China U.S.A. U.S.S.R.,
Germany, U.K., Japan, India, Poland, France and Czechoslovakia.
The major oil producing countries are U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Libya, Arab Republic and Indonesia. New
discovery of oil has been made recently in the sea beds of Mumbai.

26. • India is facing an ecological crisis and is degrading her natural resources
day by day. Now the shortage of natural resources is a matter of
international concern. There is increasing deficiency of energy, metals, coal,
non-fuel and non-metallic materials. With regard to fuels there is great
concern over the huge outflow of foreign exchange and every year enough
oil is purchased from the Middle-East countries which are major sources of
petroleum. The developed nations of the world have created abundant
resources but the developing nations are importing many of these from
foreign countries.

27. • We are aware of the fact that earlier the human being was essential part of the
nature and human society had impact on the other components of the biosphere.
However, with the advancement of social and Cultural Revolution the conflict
between man and nature started.
• Due to its unending greed, man has destroyed the nature to the maximum for his
little pm and made himself the master of nature. However, all efforts to have
mastery over the nature have increased his further dependence on nature. On
account of such un-thoughtful and ruthless exploitation the human society has
vastly modified the ecosystems in different parts of the world and has brought
undesirable changes in the natural habitats.

29. • Consequently, some natural stocks of plants and animals have
disappeared. About 1000 species are currently threatened with
extinction or are dangerously rare. The human encroachment of nature
has deprived the world civilization of 130 mammal species and has
endangered more than 250 species. Out of the total approximately 0.3
million species of plants in the world, over 20,000 are in the category of
either endangered or threatened with extinction. It is estimated that
over 1000 animal species and 20,000 flowering plants are likely to be
endangered globally.

30. • Food, shelter and clothing are the primary requirements of man. Early human
society has used natural resources relatively in much less quantity to cover his
wants. Among the most essential requirements is a well cooked food. We know that
cooking requires energy. The simplest source of energy available for cooking since
the early human history is fuel wood. According to an estimate, about 60.5 per cent
of Indian people’s fuel wood consumption is fire wood and other agricultural
wastes. According to Government of India’s “Fuel Wood Policy Committee”, the
annual demand for fuel is roughly 133 million tonnes which is expected to increase
in the next 50 years

31. • There is a great controversy over the sufficiency of the mineral resources
to retain domestic and economic development all over the world.
According to “Resources and Man” (1969), “true shortages exist or
threaten for many substances that are considered essential for current
industrial society.” Mercury, tin, tungsten and helium, are known
examples and the prospective resources of these substances will be nearly
exhausted by the end of this century or early in the next, and new sources
or substitutes to satisfy even the relatively short-term needs will have to be
found out.

32. • One of the most serious aspects of the problem arises from the impact of economic
efforts of mankind especially for the purpose of maintaining its existence,
protection, survival and betterment of the standard of living. The basic needs
which induced the human beings to spoil the natural resources for their welfare
have finally led to a situation which threatens to be disastrous.
• Now in almost every advanced country, the overpopulation has been a vital
concern along with the atmospheric pollution. Every effort is being made to save
mankind from self-destruction. The situation has become so serious that it is
necessary to take some precautionary steps so that the complications may not
become worse further.

33. • There are various problems which have arisen due to industrial and
agricultural developmental activities. Many of these problems are due to
mismanagement of natural resources and their impacts are not
localized but are universal in nature. It has been estimated that the
quantity of CO2 will be doubled in 23 years and the oil and natural gas
resources will be no more available after 50 years and coal will be almost
consumed within 150 year.

34. How some resources can be maintained-

35. conclusion;
There were many problems and solutions give in the presentation. I
hope you can help the government at your level. And also take care of
all the precautions and problems happening to the resources of the
country. The resources of our country is not for only us but it is also for
the future generation of our country.
I hope you all liked the presentation.

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