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Explain why the forest cover in India is shrinking.
Topic: Shrinking forest cover
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(1) Over-use — wood, fuel, fodder, rubber and a dozen other demands strip the forests faster than they grow. (2) The expansion of agriculture keeps converting forest land to fields, as the railways, mining and commercial felling of the colonial period once did.
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