The world Desertification and Drought Day is being observed on June 17 of each year. Desertification is the damage of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. It is caused primarily by some activities of man and also some odd climatic variations. This day is being observed to increase public awareness of the detrimental effects of desertification. Desertification refers to the overall declining productivity of land due to overexploitation and inappropriate usage of land by human and other man activities, sometimes attributed to Poverty, political instability, deforestation, overgrazing, and bad irrigation...