The number of people living in India is now greater than one billion. The amount of farmland available per person has decreased dramatically. If deforestation continues at its current rate, there will be almost no forest left in the world within the next fifty years. Fuel wood and animal feed are in severe limited supply as it is. Fuel wood production needs to be increased even to meet current demand. The poor are increasingly living on the edge of survival. Women must trek long distances to collect firewood, feed, and water. Millions of forest-dependent people have seen their economies and way of life utterly destroyed by the scarcity of forest-based basic supplies. India's future depends on its ability to restore degraded forests and other types of cultivable and non-cultivable land. Increasing numbers of people living in the country is one of the biggest threats it faces. Although food grain production in recent years has kept pace with population growth, the most formidable challenge we face is how to feed everyone in the next century. Unfortunately, the incorrect and excessive use of chemical inputs in our efforts to keep up with rising demand has severely damaged our planet's agroecosystems. The land position of the country has worsened due to the increasing demand from the growing human and cattle population. Degraded or waste lands are becoming increasingly common as a result of soil erosion, improper use of chemical fertilisers, waterlogging, salinity/alkalinity, shifting agriculture, etc., all of which call for a more scientific approach to their management. As people throughout the world become more concerned about protecting the environment and embracing the idea of sustainability, they have begun to view "wasteland usage" as a crucial part of this movement.