India's alarming loss of 5.6 million agroforestry trees, a significant decline in farmland trees, is primarily linked to pressures like agricultural expansion, infrastructure, and unsustainable practices, though climate change exacerbates these issues by increasing stress on trees, impacting yields, and reducing resilience, making farmers abandon trees for monocultures or better-paying crops, thus creating a complex interplay where climate impacts worsen deforestation, while tree loss fuels climate change.

India's alarming loss of 5.6 million agroforestry trees, a significant decline in farmland trees, is primarily linked to pressures like agricultural expansion, infrastructure, and unsustainable practices, though climate change exacerbates these issues by increasing stress on trees, impacting yields, and reducing resilience, making farmers abandon trees for monocultures or better-paying crops, thus creating a complex interplay where climate impacts worsen deforestation, while tree loss fuels climate change. 

Key Findings on Missing Trees:
What: -
A study revealed 5.6 million large trees (agroforestry) vanished from Indian farmlands between 2018-2022.
Why: -
Farmers removed trees for higher incomes from other crops, land conversion, or due to climate stress (droughts, extreme weather) making trees less viable.
Impact: -
Loss of these trees reduces food security, income, biodiversity, and vital carbon sequestration, harming climate mitigation efforts. 
Climate Change Connection:-
Direct Impact: -
Climate change causes droughts, heatwaves, and erratic rainfall, stressing trees and making them vulnerable, leading farmers to cut them down.
Indirect Impact: -
Tree loss releases stored carbon, intensifying the greenhouse effect, creating a vicious cycle.
Exacerbation: -
India is highly vulnerable to climate change, and this loss of trees from productive landscapes diminishes its natural defense. 
Other Drivers:-
Agricultural Expansion:-
 Converting land for permanent agriculture is a major cause of tree cover loss.
Infrastructure & Settlements:-
 Building roads, houses, and development also destroys tree cover.
Illegal Logging & Unsustainable Practices: -
These contribute significantly to forest loss. 
In essence, climate change isn't the sole cause but a major stressor and amplifier, pushing farmers to abandon trees already under pressure from economic and developmental factors, contributing to both deforestation and worsening climate impacts. 
India's 5.6 Million “Missing Trees”: Is climate change to blame?
    Researchers have uncovered the alarming disappearance of 5.6 million agroforestry trees across several regions in India between 2018/2019 and 2020–20..
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