FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Overgrazing by cattle reduces plant cover, eliminating the most desirable forage species first. This opens up the land to undesirable weeds, brush, and trees and leads to increasing soil erosion and lower soil fertility. The land becomes less and less productive.

Detailed explanation-2: -It comes as no surprise that overgrazing causes deforestation as well. With the animals feeding on all the foliage covering and protecting the soil, it is only natural that the lack of foliage would leave the soil completely bare.

Detailed explanation-3: -Overgrazing is caused when the number of animals carried in a rangeland are more than its grazing capacity, suggesting these extra animals could be from a few to too many.