Geographical analysis

Abstract

Land is a scare resource, whose supply is fixed for all practical purposes at the same time. The demand for land various competing purposes is continuously increasing with the increase in human population and economic growth. Land use pattern at any given time is determined by several factor increasing size of human and livestock population, the demand pattern, the technology in use the cultural traditions, location and capability of land, Institutional factors like ownership pattern and right and state regulation. The land use pattern beside having economic implications has also important ecological dimensions, which it ignored can have disastrous consequence, the land is the sole resources of sustenance mankind supporting the food and shelter man utilizes land for various purposes like agriculture of urban development, settlement industrial activities etc. The growing pressure population coupled increasing varieties of demands being made on the land resources have brought extra pressure on the land resource all over the country in this paper shown that non land increase from 6.73% to 7.77% and current fallow land decrease from 7.44% to 7.21% of total area also cultivable waste land decrease from 6.89% to 6.83%.

Keywords: Agriculture; Land use & land cover; Forest