Land use involves the management and modification on of natural environment or wilderness in to build environment such as settlement and semi-natural habitats, arable field, Pasture and managed woods. It also has been defined as the total of arrangement, activates, and inputs that people undertake in certain land cover and land caver in district from land use, despite the two terms often being used interchangeable. Land use is a description of haw people utilize the land and socio-economic activity. Urban and Agricultural land uses are two of the most commonly known land use classes. Ramanagara district is one of the premier district of Karnataka, in the field of agriculture land use and land cover change, have become one of the essential components of agriculture. Land has been utilizing according to the requirements of man the last decade has witnessed the scientific and technological development which have brought tremendous change in land use.

Expansion of urban centres has brought serious threats to the agricultural land around cities, urban centres, towns and hoblies, in the district. Urban sprawling is one of the important facts of the losses of agriculture land which has been reduced to 12.08% in the state and built area in the cities and towns have been increased to almost 18% out of the total geographical area of 3,55,912 ha. Net sown area constitutes 1,72,092 hectors (48.35%), area under forest 69,945 (19.65%), land put to non- agricultural use 27,671 ha (7.77%), barren and uncultivated land 24339 (6.83%), cultivated waste land 478 ha (0.33%), permanent pastures 24,662 ha (1.10%).

Ramanagara district is located in the southern most of Karnataka, it is situated on the north by Bengaluru rural and Tumakuru district of Karnataka state, on the East Bengaluru urban district, on the south east Tamilnadu state, on the south Chamarajanagara district, on the south west Mandya district of the Karnataka state. It is located between 12^o 24' and 13^o 09' North latitude and 77^o 06' and 77^o 34' East longitude. It has a geographical area of 3576sq km, which accounts for 1.85% of the geographical area of the state and has 27^th place in the state. The average elevation is 800 meters above the mean sea level. There are 4 taluks namely Ramanagara, Channapatna, Magadi and Kanakapura in the district.

The main objectives of the study are,

Secondary data have been collected from the directorate of economic and statistics, Bengaluru. Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru. For year 2000-01 to 2015-16, simple statistical methods are used to show the result variations like pie-diagram, bar graph, standard deviation method etc. Table for both study periods have been prepared with percentage conversion.

The land put to various uses in the district have been discussed at length. Land is one of the most important components of life support system which has over used and even observed since centuries.

Out of the total geographical area (2000-01), 56.43% land was under net shown, 11.44% under forest, 7.89% under follow land, 0.35%under cultivatable waste, 0.35% under barren and un-cultivatable land, 6.37% land put to non- agricultural uses, 7.44% permanent pasture and other growing land, 1.02% land under miscellaneous trees and groves. Looking at the data of 2000-01. The net shown area has decreased very significantly in the year 2015-16, Lake of available water resource, especially the underground water goes down which is to be tapped in order to make agricultural land more economical and widely acceptable.

Both generation land uses should improve in quality and quantity to maintain the entire related ecology. So that, it can help to stop soil erosion and there by imageries brings certain constraints in the minute and micro land use analysis of district.