Net Sown Area Case Study

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AGRICULTURAL LANDUSE PATTERN AND IRRIGATION IN SANGLI DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA: A GEOGRAPHOCAL STUDY *Mr. Amol Sadashiv Mahajan
Introduction:
The word ‘agriculture’ comes from the Latin words ‘ager’, referring to the ‘soil’& ‘cultura’ to its cultivation. Agriculture can be defined as the cultivation, production of crop, plants or live-stock products. It is synonymous with farming. Agricultural geographers used the word ‘agriculture’ to cover both cropping & grazing. Agriculture still being the dominant economic activity in the developing world. It has great potential for those who are interested in the spatial distribution of agricultural systems & agricultural processes. …show more content…

A) Net sown area:
The net sown area is the most important purpose of land use in the field of agriculture geography. The net sown area is the land which is using cultivated for raising the crops. In the year of 1981-82 total net sown area in the study region is 5928 hundred hectors and it was 68.00 percentage of the total geographical area. In the year of 2011-12 total net sown area in the study region is 6377 hundred hectors and 74.06 percentage of the total geographical area of study region.
The spatio temporal variation in net sown area is fluctuation in the study period. In study period net sown area was increased by 5.21 percentage of the study region. B) Land is not available for cultivation:
This type of land use represents the land occupied by settlement, road, railways, industries, water bodies, gardens, play grounds, grave land etc. In the year of 1981-82 total area of land is not available for cultivation in the study region is 895 hundred hectors and it was 7.86 percentage of the total geographical area. In the year of 2011-12 total area of land is not available for cultivation in the study region is 777 hundred hectors and it was 9.02percentage of the total geographical area of study …show more content…

This land are cultivated but present lying of waste an account of number of reasons, erosion, floods, poor drainage, scarcity of water and distance for settlement is the causes containing the other uncultivated land. In the year of 1981-82 total area of other uncultivated land in the study region is 354 hundred hectors and it was 6.54 percentage of the total geographical area. In the year of 2011-12 total area of other uncultivated land in the study region is 614 hundred hectors and it was 7.13 percentage of the total geographical area.
The spatio temporal variation in other uncultivated land is fluctuation in the study period. In study period other uncultivated land was increased by 3.02 percentage of the study region.
D) Fallow land:
The term fallow land is used to these lands which are not under cultivation at the time of reporting. Responsible factors of fallow land are terrain, texture of soil, availability of water. In the year of 1981-82 total area of fallow land in the study region is 940 hundred hectors and it was 11.00 percentage of the total geographical area. In the year of 2011-12 total area of fallow land in the study region is 367 hundred hectors and it was 4.29 percentage of the total geographical area.
The spatio temporal variation in fallow land is fluctuation in the study period. In study period fallow land was decreased by 6.64 percentage of the study region.
E) Forest

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