Land resource utilizationby different crops in India: Need for effective land use planning

摘要

Access to land is becoming increasingly difficult with competing demands by various stockholders including urban housing. Changes in land use in India have intensified in the recent years under pressure of population, economic forces, livestock pressure and weakening of various types of institutions that regulate land use formally or informally. Natural factors have also caused some change in the land use pattern. In the absence of any well thought out plan and policy, indiscriminate change in land use has several implications that impinge upon sustainable and optimum use and result in a haphazard development devoid of economic, social, environmental and aesthetic sense.