RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT – Land Utilisation

How are land resources used /utilized?

Land resources are used for the following purposes :

1. Forests.

2. The land is not available for cultivation.

• Barren and wasteland.
• Land put to non-agricultural uses e.g., buildings, roads, factories, etc.

3. Other uncultivated lands (excluding fallow land).

• Permanent pastures and grazing land.
• Land under miscellaneous tree crops and groves (not included in the net sown area).
• Culturable wasteland (left uncultivated for more than 5 agricultural years).

4. Fallow lands :

• Current fallow (left without cultivation for Ghe or less than one agricultural year).
• Other than the current fallow (left uncultivated for the past 1 to 5 agricultural years).

5.Net sown area:

• Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus the net sown area is known as gross cropped area.