Land Use Changes in Ghazipur District (Uttar Pradesh): A Geographical Analysis

By : Vineet Kumar Rai , Gayarti Rai

Page No: 212-230

Abstract
Land is the basic, fixed and limited resource in nature. Land plays the key role in the determination of man’s economic activities as well as social, cultural and political progress. All agricultural, animal and forestry productions depend on the quality and productivity of the land. The entire terrestrial eco-system which comprises of soil, water, air, plant and mineral are survived on the land resource. It meets the demand of food, energy and other needs of livelihood. Land use refers the sectoral utilization of a unit of available land in a given time. The proper utilization of the land enables economic development in a region. However, land use changes are increasingly recognized as major factors of global environmental change. The land utilization needs to have general frame work of strategic and effective management and analysis of their characteristics and also used for development planning in the study area. The total area of Ghazipur District (U.P.) is 330085 hectare in (2005), out of which forest area covered (1.29%), barren cultivable waste land (1.15%), present fallow land (4.67%), other fallow land (1.03%), barren uncultivable land (0.92%), land put to nonagricultural use (13.28%), pastures land (0.24%), area under bush, forest and garden (1.00%) and net area sown (76.42%). However some categories value are up and down which stand in (2015) 330461 hectare, in which forest area reported about (0.04%), barren cultivable waste land (0.93%), present fallow land (4.06%), other fallow land (1.06%), barren uncultivable land(0.89%), land put to non-agricultural use (14.72%), pastures (0.19%) area under bush, forest and garden (1.02%) and net area sown (77.08%).

Authors :
Vineet Kumar Rai : Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi – 221005
Gayatri Rai : Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2019.39.02.4