Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2016 = 6.17, www.srjis.com UGC Approved Sr. No.49366, NOV-DEC 2017, VOL- 4/37 https://doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v4i37.10675
CHANGING PATTERN OF LAND USE AND ITS IMPACT ON AGRICULTURE: A CASE STUDY OF MYSORE DISTRICT Mangalagowri B¹& H Nagaraj², Ph. D. 1
UGC Junior Research Fellow, DOS in Geography, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore
Mysuru -570006 Email: mangalagowri.9945@gmail.com 2
Professor and Chairman, DOS in Geography, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore
Mysuru-570006. Email: nagarajh66@yahoo.com
Land is a scarce resource, whose supply is fixed for all practical purposes at the same time. The demand for land for various competing purposes is continuously increasing with the increase in human population and economic growth. Land use pattern at any given time is determined by several factors including size of human and livestock population, the demand pattern, the technology in use, the cultural traditions, the location and capability of land, institutional factors like ownership pattern and rights and state regulation. The land use pattern besides having economic implications has also important ecological dimensions, which if ignored can have disastrous consequence. The land is the sole resources of sustenance mankind supporting the planed, animal and human life for providing the food, and shelter. Man utilizes land for various purposes like agriculture of urban development, settlement industrial activities etc.. The growing pressure population coupled increasing varieties of demands being made on the land resource have brought extra pressure on the land resource all over the country. In this paper shows that non agriculture land increase from 8.9% to 11%, and current fallow land increase from 3.2% to 6 % of total area, and also cultivable waste land decrease from 4 % to 3% , Keywords: Ecological Dimensions, Urban Development, Economic Implications Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
Introduction Mysore district is located between latitude 11°45' to 12°40' N and longitude 75°57' to 77°15' E. and it is an administrative district located in the southern part of the state of karnataka, India. The district is bounded by Mandya district to the east and northeast, Chamrajanagara district to the southeast, Kerala state to the south, Kodagu district to the west, and Hassan district to the north. . It has an area of 6,854 km² (ranked 12th in the state). The district lies on the undulating table land of the southern Deccan plateau, within the watershed of the kaveri river, which flows through the northwestern and eastern parts of the district. The Krishna raja sagara reservoir, which was formed by building a dam across Copyright © 2017, Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies