Question

Explain land use pattern in India and why has the land under forest ne
increased much since 1960-61?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Land use pattern refers to the way the land is utilised.

The Forest cover of the country is less than the prescribed 33% of the total country’s land. Forests occupy about 23.81% of the total land surface in India.

Total net sown area of India is 46.24% of the total land in the country.

Net sown area differs from state to state. While in Punjab and Haryana, the net sown area is more than 80% of the total land in the state, it is less than 10% in Arunanchal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur and Andaman Nicobar Islands. 3.38% of the total land is used for grazing while rests of the remaining lands are fallow and waste lands.

In India, the land under permanent pasture has decreased.

land under forest not increased much since 1960 because there has been constant deforestation of forests for expanding agricultural fields, fro building residential areas, highways, large dams etc

Answer 2

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$\huge \green \bigstar$The use of land is determined by both physical factors such as topographic climate soil type as well as human factors such as population density technology capability and culture and tradition into agricultural and forest land land made for pasta and grazing and waste land wasteland include Rocky arid desert area and land used for other non agriculture purposes such as housing roads and industry according to the recent data about 54 % of the total land area is the cultivable aur fallow 22.5% is covered by forest and 3.45 percent is used for grazing the rest is wasteland with the trace of miscellaneouscultivation the land under forest has not increased since 1960 -61because in the post independence era demand for more land to expand agriculture mainly after green revolution development works and infrastructural facilities lead to clearance of forest area industrialisation and urbanisation also decreased the forest area thus ,the land under forest has increased by only about 4% since 1960 -61.


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