how is the land use pattern in india tell me in short
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In India the forest covered is 22 percentage out of 33 percent.
Land use pattern means how people utilities the land.
Population, Industrialization and urbanization are the main causes in which our forest is destroyed by.
our of 21 percentage of land covered in Earth only 12 to 14 percentage of forest is present.
1. The net sown area in India has decreased from 45. 26% to 43. 41%. this means that more and more agricultural land is being shifted to other activities. This is not a healthy trend, and must be checked.the steps taken by government has resulted in increase of net sown area to 47% in 2005 to 2006.
2. The pattern of the net sown area varies greatly from one state to another. It is over 80% of the total area in Punjab and haryana,and less than 10% in arunachal Pradesh, mizoram, Manipur and Andaman and nicobar islands.
3. The area under forest has increased from 18. 11% in 1960- 1961 to 22. 57% in 2002-2003 and to 23% in 2005 - 2006 yet it is far below than the scientific norms.
4. The land under permanent pasture is very low i.e. only 3.45 %(fallen to 3%).this shows the tremendous pressure of livestock population on agricultural land.Cattle are reared mainly on the farm waste, grain chaff and a few fodder crops.
5.area under fallow land has also decreased which shows, that subsistence agriculture is being replaced by commercial agriculture .
6.a part of the land is termed as wasteland, and land put to other non-agricultural uses.wasteland includes Rocky, arid and desert areas, and land put two other non agricultural uses include settlements, roads railways, industries, etc