write a brief note on land resources and its utilities?
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Land Resources:
Land is one of the most important natural resources. Land supports our life system. Thus, careful planning of use of land resource is necessary. India comprises of many types of land. These are mountains, plateau, plains and islands.
Mountains: About 30% of land area in India is in the form of mountain. Mountain supports the perennial flow of rivers, which carry fertile soils, facilitate irrigation and provide drinking water.
Plain: About 43% of land area in India is in the form of plains. Plains provide facilities for agriculture, building of industries and houses, etc.
Plateau: About 27% of land in India is in the form of plateau which provides many types of minerals, fossil fuels and forest.
Land Utilisation: Patterns of use of Land Resources
Forests
Land not available for cultivation: There are two types of land which are not used for agriculture purpose. These are:
Barren and waste land
Lands used for buildings, roads, factories, etc. i.e for non-agriculture purpose.
Other uncultivated land (excluding fallow land)
Permanent pastures and grazing land,
Land under miscellaneous tree crops groves (not included in net sown area),
Culturable waste land (left uncultivated for more than 5 agricultural years).
Fallow lands
Current fallow-(left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural year),
Other than current fallow-(left uncultivated for the past 1 to 5 agricultural years).
Net sown area: Area which is sown at least once in a year is called net sown area.
Gross cropped area: Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as gross cropped area.
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