Drishti current affairs magazine English
Drishti current affairs magazine English
Drishti current affairs magazine English published this article page no 11 agricultural land use in india land resource is more crucial to the livelihood of the people depending on agriculture i agriculture is a purely land based activity unlike secondary and tertiary activities. in other words contribution of land in agricultural output is more compared to its contribution in the outputs in the other sectors. thus lack of access to land is directly correlated with incidence of poverty in rural areas. ii quality of land has a direct bearing on the productivity of agriculture which is not true for other activities. iii in rural areas aside from its value as a productive factor land ownership has a social value and serves as a security for credit natural hazards or life contingencies and also adds to the social status. an estimation of the total stock of agricultural land resources i.e. total cultivable land can be arrived at by adding up net sown area all fallow lands and culturable wasteland. it may be observed from table 5.1 that over the years there has been a marginal decline in the available total stock of cultivable land as a percentage to total reporting area. there has been a greater decline of cultivated land in spite of a corresponding decline of cultivable wasteland current affairs drishti magazine buy.
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