Unclaimed habitats: hypothetical urbanization, a real dent to agriculture with special reference to Punjab

Punjab is known as the soil of warriors, saints, epics, love, drama and at the top, the feeder of the nation. The fertility of the soil and its topography is god gifted and really it has a capacity to produce the food for the nation, both for human and cattle.

One may undergo the profound grief looking at the pathetic condition of the motherland. I don't oppose urbanization but the path that Punjab has opted for has turned the faces around. In the flow of reality boom then, we have ended up as the lost player, I personally feel. Millions of acres of fertile land, posed to be the coming up hi-fi colonies, are either unoccupied or are just seem to be the conversion of farms for the prospective colonies. One can never exactly calculate the magnum of actual loss. The loss is multi-facet. We are the losers of the fertile soil getting it converted into prospective colonies, yet not developed or unclaimed habitats. For the same time span, we have lost the income that could be yielded from its fertility and farming thereon. Also, we have lost our basic identity of being the laborious farmers.