Land is the natural resource and assets for farmers which play an important rolein determining human, economic, social and cultural progress. Land-use pattern is to understand geographical adjustment of agriculture resources. Land use in a special context is essential to understand regional zonation of the areas of optimum land use, and degraded areas. The use of land constitutes a major item in national planning, especially in India. This study of land use is of vital importance from the point of view of the planning and development. The total reporting area of Aligarh district is 371262 hectarein 2010–11 which has increased by 1568 hectares from last decades. Out ofwhich a large proportion of 3, 03, 954 hectare (81.87 percent) is under net sown area which has also increased by 0.64 percent from 2000–01, followed by area under non-agriculture use 39, 903 hectare (10.75 percent), current fallow (1.65 percent), barren and uncultivated land (1.63 percent), cultivable waste land (1.43 percent), other fallow land (1.42 percent), forest (0.69 percent), pastures (0.47 percent), miscellaneous trees (0.09 percent). The main objective of this paper is to outline the land use change in Aligarh district (U.P.) during the period between 2000–01 and 2010 11.
Land use pattern, Natural resource, Land use change, Blocks
