INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ISSN NO : 2236-6124 LAND UTILIZATION ON FARM IN FATEHABAD’S DISTRICT OF HARYANA 1 Virender Singh Research Scholar Tantia University, Shri Ganganagar (Raj.)Email Id: [email protected] 2 Dr. Rajender Godara Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at Mizan Tepi University Mizan Ethiopia 3 Bal Krishan Assistant Professor (Contractual) Department of Economics, Choudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa (Haryana)Email Id: [email protected] 4 Dr. P.S. Shekhawat Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Economics SKN Agricultural College, Jobner (Raj.)Email Id: premsaa72@gmail. Abstract During the five year plan 2012-2017 year. Haryana state’s GSDP compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.96 percent. The Current year prices of Haryana state’s total GSDP US$85 billion in 2016-17. Haryana agriculture’s contribution of 7 percent export in agricultural sector. The production and productivity of wheat and rice in India has reached at saturation point. But the farmers of agriculturally advanced states like Punjab and Haryana still preferring to grow the wheat and rice even aware about the problems created by this crop rotation in terms of degrading the soil health and depleting water level. Moreover, profitability from these crops has almost stagnated due to stagnating yields and increasing input expenses including human labour. In such situation, crop diversification towards coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables and commercial crops will be a future strategy to increase the income of the farmers and sustain the natural resources from further degradation. In this background, the diversification from traditional crops to commercial crops in and blocks level as well as district in fatehabad of Haryana assumes special significance and this study is planned to focus on these concerns. This study will be conducted in Fatehabad Districts of the Haryana state based on published and un-published sources of secondary data. The secondary data about the state and districts was obtained from various issues of the Statistical Abstract of Haryana, Government of Haryana, Panchkula, Department of Agricultural Farmer Welfare Haryana, district statistical office. Introduction India has made remarkable improvement in agriculture over the past decades. Through the change by technological the introduction of small duration high yielding varieties of wheat and rice in the sixties witnesses to increase productivity of these crops manifold. The effective price policy together with relatively better technology has resulted in the emergence of paddy in kharif and wheat in rabi as the most safe and gainful crops in several states. Therefore the production of wheat and rice in India has increased from 23.8 and 42.2 million tons in 1970-71 to 95.8 and 106.3 million tons in 2013-14.Further with a growth rate of 2.82 and 1.86 per cent per annum for wheat and rice during this period respectively. Meaning of land Utilizations explained by the Zimmerman of his book,” World Resources and industries. The land is used for different purpose like as natural resources for agricultural pattern while industrial purpose & infrastructure development. Land is one of the most important natural resources on which all of man’s activities are depended upon, and a thorough knowledge of it, which includes the land use land cover is very much essential for a number of planning and management activities. The term “land use” (LU) relates to the human activity or economic function associated with a specific piece of land, whereas the term “land cover” (LC) relates to the type of feature present on the surface of the earth. However both the term ‘land use’ and ‘land cover’ are synonymous in the scientific community. The land use land cover is the result of permanent adjustment between the constraining properties of land and the socio economic attributes whereas the land utilization type defines the technical details about cultivation form details. Volume 7, Issue VI, JUNE/2018 Page No:115 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ISSN NO : 2236-6124 The Govt acquire land for the development purposes construction for Road, School, Hospitals and infrastructure etc. The centre govt introduce the land acquisition act 1894.According to this act, “The govt can acquire the land for the public welfare or planning project. Land uses in a different purposes (1) Forest land (2) Agricultural land(3) Un-cultivable (4)Barren Land (5) Rehabilitation and settlement(6) Pasture land But the farmers of agriculturally advanced states like Punjab and Haryana still preferring to grow the wheat and rice even aware about the problems created by this crop rotation in terms of degrading the soil health and depleting water level. The production, productivity and profitability which reached at highest level in leading green revolution states, started dipping in early eighties. These developments indicates that the country would have a surplus of superior cereals and therefore, farmers should diversify their crops by increasing area under pulses, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables and commercial crops. With this realization, crop pattern in Indian states experienced a significant change with diversification from traditional crops food crops to commercial crops, plantation crops and horticultural crops. However, cropping pattern in green revolution leading states of Punjab and Haryana has not a significant change and remained continue towards wheat and paddy monoculture which has created environmental problems in the long run sustainability of agriculture. Agriculture occupies a leading place in the economy of Haryana and is favorably placed in terms of water resources and soil potential. The old and new alluviums are ideal for the production of wheat and rice under irrigated conditions. Out of the total cropped area, more than two-third is shared by food grains. In addition, cash crops such as oilseeds and cotton are also grown. The areas under legumes crops are decreasing gradually. There has been noticed a sharp shift in area under various crops in Haryana during the past three decades. It has shifted to those crops which provide higher income per unit of land due to increasing productivity or increasing prices or both i.e. rice, wheat, rapeseed-mustard and American cotton. Growth in area and yield for these crops has been impressive but growth in area was comparatively higher. In view of higher percentage of area under rice-wheat rotation and rice being major consumer of irrigation water, the groundwater table of state is declining and deterioration of the agro-economic systems. Therefore, it is important to reduce the area under this crop rotation in order to sustain production and agro-eco-systems of the state in the long run. The state should its crop pattern from these more water consuming traditional crop to less water consuming commercial crop. The potential of the new seed-fertilizer technology has been fully exploited in Haryana. The limited scope for increase in irrigation facilities via canals was circumvented by increasing number of tube wells and pumping sets from 28,000 to over five lakhs. Haryana becomes the leading agricultural state in the country. The higher growth of agriculture sector like different sectors of economy could help in visualizing overall perspective. GSDP growth of Haryana was 6-7 per cent per annum during the period from 1981 to 1991. The annual growth rate of industrial and service sectors was noticed 7-8 per cent and a 4 per cent growth was in the agricultural sector during the above said period. Agriculture sector was contributing about 3 per cent to the gross domestic product (GDP). The share of industrial sector in the GSDP in 1980-81 was 19.46 per cent, which increased to 29.07 per cent in 2010-11. The share of agriculture sector in GSDP has decreased from 53.78 per cent in 1980-81 to 20.92 per cent in 2010-11. Volume 7, Issue VI, JUNE/2018 Page No:116 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ISSN NO : 2236-6124 Table No 1 Land Utilization in Haryana ( Area in 000’hectares) Serial Particulars 1993-94 1998-99 2003-2004 2008-09 2013-14 1 Net Area 3513(80.3) 3628(82.9) 3534(80.7) 3576(81.7) 3487(79.9) Sown 2 Area Sown 2302(52.6) 2692(61.5) 2854(65.2) 2924(66.8) 2974(67.9) More than once 3 Total 5815 6320 6388 6500 6471 Cropped Area 4 Forest 167 (3.81) 115(2.662) 45(1.02) 39(0.89) 35(0.80) 5 Land put to 322(7.36) 350(8.00) 432(9.87) 470(10.7) 537(12.2) Non- Agriculture uses 6 Barren & 91(2.08) 89(2.03) 100(2.28) 103(2.35) 12.5(2.85) uncultivable Land 7 Current 209(4.77) 143(3.26) 192(4.38) 105(2.40) 101(2.310 Fallows 8 Total Area 4374 4374 4374 4374 4374 Note; Figure in parentheses are in percentages expect total Cropped Area as it is more than total area. Table No 2 Rabi-Fatehabad Start Sr. No. Block Wheat Gram Barley Rabi Oilseeds Area Av. Area Av. Area Av. Area Av. Yield Yield Yield Yield 1 Ratia 431 5048 @ 1463 1 3818 1 1515 2 Fatehabad 500 4967 3 1638 17 3382 17 2054 3 Bhattu 245 4911 3 1217 8 3931 69 2166 Kalan 4 Bhuna 288 5348 1 1657 10 4112 24 2276 5 Tohana 316 5276 @ 1463 1 3818 2 2139 6 Jakhal 126 5061 @ 1463 - - - - Tehsil wise and Forest wise area during Rabi 2015-16 in District Fatehabad S. No. Crop Tehsil Tehsil Ratia Tehsil District Fatehabad Tohana Fatehabad 1 Janglat 149 102 0 251 2 Kekar 10 0 3 13 3 Safeda 14 1 17 32 4 Puplar 1 3 3 7 Total 174 106 23 303 Department of Agricultural Farmer Welfare Haryana, district statistical office.