Volume : 4 | Issue : 12 | December 2015 ISSN - 2250-1991 Research Paper Geography Land Use Pattern in Western Uttar Pradesh Research Scholar Department of Geography AMU, Al garh Azharuddin Sk 202002 : Land use pattern is envisaged on land capability. Land is one of the important resources which plays dominant role in determining human economic, social and cultural progress. .Land Use Pattern is mainly determined by economic, institutional and physical structure. Land area in India is ample but that needs proper care to survive and sustain. The proper utilization of the land is the economic backbone of a region. The total reporting area of western Uttar Pradesh is 7300536 hectare out of which a big proportion of 5597634 hectare (76.67%) is under net sown area followed by other land non agriculture of 833895 hectare (11.42%), forest 331872 hectare (4.55%), current fallow land 181740 hectare (2.49%), old fallow land 99931hectare (1.37%), groves and gardens 45821 hectare (0.63%), barren and un-cultivated land 112952 ABSTRACT hectare (1.55%), cultivated waste land 83112 hectare (1.14%) and pasture land13579 hectare (0.19%). Humans are the major force of change around the globe, transforming land to provide food, shelter, and products for use. The main objective of the paper is to outline the land use change in western Uttar Pradesh during (2001-2011). Land Utilization, Land use pattern, land use change, Land Management, Net sown area, KEYWORDS Pasture land, Cultivable waste land, Current fallow land, Old fallow land, Non- cultivated land, Other Land excluding agriculture, Pasture land, Land under Groves and Gardens. Introduction of Howrah district (West Bengal). Singh, (1962) studied Land Land use involves the management and modification of nat- utilisation in Chakia Tahsil of Banaras district (U.P.). Mishra, ural environment or wilderness into built environment such as (1966) worked on recent change in land use in the Tarai Re- settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, gion of Uttar Pradesh. Shafi, (1969) presented a plan for land pastures, and managed woods. LAND USE is referred to use and classified the land categories and their capability. Sin- “man’s activities and the various which are carried on land” gh, (1970) focused on land use pattern in Mirzapur and its LAND COVER is referred to “natural vegetation , rock/soil arti- environs. Pandey and Tewari (1987) reported the operation ficial cover and other noticed on the land” (NRSA 1989). The of the vicious cycle in Uttar Pradesh. Reddy (1991) in a study rapid population growth along with economic development, on Andhra Pradesh, focused on technological factors affect- urbanization and industrialization create tremendous pressure ing land use. Prasad, (2006) presented an analysis on land use on the limited natural resource base in a country as well as change and environmental degradation in Dhanbad district state like Uttar Pradesh. This makes serious challenge to us (Jharkhand). The study of land use pattern is of prime concern like researchers and policy makers to strike a balance in the to geographers to know the relationship between man and use of natural resources, keeping in mind the need for their natural environment (Tripathi and Vishwakarma, 1988). conservation of sustainable development and food and live- lihood security. There are two sets of limits which determine In India, also other several geographers have paid attention on the pattern of land use in any particular region. First, the different aspects of land use studies at regional, district and absolute or outer limits which are set by nature and second, micro level. Some of the eminent researchers who have car- the relative limit set by culture, human attitudes and actions ried out research work on different aspects of land use studies which determine the range of actual and probable use within are chatter see (1952), Shaffi (1961, 1966,1968); Prakash Rao the limits (Zimmermann, 1951). (1959); Jasbir Singh (1974); Roy(1968) and Mishra (1990);. Western Uttar Pradesh has experienced rapid economic Objectives and Methodology growth, in a fashion similar to Haryana and Punjab, due to The main objective of the study is analysing the existing land the successes of the Green Revolution. A major part of west- use pattern comparing the date of 2000–2001 to 2010-11 in ern Uttar Pradesh is a part of National Capital Region of In- Western Uttar Pradesh. The study is based on the secondary dia. Western Uttar Pradesh covering an area of 7300536 km2 data which are obtained from the governmental and non-gov- (29.96% of the state). Western Uttar Pradesh consists of 26 ernmental sources basically from office of Statistics and Eco- districts in six divisions. Western Uttar Pradesh shares borders nomics section, Planning Department, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh. with the states of Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan and Land use change have been analysed by comparing the year Madhya Pradesh, as well as a brief international border with of 2001 and 2011. The area averages for the triennium end- Nepal in Pilibhit district. Western Uttar Pradesh receives rain ing 2000-2001 and 2010-11 were worked out to study the through the Indian Monsoon and the Western Disturbances. changing composition of different land use classes across dis- The soil tends to be light retextured loam, with some occur- tricts in Western Uttar Pradesh. Statistical calculation, tables, rences of sandy soil Meerut division. diagrams and maps are draw with help of computer. Many works have been done by geographers related to land use. The country level studies reported that while there is tendency for land shifts to the agricultural sector, there is also a positive growth trend in fallow lands which ultimate- ly tend to move into cultivable wastes (Pandey and Tewari, 1996). State level studies reported a diversion of common land to non-agricultural uses in Tamil Nadu. There were also indications of a sharp increase in other fallows (Ramasamy et a!, 2005). Also Chatterjee, (1952) done land utilization survey 116 | PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH Volume : 4 | Issue : 12 | December 2015 ISSN - 2250-1991 TABLE 1. AREA UNDER VARIOUS LAND CLASSES (2001and 2011) ( in hectare) Reporting Area For Land Culturable Waste Fallow Lands Other Forests Current Fallow Utilisation Statistics Land than Current Fallows District Name 2001 2011 2001 2011 2001 2011 2001 2011 2001 2011 45437 35691 3325 2381 10468 18743 6171 5089 Agra 398060 398970 (11.41) (8.95) (0.84) (0.60) (2.63) (4.70) (1.55) (1.28) 2680 2577 6668 5330 3685 6110 9107 5277 Aligarh 369694 371261 (0.72) (0.69) (1.80) (1.44) (1.00) (1.65) (2.46) (1.42) 11857 20893 2883 892 5597 3179 2439 1137 Amroha 439679 216879 (2.70) (9.63) (0.66) (0.41) (1.27) (1.47) (0.55) (0.52) 6903 4304 6465 3301 14528 7366 16373 8137 Badaun 520028 425466 (1.33) (1.01) (1.24) (0.78) (2.79) (1.73) (3.15) (1.91) 1525 1525 1906 1616 2421 2896 1236 833 Bagpat 134531 134983 (1.13) (1.13) (1.42) (1.20) (1.80) (2.15) (0.92) (0.62) 226 352 2108 0.41 6523 13587 4639 3262 Bareilly 407490 406915 (0.06) (0.09) (0.52) (0.41) (1.60) (3.34) (1.14) (0.80) 43816 54898 3525 3642 8063 3089 3088 3524 Bijnor 464578 464545 (9.43) (11.82) (0.76) (0.78) (1.74) (0.66) (0.66) (0.76) 7544 7795 8220 4314 3146 3795 4609 1036 Bullandshahr 359878 364974 (2.10) (2.14) (2.28) (1.18) (0.87) (1.04) (1.28) (0.28) 3075 1033 32214 12946 16593 10212 21718 9130 Etah 445892 244068 (0.69) (0.42) (7.22) (5.30) (3.72) (4.18) (4.87) (3.74) 8611 8646 3999 3025 8130 6293 8885 6643 Ferozabad 235733 241180 (3.65) (3.58) (1.70) (1.25) (3.45) (2.61) (3.77) (2.75) Gautam Buddha 400 2003 4555 1951 7485 18665 8274 6510 195493 125422 Nagar (0.20) (1.60) (2.33) (1.56) (3.83) (14.88) (4.23) (5.19) 2470 1644 3703 2953 9089 4131 5139 2901 Ghaziabad 201005 154252 (1.23) (1.07) (1.84) (1.91) (4.52) (2.68) (2.56) (1.88) 2470 2997 3703 100 9089 8856 5139 842 Hapur 201005 118722 (1.23) (2.52) (1.84) (0.08) (4.52) (7.46) (2.56) (0.71) 2090 1770 2284 1431 2476 1910 3823 2588 Hathras 178968 180155 (1.17) (0.98) (1.28) (0.79) (1.38) (1.06) (2.14) (1.44) 1629 2058 13818 10213 6722 5996 8458 4584 Kasganj 205999 195601 (0.79) (1.05) (6.71) (5.22) (3.26) (3.07) (4.11) (2.34) 2154 1775 9254 6745 15411 13834 19836 16003 Mainpuri 273060 272723 (0.79) (0.65) (3.39) (2.47) (5.64) (5.07) (7.26) (5.87) 1497 1592 5562 5385 4586 6384 7388 2712 Mathura 329641 330328 (0.45) (0.48) (1.69) (1.63) (1.39) (1.93) (2.24) (0.82) 26787 21314 2748 2446 2197 2996 3299 2200 Meerut 275973 273005 (9.71) (7.81) (1.00) (0.90) (0.80) (1.10) (1.20) (0.81) 223 48 1602 866 7683 5712 2647 1499 Moradabad 375865 254208 (0.06) (0.02) (0.43) (0.34) (2.04) (2.25) (0.70) (0.59) 17352 19536 3006 1390 4466 4997 3258 1809 Muzaffarnagar 412335 331125 (4.21) (5.90) (0.73) (0.42) (1.08) (1.51) (0.79) (0.55) 80156 80010 3544 3159 1767 6629 1779 1722 Pilibhit 357224 378384 (22.44) (21.15) (0.99) (0.83) (0.49) (1.75) (0.50) (0.46) 6611 6611 342 204 2759 2918 277 465 Rampur 235717 235726 (2.80) (2.80) (0.15) (0.09) (1.17) (1.24) (0.12) (0.20) 33229 33229 1411 678 2500 2628 1374 1533 Saharanpur 357001 363791 (9.31) (9.13) (0.40) (0.19) (0.70) (0.72) (0.38) (0.42) - 616 - 2197 - 5084 - 2995 Sambhal - 248372 (0.25) (0.88) (2.05) (1.21) 10499 10499 4681 3560 18099 14027 8995 6825 Shahjahanpur 457613 437469 (2.29) (2.40) (1.02) (0.81) (3.96) (3.21) (1.97) (1.56) 17352 8456 2006 736 3466 1703 2258 675 Shamli 236762 132012 (7.33) (6.41) (0.85) (0.56) (1.46) (1.29) (0.95) (0.51) 336593 331872 133532 83112 176949 181740 160209 99931 Total 8069224 7300536 (4.17) (4.55) (1.65) (1.14) (2.19) (2.49) (1.99) (1.37) TABLE 1.