Name: Monica
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Voume-17, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 140-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20745774

ABSTRACT:
Land is a significant determinant of all the productive and economic activities. The study of land use is inevitable in the current scenario of increasing human and animal population and resulting in widening ratio of land to man. State of Haryana is agriculturally prosperous state with fertile soils in most of the area. During 2010-11, the total cultivable area covered 85.36 percent area of the total reporting area in the state followed by land put to non-agricultural land use amounting 13.76 per cent and barren and uncultivable lands 2.38 percent. These figures were 88.21, 8.99 and 1.48 per cent respectively during 1980-81.
Net area sown, fallow lands, permanent pasture and other grazing lands, cultivable waste and land under miscellaneous tree crops and groves accounted for 80.70, 3.14, 0.63, 0.63 and 0.25 percent respectively, during 2010-11 of the total reporting area. It indicates that there is hardly any scope to increase the total cultivable area in future as it has