(ABSTRACT)
Sustainable Land Use in
Indian Agriculture – Challenges and Issues
– A Way
Forward
We all know that the supply
land is perfectly inelastic (fixed) in relation to its demand. Hence, it must
be used judiciously. Land represents an
important resource for the economic life of a majority of people in this world.
The way people handle and use land resources impacts their social and economic
life as well as the sustained quality of land resources. The growing development,
increasing population, urbanization and industrialization is increasing
pressure on land resource. Due to unplanned and haphazard use of land
resources, it gets increasingly affected by the conflicting land uses, besides
posing serious concerns and negative impacts. The concerns can even become more
serious in an emerging country like India, which has at present over 17.86% of world’s
population living on 2.4% of the world’s geographical area. Land use planning
and management is a known strategy for achieving sustainable development. A
properly prepared land use plan based on sound scientific and technical
procedures, and land utilization strategies can summarize rationally for the
future demands. Since the earth Summit in 1992, the
international community, individual countries, communities, civil society and
businesses have increasingly become aware of the environmental impact of land use.
A
sustainable land use in agriculture , especially in India must satisfy a large
variety of requirements, including technological feasibility, economic
viability, political desirability, administrative manageability, social
acceptability, and environmental soundness. Real world conditions at farm and
policy-making levels need to be substantially improved to achieve sustainable
land use management. In the twenty-first
century, food production systems has to meet the three major requirements - (a) Adequately
supply of safe nutritious, and sufficient food for the growing population. (b)
Significantly reduce rural poverty by sustaining the farming-derived component
of rural household incomes. (c) Reduce and reverse natural resource
degradation, especially that of land. It is now known that these challenges
will need to be resolved in the face of significant but highly unpredictable
changes in global climate—a key factor in natural and agro ecosystem
productivity. Other major issues that will influence how agriculture evolves to
meet the challenge of food security include globalization of markets and trade,
the increasing market orientation of agriculture, significant technological
changes, and increasing public concern about the effects of unsustainable
natural resource management. In this circumstances, this Paper make an attempt
to Study the following objectives:
1.
To Study sustainable
land use in Indian Agriculture.
2.
To Study impending
impacts of climate change and variability issues that have direct bearing on
agricultural land use and Rural development.
3.
To Study outlines possible technologies that are land-based activities
for effective agro-technology transfer strategies and approaches.
4.
To Study how land use
planning activities are likely to improve nutrition and food security and
enhance the livelihoods of the small and marginal farmers.
5.
Challenges, Issues and
Suggestions.
Methodology: The Study is based on
the Secondary data and information accessed from relevant Journals, Books, News
Papers, Websites and Reports.
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