Describe land utilization.

Land resources are used for the following purposes:

(i)Forests

(ii)Land not available for cultivation: 

(a) Barren and waste land

(b) Land put to non-agricultural uses, e.g. buildings, roads, factories, etc.

(iii)Other uncultivated land (excluding fallow land): 

(a) Permanent pastures and grazing land,

(b) Land under miscellaneous tree crops groves (not included in net sown area),

(c) Cultruable waste land (left uncultivated for more than 5 agricultural years).

(iv)Fallow lands: 

(a) Current fallow-(left without cultivation for one or less than one agricultural year),

(b) Other than current fallow-(left uncultivated for the past 1 to 5 agricultural years).

(v)Net sown area: 

Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as gross cropped area.