General Land Use with Broad Categories of Land Use and Changing Pattern Over Time, of Katwa Subdivision, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India

Abstract: Land use means the use of land. Land use is any sort of permanent or cyclic human interference to satisfy his demand. Land use is the application of human controls systematically to the key elements of any ecosystem tries to manipulate it. Land use is intimately linked with advanced technology. It is impossible to grow crops on dry poor humus desert soil but after large scale reclamation it is possible. There is close relationship between man and land. The relationship can be expressed as – i) man is treated as social being and the land as inexhaustible resource, ii) the land and the person who use it, iii) man’s influence on land use as a means of production. Land use mainly deals with the problems of the regions. It is mainly confined to the optimum use of limited land among the alternative major type of land use. Infrastructural and institutional factors play an important role in determining land use. The land use is mainly the use in which the land in a certain area is put in a specified time. Land use creates continuous field of tension between human desire and existing available resources.

Land Use, Changing Pattern, Human Interference, Ecosystem

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