Utilization of Land
Land is utilities in the following ways
- Forests
Land not available for cultivation
a) Barren or waste land
b) Land put to non agricultural uses . For example, roads, buildings .
- Other uncultivated land (excluding fallow land)
a) Permanent pastures and grazing land
b) Land under miscellaneous tree crops groves.
c) C ulturable waste land (left uncultivated for more than 5 agricultural years).
- 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 1-5 agricultural years).
- Net sown area - Area sown more than once in an agricultural year plus net sown area is known as gross cropped area.