Try to do a comparison between the two pie charts given for land use and find out why the net sown area and the land under forests have changed from 1960- 61 to 2002-03 very marginally.

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Chapter 1

NCERT

Class 10

Geography

Solutions

1. Try to do a comparison between the two pie charts given for land use and find out why the net sown area and the land under forests have changed from 1960- 61 to 2002-03 very marginally.

Question:

Try to do a comparison between the two pie charts given for land use and find out why the net sown area and the land under forests have changed from 1960- 61 to 2002-03 very marginally.

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Answer:

The net sown area and the land under forests have changed from 1960-61 to 2002-03 very marginally because of the following factors:

Urbanization
floods
Increasing population,
Fragmentation of land holdings
Declining water table
Unabated and massive conversion of agricultural land for building houses and construction of infrastructure.
Rise in cost of irrigation

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