Year: 2022 | Month: December | Volume 67 | Issue 5
Ecological Implications of Land Use Dynamics in Kerala
Shilpa Mathew
A. Prema
DOI:10.46852/0424-2513.5.2022.13
Abstract:
Land is the predominant limited resource required for the development of agricultural sector. The philosophy and methods of land use in Kerala have changed over the past half century. The present research attempt to analyse the ecological implications of land use dynamics in Kerala. Intra and inter-sectoral budgeting of the nine land use classes were done for the period from 1985 to 2019. The intra-sectoral budgeting indicated that within the ecological sector, the major land use shifts occurred from barren and uncultivable land to other sub-sectors. The inter-sectoral budgeting analysis showed that with an exception in period IV, the area under the non-agricultural sector exhibited a substantial increase in Kerala in the remaining periods as well as overall period.
Highlights
- The land shifts in Kerala have taken place from ecological sector and agricultural sector to non-agricultural sector.
- There is a consistent increase of land put to non-agricultural uses in Kerala.
- The substantial land shifts from undesirable ecological sector is conducive for both desirable ecology as well as agricultural sector of the state.
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