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Natural Resources of the Indo-Gangetic Plains: A Land-Use Planning Perspective


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1 Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
2 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 324, India
3 Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, New Delhi 440 010, India
4 Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
5 Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Kolkata 700 091, India
6 Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Udaipur 313 001, India
7 Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Jorhat 785 004, India
8 Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur 440 010, India
9 National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Mau 275 101, India
10 Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
11 Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023
 

Current status of land/soil resources of the Indo- Gangetic Plains (IGP) is analysed to highlight the issues that need to be tackled in near future for sustained agricultural productivity. There are intraregional variations in soil properties, cropping systems; status of land usage, groundwater utilization and irrigation development which vary across the subregions besides demographies. Framework for land use policy is suggested that includes acquisition of farm-level data, detailing capability of each unit to support a chosen land use, assess infrastructural support required to meet the projected challenges and finally develop skilled manpower to effectively monitor the dynamics of land use changes.

Keywords

Agricultural Productivity, Land Use Planning, Natural Resources, Soil Properties and Soil Management.
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N. G. Patil
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
P. Tiwary
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
T. Bhattacharyya
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
P. Chandran
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
D. Sarkar
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
D. K. Pal
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502 324, India
D. K. Mandal
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
J. Prasad
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
G. S. Sidhu
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, New Delhi 440 010, India
K. M. Nair
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
A. K. Sahoo
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Kolkata 700 091, India
T. H. Das
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Kolkata 700 091, India
R. S. Singh
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Udaipur 313 001, India
C. Mandal
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
R. Srivastava
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
T. K. Sen
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. Chatterji
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. K. Ray
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
G. P. Obireddy
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. K. Mahapatra
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, New Delhi 440 010, India
K. S. Anil Kumar
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
K. Das
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Kolkata 700 091, India
A. K. Singh
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Udaipur 313 001, India
S. K. Reza
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Jorhat 785 004, India
D. Dutta
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Kolkata 700 091, India
S. Srinivas
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
K. Karthikeyan
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
M. V. Venugopalan
Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur 440 010, India
K. Velmourougane
Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur 440 010, India
A. Srivastava
National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Mau 275 101, India
M. Raychaudhuri
Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
D. K. Kundu
Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023
K. G. Mandal
Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
G. Kar
Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
S. L. Durge
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
G. K. Kamble
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
M. S. Gaikwad
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
A. M. Nimkar
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. V. Bobade
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. G. Anantwar
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. Patil
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
K. M. Gaikwad
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
V. T. Sahu
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
H. Bhondwe
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. S. Dohtre
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. Gharami
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. G. Khapekar
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
A. Koyal
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
K. Sujatha
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
B. M. N. Reddy
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
P. Sreekumar
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
D. P. Dutta
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Jorhat 785 004, India
L. Gogoi
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Jorhat 785 004, India
V. N. Parhad
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
A. S. Halder
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Kolkata 700 091, India
R. Basu
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Kolkata 700 091, India
R. Singh
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Udaipur 313 001, India
B. L. Jat
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Udaipur 313 001, India
D. L. Oad
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Udaipur 313 001, India
N. R. Ola
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Udaipur 313 001, India
K. Wadhai
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
M. Lokhande
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
V. T. Dongare
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
A. Hukare
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
N. Bansod
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
A. H. Kolhe
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
J. Khuspure
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
H. Kuchankar
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
D. Balbuddhe
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. Sheikh
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
B. P. Sunitha
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore 560 024, India
B. Mohanty
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, New Delhi 440 010, India
D. Hazarika
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Jorhat 785 004, India
S. Majumdar
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Kolkata 700 091, India
R. S. Garhwal
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Udaipur 313 001, India
A. Sahu
Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur 440 010, India
S. Mahapatra
Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
S. Puspamitra
Directorate of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, India
A. Kumar
National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Mau 275 101, India
N. Gautam
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
B. A. Telpande
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
A. M. Nimje
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
C. Likhar
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India
S. Thakre
Regional Centre, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur 440 033, India

Abstract


Current status of land/soil resources of the Indo- Gangetic Plains (IGP) is analysed to highlight the issues that need to be tackled in near future for sustained agricultural productivity. There are intraregional variations in soil properties, cropping systems; status of land usage, groundwater utilization and irrigation development which vary across the subregions besides demographies. Framework for land use policy is suggested that includes acquisition of farm-level data, detailing capability of each unit to support a chosen land use, assess infrastructural support required to meet the projected challenges and finally develop skilled manpower to effectively monitor the dynamics of land use changes.

Keywords


Agricultural Productivity, Land Use Planning, Natural Resources, Soil Properties and Soil Management.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv107%2Fi9%2F1537-1549