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Study the given figure and answer the following questions.


Maharashtra State Land use 2010-11


a. What is the percentage of land suitable for cultivation?


b. What is the percentage of barren land?


c. What is the percentage of land under forest in Maharashtra?


d. What is the percentage of non-agricultural land in Maharashtra?


a. The total percentage of land that is suitable for cultivation includes the area that is under cultivation that accounts for 56.8% and the grazable and cultivable fallow that accounts for 7.9%. Thus, the total percentage of land suitable for cultivation is 64.7%.


b. The total barren land includes the permanent fallow land that accounts for 8.3% and the grazable and cultivable fallow that is left barren temporarily that is 7.9%. Thus the total of barren land is 16.2%.


c. Maharashtra has nearly 16.9% of its total area under forests. It is in the fourth position among the state with the highest forest cover.


d. Non-agricultural land constitutes for 10.2% of the total land area of Maharashtra.


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a. In which country is the land under forests more?


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Give the answers on the basis of figure 6.4


a. Which are the land uses of 1990-91 that show a decline in 2010-11? What could be reasons for this?


b. Which type of land use is maximum? What would be the impact of this on India’s environment?


c. Can a decline in the area under agriculture be equated with a food shortage?


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The figure shows the satellite images of Mondha Village, Nagpur. Find out the changes in land use pattern and write a note.


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