ABSTRACT
Abstract ...................................................................................................................50 4.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................50 4.2 Methodology .................................................................................................52 4.3 Results and Discussion .................................................................................53 4.4 Conclusion ....................................................................................................56 Keywords ................................................................................................................56 References ...............................................................................................................56
Agricultural lands are under pressure in India as in many other countries for competing other land uses. This chapter presents concept and criteria’s and methodology for delineating prime and marginal lands by spatial integration of external land features, soils, agro-ecology, present land use and farming systems. Mysore district is having 26.9% irrigated prime lands, 43.5% rainfed prime lands and 4.5% marginal lands. Both irrigated and rainfed prime lands needs to be preserved to meet the growing food demand and marginal lands can be diverted to other nonagricultural uses like industrial, infrastructural development, etc.
