Land utilization patterns among the farmers in Girwa panchyat samiti of Distt. Udaipur Rajasthan

Abstract

Land is important natural resource, which supports evolution and development of all types of lives on land. Land plays the key important role in the determination of man’s economic and cultural progress. The present study was conducted in Udaipur district of Rajasthan. Udaipur district consists of total seventeen panchayat samities out of which Girwa was selected purposively, ten revenue villages were selected based on highest population and total 150 respondents were selected from every village through proportionate random sampling. Revealed that during kharif and Rabi the prioritized crops for which the land by the farmers utilized most were cereals crops, pulses vegetable crops, Fodder crops and oilseed crops. It implied that first five crops viz; Cereals, pulses, vegetables, fodder and oilseed were the most preferred for utilizing the available land by the farmers. The trend of land utilization among the farmers during Zaid season was found quite different. It was noted that first fodder crops, ranked I, followed by vegetables crops, pulses, cash crops and Cereals with II, III, IV and V rank respectively