Land Status

Item	1991-92	2000-01	2001-2002
1. Reported area	24245	24201	24202
2. Forests	1698 (7.0)	1689 (7.0)	1689 (7.0)
3. Usar and land unfit for cultivation	720 (3.0)	617 (2.6)	595 (2.5)
4. Land used for non-Agricultural purposes	2323 (9.6)	2436 (10.1)	2514 (10.4)
5. Culturable wasteland	709 (2.9)	535 (2.2)	518 (2.1)
6. Permanent pastures and other grazing lands	74 (0.3)	70 (0.3)	71 (0.3)
7. Land under bushes and mis. Trees	330 (1.4)	340 (1.4)	355(1.5)
8. Current fallow	1152 (4.8)	1048 (4.3)	1026 (4.2)
9. Other fallow	809 (3.3)	641 (2.7)	624 (2.6)
10. Net area sown	16430(67.7)	16825(69.5)	16812(69.5)
11.(a) Area sown more than once	7585	8479	8635
(b) Area sown more than once as % of net area sown	(46.2)	(50.4)	(51.4)
Note: Figures in bracket(item 2 to 10) represent the percentage of total reporting area.

SOURCE: STATISTICAL DIARIES DIR. OF ECONOMICS & STATISTIC U.P. GOVT.

Land use figures show (I) forests constitute only 7% of the reporting area and dense cover is only 3.75%: (ii) during the last decade percentages of usar and other land unfit for cultiviation, cultural waste lands and other fallows have shown a downward treand (iii) area percentage of land under non-agriculture uses has increased. Area under fallow lands is still quite substantial. Nearly 75 lakh ha of land are degraded that need to be restored.

There is not much scope for any substantial increase in net sown area. What needs to be done is to improve croppinmg intensity in the available arable land, recovery of degraded lands and protecting productive lands. Scientific agriuclture, forestry and grassland developpment will have to be intensified. Land and water conservaion in intergrated modes demands high priority.

Changing agricultural land use:

In UP, there is an increasing trend towards standardization of food grains (rice and wheat) and increased production of high value agricultural crops, at the expense of more traditional crops. While area under crops such as rice, wheat and sugarcane has increased, area under some other crops such as barley, jowar, and maize has decreased. This trend is more or less consistent with the over all trend at all India level.

District wise Land use in U.P.

S.No	Districts	Area in Sq Km	Population	Headquarters
1.	Agra	4,027	27,51,021	Agra
2.	Aligarh	5,019	32,95,982	Aligarh
3.	Etah	4,446	22,44,998	Etah
4.	Firozabad	2,361	15,33,054	Firozbad
5.	Mainpuri	2,760	13,16,746	Mainpuri
6.	Mathura	3,811	19,31,186	Mathura
7.	Azamgarh	4,234	31,53,885	Azamgarh
8.	Mau	1,713	14,45,782	Mau
9.	Kaushambi	2,015	11,57,402	Kaushambi
10.	Pratapgarh	3,717	22,10,700	Pratapgarh
11.	Allahabad	2,261	49,21,313	Allahabad
12.	Chitrakoot	3,513	5,95,996	Chitrakootdham
13.	Hathras	4,234	22,62,273	Hathras
14.	Ballia	2,981	11,57,402	Ballia
15.	Fatehpur	4,152	18,99,241	Fatehpur
16.	Budaum	5,168	24,48,338	Budaum
17.	Bareilly	4,120	28,34,616	Bareilly
18.	Pilibhit	3,499	12,83,103	Pilihit
19.	Shajahanpur	4,575	19,87,395	Shajhahanpur
20.	Faizabad	4,511	29,78,484	Faziabad
21.	Ambedkarnagar	-	-	Akbarpur
22.	Bahraich	6,877	27,63,750	Bahraich
23.	Barabanki	4,402	24,23,136	Barabanki
24.	Gonda	7,352	35,73,075	Gonda
25.	Sultanpur	4,436	25,58,970	Sultanpur
26.	Gorakhpur	3,325	30,66,002	Gorakhpur
27.	Deoria	2,613	21,43,745	Deoria
28.	Kushinagar	2,832	22,96,279	Padarauna
29.	Maharajganj	2,948	16,76,378	Maharajganj
30.	Banda	7,624	18,62,139	Banda
31.	Hamirpur	4,098	8,98,326	Hamirpur
32.	Jalaun	4,565	12,19,377	Orai
33.	Lalitpur	5,039	7,52,043	Lalitpur
34.	Mahoba	3,068	14,29,698	Mahoba
35.	Jhansi	5,024	24,18,487	Jhansi
36.	Kanpur (Urban)	1,065	21,38,317	Kanpur
37.	Kanpur (Rural)	5,111	24,40,266	Akbarpur
38.	Farrukhabad	4,274	21,24,655	Fatehgarh
39.	Etawha	4,326	27,62,801	Etawah
40.	Lucknow	2,528	27,47,082	Lucknow
41.	Hardoi	5,986	24,19,234	Hardoi
42.	Lakhimpur Kheri	7,860	23,22,810	Kheri
43.	Rai Bareilly	4,609	28,57,009	Rai Bareli
44.	Sitapur	5,743	22,00,397	Sitapur
45.	Unnao	4,558	28,49,859	Unnao
46.	Bulandshahar	4,352	34,47,912	Bulandshahar
47.	Meerut	3,911	27,03,933	Meerut
48.	Ghaziabad	2,590	1,46,514	Ghaziabad
49.	Gautam Buddha Nagar	1,501	41,21,035	Noida
50.	Moradabad	5,967	24,54,521	Moradabad
51.	Bijnor	4,561	15,02,141	Bijnor
52.	Rampur	2,367	13,29,554	Rampur
53.	Jyotiba Phule Nagar	2,470	23,09,029	Amroha
54.	Shaharanpur	3,689	11,24,488	Saharanpur
55.	Hardwar	2,360	28,42,543	Hardwar
56.	Muzaffarnagar	4,008	37,82,949	Muzaffarnagar
57.	Varanasi	4,036	32,14,636	Varanasi
58.	Jaunpur	4,038	12,74,839	Jaunpur
59.	Chandauli	2,485	24,16,617	Chandauli
60.	Ghaziapur	3,377	10,77,633	Ghazipur
61.	Sant Ravidas Nagar	1,056	16,57,139	Bhadodhi
62.	Mirzapur	4,522	10,75,041	Mirzapur
63.	Sonbhadra	6,788	13,68,630	Robertsganj
64.	Balrampur	3,457	9,23,377	Balrampur
65.	Shravasti	2,186	17,07,685	Shravasti
66.	Siddharth Nagar	3,495	2,00,451	Rudra Prayag
67.	Baghpat	2,439	10,30,399	Baghpat
68.	Kannauj	1,345	11,55,847	Kannauj
69.	Orraiya	2,058	10,00,035	Orraiya
70.	Sant Kabir Nagar	2,054	9,73,385	Khalibad

SOURCE: HTTP://PLANNING.UP.NIC.IN

District Model Land Use Plan 2006-07

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