Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Changing Patterns of Jammu and Kashmir
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The land-use land-cover (LULC) changes have emerged as one of the drastic problems the world is facing in recent times. These changes often manifest in the form of environmental degradation, water shortage and declining food security. One of the most leading forces responsible for changing the global landscape includes the changes in LULC as prompted by a string of interconnected forces. Here an attempt has been made to determine the changes in land-use land-cover (LULC) over the period of 60 years in Jammu & Kashmir. The present study is primary based on secondary data with effect from 1960-61 to 2020-21 in which it was observed that the most notable changes of land use were observed in the form of increase in farmland and a decline in grassland. Over this period the farmland has increased by 22.4 per cent, the grassland has decreased 1.4 per cent of area (64000 ha).The area under Lakes/Water bodies etc was the second most dominant land-use class after grass land which has gradually decreased by 28 thousand hectares since 1960-61.
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