LAND USE AND CROPPING PATTERN

The extent of land utilization depends on several factors like soil fertility, amount of rainfall facilities for irrigation, cultivation, practices etc. as such variations in their regard are likely to affect farm wages. If the land use pattern enables a more intensive use of lands for crop cultivations, involving labour absorption, the possibilities of higher employment generation and hence higher annual average daily wages are likely to be greater. A new appropriate cropping pattern should be suggested according to nature of soil, availability of water supply, topography and other local situation. In Moovanallur village, the process of maximum utilization of land has been increased. But at the same time, the cropping pattern is changed from irrigated crop to un-irrigated crops such as paddy to black-gram. A country must have a proper land use pattern which may avoid the malcombination of factors of production.