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Impact Assessment of GIS Based Land Resource Inventory Towards Optimizing Agricultural Land Use Plan in Dandakaranya and Easternghats Physiographic Confluence of India

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GIS based land resource inventory (LRI) with fine resolution imagery is considered as most authentic tool for soil resource mapping. Soil resource mapping using the concept of soil series in a smaller scale limits its wide application and also its impact assessment for crop suitability is controversial. In this study, we attempted to develop LRI at large scale (1:10,000 scale) at block level land use planning (LUP) in Dandakaranya and Easternghats physiographic confluence of India. The concept of land management unit was introduced in this endeavour. The impact assessment of LRI based LUP was exercised to develop efficient crop planning with best possible management practices. The study area comprised six landforms with slope gradient ranging from very gentle (1–3%) to steep slopes (15–25%). The very gently sloping young alluvial plains occupied maximum areas (19.95% of TGA). The single cropped (paddy) land appears to dominate the land use systems (40.0% of TGA). Thirty three landscape ecological units were resulted by GIS-overlay. Eighteen soils mapping units were generated. The area was broadly under two soil orders (Inceptisols and Alfisols); three great group (Haplaquepts, Rhodustalfs and Endoaquepts) and ten soil series. Crop suitability based impact assessment of LRI based LUP revealed that average yield of different crops increased by 39.2 and 14.5% in Kharif (rainy season) and Rabi (winter) seasons respectively and annual net returns by 83.4% for the cropping system, compared to traditional practices. Productivity and net returns can be increased several folds if customized recommended practices are adopted by the farmers. Informations generated from the study emphasized the potentiality of LRI towards optimizing LUP and exhibited an ample scope to use the methodology as a tool to assess in other physiographic regions in India and abroad.

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The author’s place on record sincere thanks to all the technical persons involved in field and laboratory data recording and analysis. We also express our gratitude to Dr. S. K. Singh, Director, ICAR-NBSS&LUP, and Nagpur for sincere assistance and encouragement. National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad and Global Land Cover facility, USA is gratefully acknowledged for data products used in the study.

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  1. National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (ICAR), Kolkata, 700091, India

    Birendra Nath Ghosh, Krishnendu Das, Siladitya Bandyopadhyay, Subrata Mukhopadhyay & Dulal Chandra Nayak

  2. National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (ICAR), Nagpur, 440033, India

    Surendra Kumar Singh

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Ghosh, B.N., Das, K., Bandyopadhyay, S. et al. Impact Assessment of GIS Based Land Resource Inventory Towards Optimizing Agricultural Land Use Plan in Dandakaranya and Easternghats Physiographic Confluence of India. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 46, 641–654 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-017-0743-1

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