The Effect Of Urbanization On Agricultural Land Of Tarakeswar Town In Hooghly District, West Bengal

Abstract

Agricultural land is being converted to non-agricultural land continuously throughout the whole world for the development of cultural landscapes like houses, roads, industries, buildings. Urbanization leads to a continuous loss of agricultural land for productive economic activities like infrastructural development for large- and small-scale industries, shops, construction of houses, complex, roads etc. and for non-productive economic activities like construction of recreation places, park, swimming pool, playground etc. Human civilization is being upgrading continuously. Standard of living of human is changing with the passing of time. Urbanization and industrialization became the symbol of development of the developing countries like India. As a result, the agricultural land, wasteland, wetland in the urban and peri urban area are decreasing all over the world. Tarakeswar is a small religious town in the Hooghly district of west Bengal, India. This town was formed taking part of five villages and the total administrative area is 3.89 sq.km. So, requirement of land is very high in the town and its surrounding fringe area for the development of different types of cultural land scape. This pressure is falling on the agricultural land mainly. This paper discusses about the direct and indirect influence of urbanization on the agricultural land use of Tarakeswar town and its surrounding fringe and rural area during 2001 and 2021 with Spatio-Temporal approach.