Discuss the land use pattern and distribution of landholding in India. 

The layout or arrangement of the use of the land are known as ”Land Use Pattern”

• Land use may be determined by many factors like relief features, climate, soil, density of population, technical and socio-economic factors
• There are spatial and temporal differences in land utilization, due to the continued interplay of physical and human factors
• India has a total geographical area of about 328.73 million hectares, but statistic pertaining to land utilization are available for about 305.90 million hectares

The important types of land use in the country are as follows:

1. Net Sown Area(NSA)
   • The cropped area in the year under consideration is called net sown area
   • This type of land use is significant, as agricultural production largely depends upon this type of land
   • This accounts for about 06% of the total reporting area of India, i.e. 141.58 million hectares; as against the world average of 32%
   • The per capita cultivated land has gone down drastically from 0.53 ha in 1951, to 0.11 ha in 2011-12, and hence the need for population control
   • Rajasthan has the largest NSA of 18.35 million ha, which is about 12.96 % of total reporting NSA of India; followed by Maharashtra
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