Role of Non- Urban Factors in Changing Land Use Pattern of Koch Bihar District, West Bengal, India

Land use change in Koch Bihar District processes great academic attention in the present age of food deficit. In recent time the major land use change that occurred in Koch Bihar district is conversion of paddy cultivated areas to cash crop producing areas. This is an attempt to analyze the status and changes in the net sown areas of Koch Bihar District in relation with changing land use. Paper brings the notion that the major reason for land use change in Koch Bihar District is not urbanization and population growth. This geographical analysis light up the socio-economic and political reason behind the changes in agricultural land use pattern.Major objective of the study is to identify the relationship between population growth and land-use changes and to analyses the agricultural land use pattern and its changes in Koch Bihar District. The present study has been based on mainly secondary sources of data. For this study various GIS and cartographic techniques including maps and diagrams will be used to depict the changing land use pattern.