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Chapter 5
LAND USE
Use of a percent of land is indicated by the pre- analysis limited to that extent.
dominant activity be it agriculture, residential, com-
5.1 LAND USE PATTERN OF KERALA STATE
mercial, forest etc, for which the land is put to. Hence
the analysis of the existing land use is inevitable to Based on the land use data of the Natural Re-
understand the predominant economic activities of an sources and Enviornmental Data Base the Land use of
area as well as the availability of vacant land for future Kerala can be categorized under 9 Major categories and
economic activities. In order to spatially analyze the the percentage share of these categories is shown in
land use pattern and economic activity as well as link- Table (5.1) and Fig 5.1. Accordingly predominant land
ages between them land use survey in all the 99 LSGs in use of the state is a mix of residential and agricultural
the district has to be completed. However this will take which constitute 48.38 % total Land area. It can be fur-
considerable time period. The source of the data is from ther seen that Forest area of the state contribute nearly
Satellite Data from IRS P6 LISS-IV Mx/ LISS- III/ 23.18 % of the total area making the forest land use as
PAN 2003-04 (India Satellite Data). The Data forms part second highest land use of the state. The Agricultural
of the Natural Resources and Environmental Data Base Land use and plantation land use together constitute
(NREDB). The Data on Land Use has been procured from 20.18% (Agricultural 10.17% and plantation 10.01%) of
Kerala State Land use Board. The above data base is total area. The above analysis further support the real
predominantly agriculture oriented and as such the to ground peculiar scenario of the state in terms of ur-
ban rural continuum, highly scattered settlement pat- of land under intense residential land use. Water bod-
tern, and traditional homestead type of development ies and forest also has a significant share (88.58 and
8.13%
23.18%
41.38
x
10.17%
10.01%
individual house surrounded by agricultural 772.86 sq km respectively) in the land use of the dis-
land mainly of mixed crop cultivation. trict.
From the analysis of land use of the district it is %) and agriculture (11.65 %). The glaring aspect of the
clear that, the major portion of the total land area of land use is that the district is blessed with potential
the District is coming under three major uses Resi- resources such as agricultural land and forest.
dential / Agricultural mix (50.89 %), forest land (25.46
Department of Town & Country Planning, Kerala
74 LANDUSE District Spatial Plan - Thrissur
5.3 REGIONAL LAND USE STUDY district the predominant land use is mix of residential
Clearly the process of land use analysis of Thrissur and agriculture. The comparison of category wise land
District shall starts with an insight to the whole Kerala use with that of Kerala shows that the share of total
state and neighboring Districts (Malappuram, Palakkad Kole land in Kerala is high in Thrissur District. The share
and Ernakulam). In this section an attempt has been of Residential / Agricultural land use category is also on
made compare the land use pattern of Thrissur District the higher compared to state.
with the state as well as with surrounding districts of The comparison of Land use pattern of Thrissur
Palakkad, Ernakulam and Malappuram. Land use pat- District with neighbouring Districts (Malappuram,
tern of Thrissur in comparison with Kerala state is shown Palakkad and Ernakulam), is shown in Table 5.3.
in Table 5.3. From the table, it is clear that within the
Table 5.3 Comparison of Land use break up of Thrissur District and Kerala state
SI No Land use Area % of Percentage of the
( sqkm) total corresponding area
in the Dist. in the state
The variation of concentration index of Agricul- concentration of agricultural land use within the dis-
tural land use among the LSGs where concentration trict is seen in Grama Panchayats of Kuzhur, Poyya,
index of agricultural land use is greater than 1 is shown Alagappanagar, Arimpur, Mullassery, Chowannoor,
in fig 5.16. The list of LSGs with concentration index of Vallathole Nagar of the district.
agricultural land use is given in Annexe 5. The highest
Fig 5.18: The variation of concentration pattern of Other builtup land use among LSGS of Thrissur Dist.
cating that the economic activity of hill areas is not con- graded grass land.
siderably dependent on secondary / tertiary sectors.
The concentration pattern of forest land use
The list of LSGs with concentration index of the Other
shows (Figure 5.19) that forest area of the District is
Built up Land Use is given in Annexe 6 and the list of
mainly concentrated in the South - Eastern part of the
LSGs with high concentration of the Other Built up Land
District. Total area of active forest land of the district is
Use (i.e. concentration index of other built up land use
927.25 sq km which is about 30.55% of the total area of
greater than one) is shown in Annexe 6. The variation
the district. The forest land of the district is concen-
of concentration index of Other builtup land use among
trated in 11 LSGs namely Grama Panchayat of Athirapalli,
the LSGs where concentration index of other builtup
Kodassery, Mattathur, Varantharapalli, Puthur,
land use is greater than one is shown in Fig 5.18.
Pananchery, Pazhayannur, Chelakkara, Erumapetty ,
Varavoor and Mullurkkara. The forest land is seen in among the LSGs is shown in Fig 5.20
the high land and upland regions of the district. The
The LSGs wise concentration index of Forest land
variation of concentration index of Forest Land use
use is given in Annexe 6.
Fig 5.19: Concentration patern of forest land use in LSGs of Thrissur Dist.
Fig 5.20: Variation of concentration pattern of forest land use among LSGS
extend of land under water bodies in LSGs of Thrissur. Cardomom(RF), Teak, Teak & Softwood (R.F), Teak (R.F)/
Cashew (RF), Eucalyptus (R.F)/ Eucalptus and soft wood
5.4.7 Plantations (RF)/Sof wood (silver oak), Oil Palm and Oil Palm (R.F)
This category of Land use include land use cat- as per land use data of NREDB.
egories of Rubber (R.F), Tea/Cofee/cardomom/
Plantations are spreaded in most of the north
Eucalptus, Tea & Eucalyptus, Tea (R.F)/Cofee (RF)/
east / south east areas of the district. The concetration
5%
lying along Coastal belt, so we can say beach sand is which lead to mixed crop cultivation instead special-
very supporting to enrichment of coconut and coconut ized single crop cultivation. In other words the urban
dominant mixed crops. Second highest concentration and semi urban areas support mixed crop cultivation.
of coconut is also lying neighboring LSGs of coastal belt. Highland areas have less concentration of Mixed crops.
High and up land have concentration index less than
SI No Activity based on
Land use Criteria
* CI - Concentration index of
Urban
The analysis of land use concentration pattern whole District can be divided into four Activity zones
shows that most of the plantation / forest activities are namely Agricultural, Non-Agricultural/Urban, Planta-
concentrated on the highland region of the district. The tion, Plantation/Forest. The analysis of land use con-
urban activity is found to be mainly concentrated in centration pattern shows that most of the plantation /
coastal regions and along the major transportation cor- forest activities are concentrated on the highland re-
ridors. The agricultural activities are predominantly con- gion of the district. The urban activity is found to be
centrated in the midland region of the district. mainly concentrated in coastal regions and along the
major transportation corridors. The agricultural activi-
5.8 INFERENCE ties are predominantly concentrated in the midland
From the above details we can conclude that the region of the district.