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Dissertation topic 2

Barma Geeta Satiram


Murp 3rd sem

Role of Agriculture Protection Zoning in landuse.


Case of Cauvery delta region in Tamil Nadu

INTRODUCTION:
Agriculture, with its allied sectors, is the largest source of livelihoods in India. Around 51%
of India’s geographical area is already under cultivation as compared to 11% of the world
average. India is perhaps among the few developing countries where urban agriculture is not
a priority. The Food and Argiculture Organization (FAO’s)final report on urban and peri-
urban agriculture does not even mention India. Urban planners tend to exclude agriculture
from their sights. But in many cities across the world, especially those in Asia and Latin
America, agricultural use of land is accepted and formalised. Natural resource base of
agriculture, which provides for sustainable production, is shrinking and degrading, and is
adversely affecting production capacity of the ecosystem. However, demand for agriculture is
rising rapidly with increase in population and per caput income and growing demand from
industry sector. There is, thus, an urgent need to identify severity of problem confronting
agriculture sector to restore its vitality and put it back on higher growth trajectory.
Deteriorating environmental quality, immense food insecurity, and some of the social issues
that agriculture can combat. This can be achieved if agriculture is officially recognised as one
of the urban functions and included in city master plans.
NEED: Urbanization and industrialization affect agriculture in the peri-urban areas, as
population pressure from the city results in changes in land use – from agricultural to urban
land use, be it for housing, commercial, industrial or other purposes. Where the land use
remains agricultural, cultivation practices change. With the increasing urbanization, cities are
continuously sprawling outward with expanding urban boundaries. This over spill of
population is accommodated within the peri-urban interface of cities. Peri-urban is
characterized as having a transformative nature, attributed to a lot of physical, social and
environmental changes occurring in those areas and also the fact that what is peri urban today
would be urban tomorrow which makes it significant when it comes to spatial planning. Peri
urban areas are the most vulnerable also and goes through a lot of unplanned development.
Agriculture mandate provision in planned manner in these areas will surely keep the city
sustainable as well as act a planning landmark for future development and zoning. The future
city will develop with integrated development as well we will not lose the precious fertile
land which is a rare resource in the future.
Urban and peri-urban natural resources should thus be viewed as an integral component of
the national agricultural resource system to meet the changing food and livelihood demands
and to balance the competitive uses of the resources(water, land, biodiversity, wastes).
Judicious management of the resources and of the urban wastes through best practices will
help develop climate resilient food and sustainable eco-systems and create greater
recreational and aesthetic values of green spaces in the cities and their peripheries. But,
generally the complexity of interfaces of urban – peri-urban – rural areas is seldom
internalized in the national planning and policy formulation. Neither urban planning nor rural
planning duly address the problems and prospects of huge and vital peri-urban areas. And
often agriculture is the worst suffer.
AIM: To protect the agricultural lands in future landuse planning to attain a sustainable
development.
OBJECTIVE:
 To recognize agriculture as an important part of urban functions.
 To identify reasons of Agriculture depletion and its adverse effects.
 Impact of rapid urbanization on agriculture
 Planning interventions to preserve fertile lands
LIMIT:
 Planning intervention to protect productive agricultural land.
 APZ role in future landuse.

SCOPE
 Significance of agriculture in urban landuse
 Peri-agriculture and its multifunctionality
 Urban Influence
 Development perspective
 Urban farming in current scenario
 Peri- urban area planning interventions
 Agricultural protection zoning (APZ) is a process of designating areas where
farming is the primary land use and discourages other land uses in those areas. It
includes separation of farming and related activities from other land uses.  It is
used to preserve agricultural lands and protect working farms from conversion to
non-farm uses by prohibiting or restricting development on agricultural lands.
 APZ has the prospect of benefiting the farming community. Recently, Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister has announced that the Cauvery delta region consisting of eight
districts would be declared as a Protected Special Agriculture Zone. The move
would help in preventing the implementation of oil exploration projects and other
hydrocarbon projects in the Cauvery delta region and will help to ensure food
security of the State and livelihood opportunities of the farmers and other
agriculture-based labourers.
CASE STUDY: Cauvery Delta Region. MEXICO, Pennsylvania

CONCLUSION: Agriculture is crucial in terms of employment, food security and budgetary


allocation, even though the share of agriculture income has decreased in the national market.
In the growing population it’s important to conserve and protect the potential farmlands.
Vertical construction should be promoted. The government should ensure the developmental
projects in certain areas other than productive agriculture land, strengthen the zoning
regulation and enact policies to reduce agriculture land losses. The farmers with productive
agriculture land should be economically compensated to keep their land agriculturally active
than selling it to developmental projects.

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