Landscape planning for agridevelopment at regional scale: an example from cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India

摘要: The basaltic landscape planning on the hot semiarid ecosystem in cotton growing Yavatmal district, Maharashtra tends to concentrate 52 per cent of total cultivated area with 43 rural families living below poverty line posing major problem for environmental protection and resource management. Concepts sustainable development at regional-level suggested that there is a concern community develop strategic regional agricultural perspective order assist goals. These challenges were explored particular reference district through baseline land / agronomic surveys assessing production potential landscapes crop planning. Landscape analysis, premised geopedological elevation constructs, culminated spatial coverage hills ridges (12.6 area) northern central parts whereas plateaus (29.3 cent) association isolated hills, mesas butte escarpments (17.7 cent), pediplains (28.8 plains (8.1 south western district. Regional level analysis revealed spatially variable soil typologies dominated by vertisols vertic intergrades. An exploration brief account integration was discussed some reflections experience highlighting problems potentials this approach within context.