LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURE IN YADGIR DISTRICT, KARNATAKA, INDIA THROUGH GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY.

The land use pattern of Yadgir district is slowly changing over the time for climatic changes, population growth, and urbanization as well as changing sub-system of commercial farming. The major focus was to observe the agriculture; irrigation is very important input of agricultural land use pattern and the trend in change of land uses. The geographic information system (GIS) and Remote sensing techniques are crucial role in study of Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC) mapping during the year 2000 and 2020 these maps have prepared from satellite data using the supervised classification method. In these maps, three types of land are divided into three classes as Agricultural plantation, crop land and fallow land. The results of study show that Agricultural plantation land of (0.98%), Crop land (1.06%), and Fallow land (2.05%). If this rate continues, the agricultural land will be totally blooming day by day in future. Hence, the realistic land change scenarios may be considered for natural resource management and furnish meaningful decision-making by the policy planners of Government of Yadgir district, Karnataka.