Assessment of spatio-temporal dynamics of land use in Mysuru city, India.

Mysuru is Karnataka's cultural capital. and has been adjudged the cleanest city in India by Swachh Sarvekshan, the Government of India. Particularly helpful in evaluating quickly expanding urban centers, changes in land use and land cover are an integral part of climate change brought on by human activity. Future study techniques on land use planning and policies can be developed with the aid of statistics on land use dynamics. Because of this, a study was conducted to compare the land use dynamics of several Mysuru neighborhoods. The information used in the study was gathered secondarily, from a variety of reliable published sources. Time series data on Mysuru district taluk-level land use was collected for the period 1970-1971-2016-2017. Using different statistical methods including percentage change, compound growth rates, and instability, an attempt was made to assess temporal changes in the land use pattern in the Mysore district. It was noted that increases were seen in a number of land use categories, including the area covered by forest, the area used for non-agricultural purposes, the area that is now fallow, the net area seeded, and the total area farmed. However, throughout Period II, there was a downward tendency in land use categories such cultivable waste, permanent pastures and other grazing fields, and land under various tree crops and groves. It is significant to note that while the state-level increase in area under net sown was just 2.37 percent, the rise in net area seeded in the Mysuru district was 7.39 percent. By examining growth rates, it was determined that Mysuru's land use patterns increased by 0.59, 0.22, 1.06, 0.77, 3.40, and 5.77 percent during Period II. Non-agriculturally used land, cultivable waste, permanent pastures and grazing land, tree crops and groves, current fallow, other fallow, net area seeded, area sown more than once, and total cropped area were included. Waste land and dry terrain dropped 0.8% yearly. According to instability indices, Mysuru's fallow land and other than fallow land was more unstable than barren and uncultivable land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]