LAND USE LAND COVER CHANGES IN MYDANAHALLI VILLAGE

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Introduction
Man is utilizing the land for various purposes as the population increased, the needs and pressure on has also increased many folds, and land use activities gained momentum.Land is the basic natural resources which encompasses all attributes of biosphere land utilization is associated with forest, agriculture water bodies and different types of built up land including waste land.
The land is the sole resources of sustenance mankind supporting the planed, animal and human life for providing the food, and shelter.Man utilizes land for various purposes like agriculture of urban development, settlement industrial activities etc..The growing pressure population coupled increasing varieties of demands being made on the land resource have brought extra pressure on the land resource all over the country.

Objective
• To examine the changing pattern of land use in the study area

Study area
The total geographical area of the village is 1362.00acres, located at a height of 806 mtrs above the mean sea level.The village belongs to Elawala hobli of Mysore taluk.
It is located to East of Mysore urban center.The neighboring villages Megalapura, its north and Elavala south and karkanahalli its west, and koorgalli its east to the Mydanahalli.Mydanahalli is a medium size village lacated in Mysore taluk of Mysore district, Karnataka with total 331 families residing the mydanahalli village has population if 1358 of which 655 are males while 703 are famales as per population census 2011.
In mydanahalli village population of children with the age 0-6 is 145 which makes up 10.68% of total population of village.Average sex ratio of mydanahalli village is 1073 which is higher than Karnataka state average of 973.Child sex ratio for the mydanahalli as per census is 1377, higher than Karnataka average of 948.
Mydanahalli village has lower literacy rate compared to Karnataka in 2011, literacy rate of mydanahalli village was 70.65% compared to 75.36% of Karnataka.In mydana halli male literacy stands at 78.79% while female literacy rate was 62.84%.In this study area has seen five fold classification.... first classification we find that barren land with include road and ponds, is 18.90% , and agricultural land is 43.90%, and settlements are 0.73%, and 3.30% of land occupy with that village, mainly large amount of agricultural land is anilated is 33.20%.This is the small picture of the land use land cover of this study area.In This area became very fastly development has taken place and also decrease the agriculture lands are converted into residential layouts.This study area found the agricultural land use pattern in 2001-2002 in this year dry land is occurred 90.50% of the total area, and wet land only 0.10% of the total agricultural area, and garden is 9.30% of the total area.In this year we can found the drastic changes of the land use body that is dry land comes from 90.50% to 82.80% in this year almost 8% of dry land is decreased and also wet land decreased from 0.10% to 0.02%, but garden area has extended from 9.30% to 16.90%.

Converting From Agriculture Lands to Non-Agriculture Land
This region environment also very disturb because this place almost large farmers are sell there agricultural land into realestate it's all with legal procedure.But the situation of those villagers is that they have lost their fertile land and day by day they lost their money also now they are work in nearby garments and factories.
The following pictures reveal what was done to the land after it was sold.
First stage

Second stage
Third stage