Barren and uncultivable land, cultivable waste and permanent pastures have constantly witnessed a sharp decline during the last five decades.
At the same time, there was a quantum leap in turning cultivable land for the non-agricultural purposes over the period due to the ever-expanding process of urbanisation.
Nevertheless, for most contributors to the literature, the access of rural households to cultivable land is considered the critical factor in the survival of the rural poor.
Cultivable community analysis was carried out by molecular analysis of colonies grown on the agar plates described above.
However, population growth and socio-economic changes in recent times have led to a relative shortage of cultivable land, imposing excessive demand on the natural resource base.
This law applied to communities that possessed cultivable land in common and performed regular adjustments in the amounts of land assigned to households in accordance with their relative size.
In some cases a household would have relocated to a newly built house because the old one had become dilapidated beyond repair or the surrounding fields were no longer cultivable.
Cultivable wastelands were allocated in the 1950s to villages in proportion to their livestock population at that time.
