oops Chandra On Sunday, September 9, 2012 12:49:52 PM UTC+5:30, Niloy De wrote: > > Hi Chandar > Excellent work done on this subject.I think I can use this statistical > data to further my propoganda against the perils of population > explosion.this is exactly what I am fighting for and trying to make people > understand.In a country like India where the only vision of the political > class is to engage themseles in aapna jeb ka seva in the name of Desh ka > seva this is exactly waht is going to happen.The political class unlike > other country does'nt have and never had a concrete OPTIMUM POPULATION > Policy.It allowed the population to grow uncsrupulously since the country's > independence only with one aim..to aggrevate the overall problem and ensure > their own sustenance.In economics there is a concept of Physical frontiers > of Production...India has crossed the limit.The future will only see > increase in corruption,death due to malnutrition,social and political > unrest and everything arising out of Population explosion....this > revelation is exactly what I have said (though grossly) earlier...though > someone tagged me a loon.... > Niloy > [email protected] > > On Saturday, September 8, 2012 2:05:41 PM UTC+5:30, rajesh wrote: >> >> post by Chandra Ravikumar in HasiruUsiru, maybe someone wants to create >> a visualization of this and allow manipulation and mashup of data ... >> >> ---------------------- >> >> Dear All, >> During the past few years I had begun to wonder just how much land for >> food would each Indian get as his/her share, if the land that is India, is >> apportioned out evenly and equally among every citizen. The strain that the >> growing population - legal and illegal, and the criminally stupid policies >> of the Governments, are asserting on the rigidly fixed resource that is >> Land, and knowing that just a little more, and the snapping point will be >> reached, has been making me very uncomfortable and even seriously >> disturbed. The recent posts of Leo on the per capita availability of open >> spaces prompted me to resort to some statistics to answer my initial >> question. >> >> I am posting the results of the little study I did on this. I have also >> given the sources of the information, for verification. I am just a simple >> addition/subtraction mathematician. I have done my best, rather I have >> allowed my calculator to do its best, to get the numbers right. If anyone >> notices a mistake or discrepancy, please feel free to correct it for the >> sake of truth and verity. >> >> Anyone who is interested in using this information in any other place or >> forum is free to do so. >> >> HOW MUCH LAND FOR FOOD DOES EACH CITIZEN OF INDIA REALLY HAVE? >> >> The Conversion Table: >> >> 1 square kilometer = 100 hectares OR 1hectare = 0.01 square kilometers. >> >> 1 hectare = 10000 square meters. >> >> 1 hectare = 2.41 acres OR 11664.4 square yards OR 104979.6 square feet. >> >> 1 acre = 4840 square yards OR 43560 square feet. >> >> 1 meter = 3.28 feet. >> >> >> Some Definitions: (From Trading Economics) >> >> 1. The SURFACE AREA of a country is its total area, including areas under >> inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways. >> >> 2. The LAND AREA of a country is its total area, excluding area under >> inland water bodies (major rivers, lakes, coastal waterways), national >> claims to continental shelf and exclusive economic zones. >> >> 3. AGRICULTURAL LAND refers to the share of the land area that is arable, >> under permanent crops, and permanent pastures. >> >> 4. ARABLE LAND refers to (FAO definition) as land under temporary crops, >> (double cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or >> pasture, land under market or kitchen garden, and land temporarily fallow. >> >> 5. PERMANENT CROPS refers to land placed under cultivation of crops that >> occupy the land for long periods of time and need not be replanted after >> each harvest, such as cocoa, coffee, tea, rubber. It also includes >> flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines, but excludes trees >> grown for wood or timber. >> >> 6. PERMANENT PASTURE is land used for 5 or more years for forage >> including natural and cultivated crops. >> >> 7. FOREST AREA is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at >> least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, (? question mark is >> mine) and excludes tree stands in agricultural productive systems Eg. >> Plantation, Agro-forestry systems, and trees in Urban Parks and Gardens. >> >> >> Statistics for India: >> >> 1. The Surface Area (Geo-geographical area) including area under illegal >> occupation of Pakistan and China = 3287240 sq.kms. >> >> 2. Area under illegal occupation of Pakistan and China = 120849 sq.kms. >> >> 3. The Land Area of India = 2973190 sq.kms. >> >> 4. The Forest Area in India = 677598 sq. kms. >> >> 5. The Forest Area of India as a % of the Land Area = 22.8% >> >> 6. The Agricultural Land Area of India = 1797080 sq.kms. OR 179708000 ha. >> >> 7. The Agricultural Land Area in % = 60.4% (I calculated it as >> 1795806.7sq.kms.) >> >> 8. The Arable Land Area of India = 1580300 sq.kms. OR 158030000 hectares >> >> 9. The Arable Land Area in % = 53.2% (I calculated this to be 1581737 sq. >> kms.) >> >> 10. Area of land under permanent crops in % = 3.8% >> >> 11. Length of Roadways in India, including both pucca and kutcha= >> 17,00000 kms. (Seventeen lakh kms.) >> >> 12. Length of metal led roadways in India = 700000 kms. (seven lakh kms.) >> >> 13. Area required by 17,00000 kms. of roads with an average width of 10 >> mts. = 17,000 sq. kms. >> >> 14. The Population of India by the census of 2011 = 1210193422 persons. >> >> 15. The Agricultural Land per person in India = 0.14 ha. OR 1400 sq mts. >> OR 15069.474 sft. >> >> 16. The Arable Land per person in India = 0.1 ha. OR 1000sq.mts. OR >> 10763.910 sft. >> >> 17. On the Global Hunger Index, we are placed at place 67 out of 81 rated >> countries. Even Rwanda is better than us at rank 60! >> >> >> III. What does all the above statistics REALLY mean for the Indian >> citizen? >> >> 1. The amount of land available to each person for production of all that >> he consumes from organic sources, is about 15000 sft. This includes i.) >> his food - cereals, pulses, oils, vegetables, fruit, spices, condiments, >> sugars, milk and all milk products, medicinal and other herbs, tea, coffee, >> cocoa and other beverages, and everything else ii) his cleaning agents and >> toiletries iii) his clothing, bedding, furnishings, and such like iv) his >> furniture, paper, books and all stationery, and everything made of >> plantation products v) And a thousand things that have not occurred to me. >> Minus from that, land that is left fallow; or crops destroyed due to >> flooding, drought, salination, lack of labour, erosion of topsoil, >> destructive agricultural practices et al - and what does one have left? >> Less than 10000 sft. each. >> >> 10000 sft. is just a 100ft x 100ft site. >> 10000 sft. is about just 1/18th part of a cricket pitch. >> 10000 sft. is about the area a child can run across in 50 steps. >> >> 2. Every site that we carve out of agricultural land is taking the food >> out of the mouth of one person in India. >> >> 3. Every acre of agricultural land that we convert to non- agricultural >> purposes, we are driving to total destitution and poverty 4 adults and 1 >> child. >> >> 4. In the last decade Uttar Pradesh alone has lost 6 million (YES!) >> hectares of land to the development of the National Capital Region (NPR). >> The Yamuna Super Highway project includes plans for a high-tech city that >> will take away 45000 hectares of land that is being cultivated by 1191 >> villages. This is RICH agricultural land, maybe one of the best in the >> world, the legendary DOAB, that easily produces 3 crops and many >> intercroppings every year. >> This Yamuna Highway alone will take the last morsel away from the mouths >> of at least 484376 adults and double that many children. >> >> 5. Every kilometer of a 10 meter width road that is built, will take away >> 1 ha. OR 10000 sq. mts. OR 107639 sft. of land, AND condemn to starvation >> at least 11 adults or 22 children. >> >> 6. Every illegal immigrant into our country will displace one citizen to >> a nowhere land, for there is no land to feed even one person more. >> >> 7. Every child born, before one person dies, or to put it another way, >> every one person who does not die for one child born eats into the sparse >> land resource available to grow our food. >> >> So every inch of good crop land that is diverted to other uses such >> as an investment alternative in the form of sites; or mindless urban >> expansion, or a flamboyant race track that is obscene in its sheer waste; >> or SEC blocks; or 8 lane highways to accommodate the 'car-pulation' bomb >> and the speedniks who want to reach everywhere in no time; they all condemn >> more and more to hunger, malnutrition, deprivation and even death. >> >> I have not been comprehensive enough. There is much more to say. So >> please feel welcome to speak. There are many of us >> listening. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Chandra >> >> Sources for reference : >> >> >> >> http://cpsindia.org/index.php/art/123-articles-by-jk-bajaj-and-md-srinivas/food-consumption-in-india-and-the-world >> >> http://www.tradingeconomics.com/ >> >> http://censusindia.gov.in/Census_And_You/area_and_population.aspx >> >> http://faostat.fao.org/site/339/default.aspx >> >> >> http://makanaka.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/the-cost-of-indias-urban-land-grab/ >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_India >> >> http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php >> >> http://www.agricoop.nic.in/Nrm/STATNRM.pdf >> >> >> http://www.indiastat.com/agriculture/2/agriculturalarealanduse/152/stats.aspx >> >> http://www.worldwatch.org/node/554 >> >
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