Agricultural Productivity in Marathwada Region A Geographical Analysis

Abstract

Man s agricultural activities depend on the physical environment in which he lives although he often has tried to minimize the restriction. Visher (1932) has rightly put forward the theory that a special field of geography concerns itself with the study of the influence of natural environment on the nature and distribution of mans activities (Singh and Dhillon, 1987). To make a scientifically viable enquiry into agricultural phenomena, one must pay particular attention to the basic sets of relationships, i.e. those between the intricately related quadruplet complex, viz., the land, the climate, the soils, the water resources and hydrological hazard and agricultural operations, and those between man and the available cultivated area, such a study determines the extent and magnitude of usefulness of arable land for different agricultural purpose, the number of people engaged in farming and marketing a living out of it, and the types and the number of crops that can be grown on the some field in the course of an agricultural year (Singh Jasbir,1974). newline