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Highlight the characteristics of land utilization in Eastern Ghats region of India. What are the land utilization problems in the region?

  • UPSC 2025
  • Physical Setting

Land use in the Eastern Ghats is shaped by two facts: the range is discontinuous, breached wherever a major east-flowing river crosses it, and it lies to leeward, so it is drier than the Western Ghats and carries deciduous rather than evergreen forest.

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  • Characteristics of Land Utilization
  • Forest as the dominant category
  • Cultivation confined to valleys and footslopes
  • Shifting cultivation on the uplands
  • Plantation and horticulture
  • Mining and quarrying
  • …and 6 more sections, with a conclusion

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