Study of Agricultural Regionalization Status using GIS Platform in Bilaspur District, Chhattisgarh, India

Information on agricultural regionalization status constitutes an important aspect of agricultural geography as it provides a good basis to understand relative position of crops on regional scale. In order to facilitate planning and development of agriculture, a systematic study of agricultural regionalization has a great significance. Such inputs are indeed essential for proper management of agro-climatic constraints and to reach the destiny of sustainable agricultural development. The present study attempts to identify the agricultural regionalization status of Bilaspur district using quantitative technique. Beside it also presents systematical development of agricultural regionalization index. In order to get maximum level of accuracy the whole processing has been done under GIS environment with the help of data obtained from District Statistical Hand Book 2010-11.