Land Resources

Landforms like hills,valleys, plains,river basins and wetlands include different resource-generating areas that the people living in them depend on.Many traditional farmung societies from which they used resources.For example in the 'scared groves' of the western Ghats ,requests to the spirit of the grove for permission to cut a tree, or extract a resources were accompained by simple rituals.The outcome of a chance fall on one sideor the other of a stone balanced on a rock gace or withheld permission .The request could not be repeated for a specified period.
if land is utilized carefully ,it can be considered an renewwable resource.The roots of trees and grasses bind the soil.if forests are depleted or grasslands overgrazed ,the ladn becomes unproductive and wasteland is formed.Intensice irrigation leads to water-logged and salinized soil,on which crops cannot grow.