pench-kanhan coalfields - Western Coalfields Ltd. India.

Job No. 561410027 (WCL) 23
CMPDI
Total mining area covers 6.84 km 2 (0.75%) out of which quarry covers 0.16
km 2 (0.02%), barren OB dump covers 4.52 km 2 (0.50%), backfill covers 0.41
km 2 (0.05%), coal dump covers 0.19 km 2 (0.02%), advanced quarry covers
0.18 km 2 (0.02%), and water filled quarry covers 1.38 km 2 (0.15%).
3.3.4 Agriculture
Land primarily used for farming and production of food, fibre and other
commercial and horticultural crops falls under this category. It includes crop
land and fallow land. Crop lands are those agricultural lands where standing
crop occurs on the date of satellite imagery or land is used for agricultural
purposes during any season of the year. Crops may be either kharif or rabi.
Fallow lands are also agricultural land which is taken up for cultivation but
temporarily allowed to rest, un-cropped for one or more season.
Analysis of data reveals that agriculture land in Pench-Kanhan-Tawa Valley
Coalfield area occupies an area of 331.27 km 2 (36.49%). Out of which crop
land is 151.07 km 2 (16.64%) and fallow land covers an area of 180.21 km 2
(19.85%).
3.3.5 Wasteland
Wasteland is a degraded and under-utilised class of land that has
deteriorated on account of natural causes or due to lack of appropriate water
and soil management. Wasteland can result from inherent/imposed
constraints such as location, environment, chemical and physical properties
of the soil or financial or other management constraints (NWDB, 1987). This
also includes fly ash pond and sand body formed on the banks of the river
owing to the non flow of water there.