Agriculture is a land-based activity and as such land and water is major factors of production. The present research attempts to analyse land use dynamics in Karnataka, the study was based on the secondary data on land use pattern for nine fold classification were collected for the period from 1980-81 to 2008-09 for all the districts of Karnataka. In order to study intra and inter sectoral shift land use, the land classes have grouped into three broad sectors (I) Ecological sector (ii) Non agricultural sector (iii) Agricultural sector and multiple linear regression models fitted to aggregate sectoral terms indicated, extent of small and marginal farmers have negative impact on area under desirable ecological sector and urbanisation has influence on land shift towards non agriculture.
Keywords: Land use dynamics, Sectorial change, OLS-estimates
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