A Study of Relief Feature in Shirur Tehsil, Pune District, Maharashtra State, India

Abstract

The study of economic development was viewed differently by geographers and economists while geographers have tended to emphasize the role of physical environment (Munton R.J.C.1969). Land is the basic resource of human society. Agriculture is the most important primary economic activity which is closely related to physical environment relief. In any scientific and viable inquiry into agricultural phenomena, it is perquisite to pay attention to the basic relation between these physical determinants and agriculture (Singh and Dhillon, 1994). In the country like India, where the rainfall is both inadequate and unpredictable, it affects badly on agricultural productivity. The study of development process has found a limited place in geographic literature in the past (Gilbert A.1971). It is therefore, necessary to evaluate the agricultural land use of the study region needs to unfold the nature of ecology of the Shirur Tahsil. This paper covers the profile of the tehsil, i.e. relief, geomorphology.