B. State whether true or false. If false, correct the statement1. Land under agriculture is less in Indiathan in the UK2. Planned land use helps in its optimumutilisation3. It takes ten years to get a 2-3 cm thicklayer of soil.4. The minerals present in the soil dependupon the type of the parent rock5. Laterite soils are found in the Himalayanregion.

B. State whether true or false. If false, correct the statement1. La

1.	B. State whether true or false. If false, correct the statement1. Land under agriculture is less in Indiathan in the UK2. Planned land use helps in its optimumutilisation3. It takes ten years to get a 2-3 cm thicklayer of soil.4. The minerals present in the soil dependupon the type of the parent rock5. Laterite soils are found in the Himalayanregion.
Answer» The focus of this entry is land USE for AGRICULTURE. But we are ALSO studying other uses of land, including land required for human settlement.Agriculture is a major use of land. Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture. The EXTENSIVE land use has a major IMPACT on the earth’s environment as it reduces wilderness and threatens biodiversity.Reducing the consumption of resource-intensive products and increasing the productivity of land makes it possible to produce food with much smaller inputs and reducing the impact on the environment.