Soil loss has a close relationship with land use-land cover
An attempt was made to analyze the impact of land useland cover change on erosion rate The satellite image was reclassified by increasing agricultural and decreasing forest category
The change in agricultural area was obtained by comparing with initial land useland cover map
The crop management factors C for the increased agricultural area (Table 5) were derived from remote sensing image
The gross amount of erosion has been increased due to increase in agricultural area is 488,012.6 t/yr against 473,339 t/yr
The difference of about 14,673.5 t/yr has been generated due to small increases in agricultural area and small decrease in forest area
Hence, there is an increase of 3.1% of soil loss when compared with the actual soil loss
The increase in soil loss was found mainly due to the agricultural activities like ploughing, tillage, land preparation, etc