Urbanization Impact on Agricultural Land of Manikganj Pourashova, Bangladesh

Manikganj Pourashova is one of the most important municipal area, which has a good communication system with the capital city Dhaka. This municipal area also offers better residential opportunity and food support for Dhaka city at the same time. This research was conducted on Manikganj Pourashova where the major focus to see the land use pattern change of the study area which is related to the socio-economic activity of increasing human population. For analyzing land use pattern change, we used GIS technique was used. After GIS data analysis, we found that the land use pattern of Manikganj Pourashova is changing, especially the agricultural land is decreasing in an alarming rate. The maps showed that between 2005 and 2014 settlement areas has been increased by +9.24%, while agricultural land use decreased by -8.25% and water bodies decreased by -1.75%. The study area has recorded a significant increase in settlement area to accommodate the Pourashova’s rapidly growing migrate population from the surrounding rural areas.