URBAN LANDUSE EXTENSION ON AGRICULTURAL LAND USE IN TUNFURE, GOMBE STATE OF NIGERIA
Oboh Satur Okosun
Department of Geography,
Federal University of Kashere, P.M.B 0182, Gombe, Nigeria
Email: obohyian25@yahoo.com, obohcom@fukashere.edu.ng
ABSTRACT
Land use has been defined as the total of arrangements, activities, and inputs that people undertake in a certain land cover type, with changes overtime by the complex interaction of structural and behavioral factors associated with technological capacity, demand, and social relations that affect both environmental capacity and the demand, along with the nature of the environment of interest. This paper term to address how agricultural land use has been reduced due to increase or extension of urban land use, by looking at; the different land use and pattern in Tunfure within a period of 20 years, evaluate the trend of land use and to examine the impact of the urbanization process on agricultural activities in the study area. In order to maintain consistent data for the study period, all image data used in this study were Landsat TM data of 30M resolution for a period of 20years(1996-2016). In this study five main methods of data analysis were adopted which are: calculation of the area in square kilometer of the resulting land use types for each study year and subsequently comparing the results, overlay operations, maximum likelihood classification and land consumption rate and absorption coefficient. The result shows a noticeable change in land use in the study area, which has resulted to the town having a growth pattern of concentric zone model with link to multiple nuclei model. Based on the findings, recommendations were.
Key words: Agricultural Land use, Changes, Land use, Urban Land use.
