Urban expansion and its impact on agricultural land uses in Yathrib district

Abstract

The problem of urban sprawl at the expense of agricultural lands is one of the problems that all around the world suffer from, especially those that are characterized by rapid population increases. on agricultural lands and then create an imbalance in the environmental balance (1). In addition to the population increase, there are other factors that help urban expansion, the most prominent of which is the state's policy through the creation of new residential neighborhoods in or near agricultural lands, as well as the material factor through which the owners of agricultural land located on the outskirts of cities are tempted and exploited for non-agricultural purposes. Social also plays a prominent role through the desire of some urban residents to live in the outskirts of the city, as they carve out certain areas of agricultural lands and turn them into recreational residential land only without benefiting from them in agriculture, and this is what is happening in many regions of the world and the best example of that is Pakistan, which lost A lot of arable land is in the outskirts of cities, bearing in mind that these areas produce four crops a year.