The main objective of this paper is to identify and fill up the voids in terms of concepts and methods of research work on ‘Terrain Evaluation for Agricultural Land use And Planning in the Burdwan Upland, West Bengal’. This work will make suggestion relating to the research work to be conducted by research scholars on almost similar type of problems and methods. For achieving the target, the author has reviewed the literature previously presented. The whole literature survey has been attempted on almost all the main parts of the research topic. The previous works related to terrain evaluation, agricultural land use, land use model, statistical techniques, regional development disparity and Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) etc. have enriched the present study.