In the present day, land acquiring and Land grabbing is common in the name of development at the same time farmers are very eager to sell their agricultural land for a high rate. The government also in the name of development started acquiring lakhs together acres of land that are acquired for the establishment of the SEZs. The big Malls, IT Park, Garments Factories and Airport and other industrial establishments stand in the place of high yielding and fertile agricultural lands. As a result, the people from rural area are slowly becoming unemployed thus migrating towards towns or cities in search of jobs for their livelihood. This present paper is an attempt to study the effect of Industrialization on agriculture in Shivamogga district, Karnataka.