Table 3.
Area changes of Land Use/Land Cover in Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilas from 2017 to 2021.
| Land Use/Land Cover | 2017 |
2021 |
Change |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area [ha] | Percentage | Area [ha] | Percentage | [ha] | Percentage | |
| Agriculture | 11711.33 | 20.44 | 11853.41 | 20.68 | 142.08 | 0.25 |
| Forest | 24982.31 | 43.59 | 19494.3 | 34.02 | −5488.01 | −9.58 |
| Settlement | 15,614 | 27.25 | 20339.45 | 35.49 | 4725.45 | 8.25 |
| Water | 4999.61 | 8.72 | 5620.09 | 9.81 | 620.48 | 1.08 |
| Total | 57307.25 | 100 | 57307.25 | 100 | ||