Table 1.
Land use changes from 1985 to 2020.
| Land use/cover Class | 1985 |
2000 |
2020 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Km2 | % | Km2 | % | Km2 | % | |
| Agriculture area | 1915.57 | 24.8 | 3310.5 | 42.85 | 3915 | 50.68 |
| Build up area | 90 | 1.16 | 178.5 | 2.3 | 254 | 3.28 |
| Shrub land | 2834.88 | 36.7 | 2400 | 31.07 | 2086 | 27 |
| Grassland | 1049 | 13.58 | 615 | 7.96 | 388 | 5.02 |
| Bare land | 266.84 | 3.45 | 39 | 0.50 | 29 | 0.37 |
| Forest | 1567.77 | 20.29 | 1180.8 | 15.28 | 1052 | 13.61 |
| Total | 7724 | 99.98 | 7724 | 99.97 | 7724 | 99.97 |