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Table 7 Land use/land cover classes and areas in hectares

From: The impacts of rice cultivation on an indigenous Fogera cattle population at the eastern shore of Lake Tana, Ethiopia

Class name

1973

Percent

2014

Percent

2014–1973

Agriculture land

3440.6

20

11,549

67.3

8108.4

Forest land

1542

9

131.3

0.8

− 1410.7

Grazing land

8549.5

49.9

3501

20.4

− 5048.5

Wetland

3113.9

18.2

1059.6

6.2

− 2054.3

Water body

501.9

2.9

907

5.3

405.1

Total

17,147.9

100

17,147.9

100

0.0

  1. Source: generated from Landsat image classification