Multidecadal Land Use Patterns and Land Surface Temperature Variation in Sri Lanka

Table 5

Agricultural land cover conversion statistics of Sri Lanka.

Conversion	Area ()
	2000–2010	2010–2020
Agriculture to settlements	485.13	1536.28
Agriculture to bare lands	4631.89	1322.12
Agriculture to forest lands	5220.31	7793.39
Agriculture to waterbodies	198.87	184.50
Bare lands to agriculture	6030.92	6401.28
Forest lands to agriculture	6492.78	6172.59
Water bodies to agriculture	317.35	148.61