Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics and Properties of Soils under Different Land Uses in the Tejibara Watershed, Ethiopia

Table 4

Land use and land cover (LULC) change from 1989 to 2019.

Land cover type	LULC 1989		LULC 1999		LULC 2009		LULC 2019		Change in % (1989–2019)
	Area (ha)	% of area	Area (ha)	% of area	Area (ha)	% of area	Area (ha)	% of area
Forest	1096.3	10.9	616.5	6.1	367.2	3.7	321.2	3.2	−7.7
Cultivated	4054.1	40.4	5067.5	50.6	5566.1	55.5	5646.8	56.3	15.9
Grazing	3719.2	37.1	2577.2	25.7	1967.6	19.6	1937.3	19.3	−17.8
Bare land	671.0	6.7	754.5	7.5	1023.6	10.2	635.3	6.4	−0.3
Settlement	485.0	4.8	1009.9	10.1	1101.2	11.0	1484.9	14.8	10
Total	10025.6	100.0	10025.6	100.0	10025.6	100.0	10025.6	100.0