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25 Apr 2022 | SERVIR-HKH

Forest cover may have increased but agricultural land is shrinking

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Kathmandu, April 25 — While the forest area of Nepal increased by 1.7 percent, the agricultural land shrunk by 2.1 percent with the expansion in built-up area from 2000 to 2019, according to the latest data released by the Forest Research and Training Centre (FRTC), a government body under the Ministry of Forests and Environment.

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