Cauvery Basin: Land Use

What is the land in Cauvery basin used for? What percentage of the area the forests occupy? Broadly, land use in the basin can be divided into four categories; arable, non arable, forest land and land for habitation. More than 50% of the land area in the basin is arable, which implies that it can be cultivated. About 21.6% of the land is non arable. Total forest cover in the basin comes out to be 19.53% and the rest of the area is inhabited. Among the inhabited areas, rural and urban areas form two distinct kinds of habitations.