Agricultural land
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Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of life—particularly the rearing of livestock and production of crops—to produce food for h
Photo showing piece of agricultural land irrigated and ploughed for paddy cultivation
Arable land
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Arable land is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops. Alternatively, for the purposes of agricultural statistics, the term often has a more precise definition:
Agricultural land
…FAO) and others following its definitions, however, also use agricultural land or agricultural area as a term of art, where it means the collection of: arable land (also known as cropland): here redefined to refer to land producing crops requiring annual replanting or fallowland or pasture used for such crops…
Modern mechanised agriculture permits large fields like this one in Dorset, England
Fields in the region of Záhorie in Western Slovakia
A field of sunflowers in Cardejón, Spain
Water buffalo ploughing rice fields near Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia