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:
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
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
Arable land
…rotation". In Britain, arable land has traditionally been contrasted with pasturable land such as heaths, which could be used for sheep-rearing but not as farmland. Arable land is vulnerable to land degradation and some types of un-arable land can be enriched to create useful land. Climate change and biodiversity…
Photo showing piece of agricultural land irrigated and ploughed for paddy cultivation