Glossary:Arable land
Arable land, in agricultural statistics, is land worked (ploughed or tilled) regularly, generally under a system of crop rotation. In the Farm stucture survey (FSS) arable land is further subdivided using the following classification:
- Cereals
- Common wheat and spelt
- Durum wheat
- Rye
- Barley
- Oats
- Grain maize
- Rice
- Other cereals
- Pulses - total
- Potatoes
- Sugar beet
- Fodder roots and brassicas
- Industrial crops - total
- Tobacco
- Hops
- Cotton
- Rape and turnip
- Sunflower
- Soya
- Other oil-seed or fibre crops
- Aromatic, medicinal and culinary plants
- Industrial crops not mentioned elsewhere
- Fresh vegetables, melons, strawberries
- Outdoor: Fresh vegetables, melons, strawberries
- Open field: Outdoor: Fresh vegetables, melons, strawberries
- Market gardening: Outdoor: Fresh vegetables, melons, strawberries
- Under glass: Fresh vegetables, melons, strawberries
- Flowers and ornamental plants
- Flowers and ornamental plants
- Under glass: Flowers and ornamental plants
- Fodder crops - total
- Fodder crops - temporary grass
- Total: Other green fodder: Fodder crops
- Green maize: Other green fodder: Fodder crops
- Other fodder crops: leguminous plants: Fodder crops
- Seeds and seedlings
- Other crops on arable land
- Fallow land
Further information
- Farm structure – Methodology of Community surveys
- Farm structure ad-hoc tables
- Structure of agricultural holdings (ESMS metadata file — ef_esms)