Glossary:Type of tenure
Type of tenure refers to the ownership of the land parcels and depends on the situation on a reference day of the year of the survey.
Includes
- Farming on own land (OWN_UAA) - utilised agricultural area farmed by the agricultural holding and held by the holder as a property or farmed by the holder acting as a usufructuary or heritable long-term leaseholder or under some other equivalent type of tenure.
- Farming on rented land (RENT_UAA) - utilised agricultural area rented by the agricultural holding in return for a fixed rent agreed in advance (in cash, kind or otherwise), and for which there is a (written or oral) tenancy agreement. The utilised agricultural area is allocated to only one agricultural holding. If the utilised agricultural area is rented out to more than one agricultural holding during the reference year, it is normally allocated to the agricultural holding with which it is associated on the survey reference day or which used it for the longest period during the reference year.
- Farming on common land (CMNL_UAA) - utilised agricultural area used by the agricultural holding but not belonging directly to it, i.e. on which common rights apply.
- Share farming or other tenure modes (SHROTH_UAA) - utilised agricultural area which is
- shared, meaning farmed in partnership by the landlord and the share cropper under a written or oral share-farming contract. The output (either economic or physical) of the share cropped area is shared between the two parties on an agreed basis
- under other modes of tenure not covered elsewhere under the previous items