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Glossary:Cropland

Cropland is land on which agricultural crops are grown. In LUCAS cropland includes all annual and perennial crops.

Includes

  • arable land
  • tillage land
  • agro-forestry systems where vegetation falls below the thresholds used for the forest land category, consistent with the selection of national definitions

Excludes

  • fallow land (i.e., land set at rest for one or several years before being cultivated again)

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