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produce food for humans. It is
generally synonymous with both
farmland or
cropland, as well as
pasture or rangeland. The
United Nations Food and Agriculture...
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organizations such as the CIA and FAO—prefer the term of art
permanent cropland to
describe such
cultivable land that is not
being used for annually-harvested...
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Summer fallow,
sometimes called fallow cropland, is
cropland that is
purposely kept out of
production during a
regular growing season.
Resting the ground...
- A farm (also
called an
agricultural holding) is an area of land that is
devoted primarily to
agricultural processes with the
primary objective of producing...
- grazing, or by
spreading either dry or
liquid formulations of
manure on
cropland or pastures.
Water management is
needed where rainfall is insufficient...
- Protected: 10% Forest: 25% Grazing: 25%
Cropland: 7%
Mainly barren: 26% Protected: 9%
Grazing with some
cropland,
closed forest and
barren land: 41% Mainly...
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Russian farming has
always been grain,
which occupies well over half the
cropland.
Russia is the world's
largest exporter of wheat, the
largest producer...
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United States had 8% of
global permanent meadows and
pastures and 10% of
cropland. With its
large size and
geographic variety, the
United States includes...
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permanent meadows and
pastures belonged to China, as well as 8% of
global cropland.
China is one of 17
megadiverse countries,
lying in two of the world's...
- However, only 5% of
global rainfed cropland is
under multiple cropping,
while 40% of
global irrigated cropland is
under multiple cropping. In China...
