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Tuvalu, the tiny Polynesian island nation where 60% of the total land area is devoted to permanent crops, comes first.
6.5%
The arable land in Sweden covers approximately 2.7 million hectares, or approximately 6.5% of the total land area.
Swedish agriculture in figures The Swedish agricultural sector (forestry and food industry not included) employs 177,600 people, which is 1.5 percent of the Swedish workforce. There are 72,000 farms and other agricultural business, which is half the number of 1970. The average farm has 36 hectares (89 acres) of fields.
China is the top country by gross value of agricultural production in the world.
Land use statistics by country
Rank | Country | Arable land (%) |
---|---|---|
— | World | 10.6 |
1 | India | 52.8 |
2 | United States | 16.8 |
3 | Russia | 7.3 |
Apples is the main commercial fruit product, but small volumes of pears, plums, cherries, and whitehart cherries are also cultivated. There are at present only two commercial producers of organic apples in Sweden.
Swedish crop production is dominated by cereals, mostly barley, oats and wheat, as well as by grassland. Some 40 per cent of arable land is sown to cereals. Yields vary much between different areas. Yields are the largest in the plain districts in the south, and the northern fields yield the least per hectare.
Urban farming in allotment gardens has long been a popular pastime among Swedes, in many corners of the country. Residents share a piece of land cultivated into gardens where they grow fruits and vegetables.
Swedish forests have been utilized by man for centu- ries. In early times, forest land was cleared for arable farming; large areas were claimed for shifting cultiva – tion, and forest grazing was widespread. Furthermore, Swedish forests were a source of wood for fuel and timber for domestic use, and also served as hunting grounds.
This article includes the table with land use statistics by country. Countries are sorted by their total cultivated land area which is a sum of total arable land area and total area of permanent crops.
The area data for 1997/99 refer to harvested area and elsewhere in the table to arable area. Summing over all crops and technology levels considered (see Box 4.1), it is estimated that about 30 percent of the world’s land surface, or 4.2 billion ha, is suitable for rainfed agriculture (Table 4.6).