The phrase "acreage devoted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the amount of land allocated for a specific purpose, such as agriculture, conservation, or development.
Example: "The acreage devoted to organic farming has increased significantly over the past decade."
Alternatives: "land area dedicated" or "land allocated".
In order to receive payments, farmers had to agree to limit the acreage devoted to specified crops.
This rapid change made the country more vulnerable to global market fluctuations and, because of an increase in acreage devoted to nonfood export crops, periodic famine.
The survey may have also overstated the decline in biotech acreage devoted to soybeans because of possible miscounting a year ago, he said.
In Patterson, "the apricot capital of the world," the acreage devoted to apricots is dwindling and farmers blame the influx of dried apricots from Turkey.
One local grower, Coke Farms, had to increase its acreage devoted to organic strawberries by more than 30% "because they couldn't keep up with us," he says.
According to Michigan's department of agriculture, Sanilac leads the state in the acreage devoted to soy, corn, wheat, dairy farms and general cattle operations.
The acreages devoted to beans and potatoes increased to very closely offset the reduction in beets and alfalfa, the total acreages devoted to the four crops for the three five-year periods, being 124,281, 122,332, and 122,130 respectively.
Extensive acreage is devoted to millet, sorghum, and plants from the Pennisetum genus of Old World grasses, grown for fodder.
And virtually all the worldwide acreage is devoted to only four crops: soybeans, corn, cotton and canola.
Vast acreage is devoted to soybeans; introduced successfully into South Carolina in the 1940s, the crop has become a mainstay of the agricultural economy.
But there could be problems in the future because, the researchers say, the amount of acreage being devoted to pollinator-dependent crops is increasing.
