Sentence examples for arable acreage from inspiring English sources
Environmental regulations, water scarcities and urban development continue to cut back arable acreage.
Only about one-eighth of the total land area is arable, and only about half of the arable acreage is cultivated annually.
The acreage of arable land has been greatly increased by the reclamation of swampland and by the lowering of lake levels.
Approximately 3,000 hectares of arable land 8% of the acreage of sugar beet would be available for other uses.
But what is overlooked in that equation is you are then having to dedicate vast acreages of relatively scarce arable land to growing the feed.
The organization hopes that this increase can be brought about by greater productivity on current agricultural acreage and by greening parts of the world that aren't now arable.
The C factor for arable land has been refined using statistical data on the mean crop rotation and the acreage of particular agricultural crops in the districts of Slovakia.
Unless we find some cheap rockets soon, it's unlikely that we'll find more acreage for agricultural production in time to make up for the current supply of arable land.
In any case, food legumes occupy a minimal part of arable land, mostly dominated by cereal crops [99]; soybean represents the most important and cultivated legume, acreage of which reached 117.72 million ha in 2014 (steadily increased over years, see also Table 3), which is about that of the other grain legumes, but still far below the major cereals (e.g. rice, wheat, maize).
Major acreage increase cannot be reasonably expected in the next 20 years, since expansion of arable land would require inroads into forest areas, reducing the availability of an important biobased feedstock [ 84], and increasing greenhouse gas emissions [ 85].
