arable farming coverage

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How many hectares of arable farming in the UK in 1900 compared to 1950 and today ?



Reply from razer21 User Rating:  370 Knowledge Tokens
Page 3 on the following link graphs trends in agricultural land use in the Wiltshire region. The paper states that changes in land use are similar throughout the U.K.

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/lca-dec-05-chapter-7.pdf

The U.K. has approximately 24.1 million hectares of area in total. According to Wikipedia, an estimated 25% of that land is arable (as of 1993).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_the_United_Kingdom

That data seems to closely match the 2002 data found here:

http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/02-03/biofuels/quant_land_use.htm

Based on the first link and the last link, you should be able to extrapolate the data across the entire U.K. with a fairly accurate estimate. Hope this helps.
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