sown area

Sown areas increased by more than 4.6 million hectares, most of which were for soybean crops.

The Ministry projects sown area for all grains to stay relatively steady over this period, falling only slightly.

Only one-fourth to one-fifth of the sown area was double-cropped.

The ministry said in a statement grains had been harvested from 20.7 million hectares, or 44.6 percent of the sown area.

Sorghum had been the principal one, and during the early 1980s it was planted on an average of about 80 percent of the sown area.

Ownership of livestock and sown areas changed dramatically as a result of collectivization.

Horticulture is typical for the southern region with most of the sown area (more than 3/5) occupied by forage crops.

A bigger wheat harvest is widely expected in Italy thanks to an up to 20 percent increase in sown areas and favourable weather.

We have already harvested 2.5 million tonnes of rapeseed and are still to harvest an additional 12 percent of the sown area.

- Ukraine has already brought in 6 million tonnes of sunflower seed from 97 percent of the sown area.

The total area under vegetable cultivation is currently about 11% of the state's gross sown area, and is increasing.

The grain acreage declined in absolute and in relative terms after 1960, when it accounted for almost three-fourths of the sown area.

Development of virgin lands by state farms was responsible for most of the expansion of arable land and sown areas.

Much of the agricultural output is dependent on the southwest monsoon as only 26.5% of the sown area is irrigated.

Preliminary forecasts of the 2008 crop indicate both sown area and use of inputs will rise, potentially boosting grain output above the 2007 level.

The country has managed to increase sugar beet refining due to higher yields and sugar content in spite of a decline in the sown area.

First, these official numbers are calculated as percent of sown area in peasant farmsteads, excluding the area cultivated by sovkhozes and other agricultural users.

Potatoes and vegetables take up 11% of sown area and industrial crops (sugarbeets, flax, and some rapeseed) the remaining 4%.

Try spreading a sheet of Enviromesh (from www.greengardener.co.uk) over the recently sown areas or lay prickly hawthorn, holly or rose prunings around the seed beds.

The cotton sown area accounts for about 30 percent of the total sown area of all the various cash crops.

The official numbers for collectivized area (the column with percent of sown area in collective use in the table above) are biased upward by two technical factors.

The technology's significant advantage is a high automation level of sown area condition and its interpretation in an interactive map which can be read by different groups of users.

Technical crops for industrial uses, consisting mainly of oilseeds and sugar beets, and fodder crops occupied almost one-fourth of the sown area.

Traders and farmers said they expected stronger wheat crop in Italy this year thanks to increased sown areas and the weather which has been favourable for plantings so far.

The main food crops cultivated in this area are paddy (40% of the net sown area), ragi,small millets, jowar, sugarcanes, tur,nagli and val.