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The figures include land under conversion to organic status. The total organic land is approximately 3% of total farmed land. The largest component was 61.8% of UK organic land in permanent pasture (314,000 hectares). Only 3.1% of UK cattle were raised organically. Cereal growing represented 9.7% of organic land use (49,000 hectares).
In 2021 with 1,3988,000 metric tons, the UK ranks as the 13th largest producer of wheat in the world. [26] English farming is on the whole intensive and highly mechanised. [27] The UK produces only 60% of the food it consumes. The vast majority of imports and exports are with other Western European countries. [28]
Wormwood Scrubs, a part of the common land. Agriculture in London is a rather small enterprise, with only 8.6% of the Greater London area being used for commercial farming, nearly all of which is close to Greater London's outer boundaries. There are a few city farms closer to the centre of the city and about 30,000 allotments. [1]
The value of land being eroded by the sea or other natural processes declines rapidly. Land in the centre of large cities may be very valuable, for example £7.2 million per hectare was cited for central London in 2016, [1] compared with around £2500 per hectare for grouse moors in Scotland. [2]
Regional Agricultural Land Classification Maps – Natural England; Natural England technical note on the ALC system; Dataset Information: Agricultural Land Classification - Provisional (England) Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Agricultural Land Classification of England and Wales
In 2010, over a third of the UK was owned by 1,200 families descended from aristocracy, and 15,354 km 2 was owned by the top three land owners, the Forestry Commission, National Trust and Defence Estates. [2] The Crown Estate held around 1,448 km 2. English land law is the law of real property in England and Wales.
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The ranch is home to about a quarter million citrus trees, timberland, tree farms, commercial crops, and large deposits of fossilized seashells used in road base. [ 5 ] In 2013 AgReserves purchased 382,834 acres from St. Joe Company in Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and Wakulla counties. [ 4 ]