About 55% of the arable land area is used for rice production.

At present, 4 percent of the population owns half the arable land.

Arable lands make up less than 1% of the total district's area.

Because of their fast growing population, finding more arable land was a concern.

"We were working on a project to make more arable land available.

The main natural resource on this island is arable land.

Programmes were initiated to increase the amount of arable land.

But their farms make up less than 10 percent of the region's arable land.

There seems to be a lot of arable land left for them to expand onto.

Food prices have increased a lot, due to a lack of arable land.

Current environmental concerns include the lack of arable land and natural fresh water resources.

At the time, there was a lack of arable land in secure areas.

No arable land was taken up by even such essential facilities.

Later, most of the arable land was sold to private developers.

Agriculture is limited by the lack of water and arable land.

The arable land figure has shown a gradual increase since 1961.

Today the valley makes up 40 percent of Lebanon's arable land.

Why would algae production need to use up arable land?

Because of its arable land, the town would develop as a farming community.

This created what is the only patch of arable land for many miles around.

East Reach has since vanished, filled in by arable land.

But doing so just adds to the assault on arable land.

One very real challenge is finding enough arable land for the refugees.

Another reason is the greenhouse effect which can affect arable land.

The Area is considered to be arable land and good soil for farming.