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Permanent crop
means that the land continues to
produce
year after year, without the farmer needing to replant fields after each
harvest
.
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Traditionally, "
arable land
" included any land suitable for the growing of crops, even if it was actually being used for the production of permanent crops such as
grapes
or
peaches
. Modern
agriculture
?particularly organizations such as the
CIA
and
FAO
?prefer the
term of art
permanent cropland
to describe such
cultivable land
that is not being used for annually-harvested crops such as
staple grains
. In such usage, permanent cropland is a form of agricultural land that includes
grasslands
and
shrublands
used to grow grape vines or
coffee
;
orchards
used to grow
fruit
or
olives
; and forested
plantations
used to grow
nuts
or
rubber
. It does not include, however,
tree farms
intended to be used for
wood
or
timber
.
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