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Land

PGL

Slovakia

70.21

27.27

0.91

1.60

Slovenia

36.19

57.99

5.81

0.00

Spain

50.10

29.08

20.35

0.47

Sweden

84.72

15.17

0.11

0.00

United

Kingdom

34.82

64.97

0.21

0.00

58.66

34.27

6.76

0.31

Source: Authors.

Figure 3. Classification of individual categories of agricultural
land in EU countries (in % of UAA)

Source: Authors.

Finland (98.71%), Denmark (90.78) and Hungary (34.82%) have
the largest area of arable land; on the other hand, Ireland
(9.96%), Portugal (25.59%), The United Kingddom (34.82%)
shows the lowest numbers of the respective land. The area of the
CZ is 70.67%, Slovakia is 70.21 and the whole EU amounts to
58.66%.

The largest proportional grassland area is in Ireland (89.99%),
The United Kingdom (64.97%) and Slovenia (57.99%), while
the smallest proportion involves Malta (0%), Finland (1.06%)
and Cyprus (1.21%). The grassland area of the CZ is 28.10%,
Slovakia 27.27% and the EU 34.27%.

The largest proportional area of permanent crops is in Greece
(23.80%), Portugal (21.69%) and Spain (20.33%), whereas the
smallest proportion falls to Ireland (0.04%), Sweden (0.11%),
and Finland (0.15%). The area of the CZ is 1.20%, Slovakia
0.91% and the EU 6.76%.

The largest proportional area of kitchen gardens is in Malta
(9.33%), Slovakia (1.60%) and Estonia (0.92%), while no
kitchen gardens exist in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Latvia, The
Netherlands, Sloveni, Sweden and The United Kingdom. The
area of kitchen gardens in the CZ is 0.02% and the EU 0.31%.

Historical data from Eurostat website for 2020 involve linear
trend functions of the intermediate value prediction of individual
time series according to all categories of the used agriculture
land for all EU countries and their summarized values. If data
tables lacked some values, trend functions employed only a
specific continuous time series (including without limitations
kitchen gardens category). Table 3 compiles the predictions,
including The United Kingdom, which is not a part of the EU
any longer and as such its values can be deduced from the total.

Table 3. Predictions of values of the general categories
comprising the used agricultural land in 2020 (in thousands of
ha) in EU countries by the linear trend

Land

UAA

PGL

Austria

2448.96

1321.05

1062.18

65.99

0.14

Belgium

1327.66

841.76

468.95

18.11

0.00

Bulgaria

4987.34

3661.77

1192.57

122.66

11.42

Croatia

1561.09

821.88

670.47

68.34

1.61

Cyprus

113.32

89.35

1.61

22.33

0.05

Land

UAA

PGL

Czechia

3480.92

2444.96

993.11

42.42

0.43

Denmark

2611.69

2353.72

220.99

37.08

0.00

Estonia

1032.31

703.44

316.39

4.00

8.50

Finland

2267.98

2204.30

23.40

2.98

1.60

France

28295.88 17972.69

9183.33

1006.68 139.98

Germany

16567.53 11734.42

4631.18

201.32

0.61

Greece

5564.31

1895.99

2330.80

1326.39

7.30

Hungary

5140.91

4257.27

679.65

166.97

16.49

Ireland

4484.86

453.83

4029.51

2.18

0.00

Italy

12686.08

6423.69

3117.51

2476.62 26.63

Latvia

1953.75

1306.22

640.55

7.03

0.00

Lithuania

3073.69

2296.54

736.07

33.17

7.92

Luxembourg

131.40

62.81

67.03

1.54

0.01

Malta

12.20

9.66

0.00

1.24

1.31

Netherlands

1774.44

1021.01

717.08

38.41

3.88

Poland

13960.52 10453.55

3116.80

382.85

25.27

Portugal

3616.98

918.27

1902.46

782.19

14.06

Romania

13534.25

8626.15

4498.39

309.64 100.07

Slovakia

1913.32

1351.10

515.16

15.29

29.31

Slovenia

473.84

171.99

273.65

28.21

0.00

Spain

23476.17 12145.20

6475.90

4770.20 114.06

Sweden

2980.70

2532.54

442.01

3.59

0.00

United Kingdom 17191.58

6097.18

11054.28

37.23

0.00

EU sum

176663.69 104172.32 59361.02 11974.68 510.65

Source: Authors.

The largest share from the category of the used agricultural land
includes arable land and permanent grassland. In most countries,
kitchen gardens involve time series indicating a lot of missing
values. The most extensive use of arable land is the most evident
in France (about 18 mils. ha) and Spain (about 12.1 mils. ha).
The grassland is again the most predominant in France (roughly
9.2 mils. ha) and Spain (6.5 mils. ha), disregarding Great Britain.
The CZ enjoys about 2.4 mils. ha of the used arable land and
approximately 1 mil. ha of grassland. The total number in the
whole EU amounts to roughly 98 mils. ha of the used arable land
and about 48.3 mils. ha of grassland.

4 Conclusions

The article aimed at comparing the current situation (in
thousands of ha) of the used agricultural land in 2007–2018 in
individual EU countries (and the whole EU) regarding the
respective classification. The analysis involved the comparison
of specific EU countries according to the average value of the
used agricultural land in ha per inhabitant. The final table
suggests predictions of categories of the used arable land for
2020 in all EU countries, based on the linear trend of separate
time series.

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