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Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture , the systematic and controlled use of other forms of life — particularly the rearing of livestock and production of crops — to produce food for humans . It is thus generally synonymous with farmland or cropland .
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and others following its definitions, however, also use agricultural land or agricultural area as a term of art , where it means the collection of:
This sense of "agricultural land" thus includes a great deal of land not actively or even presently devoted to agricultural use. The land actually under annually-replanted crops in any given year is instead said to constitute " sown land " or " cropped land ". "Permanent cropland" includes forested plantations used to harvest coffee , rubber , or fruit but not tree farms or proper forests used for wood or timber . Land able to be used for farming (traditionally called arable land but here described as "arab