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Table 7.8 Agricultural areas in Denmark 1990-2003, hectare.
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Annual crops (CM) 1
2239127 2223632 2206656 2011670 1958047 1971896 1982942 2051133 2016456 1958815 1939902 1952940 1972009 1950587
Grass in rotation (CM) 306325 308789 317246 355019 395993 310568 329496 307065 339597 323909 330834 326553 292566 302896
Permanent grass (GM)
Horticulture – vegeta-
217235 212030 207932 197229 191000 207122 192851 167600 156260 159530 166261 173702 177546 177635
bles (CM)
Horticulture – permanent
16428 15994 16747 15771 12886 12915 11053 9554 10202 10523 10803 9616 8903 9933
(CM) 7892 7944 8975 8255 8665 8367 8457 7874 7505 7683 8010 8447 7976 8330
Set-a-side (CM) 3861 4694 4047 159200 221326 217801 191683 147877 141900 184141 192441 202757 206555 208893
2790868 2773083 2761603 2747144 2787917 2728669 2716482 2691103 2671920 2644601 2648251 2674015 2665555 2658274
1
CM refers to that the area is treated under Cropland Management. GM refers to Grassland Management.
7.3.2 Methodological issues
For 1998 the distribution of the agricultural area between mineral soils and organic soils is subdivided
into cropland and permanent grassland. Table 7.9 shows the main result from the GIS analysis.
It can be seen that set-a-side, grass in rotation and permanent grass is more common on organic
soils than on mineral soils. The percentage distribution in Table 7.11 is used as parameters
when estimating the land use between different categories for all years between 1990 and 2003.
Table 7.9 The distribution of crops between organic and mineral soils in 1998 according to the GIS-analysis.
The figures are given in hectares. The figures are slightly different from table 7.8 due to different data
sources.
Soil type Annual crops in Set-a-side Grass in rota- Permanent grass Total
rotation
tion
Organic 82191 16056 24885 27864 150997
Mineral 2098396 126777 214053 114944 2554169
Total 2180587 142833 238938 142808 2705166
Table 7.10 The distribution of organic soils and mineral soils in per cent in 1998.
Soil type Annual crops in Set-a-side Grass in rota- Permanent grass Total
rotation
tion
Organic 54% 11% 16% 18% 100%
Mineral 82% 5% 8% 5% 100%
Table 7.11 The percentage distribution of the agricultural area used in the emission model.
Soil type Annual crops in Set-a-side Grass in rota- Permanent grass
rotation
tion
Organic 3,8% 11,2% 10,4% 19,5%
Mineral 96,2% 88,8% 89,6% 80,5%
Total 100,0% 100,0% 100,0% 100,0%
Furthermore the organic soils are divided in shallow and deep organic soils. 38% of the organic
soils are according to the Danish soil classification deep organic soils (Sven Elsnap Olesen, DIAS,
pers. comm).
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