Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture,[1] the systematic and controlled use of other forms of life—particularly the rearing of livestock and production of crops—to produce food for humans.[2][3] 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:[4][5]
"arable land" (a.k.a. cropland): here redefined to refer to land producing crops requiring annual replanting or fallowland or pasture used for such crops within any five-year period
"permanent cropland": land producing crops which do not require annual replanting
permanent pastures: natural or artificial grasslands and shrublands able to be used for grazing livestock
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 is called "cultivable land". Farmland, meanwhile, is used variously in reference to all agricultural land, to all cultivable land, or just to the newly restricted sense of "arable land". Depending upon its use of artificial irrigation, the FAO's "agricultural land" may be divided into irrigated and non-irrigated land.
Colonia (Roman) (plural coloniae) was originally a Roman Empire outpost established in conquered territory to secure it. Eventually, however, the term came to denote the highest status of Roman city.
Colonia may also refer to:
PlacesColonia del Sacramento, the oldest city in Uruguay and a UNESCO World Heritage site
Colonia Department, a departamento in southwestern Uruguay, where Colonia del Sacramento is the capital
Colonia, Yap, a city in Micronesia
Colonia, New Jersey
Colonia, Oxnard, California
Cologne, originally Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis, Germany's fourth-largest city
Colonia, a village in Tritenii de Jos Commune, Cluj County, RomaniaMusicColonia (music group), a Croatian dance music group
Colonia (Autopsia album), a 2002 compilation album by Autopsia
Colonia (A Camp album), the second album by A CampFilmColonia (film), a 2015 German filmOtherColonia (surname)
Colonia (Mexico), a neighborhood of large urban areas in Mexico
Colonia (United States), a low-income community along the U.S./Mexican border
Colonia (ship), a cable vessel that worked on the All Red Line
Colonia (bird), a genus of tyrant flycatcher containing a single species, the long-tailed tyrant Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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