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Agriculture land areas 2012

Published by: ADB

Comparison of agriculture land with permanent crops, pasture or meadow in 2012 for the Lower Mekong countries. Collated for a visualization on the OD Mekong Land page: https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/topics/land

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Dataset topic category
  • Agriculture
  • Land
Language
  • English
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Dataset reference date May 17, 2016
Temporal extent's start date January 1, 2012
Temporal extent's end date December 31, 2012
GeoNames
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Myanmar
  • Thailand
  • Viet Nam
Positional Accuracy Calculations used to get total land area from percentages of land area for various categories.
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Process Step From the SDBS, select Countries: Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam; Topics: SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENT INDICATORS; Indicators: Land area, total; Land, agriculture (% of land area), Land, cropped, permanent (%); Year: 2012. Use the download to CSV format option to retrieve data. Calculate the Agriculture land area using percentage of total land area; Calculate Cropped land area using the percentage of total land area; Calculate the Pastures and meadows land area by subtracting the Cropped land area from the Agriculture land area.
Lineage ADB's Statiscal Database. https://sdbs.adb.org/sdbs/ Downloaded from Asian Development Bank's Statistical Database System (SDBS); Date of download: Mon May 16 18:35:36 PHT 2016.
Responsible party Asian Development Bank, Statistical Database. https://sdbs.adb.org/sdbs/contact.jsp
Metadata creator information Original Source: 2010-2012: Food and Agriculture Organization. Agricultural land: Land area that is arable, under permanent crops, and under permanent meadows and pastures. Cropped Land: The land used for agriculture. It is the total of arable land and land under permanent crops. Cropped land can be subdivided further into cropped land irrigated and cropped land non-irrigated. Land Area, Total: Land Area, Total comprises the land area of the country including areas under inland water bodies (major rivers and lakes).
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Date uploaded June 22, 2016, 05:07 (UTC)
Date modified March 14, 2018, 08:58 (UTC)