Permanent Crops Area by Country

This chart shows permanent crops area by country.

Permanent crops are crops that, after each harvest, do not have to be planted for several years.

A permanent crop is one produced from plants which last for many seasons, rather than being replanted after each harvest.

Traditionally, "arable land" included any land suitable for the growing of crops, even if it was actually being used for the production of permanent crops such as grapes or peaches. Modern agriculture—particularly organizations such as the CIA and FAO—prefer the term of art permanent cropland to describe such "cultivable land" that is not being used for annually-harvested crops such as staple grains.