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StatsCan releases study Agriculture in Canada

Nov. 13, 2014 - Statistics Canada has released a new study called Agriculture in Canada, published in the 2014 edition of Human Activity and the Environment. The study gathers together a variety of statistics describing agriculture from the perspective of ecosystem goods and services.

For instance, Canada has more than 50.5 million hectares of agricultural land classified as dependable agricultural land — areas deemed suitable for long-term cultivation. From 2001 to 2011, farm area located on dependable agricultural land declined by 969 802 hectares (-2.6%).

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