Nova Scotia GPI soils and agriculture accounts : Nova Scotia Genuine Progress Index soils and agriculture accounts

Physical account Estimates of the land area suitable for crops and tame pasture in Nova Scotia range from a low of 138,000 ha (current land in crops and pasture) to a high of 1.6 million ha (including potentially suitable land not currently in crops and pasture). [...] Estimates of land area suitable for crops and tame pasture in Nova Scotia range from a low of 138,000 ha (land in crops and pasture in 2006) to a high of 1.6 million ha (including potentially suitable land not currently in crops and pasture) (Tables 1 and 2, and Figure 1 below). [...] The 35% estimate has been extrapolated by the author to the total farm area data for the 1921 to 1971 period to provide estimates of the land in crops and pasture during that earlier period. [...] Therefore, the shaded statistics on land in crops and pasture for the 1921–1971 period are extrapolations by the author based on the percentage of farm area in crops and pasture in 2006. [...] In 2006, 35% of Nova Scotia’s farm area was in crops and pasture, and the percentage of farm area in crops and pasture remained between 32% and 36% for the period 1976–2001 (column 6 of Table 2).