New Zealand Arable Land 1961-2025

New Zealand arable land for 2021 was 616,000, a 16.89% increase from 2020.
  • New Zealand arable land for 2020 was 527,000, a 3.48% decline from 2019.
  • New Zealand arable land for 2019 was 546,000, a 5.3% increase from 2018.
  • New Zealand arable land for 2018 was 518,500, a 5.6% increase from 2017.
Arable land (in hectares) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.