arable

IPA: ˈɛrʌbʌɫ

(agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
(agriculture, NGO jargon, of land) Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).

Examples of "arable" in Sentences

41The other way to gain arable land was reclamation.
Suriname arable land: 0. 37\% permanent crops: 0. 06\% other: 99. 57\% (2001)
Thus, often so-called arable lands will have to be planted again with other crops.
Of the 57.5 million square miles of land on the planet, only 7.65 are arable, that is, suitable for farming.
His three acres lay tilted skyward at the point where the rocks of the Honan mountains met what might charitably be called the arable fields.
I suspect future price growth won't be quite as fast as some are predicting, although over the long term arable is going to continue to attract investors.
Because these cities exist in arable and agriculturally poor conditions, experts conclude that they primarily relied on the salt industry for economic and agrarian support acquired through exchange.
My background is in arable farming so I haven't needed to be an expert on sugarbeet beyond knowing that we're being threatened by cheap Brazilian sugarbeet and that the government is threatening the industry's future by opting for huge price cuts in the price of sugarbeet when the EU changes the system in 2006.