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Land use | Changing land use patterns
- Agricultural and forestry products earn more than half of New Zealand's export income. Agriculture has been a major earner in New Zealand's economy for more than 100 years.
- Farming animals, growing crops, and forestry uses over half of New Zealand's available land.
- Farming and forestry employed about 8.5 percent of employed people aged over 15 years in 2001.
Major Commodities Exported
Year ended 30 June 2002
Land use
Use of Agricultural Land
Year ended 30 June 2002
Changing land use patterns
- Grazing and arable land use has decreased by 12 percent since 1994 to 12.0 million hectares in 2002.
- Horticultural land use has increased by 6 percent since 1994 to 110,000 hectares as at 30 June 2002.
- More land is being used for horticulture as the area planted in wine grapes continues to increase.
- The area planted in production forest has increased by more than a quarter since 1994 as marginal farming land is converted.
Agriculture in New Zealand
Animal farming in New Zealand
Forestry in New Zealand
Growing crops in New Zealand
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