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Agricultural growth	90		[121st of 149]
Agricultural land > % of land area	22.75 % of land area		[59th of 198]
Agricultural land > sq. km	22,810 sq. km		[46th of 198]
Agricultural machinery > tractors	10,789		[83rd of 190]
Arable and permanent cropland	7 thousand hectares		[148th of 148]
Arable land > % of land area	0.07 % of land area		[76th of 199]
Arable land > hectares	7,000 hectares		[72nd of 199]
Cereal production	90 thousand metric tons		[121st of 149]
Crop production index	89.8 %		[169th of 182]
Fertilizer consumption > metric tons	17,888 metric tons		[109th of 169]
Food production index	104.3 %		[110th of 182]
Labor share	8.2%		[121st of 149]
Livestock production index	105 %		[95th of 181]
Meat production	20 thousand metric tons		[143rd of 149]
Products potatoes, green vegetables; mutton, dairy products; fish
Tractor concentration	1,288.4		[1st of 147]
Tractors	9,019		[81st of 147]
value added > annual % growth	3.77 %		[73rd of 164]
value added per worker > constant 2000 US$	53,027.48 constant 2000 US$		[2nd of 163]
Workers per hectare	1.9		[25th of 148]

Interesting facts on Icelandic Agriculture

• Iceland has many, many more tractors per 1000 hectares of cropland than any other nation - more than twice that of the next highest country, Slovenia.

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