Table 5.8
1991 | 2011 | |||||||
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Total area seeded | Total area prepared for seeding | Total area seeded | Total area prepared for seeding | |||||
Conventional tillage | Conservation tillage | No-till | Conventional tillage | Conservation tillage | No-till | |||
percent | hectares | percent | hectares | |||||
Canada | 69 | 24 | 7 | 29,028,766 | 19 | 25 | 56 | 29,580,090 |
Taiga Plains | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Boreral Shield | 83 | 14 | 3 | 191,241 | 59 | 30 | 11 | 236,657 |
Atlantic Maritime | 90 | 8 | 2 | 285,007 | 61 | 26 | 13 | 332,303 |
Mixed Wood Plains | 80 | 17 | 3 | 3,096,730 | 39 | 31 | 30 | 3,658,129 |
Boreal Plains | 80 | 18 | 1 | 5,102,600 | 20 | 31 | 49 | 4,731,481 |
Prairies | 64 | 28 | 8 | 19,777,086 | 14 | 22 | 64 | 19,581,496 |
Pacific Maritime | 86 | 5 | 8 | 28,331 | 71 | 16 | 14 | 27,089 |
Montane Cordillera | 85 | 14 | 1 | 60,803 | 50 | 17 | 33 | 51,044 |
Note(s):
Any differences between the results by ecozone and national totals are
due to data suppression to protect confidentiality. See Statistics Canada, 2008,
Census of Agriculture: Environmental Geography Aggregations of Census Farm
Units (survey number 8012) for further details.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 004-0010 (accessed February 3, 2014). Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada and Statistics Canada, special tabulation, Census of Agriculture, Census
Geographic Component Base 2011 and Census of Agriculture Regular
Base 1991.
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