Five crops, one water schedule
Wheat and soybean open the land. Maize, cotton and beetroot follow as irrigation and soil allow.
Year
2036
Wheat
9.0M fed
Maize
3.0M fed
Soybean
2.0M fed
Cotton
1.0M fed
Beetroot
3.0M fed
Pivots
150,376
Ten agriculture polygons in the file measure 117.9 million feddans. Each is tiled at 840 metres. A village stands on every eighth crossing where four circles fit: 64 pivots and 7,661 feddans, with the 220-metre square in the gap. Circles that lie wholly inside the outlines come to 696,716 pivots and 10,782 villages, 83.4 million feddans. The bar is still the year’s land divided by 119.7. That land, at its peak of 53.0 million feddans, fits inside these areas.
Each pivot
119.7 fed
400 m circle
Pivots with each village
64
7,661 feddans
Villages this year
2,350
Villages in the areas
10,782
696,716 pivots
Wheat
9.0M fed
€1.4bn
Maize
3.0M fed
€1.0bn
Soybean
2.0M fed
€2.5bn
Cotton
1.0M fed
€168m
Beetroot
3.0M fed
€870m