Table 4 Holdings with livestock manure spreading and area fertilized at least once. 2000*

4	Holdings with livestock manure spreading and area fertilized at least once. 2000*

	With spreading, total	Agricultural area fertilized at least once, total¹	Agricultural area in use, total²	Part of agricultural area fertilized at least once	With spreading on crop land³	Area of crop land fertilized at least once³	With spreading on meadows for mowing and pastures⁴	Area of meadows for mowing and pastures fertilized at least once⁴


		Decares		Per cent		Decares		Decares
The whole country	42 258	3 618 954	7 652 730	47	31 561	1 181 410	29 952	2 530 389

Region
South-Eastern Norway	6 671	475 605	1 557 254	31	5 986	293 072	2 886	193 071
Hedmark and Oppland	6 928	507 345	1 409 212	36	6 588	298 818	3 125	230 772
Rogaland	5 090	575 611	956 206	60	3 361	128 503	4 651	457 879
Western Norway	12 172	824 003	1 464 382	56	6 396	80 304	10 751	756 297
Trøndelag	6 625	797 649	1 369 934	58	5 739	300 360	4 971	520 838
Northern Norway	4 772	438 740	895 742	49	3 491	80 353	3 567	371 532

Main production
Cattle	24 801	2 824 032	5 079 298	56	18 844	777 407	21 230	2 133 159
Pork	2 581	299 566	638 432	47	2 343	224 149	918	78 151
Sheep and goat	12 617	369 687	1 454 886	25	8 464	105 738	6 957	266 684
Poultry	1 214	95 160	258 662	37	1 018	58 781	502	36 957
Horse, farmraised fur-bearing animals and rabbit	1 045	30 508	221 452	14	892	15 335	345	15 438

Agricultural area in use
0- 4 decares	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5- 74 '	9 160	181 901	532 502	34	5 992	59 323	5 261	124 983
75-149 '	12 861	748 520	1 551 781	48	8 776	179 522	9 429	586 287
150-249 '	12 194	1 308 508	2 452 398	53	9 613	343 615	9 746	1 006 967
250- '	8 043	1 380 025	3 116 031	44	7 181	598 950	5 516	812 152

¹	The same area could be fertilized both as crop land and meadows during 2000.
²	Refers to holdings with at least 1,0 calulated animal manure unit.
³	Included meadows that were plought and sawed with grass again.
⁴	Not included meadows that were plought and sawed with grass again.