Areas of land used for growing crops and agricultural production.
Compound of 'crop' (cultivated plants harvested together) from Old English 'cropp', and 'lands' (areas of earth); the compound became standard agricultural terminology in English.
Croplands are disappearing faster than rainforests in some parts of the world—when urban sprawl consumes agricultural land, we're not just losing farmland, we're losing food security and the cultural knowledge that farmers developed over centuries.
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