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Table 5 3. Area (in ha) covered by agroforestry systems on agricultural land* where land consolidation or reclamation was carried out followed by irrigation, which resulted in the removal of almost all the naturally grown trees. Consequently, we subtracted the irrigated area from the total agricultural area as well as the area under pure tree plantations (monocultures) and arrived to a figure of 1,044,875 ha, which represents 30% of the whole agricultural area (Table 5.3). This area includes agroforestry systems with both naturally occurring and cultivated trees. For the lat- ter, we estimated their area using the data of the National Statistical Service of Greece (2005) for the cultivated trees planted out of pure plantations (monocultures). The results are shown in (Table 5.3) and indicate that such systems represent 19% of the whole area of agroforestry systems on agricultural land. This figure however is a conservative estimate because we assumed that these trees are planted in the same densities as the ones in pure plantations, which is not true. Nevertheless, it represents the closest estimation we can get with the available data.
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