C. Jakobsson 5/2003
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At least 60
respectively 50% winter-green land is required during
the autumn or winter on every farm with more than
5 hectares arable land in the three most southern counties
and in the rest of Götaland respectively. Only open fields, not natural
pastures or grazing land, are affected by the requirements. Both the time for
sowing and for interrupting plant growth are regulated.
The following crops are
accepted: grassland, winter
cereals, winter
oilseeds, energy
forest
(usually Salix), sugar
beets, carrots or other similar root
crops (not potatoes), perennial fruit and berry crops, special
catch crops (usually perennial ryegrass, Lolium perenne), set-aside arable land
with covering plants.
