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<p> </p><p>The table below shows the areas of “in conversion” and fully organic land
in the Yorkshire and the Humber region from 2008 to 2013, which is the most recent
year that these data are available. Data is not available just for Yorkshire.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Area of Organic Land in Yorkshire and the Humber region*</p><p>
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</td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td><p>Thousand hectares</p></td></tr><tr><td>
</td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td
colspan="2"><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>In-conversion
land</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4</p></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>3</p><p>12</p></td><td
rowspan="2"><p>1</p><p>14</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>1</p><p>13</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fully
organic land</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>11</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total
organic land</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>15</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>15</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td
colspan="2"><p>10</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Source: Organic
Certification Bodies in the UK.</p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td
colspan="10"><p>Please note that totals may not necessarily agree with the sum of
their components due to rounding.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2">
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colspan="10"><p>* Data is collected during the annual inspections of organic operators.
Due to the nature of annual inspections, the data is collected at varying times throughout
the year. Therefore, the data presented here does not give an exact snapshot of organic
farming at any specific time of year. It should be treated with a degree of caution.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
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