The 2007 Census of Agriculture identified approximately 326,000 hectares of land in farms. This represents a decline of 81,624 hectares representing just over 20 per cent since 1996. Approximately 62 per cent of the land in farming may be classified as active farm land; that is land allocated to crops and pasture.

Land in crops declined by over 23,000 hectares between 1996 and 2007 but represented a higher proportion of farmland in 2007. The approximately 154,500 hectares in crops in 2007 represented 47 per cent of farmland. The 177,580 hectares in crops in 1996 accounted for approximately 42 per cent of the total land in farms. In relation to land in pasture, the 48,200 hectares reported in 2007 was just about 50 per cent less than the approximately 95,600 hectares reported in 1996. In relation to the parish distribution, the parishes with the largest proportion of the total land in farming reported are: Clarendon (14 per cent), St Catherine (12 per cent), St Ann and Westmoreland (11 per cent). St Elizabeth which reported an estimated 11 per cent of farmland in 1996 accounted for 9 per cent of the total in 2007.