ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the results of measuring the areas of particular crops. It achieves by means of land-use and crop surveys in a number of case study areas. It also examines the precise check upon the degree of representativeness of our work in Western Libya as a result of the survey carried out these during 1968, when farms were classified in the same way. The chapter discusses the private and government farms of Eastern Libya that have referred to the dominant dry land sector. It shows the cropping pattern for both winter and summer seasons, for the study areas, which were chosen to reflect conditions on irrigated and non-irrigated, modern and traditional, as well as on private and government run farms. Talbighah is the area where farming activity has increased since the revenues from oil have trickled down to the farmer, either as wages from other employment, agricultural bank loans, or from engagement in business enterprises.
