Global Map of Irrigation Areas

Iceland

No data on irrigation in Iceland were available. However, there exists some vegetable production on Iceland, e.g. cucumbers and tomatoes [IS01]. The total harvested vegetable area was 77 ha in 2003 [IS02]. Because of the climatic conditions on Iceland it can be assumed that most of this production is coming from greenhouses what also would indicate that there might be some irrigation. For this study it was nevertheless assumed that there is no irrigation in Iceland.

References

[IS01]: Statistics Iceland. 2005. Iceland in figures 2005–2006. Reykjavik, Iceland, 33 pp., available at: http://www.statice.is/, 31/07/2006.
[IS02]: FAO. 2006. FAOSTAT – FAO Statistical Databases, available at: http://faostat.fao.org/, 31/07/2006.