Luxembourg

In Luxembourg only some small scale vegetable production is irrigated [LU01], but irrigation statistics were not available. 36 ha vegetable production was reported for Luxembourg and year 2002 [LU02]. It was assumed that 75 pecent of the vegetable production is irrigated, which results in an estimate of 27 ha for the area equipped for irrigation. The irrigated area is visible in the table below and also can be downloaded as Luxemburgo irrigation areas in PDF or Luxemburgo irrigation areas in Excel.

Irrigation maps were not available for Luxembourg. Instead of it, area equipped for irrigation was assigned to polygons extracted from the Corine 2000 land cover database for Europe [LU03] classified as non-irrigated arable land (211) or complex cultivation patterns (242) that were located within polygons indicating coarse soil (sltxtcl = 1) as extracted from a European soil map [LU04].

Percentage of irrigated area from groundwater sources was estimated at 70 percent based on the statistics for neighbouring Belgian provinces.

References

[LU01]: Baldock, D., Caraveli, H., Dwyer, J., Einschütz, S., Petersen, J.E., Sumpsi-Vinas, J. & Varela-Ortega, C. 2000. The environmental impacts of irrigation in the European Union. A report to the Environment Directorate of the European Commission, 147 pp., http://ec.europa.eu/environment/agriculture/, 07/07/2006.
[LU02]: Ministere de l'Agriculture, de la Viticulture et du Développement rural. 2005. L'agriculture luxembourgeoise en chiffres. Service d'économie rurale, Luxembourg, 33 pp., http://www.statistiques.public.lu/fr/publications/thematiques/ Entreprises/Agriculture_en_chiffres/index.html, 07/07/2006.
[LU03]: EEA. 2005. Corine land cover 2000 - vector by country (CLC2000), version 1. http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=667, 29/08/2005.
[LU04]: The Commission of the European Communities, Directorate General for Agriculture, Coordination of Agricultural Research. 1985. Soil Map of the European Communities at 1:1 000 000. The Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, ISBN 92-825-5427-9, L-2985 Luxembourg, 124 pp., http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/, 07/07/2006.