Arable land

Ownership of land is an emotional subject in a country that has suffered a string of occupations through its history.

Opinion polls showed two-thirds of Lithuanians opposed to selling land to foreigners.

Lithuania's Chief Electoral Commission confirmed on Monday that those behind the iniative had collected the 300,000 signatures needed to call a vote - the first such popular initiative to succeed since the country broke away from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Parliament must choose a date for the vote between May and July.

A 50% turnout is needed for the referendum to pass a binding decision, and at least a third of the electorate must support the measure.

arable (adj.)
early 15c., "suitable for plowing" (as opposed to pasture- or wood-land), from Old French arable (12c.), from Latin arabilis, from arare "to plow," from PIE *are- "to plow" (cf. Greek aroun, Old Church Slavonic orja, Lithuanian ariu "to plow;" Gothic arjan, Old English erian, Middle Irish airim, Welsh arddu "to plow;" Old Norse arþr "a plow"). Replaced by late 18c. native erable, from Old English erian "to plow," from the same PIE source.

Plūgu, plūgeliu, kuo gi kitu...

plow (n.) 

late Old English plog, ploh "plow; plowland" (a measure of land equal to what a yoke of oxen could plow in a day), possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse plogr "plow," Swedish and Danish plog), from Proto-Germanic *plogo- (cf. Old Saxon plog, Old Frisian ploch "plow," Middle Low German ploch, Middle Dutch ploech, Dutch ploeg, Old High German pfluog, German Pflug), a late word in Germanic, of uncertain origin. Old Church Slavonic plugu, Lithuanian plugas "plow" are Germanic loan-words, as probably is Latin plovus, plovum "plow," a word said by Pliny to be of Rhaetian origin.

 

Plūgą, matai, germanai mums gilioj žiloj senobėj paskolino...

O iš kur gavo - patys nebežino.

 

Negi nušvilpė?

 

Nebūtų tokia suplūkta žemelė - gal nereiktų to plūgo?  

 

Koks sutapimas: plūgą paskolino, nežinia iš kur patys jį gavę (gal tikrai jį nuskraidino?), o dabar pirkt mūsų žemelę irgi va už kokiu būdu gautus piningus ketina...
 

Na, ar ne plūgas?

 

The value for Arable land (hectares) in Lithuania was 2,185,700 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,953,000 in 1999 and a minimum value of 1,525,000 in 2003.