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The commission proposes to get rid of a requirement for farmers to leave 10 percent of their fields fallow for a year in order to make more land available for production.
Subsidised fallow is rather less than half of that.
Fallow includes land that is not usable for industrial farming (for economic/mechanical reasons like small field size). More land (I don't have a total figure) is "set aside" and subsidised for specific purposes that may include environmental protection (wetlands, woodlands) or extensive grazing.
The exact final details of what land will be freed for intensive use will depend on each member state's application of the new rules. The EU sets the overall frame, the member states do the detailed implementation. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
