The cultivation areas in the Kingdom have doubled over the last two decades. In 1975, cultivated land in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was no more than 150,000 acres [60,700 hectares]. The figures for 1998 show that there are now more than 12 million acres [4,885,000 hectares] under cultivation and a further 13 million acres [5.3 million hectares] that could be prepared for cultivation.