Agricultural Land Use Status (ALUS) have been established by
the Rural Support Service (RSS) in Latvia to identify the various
levels of agricultural land management, i.e. (1) managed, (2)
unmanaged, (3) overgrown (with shrubs), (4) under construction,
(5) managed, but is not classified as agricultural land [12].
The five classes of ALUS were used in this study to identify the
potentially available agricultural lands for SRWC production.
Of those, class (2) unmanaged and class (3) overgrown were
considered most suitable for the establishment of SRWC in
Latvia.