farmland; cultivated land; fields
Refers to land used for growing crops, especially dry fields as opposed to rice paddies. Common in agricultural and geographical contexts.
Wheat is grown on the farmland in this region.
Permission is required to convert farmland into residential land.
A compound of 畑, here read はた, and 地, read ち, both meaning cultivated land. The first element uses a native reading and the second a Sino-Japanese reading.