Abstract
The contribution brings detail characteristics of the so-called white areas. It aims to describe white areas on the basis of selected attributes of agricultural land (such as typological-productive categories of agricultural land, potential level of cost-effectivness at crops growing, primary, secondary and other agricultural soil funds) and to compare these results with the results of procedures applied in the APVV project Waste lands and landscape abandoning in Slovakia as well as to highlight discrepancies in delimitation of both forest and agricultural soil fund. Nearly 80% of the Slovak white areas is situated on potential uneconomic agricultural soils, most of white areas (70%) is situated on the other agricultural soil fund and 25% of forests on non-forest land are not registered in the agricultural soil fund.