Hectares Sentence Examples

Now, they are producing sugar cane in an irrigated area of 84 hectares.

In 1902 it was officially estimated that the public land available for permanent agrarian cultivation, including forest lands, was only 186,967 hectares (416,995 acres), almost wholly in the province of Oriente.

For the purchase and distribution of the land a " State Land Office" has been set up. A share in the distribution may be claimed on the one hand by private persons to the amount of 15 hectares (37 ac.) - the amount suitable for cultivation by one family; on the other hand by agricultural, housing and cooperative societies.

During the years in which the soil is allowed to lie fallow, the grass and weeds which spring up serve as pasture for cattle, but the poverty of the pasture is such that at least two hectares are required for the maintenance of every animal.

The present output amounts to roughly 150 million gallons, and the acreage under the vine has increased from 107,048 hectares in 1890 to 167,657 hectares in 1905.

Colonization induced rapid accretion raising the marsh surface by up to 1.75m and covering a maximum area of 800 hectares in 1924.

The state of war with Soviet Russia, however, continued until the Peace Treaty of July 12 1920, whereunder the Lithuanian claim to Vilna and Grodno was recognized by the Bolsheviks and Lithuania received three million rubles in gold and 100,000 hectares of forest land for exploitation.

This Land Act was to be carried out in a series of successive periods, during the first of which only estates over 5,000 hectares (12,350 ac.) would be affected.

The power of the pumping-engines is taken on the basis of 12 h.p. per moo hectares for every metre that the water has to be raised, or stated in another form, the engines must be capable of raising nearly 9 lb of water through I yd.

Woodland on the estate extends to some 15 hectares and represents deciduous broadleaf and woodland dominated by conifers.

You can find it to the north of Northwich, on over 323 hectares of formerly derelict land.

Over 100 hectares of predominantly brownfield land will be released for redevelopment by the move, Defense Minister Derek Twigg announced today.

More than 90 hectares of mainly brownfield land are expected to become available for development over the next ten years.

North West Island - the largest coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef, covering an area of 91 hectares.

The proposed deletions from the existing Green Belt only total some 4 hectares and thus will not diminish its strategic value.

This was defended by a turf rampart on a stone footing which enclosed an area of approximately 2.8 hectares.

The global Ecological Footprint was 13.5 billion global hectares in 2001, or 2.2 global hectares per person.

A major project in the basin is aiming to irrigate 25,000 hectares of land for smallholder farming.

The area of the proposed development together with the roads affected by the scheme will occupy some 8.5 hectares.

In 1990 there were just 630 organic farms, covering 20,000 hectares.

The Park, comprising 8.1 hectares of land, is situated within one mile of Coventry City Center.

A restored 18th century farmhouse with 2 gites and stables surrounded by 13 hectares of gardens and grazing.

In the UK, the average size of horticultural holdings is 16 hectares.

We are working to restore 300 hectares of eroded peat, which is severely eroding.

Large section approx 1.3 Hectares zoned residential Largely flat with natural flowing stream.

Sadly only around 4250 hectares of agriculturally unimproved grasslands remain in Suffolk -- 1.1% of the total area.

A table given by Krabe, based on results obtained for 12 plantations amounting to 20 hectares (50 English acres) during 20 years showed the value of produce per Prussian acre (.2553 of an hectare) to be in the 1st year, £3, 6s.

The area comprises 2,945,503 hectares, or about 11,373 English sq.

The opportunity to re-create several hundred hectares of chalk grassland in the coming years offers huge benefits to people and wildlife.

The annual rate of soil loss in the SALT farm is 3.4 metric tons per hectares, well within the tolerable limits.

Twenty-one percent of the 34 million hectares of cotton were GM, up from 20% last year.

The storm swamped 23,000 hectares of crops, and uprooted over 28,000 cashew trees.

Of the last-named class 30% owned less than 3 hectares, 60% from 10-50 hectares, 3% from 3-to hectares, 5% from 50-100 hectares, while 17% of all the villagers were landless.

It gives the State the right to " take " (seize) and distribute estates in so far as they exceed 150 hectares (370 ac.) of arable land or 250 hectares (617 ac.) of land of any kind.

Large holdings of at least 500 hectares (a hectare equals about 22 acres) are indispensable to the profitable pursuit of extensive agriculture.