Sentences with phrase «half hectares»

Both majors give students access to two research forests, including the nearby 5,157 - hectare Malcolm Knapff Research Forest.

The South West remains by far the largest wine producing area in the State in terms of total area and production, with 9,208 hectares of vines producing more than 54,000 t of grapes.

Rice - produced on 163m hectares, around 12 % of the global arable area - has one of the greatest plant carbon footprints because it produces a lot of methane.

On Monday, however, Sino - Forest released a slew of documents to showing it owns 173,000 hectares.

WESTERN Australian - listed developer Peet and Company has acquired a 17 - hectare parcel of land in Baldivis, with the potential to create 200 lots.

Over the past decade, B.C. has experienced a devastating mountain pine beetle outbreak, which has destroyed 16.3 million hectares of forest.

Mississauga,Ont. - based Sino - Forest Corp., which owns 512,000 hectares of forest in China, is poised to take advantage of that county's surging demand, says Swetlishoff.

The Federal government has sought to allay community concerns about tree farms - which have jumped 20 per cent in five years in Western Australia to reach almost 400,000 hectares - releasing a report on the impact of timber plantation.

Property developer Garry Brown - Neaves has today formally unveiled a new 18 hectare commercial and industrial precinct within the existing Forrestdale Business Park, bordered by Ranford Road and Alex Wood Drive.

The multi-billion — dollar firm purchased more than 1,300 hectares of undeveloped land on the coast and started touting ambitious, if eclectic, plans.

Satterley Property Group will build its largest residential estate in Victoria after purchasing 214 hectares of land in a deal believed to be worth $ 100 million.

A 1.7 - hectare site combining 12 land holdings near Canning Bridge in Applecross has come onto the market, representing one of the most significant masterplan development opportunities in Perth.

The state government has opened a 2,000 hectare development zone in the Kimberley to pave the way for an increase in fish production.

ASX - listed property group Stockland has invested $ 91 million in the purchase of more than 4,600 residential lots across three metropolitan corridors in Perth, comprising a total 385 hectares of land.

North of San Diego, the Lilac Fire destroyed 105 structures after swelling from 10 acres to 4,100 acres (1,659 hectares) in a few hours on Thursday.

The agreement with the Haisla would allow for the lease or sale of up to 700 hectares of Crown land near the Douglas Channel by the District of Kitimat, on B.C.'s northern coast.

The Perth Airport Estate covers over 700 hectares and has been divided into seven separate areas.

The Accenture study assumes that smart agriculture will deliver a 900 kg crop yield increase per hectare in the coming 15 years.

Institutional investor New Forests has increased its forestry holdings stake in Western Australia and nationally by buying a 21,000 hectare estate.

LANDCORP last week sold a 16 - hectare parcel in the second stage of its Access Park Forestfield industrial estate for $ 10 million.

Sino - Forest Corp. (TSX: TRE) Mississauga,Ont. - based Sino - Forest Corp., which owns 512,000 hectares of forest in China, is poised to take advantage of that county's surging demand, says Swetlishoff.

Another LandCorp development is progressing in Churchlands where four hectares are being developed as a residential subdivision of 55 single residential lots.

Mexico's representative to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Mazzitelli, told AFP that Mexico had destroyed 20,000 hectares of poppies between 2014 and 2015, which indicated the area under cultivation had increased.

Rio Tinto Iron Ore has given the green light to construct a Remote Operations Centre on a two - hectare site at Perth's Domestic Airport, as foreshadowed in WA Business News this month.

Thousands of hectares of tropical forests in Latin America were converted into vast Gros Michel plantations.

It has badly affected this season's crop, prompting the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) in January to start uprooting some 300,000 hectares of infected trees.

«We have invested a lot of money and also other resources to develop productivity,» said one pod counter for a major chocolate maker, estimating yields have risen to 800 kg per hectare, from about 350 - 400 kg per hectare a decade ago.

Previous TEV studies have arrived at strikingly precise figures: one, for example, found a mangrove in Sri Lanka provided services worth US$ 1,088 per hectare per year.

The state government has formalised plans for Chinese group Shanghai Zhongfu to develop thousands of hectares of irrigated land in the Kimberley, more than a year after naming the company as its preferred proponent for the land.

The proposed acquisition includes a 17 - hectare, purpose - built ship building site at Tomago, 14 kilometres from the Port of Newcastle, where the ice breaker Aurora Australis, HMAS Tobruk and hull sections of Collins class submarines were built.

Fort McMurray wildfire is about 204,000 hectares — more than 787 square miles, an area larger than Oklahoma City — and was anticipated to grow by Tuesday.

She and Valerie Langer helped organize one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history in the almost 350,000 hectare wilderness area.

Our approximately 84,000 - hectare Curraghinalt Project includes our flagship Curraghinalt mesothermal gold deposit, and is located in counties Tyrone and Londonderry in Northern Ireland.

The seed companies think providing more data to farmers could increase America's maize yield from 160 bushels an acre (10 tonnes a hectare) to 200 bushels — giving a terrific boost to growers» meagre margins.

Two whole hectares dedicated to demonstrative fields and stables with more than 200 animals and 2000 different cultivars.

In 2015, large demonstrations erupted in the Baikal region against the leasing of more than 100,000 hectares of land for forty - nine years to a Chinese company.

In the forestry sector, warmer winter temperatures linked to climate change is the major factor contributing to the outbreak of the mountain pine beetle in Western Canada, which had reduced the economic value of over 18 million hectares of Canadian forest by 2012.

Between the two projects, Great Bear now has agreement in place to control 9,831 hectares of prospective greenstone belts.

It called for expressions of interest in sub-leasing 266,000 - hectare Hamersley Station last year and came close to reaching a deal with a private company controlled by Kerry Stokes before the process stalled.

The two stations, which cover about 600,000 hectares and are operated as one entity, are estimated to hold up to 15,000 cattle.

In January of this year, Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. announced its intention to mine gravel and placer gold from 13 claims covering nearly 1000 hectares in the Chehalis River watershed near Mission.

Part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Yasuní has more species of trees in a single hectare than all of the US and Canada combined and has more species per hectare of birds, amphibians, mammals, shrubs, and insects than anywhere else in the world.

95 % foreign ownership allowed Plantation firms with more than 25 hectares of land integrated with a processing plant Oil drilling and related

As we noted in a previous report, China recently announced a massive AI - driven initiative in the form of a massive 54.87 - hectare, 13.8 billion yuan ($ 2.1 billion) technopark in Beijing that would house companies directly involved in the development of AI technologies and machine learning.

The 700 - hectare addition brings Lady Pond to 2,450 hectares with exploration and mining dating to the late 19th century.

Since September 2016, the company has grown its portfolio to 210 prospecting rights applications accepted on Japan's three main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, and Kyushu for a combined 69,505 hectares over 17 projects.

Gary: Belmont holds 50 % interest in a large uranium land package (12,841 hectares) in the northern Athabasca Basin near Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada.

The chancellor and mayor launched the scheme today (Monday 16 June) at Meridian Water, an 85 - hectare former industrial site in Enfield with the potential for 5,000 new homes, new schools, a library and commercial space, linking to nearby Lea Valley regional park.

Belmont's current focus is on its 2,760 - hectare Kibby Basin - Monte Cristo Valley, Nevada lithium project.

According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), the total area planted to winter crops is forecast to be a record 19.2 million hectares in 2000/01, following good planting rains across most grain - growing areas in the eastern states.