Sentences with phrase «hectare annually»

«The trend is clear — perennial pastures sequester 5 to 10 tonnes of CO2 per hectare annually.»

Higher farmer income: Filipino rice farmers are earning an additional Php 2,184 per hectare annually by using IRRI - bred rice varieties, and the country overall benefits by Php 8.5 billion a year.

Filipino rice farmers are earning an additional Php 2,184 per hectare annually by using IRRI - bred rice varieties, and the country overall benefits by Php 8.5 billion a year.

Tree stumps are recovered from one in every ten clearcutting areas, totalling some 10,000 - 20,000 hectares annually, which is, at its highest, equivalent to an area the size of Helsinki.

South America and Africa continue to have the largest net loss of forest At a regional level, South America suffered the largest net loss of forests between 2000 and 2010 — about 4.0 million hectares per year — followed by Africa, which lost 3.4 million hectares annually (Figure 5).

South America has sustained the second greatest forest loss since 1990 — 59 million hectares — and deforestation has accelerated somewhat over the last five years, from 3.8 million hectares a year in the 1990s to 4.3 million hectares annually since 2000.

The spread of planted forests has been accelerating, rising from an expansion of 3.7 million hectares annually in the 1990s to 4.9 million hectares annually the following decade.

Not exact matches

In 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the world.

Speller says that estimates of the plant's yield vary widely, from below 20 tonnes annually per hectare to as high as 35 tonnes.

FAO's study found that globally, the rate of deforestation had declined to about 13 million hectares lost annually from 2000 to 2010 compared with 16 million hectares lost each year of the previous decade.

Their results showed that farmers there use about 525 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre (588 kilograms per hectare) annually — releasing about 200 pounds of excess nitrogen per acre (227 kilograms per hectare) into the environment.

«If we were to capture 1 ton of carbon per acre per year on the roughly 5 billion hectares of grasslands worldwide, we would remove 12 Gt of C from the atmosphere per year, that is, 6 ppm annually.

The paper estimates that growing trees on 72 million hectares of land in Europe could result in 1,400 premature deaths on the continent annually at a cost of $ 7.1 B. Currently, 22,000 people are estimated to die prematurely from ozone pollution in Europe every year.

Asia, which had a net loss of forest of some 600 000 ha annually in the 1990s, reported a net gain of forest of more than 2.2 million hectares per year in the period 2000 — 2010, primarily due to the large - scale afforestation reported by China and despite continued high rates of net loss in many countries in South and Southeast Asia.

The frequency and intensity of forest fires in the region have been increasing along with rising temperatures.5, 7,13 An average of around 9.9 million acres (4 million hectares) of boreal forest burned annually in Russia from 1975 to 2005 — and that rate more than doubled in the 1990s.15 One of West Siberia's largest forest fires on record occurred in 2003, claiming some 47 million acres (20 million hectares) of land7, 15 and emitting heat - trapping emissions equal to the total cuts in emissions the European Union pledged under the Kyoto Protocol.2, 7,16 Higher temperatures and thawing permafrost are probably contributing to the rising frequency and severity of forest fires in West Siberia.5, 7,14

China's double cropped rice annually yields 8 tons per hectare.

According to the nurseryman selling the trees, one hectare will yield about 12,000 litres annually.

Due to extensive reforestation, this net forest shrinkage has slowed slightly from the 8.9 million hectares lost annually in the 1990s.

Per hectare, world grain yields rose about two percent annually since 1960.

On average 13 million hectares of tropical forests (an area the size of Greece) are disappearing annually.

In the first decade of this century, the rate of deforestation was slightly lower, but still, a disturbingly high 13 million hectares were destroyed annually.

For Current Proponents: the State will pay $ 700 per hectare per year, escalated annually after five years at CPI plus 2 %.