Sentences with phrase «hectares as»

A 5 % reduction in those emissions returns 250 to 500 hectares as a functioning reef ecosystem.

Africa, for example, had about 649 million forested hectares as of 2000 (FAO, 2001).

After excluding urban areas, where residents commonly oppose energy projects, and steep slopes that are unsuitable for construction, the study mapped 282,000 hectares as most compatible.

Studies that are compliant with current Ecological Footprint Standards use global hectares as a measurement unit.

Using silviculture systems, they divided 12,000 hectares into 20 annual cutting blocks, reserving the remaining 6,000 hectares as conservation areas, including 600 hectares cut each year for enrichment planning.

While smaller scale producers might stick to 1,500 birds per hectare as the recommended maximum, large scale producers are keeping their hens at much higher densities to cash in on the growing market for free range products.

They may be trickier than trees for environmental protesters to chain themselves to, but it turns out that seagrass ecosystems hold as much carbon per hectare as the world's forests — and are now among its most threatened ecosystems.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

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.

As president / CEO of Skyharbour Resources TSXV: SYH, Jordan Trimble proved adept at fundraising and deal - making while building a 250,000 - hectare uranium - thorium exploration portfolio in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

Defined as farmers with 50 hectares or less of land, smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$ 66 billion industry's oil, but only 14.5 per cent of the world's sustainable palm oil.

Pornsiri Raknukul, who runs a farm of 16 hectares in Krabi province, Southern Thailand, is one of 160,000 palm oil smallholders who run farms certified as sustainable by industry association Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

Only 7 km from the Pacific Ocean this 60 - hectare vineyard was established as part of the Silva family's dedication to identifying the best terroirs within the Colchagua Valley for producing world - class wines.

Born and raised in El Quetzalito, a rural community in the state of Petén, Guatemala, the 48 - year - old Román started working in 1990 with the National Council of Protected Areas of Guatemala (CONAP)-- the organization tasked with making the 2.1m - hectare (6m - acre) Maya Biosphere Reserve a reality — and has worked in conservation ever since, including as director of CONAP.

The fund, which owns 23,000 hectares of the highest - quality farms in Australia — from King Island to Moree in NSW — is backed by major superannuation funds such as Australian Super, Australian Catholic Super, AMP Capital, the former AUSCOAL Super now Mine Wealth & Wellbeing, the University of Melbourne, Christian Super and private investor and retiring AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick.

[32] In 2014, India planted approximately 93 percent of its cotton as GM (11.6 million hectares / 28, 664,224 acres), as did China (93 percent or 4 million hectares / 9, 884,215 acres).

Over 408 acres (165 hectares) are designated as pastureland, accommodating the herd of 324 cattle, including 123 dairy cows.

However, the result was not a true reflection of the company's performance as it actually had a very strong year with cotton crop yields as high as 15 bales per hectare — well above the top 20 per cent of Australian growers.

The company also benefited from increased water availability during the season resulted in 1823 hectares finishing as semi-irrigated cotton.

Conversely, the free range system allows stocking as many as 60,000 birds per hectare and the hens» feed could contain GMs and pesticides.

Singapore - based Pardoo Beef Corporation, run by Bruce Cheung, purchased the 198,000 hectare Pardoo Station for $ 13.5 million earlier this month while other major operators such as Great Giant Livestock Co, the second - largest cattle feedlot in Indonesia, and Japfa, also known as Santori, spent a combined $ 50 million buying cattle stations in the far north.

In a separate development, free range egg producers are threatening to go to the ACCC if the Egg Corporation persists in allowing free range farmers to run as many as 20,000 laying birds per hectare, the equivalent of two birds a square metre.

British wine company Bibendum Wine has sold the Argento Wine Company to the Argentine group, Inversora Agroindustrial Sudamericana, which owns several hundred hectares of premium vineyards in Mendoza as well as the prestigious Bodega Vistalba, Bodega Garzon in Uruguay and Renwood Winery in Amador County, California.

In an oversupplied wine industry undergoing consolidation, differing prices such as $ 15,000 - to - $ 25,000 per hectare in the Riverland and $ 40,000 - to - $ 60,000 in the more premium McLaren Vale already reflect the view that warm - climate, heavily irrigated areas have less value, says Colliers national director of rural and agribusiness Tim Altschwager.

Rather than a big bang, however, it is going to be a slower transition, as there will be no public money to pay the growers to pull out their vines — a process costing about $ 3000 a hectare — and will only happen as large producers such as Treasury Wine Estates, Accolade Wines and Pernod Ricard buy fewer grapes, he said.

The property, a former dairy farm was totally ravaged by the bushfire, despite the devastation, Paul and Kathy could see great potential as a vineyard site and commenced plantings which has grown to close to 16 hectares today.

Among the properties that are being advertised this spring is the 8560 - hectares Warren - district sheep holding Raby Station — home to the famous Raby Merino Stud — being sold by the Qatar Investment Authority's Hassad Food which could fetch more than $ 20 million as part of an $ 80 million sell - down of properties in its Australian portfolio.

Daniel Peterson cupped beans from all over the farm, and discovered the pleasant citrusy flavor present in the mixed beans from the farm as a whole were being flavored by some outstanding beans from a 50 hectare plot in one small valley at the high end (1550 m) of the farm: the Esmeralda Especial.

«12 different native tree species» is not the same as «minimum 12 native tree species per hectare on average.»

The deal, which could be in the order of $ 400 million, comes just as the board of Australia's largest land holder S. Kidman & Co entered into a $ 371 million deal with Chinese group Dakang to sell its entire business covering more than 10 million hectares.

«The price per hectare of average cotton growing area in places such as Moree [in NSW north] was up around $ 20,000 per hectare whereas the values in the Riverina were about $ 10,000 per hectare, so there was some attraction in buying there.»

Approximately 200,000 hectares of the Marshes have been listed as nationally important, with approximately 19,000 hectares also listed as internationally significant under the Convention of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar).

Australia is the country with the largest organic agricultural area (17.2 million hectares, with 97 % of that area used as grazing), followed by Argentina (3.2 million hectares) and the United States of America (2.2 million hectares).

Yields increased to as much as 12 tons per hectare.

We inspect and certify more than 250,000 hectares of organic or in - conversion land, as well as hundreds of food processing and other organic enterprises.

Few data exist on pig and poultry farms, but labour per hectare of utilized agricultural area seems to be similar to conventional farms, as livestock density is reduced.

This means small growers with 500 broiler chickens spread across 20 hectares will be treated the same as farms with 500,000 birds in sheds.

As livestock generally provides a lower return per hectare than crops, organic cereal / livestock producers are doubly disadvantaged as they have lower yields, especially during conversion, and a less favourable output miAs livestock generally provides a lower return per hectare than crops, organic cereal / livestock producers are doubly disadvantaged as they have lower yields, especially during conversion, and a less favourable output mias they have lower yields, especially during conversion, and a less favourable output mix.

In Australia, initial interest in bamboo in the 80s and 90s as a commercial crop had resulted in 200 hectares under plantation by 2002.

The company is based in the historic Château de Riquewihr built in 1549, having vineyard holdings of 32 hectares, 25 % of which is designated as Grand Cru.

After buying the neighboring vineyards, as well as pockets, which were originally the results of the Mac Carthy's parceling out, the vineyard attains an area of 55 hectares in 1994.

• Sited in the commune of Decines - Charpieu, 10 km east of central Lyon, the stadium is part of a complex spanning over 50 hectares and featuring a training ground for OL as well as hotels and office buildings.

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.

Governor Ambode also urged prospective investors to take advantage of the wetland environment as well as a 1,500 hectares reserve of tropical hard woods to invest in water hyacinth recycling, fisheries and fish farm estate, arable crop estates, rice processing mill, livestock resources, forestry, agricultural equipment and human capacity development in Agriculture.

In his remarks, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi disclosed that 2,000 hectares of land had been acquired and cultivated for cashew plantation, adding that as soon as the people are showing interest in farming, more land would be released for that purpose.

Providing further details of the deal, Governor Ahmed's Chief Economic Assistant and DG of the state PPP Office, Mr. Abayomi Ogunsola said the deal involves the state government providing up to N1b in counterpart funding and 400 hectares of land as well as infrastructure support.