Sentences with phrase «hectares by»

In 1881 two speculators acquired pastoral rights to approximately 800,000 hectares by «marking off» an area that was assumed to follow the Ord River, on the «understanding» that when the course of the Ord River was eventually mapped the pastoral areas would be «transferred» to match the course of the river.

The nation pledged to increase its forest cover to 95 million hectares by 2030.

Other pre-2020 goals China is pursuing include increasing the share of energy derived from renewables and nuclear to 15 percent and raise forest cover by 40 million hectares by 2020.

For the NWT, it represents an epic burning more than 15 times that of the 15 year average (which is usually 185,000 hectares by this time of year).»

Ayala Center Cebu is a large shopping mall that covers no less than 9 hectares by Archbishop Reyes Avenue.

The area will have grown to 34.4 million hectares by 2023, and production to 99.2 million tonnes of soybeans, a rise of 22 per cent.

SUCAFINA and the Kahawatu Foundation, a Swiss Non-Profit, improve yields per hectare by running model farms, teaching good agricultural practices at farmer field schools, and cooperating with other NGOs and clients to put more income at growers» disposal.

They expected to increase yields per hectare by 30 %.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

While the wildfires still burn uncontrolled on nearly 580,000 hectares, the approximately 100,000 people displaced by the wildfires were allowed to return to Fort McMurray and the nearby oil sands operations beginning June 1.

By then the fire had claimed nearly 600,000 hectares of land including people's homes and livelihoods.»

The Harper government announced in its spring budget that they would begin the phase out of the program and transfer the 900,000 hectares (87 sites) of lands to the provinces by 2018.

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.

In 1950 Panama had about 570,000 head of cattle and approximately 550,000 hectares of pasturage; by 1970 the number of cattle had risen to 1.2 million head and the pasturage to 1.1 million hectares (Heckadon Moreno 1984b, 18).

Most farms are less than five acres (two hectares) in size and are operated by individual families.

Australia has 53 % of the world's organically - managed farmland (over 27 million hectares) The numbers of certified organic operators in Australia grew by 5 % between 2015 and 2016.

Working closely with the VP Production & Winemaker Amélie Boury, mentored by Founder & Chairman Paul Bosc Sr., and reporting to President & CEO Paul Bosc Jr., the Vineyard Manager will be responsible for operating a total of 110 hectares of vitis vinifera vineyards on four sites to produce exceptional quality grapes.

Organic agriculture is practiced in 164 countries, and more than 37.5 million hectares of agricultural land are managed organically by 1.9 million farmers.

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).

The decision by Accolade in 2012 to shut down its bottling hall and warehousing at the corporate headquarters at Reynella had a sequel three weeks ago, when the 32 - hectare site was sold to unlisted public company Tarac Technologies.

The majority of the coffee in the world is grown in 50 developing nations by producers that each farm less than 5 hectares of land [1].

The sale, announced by Christie's International Vineyards - Bordeaux, included the winery's current stocks, roughly 69 hectares of land and 43 hectares of vineyards all of which has gone to a Chinese wine company called SCEA Degore.

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.

Under this renovation scheme, Moringa will pay the approximately $ 4,000 per hectare in renovation costs, making use of the new and advanced coffee varieties developed and sold locally by ECOM (H1 and H3 hybrids, and Marsellesa) and plant timber and shade trees.

Scale is a key component of this venture — Moringa's efforts are part of Nicaragua's 2.7 million hectare contribution to the Initiative 20 × 20, sponsored by World Resource Institute (WRI), whose objective is to restore 20 million hectares of forests in Latin America.

The 1100 - hectare northern portion was purchased by the family during the 1960s, having been part of the original Quiamong cattle station.

Late on Wednesday night an Australian trust managed by Laguna Bay Pastoral and backed by Swiss, Danish and United States fund managers agreed to pay more than $ 200 million for 12,000 hectares of almond groves in northern Victoria.

In a study made by MASIPAG, a farmer needs about Php 9,800.00 to purchase GM corn seeds to plant one hectare.

Almost haft of the global organic agricultural land is in Oceania (27.3 million hectares), followed by Europe (23 percent; 13.5 million hectares), and Latin America (12 percent; 7.1 million hectares).

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.

The reserve, established by the Guatemalan government in 1990, spans nearly 5.2 million acres (2.1 million hectares) and also includes the ancient Maya city of Tikal.

Perched on top of a mountain overlooking Burleigh Heads, it's surrounded by 200 hectares of bush.

Kevin Tongue, who runs a 2000 - hectare property near Tamworth, NSW, of which 25 per cent is devoted to wheat and barley, said it was important that Australian growers were able to gain access to markets freely without being handicapped by tariffs.

The 85 - hectare property which grows strawberries, pineapples, lychees and raspberries, was bought from administrators in 2015 by legendary fruit sellers Don Alroe & Sons.

The price has not been disclosed by local insiders valued at the orchards under netting — which protect the fruit from the sun — at around $ 70,000 per hectare.

Boorowa Agricultural Research Station (BARS) will be a purpose - built 290 hectare facility designed to help develop Australian farms of the future by testing emerging technologies in crop science, agronomy and farming systems.

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.

Property records show the two - storey homestead on 72 hectares in Armagh, with 54 hectares of planted vines, was acquired by Sydney - based Million Wines for about $ 3.5 million.

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.

A recent report has shown that IRRI's rice breeding work has increased rice yields in Vietnam and is delivering $ 610 million per year to the country and has increased farmers» returns by US$ 127 a hectare in southern Vietnam.

A recent report has shown that IRRI's rice breeding work has increased rice yields in the Philippines and is delivering $ 204 million per year to the country and has increased farmers» returns by US$ 52 a hectare.

Barrel Room at Ponte Family Estate Winery (12 guests) Ponte Family Estate Winery is surrounded by 310 acres / 125 hectares of mature vineyards and by views of rolling hills.

The satellite - generated maps, developed by the International Rice Research Institute in collaboration with sarmap and the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice), show that flooding has affected about 1,800 hectares of standing rice crop across 15 municipalities and that the typhoon badly damaged buildings where harvested rice may have been stored.

«The use of the Rice Crop Manager will hopefully bring an increase in yield or productivity, and also raise the income of farmers by about Php 4,000 per crop per hectare,» said Dr. Manny Regalado, acting deputy director for research at the Department of Agriculture - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).