Sentences with phrase «hectares in»

The proceedings concerned a holding of some 80.9 hectares in Derbyshire (the property).

During the last half of the twentieth century, world irrigated area nearly tripled, expanding from 94 million hectares in 1950 to 276 million hectares in 2000.

«70,000 unfarmed hectares in the Niari region,» > translation > another huge area of rain forest destruction and wild habitat destruction for a bit of oil.

The area under oil palm cultivation in Indonesia expanded from 673,000 hectares in 1990 to more than 5 million in 2008 and the country expects to produce 21 - 23 million tons of palm oil this year, extending its lead as the world's top producer.

It covers 7 hectares in the middle of the densely packed city and offers a shady, green oasis in the sweltering tropical heat.

The island and the adjacent mainland cover 74 hectares in the city of Boulogne - Bilancourt.

Asia lost a net 8 million hectares in the 1990s but gained a net 5 million hectares between 2000 and 2005.

Likewise, the amount of organic cotton farmers grew worldwide in 2007 - 2008 jumped 152 percent, notes the O'Donnell, Texas - based non-profit, resulting in 145,872 metric tons grown on 161,000 hectares in 22 countries.

Now widely used in the production of corn and soybeans, no - till has spread rapidly in the western hemisphere, covering 26 million hectares in Brazil, 20 million hectares in Argentina, and 13 million in Canada.

This plan, originally proposed by Olusegun Obasanjo when he was president of Nigeria, calls for planting 300 million trees on 3 million hectares in a long band stretching across Africa.

The FRSWC landfill site is 120 hectares in area and services a population of approximately 115,000.

The surface cultivated for a staple crop like cassava has declined from 2.4 million hectares in 1991 to 1.9 million in 2001.

As of 2010, Alaska had a land area of 237 hectares in its lone community called Berlin.

The areas involved are not likely to be large — a fringing zone of a few hundred hectares in some places.

For example, large - scale plantations of perennial sea buckthorn shrubs on more than 1.2 million hectares in northwest China have reduced soil erosion and land degradation and have formed a new sustainable sea buckthorn industry for the local economy.

Using satellite images to reveal changes in forest cover between 1972 and 2002, researchers from the University of Papua New Guinea and the Australian National University found that Papua New Guinea (PNG) lost more than 5 million hectares of forest over the past three decades — total forest cover declined from 38 million hectares in 1972 to 33 million hectares in 2002.

Total adoption in the Plausible Scenario is 57.9 million hectares in 2050, representing 78.2 percent of the total suitable land.

Various certification schemes have collectively certified hundreds of millions of hectares in the last decade and certification can result in measurable improvements in management practices (Gullison, 2003).

Over 26000 popular gardens cover 2438,7 hectares in Havana and produce 25000 tons of food each year; a total of 299 square kilometres of urban agriculture produces 113525 tons / year (Mario Gonzalvez Novo and Catherine Murphy in Bakker et al. 2000);

On the Conversion between local and global hectares in Ecological Footprint analysis.

As of 2005, the world had 205 million hectares in forest plantations, an area equal to nearly one third of the 700 million hectares planted in grain.

The fall in China's grain harvest is due largely to a shrinkage of the grain harvested area from 90 million hectares in 1998 to 76 million hectares in 2003.

The site itself is just under 4 000 hectares in size, of which about 50ha will be used for the nuclear plant.

Expanding world population has cut the grainland per person in half, from 0.23 hectares in 1950 to 0.10 hectares in 2007.

Approximately 25,375,000 hectares in sub-Saharan Africa are under maize cultivation, of which 6,122,000 ha are affected by the parasitic striga weed.

Resting on 100 hectares in a secluded valley near Hazyview, just 10 km from the world famous Kruger Park, this romantic retreat comprises a spa, two restaurants and luxury...

Spanning an area of over 130,000 hectares in the middle of Sulu Sea, it is part of what experts call the Coral Triangle, regarded as the center of marine biodiversity in the planet.

The park is 130 hectares in total, and the sections which are built up (only 3 or 4 percent) took 150 people 4 years to build!

Camp Nguni is a game lodge is situated in the eastern district of Victoria Wes, in the Northern Cape, on a privately owned farm, approximately a 1000 - hectares in size.

Buffelsvlei is a privately owned game farm stretching over 1800 hectares in the pristine Limpopo Bushveld.

The reserve is 2200 hectares in extent and is the third largest Nature Reserve in the Cape.

«José do Canto Garden» One of the richest botanical gardens in Azores, the «José Castro» Garden was planted from 1845, and occupies about six hectares in the centre of Ponta Delgada.

Garuda Wisnu Kencana is area with large 240 hectares in Jimbaran, was build as a Icon of Bali islands.

Located on a property of eight hectares in the Adelaide Hills approximately 30 minutes from the central business district.

The property is 21 hectares in size with 10 hectares of natural bushland, providing bushwalking, bike riding, and bird and animal watching.

The island is 125 km long and over 160,000 hectares in area.

The Orchard offers you relaxing Bed and Breakfast hospitality on 50 hectares in the Byron Bay hinterland.

Makasutu means «sacred forest», and is now a private woodland reserve which covers 1000 hectares in the Kombo Central District.

The Adriana Beach Club Hotel Resort features 439 rooms with all the modern amenities you'll need and is spread over 17 hectares in individual two - storey blocks for complete peace and quiet.

The «Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces» covers 16,603 hectares in southern Yunnan, and features the rice terracing which descends down the slopes of the Ailao Mountains to the banks of the Hong River.

Coach House Hotel and Spa is situated on 560 hectares in the lush sub-tropical Letaba district of Limpopo.

In 1984, the architect Miguel Quintana Pali acquired five hectares in Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, to construct his residence.

It's a single rock of bulai granite that is 38 hectares in size and you can visit it by appointment.

Occupying two hectares in the middle of hills forest, all you can relish is lush vegetation...

Only 11 hectares in size it forms an almost near perfect circle in the middle of the lush green south coast.

They do have the mineral rights to 1.7 mio hectares in Norway, but for the moment, the company's resource value & development efforts are focused on Northern Ireland (go on, pay a visit!).

It found that from 2003 to 2013, cropland in this part of the Cerrado boomed, adding 2.3 million hectares in area, roughly the size of New Jersey.

«Quality protein maize varieties are grown by farmers on 1.2 million hectares in Africa, Asia, and Latin America,» said Prasanna, in his presentation, adding that provitamin - A-enriched maize varieties have also been released in several countries in Africa, besides Asia.

«Zero tillage is already being used to sow wheat on 1.8 million hectares in South Asia's extensive rice - wheat rotations, and state government officials in India are implementing policies to support more widespread adoption.»

However, the total area has plummeted from 43,000 hectares in the 1930s to only 8000 hectares today.