Sentences with phrase «hectares under»

The retirement of those 14 million hectares under the CRP, together with the use of conservation practices on 37 percent of all cropland, reduced U.S. soil erosion from 3.1 billion tons to 1.9 billion tons between 1982 and 1997.

The retirement of 14 million hectares under the CRP, together with the use of conservation practices on 37 percent of all cropland, reduced U.S. soil erosion from 3.1 billion tons to 1.9 billion tons during the 15 years between 1982 and 1997.

Established in 1989, Bouchard Finlayson is a boutique winery (this 125 - hectare property currently has 22 hectares under vine) dedicated to making wines of outstanding quality.

Now with 11.47 hectares under vine, the farm's Cencily Viognier 2010 won an award for best Viognier at the 2011 Novare Terroir Wine Awards.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«Properties under 50 hectares with a house continue to increase in value,» Mr Marsh said.

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.

The page indicates that there are about 75 large trees per hectare which add to the leaf litter of the coffee plants, and there is a photo of coffee growing under shade in their photo gallery.

Colombia claims its palm oil is «unique and differentiated» and that it has 44 million hectares of under - utilised, already degraded land to develop it without causing any deforestation.

Bracco, a 4634 acre (1875 hectares) cattle grazing farm near Roma in south - west Queensland, has sold under the hammer for $ 4.575 million, indicating a 20 per cent uplift in values in the sector over the past 12 months.

The pressures are clear to see: a region that has around 30,000 hectares of land under cultivation (the majority of which is under plastic), is also the

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).

Of our region's 7,315 hectares of area under vine, 55 % of our plantings are dedicated to Shiraz, however our region also excels in producing exceptional Mediterranean alternative red and white varieties including Fiano, Vermentino, Barbera, Montepulciano, Nero d'Avola and Tempranillo

According to this study, the global area of land under certified organic agriculture in 2002 was 17.8 million hectares of which:

Mr Godfrey said the 19 brands under this boycott, which includes Aldi, Coles and Woolworths brands, have an outdoor stocking density of up to 10,000 hens per hectare.

Implementation of an agricultural programme, he added, with the help of multilateral partners, will potentially also bring about 1,732 hectares of land under irrigation through solar pumping from rivers, sinking of boreholes, rehabilitation of existing irrigation schemes, and construction of new ones.

Under the Youth in Agriculture programme of Planting for Food and Jobs, ten thousand (10,000) youth were supported to cultivate eight hundred (800) hectares and ten thousand, three hundred and twenty (10,320) hectares of rice and maize, respectively.

In count six, the defendants were accused of fraudulent selling 25 hectares of land to third parties without any lawful right to do so, an offence punishable under the law.

The project, which is sitting on a massive 167 hectares of land with additional available land for other projects, was copied from Songhai in Republic of Benin under the Agric - Yes initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture.

Five years after the flooding, the nine fragments under 10 hectares had lost almost all of their small mammals.

If all of the dike relocation projects currently under discussion along the German Elbe were to be carried out, the flood waters would have over 23,000 hectares, or in other words one third more, of additional space to spread across.

But under the right conditions, it can assemble with billions of its comrades into apocalyptic swarms that destroy thousands of hectares of crops in Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

At most, we might be able to add 100 million hectares to the 4.3 billion already under cultivation worldwide.

New Paradigm: Under one scenario to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (Sustainable Development Goal target 15.3), additional commitments in the land use sector, namely to restore and rehabilitate 12 million hectares of degraded land per year could help close the emissions gap by up to 25 % in the year 2030.

This shows how much land is needed for a very small reduction in ghg emissions (5.4 million hectares of land in Europe grown under the most energy efficient biofuel crops could reduce Europe's CO2 emissions by 0.3 %).

The goals of the project are to expand areas under approved forest management plans by 1.02 M hectares and reduce annual forest cover losses from 8,700 hectares per year to 4,800 hectares per year.

She also has soil under her nails, a hint of the 14 months she's put into her 0.1 hectare permaculture garden which extends from the front of the house to the back «I've worked thousands of hours,» says Tod.

Now under construction, the 23,000 sqm Riverside Schools campus will provide places for 2,645 children from 0 - 19 years on a six hectare site.

Your home and the 2 hectares surrounding it are not counted under the assets test.

Assuming each «piece» is under 0.5 hectares and is designated as the principal residence, then the sale would not result in capital gains tax, according to the CRA.

Occupying in excess of 1,000 hectares of prime Indian Ocean coastline in the north east of Zanzibar, Zanzibar Amber Resort is an integrated project which is currently under development blending contemporary lifestyle aspirations with premium hospitality and world - class facilities.

Combining traditional Portuguese architecture with modern interiors and lush tropical gardens, the hotel is located on 11 hectares of green areas and leisure in the central Algarve, under ten minutes away from stunning sandy beaches via shuttle bus.

Machalilla National Park protects just under 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares) of dry tropical forest, offshore islands, a long stretch of beach, and 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares) of coastal waters.

Think of what you could do with just under three hectares (7 + acres) overlooking the Pacific Ocean with a 4 - bedroom house and a one - bedroom guest / workers house.

This undeveloped plot with a surface area of 26 hectares is the largest piece of available empty land in Venice, which has made it the subject of countless speculation initiatives, such as the controversial idea of digging a railway tunnel under the lagoon to link the city with its airport, with a station located in this area.

Sitting on 77 hectares of reclaimed land along Manila Bay, the Cultural Centre was designed by the modernist architect Leandro Locsin as the nucleus of Imelda Marcos» vision for «A New Society» — the rebirth of the Philippine nation under her and Ferdinand's auspices.

Total area of basements under Turbine Hall, boiler house and sub-station: approx 1.1 hectares (2.75 acres), with an average depth: 8.5 m (28 ft).

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.

(2) Irrigating 1 hectare [just under 2.5 acres] in dry climates requires quite a bit of water, which means reasonably high flow rates, which... implies depth limits.

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

Under continuation of current extensive agricultural practices about 1 billion extra hectares of cropland [that's a lot — the size of the US, a lot more than the planet has on offer] would be required, resulting in extra annual GHG emissions around 3 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalents.

[5] This determination is justified by current estimates that put the total land area under perennial crops at at least 153 million hectares, which is 11 percent of the world's cropland; out of this area, only a small fraction of the land is used for energy crops.

Combining the numbers from Ecosystem Marketplace's latest Forest Carbon Markets report, which identifies 168 conservation projects under carbon management that protects over 25 million hectares of forest, with the business sector's rising interest in REDD and other forest carbon initiatives indicate incentives - based schemes for conservation are working.

Second, in a project in Ningxia Province, rehabilitation brought the 4,822 hectares of desertifying land under control.

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

For example, the technical assistance provided to 538 coffee growers in Central America by the Rainforest Alliance recently resulted in 7,413 acres (3,000 hectares) of land coming under climate - smart management, and the capture of more than 218,000 metric tonnes of carbon.

[answer below the fold] Top ten nations for per capita oil seed production (Numbers are Land area under Total Oilseed, hectares, 2003/2004, per person)

By 1990 there were some 14 million hectares (35 million acres) of highly erodible land with permanent vegetative cover under 10 - year contracts.