Sentences with phrase «hectares under cultivation»

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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.

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

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

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.

Apart from singling out Mission New Energy and GEM Biofuels as doing Jatropha right, Biofuels Digest is catalogues a series of failures, mis - starts and unmet promises: China and Myanmar Plans Languish Though a bit over a year ago China announced that it would be putting 13 million hectares of land under Jatropha cultivation, to date «a handful» of these plantations actually exist.

A German company, Prokon, expects to bring 200,000 hectares (an areas the size of Luxembourg) under cultivation in Tanzania.

To help this, the government aims to have 1.5 million hectares of Jatropha under cultivation by that time.

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.