Sentences with phrase «of acres worldwide»

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Since 1951, the Nature Conservancy has protected 119 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide.

With the new factory, Uflex is set to enter the aseptic packaging industry that could grow to more than $ 67.47 billion in 2021 worldwide, according to Zion Research Uflex earned Rs6, 200 crore in revenue last year and bought 72 acres of land for the new Gujarat plant.

In 2013, Bt corn and Bt cotton were planted on 187 million acres worldwide and accounted for 75 % of all cotton and 76 % of all corn grown in the U.S.

Since 1996, farmers worldwide have planted more than a billion acres (400 million hectares) of genetically modified corn and cotton that produce insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt for short.

Between 1996 and 2011, the number of acres planted with genetically modified crops worldwide went from 4 million to 395 million, a 9,000 percent increase in the space of 15 years.

One ivorybill searcher, Richard Pough, helped found the Nature Conservancy, which has preserved 100 million acres of critical habitat worldwide.

The worldwide total is about 18.5 million acres of vineyard, including the European countries as well as the Americas, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

The Heart Mountain Trail and the surrounding ranch are owned by the Nature Conservancy, an international NGO that claims to have protected more than 119 million acres of land worldwide.

Across this 8.5 - acre lake, 208 fountains sway to the likes of Gene Kelly, Pavarotti, and Elvis, shooting water over 450 feet into the air — thanks to pioneering technology now imitated worldwide.

Twenty - four companies harvest and cool more than 207,646 tons of sweet berries in the area from 11,538 acres with annual revenues topping $ 300 million to ship them worldwide from the region, known as California's Strawberry Coast

«If we were to capture 1 ton of carbon per acre per year on the roughly 5 billion hectares of grasslands worldwide, we would remove 12 Gt of C from the atmosphere per year, that is, 6 ppm annually.

To MARodger, # 127: This here ranch we're gonna transform is roughly 12 billion acres, the extent of worldwide grasslands mostly degraded or desertified.

To put these numbers in perspective, USDA has estimated that in 2007, about 21 million acres were used worldwide to produce biofuel feedstocks, an area that would occupy somewhere between 0.4 % and 4 % of the world's estimated idle cropland.

This modus operandi has turned the Nature Conservancy into one of the biggest and most trusted conservation NGOs worldwide, with 119 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide under its care.