Sentences with phrase «per hectare which»

According to him, Osun is the highest producer of cassava in Nigeria but even as that, the state produces just 16 metric tons per hectare which is far from expectation.

Good Farmer Free Range Eggs state a stocking density of 1500 hens per hectare which is in line with the Model Code of Practice.

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.

Not exact matches

The Federal government has sought to allay community concerns about tree farms - which have jumped 20 per cent in five years in Western Australia to reach almost 400,000 hectares - releasing a report on the impact of timber plantation.

The DA has announced its intended program Masagana 6000 which it said will focus on increasing rice yields to 6000 kilos per hectare through the use of hybrid rice.

The company, which has just started harvesting some 16,896 hectares of winter crops, has about 60 per cent of its leases tied up with Westchester.

We run a stocking density of 600 birds per hectare [which is lower than the stringent certified organic stocking density].

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 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.

Mr Westwood said the corporation - which represents about 400 commercial egg producers - repeatedly told free - range farmers that there was community support for the 20,000 hen per hectare limit during industry consultations about the proposed new definition of «free range» - despite knowing at the time that fewer than one in 10 people deemed it acceptable.

«This means farmers are now harvesting more rice per hectare, which not only lifts them out of poverty, but it is contributing towards the world - wide challenge of feeding the estimated global population of 9 billion people in 2050,» said Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd.

The boycott was called in March when consumer affairs ministers announced a national information standard for free - range egg production, which recommended that farmers label their eggs «free range» should they run no more than 10,000 hens per hectare.

«You have to shop around and start supporting your local farmer's market, butcher, greengrocer and asking them to source from farms which are accredited to 1500 hens per hectare and provide you assurance that the hens are genuinely free range,» she said.

State and federal consumer affairs ministers introduced a national information standard for free - range egg production on Thursday, which gives farmers clearance to label their eggs «free range» should they run no more than 10,000 hens per hectare.

Choice spokesman Tom Godfrey called the new standards «preposterous» and instead wanted ministers to follow CSIRO guidelines which recommends for the label to be allocated to farmers who run no more than 1500 hens per hectare.

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.

There was a rapid reduction in biodiversity up to a logging intensity of around 10 -20 m3 of timber removal per hectare after which it flattened.

If a pharmaceuticals company — which might find 10 per cent of the undiscovered drugs — paid out all its profit to the owners, this would amount to only $ 1.32 a hectare.

The authors recommend that these coral refuge areas maintain a fish biomass of greater than 500 kilograms per hectare, which, as previously published WCS research shows, is the threshold to maintain ecological functions while sustaining local fisheries.

According to Colin Speller of ADAS, a government - owned agricultural research agency near Ely in Cambridgeshire, it could compete with short - rotation coppicing using trees such as willow and poplar, which usually achieve yields of up to 16 tonnes per hectare per year.

Oil palms, which primarily grow in Southeast Asia and Africa, are highly productive, yielding more vegetable oil per hectare than any other oil - producing crop.

The differences are much larger for individual states, which you can see in the maps below, These show the difference in tonnes of crop per hectare in warm Arctic years compared to cold years.

With humanity's ecological footprint of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person means to say that to sustain the current population on Earth of 7 billion people would take 18.9 billion gha (2.7 gha x 7 billion people) which is higher than the 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water on Earth, a fact that indicates that already exceeded the regenerative capacity of the planet in the average level of current world consumption.

Of course, that is impossible to do immediately, and for the short term current carbon quotas must be largely based on a per capita measure, but over the longer term, that should change to a per hectare measure — which would give all countries significant incentive to reduce, and eventually reverse, their population growth.

South America and Africa continue to have the largest net loss of forest At a regional level, South America suffered the largest net loss of forests between 2000 and 2010 — about 4.0 million hectares per year — followed by Africa, which lost 3.4 million hectares annually (Figure 5).

KEY FINDINGS Forests cover 31 percent of total land area The world's total forest area is just over 4 billion hectares, which corresponds to an average of 0.6 ha per capita (Figure 1).

Asia, which had a net loss of forest of some 600 000 ha annually in the 1990s, reported a net gain of forest of more than 2.2 million hectares per year in the period 2000 — 2010, primarily due to the large - scale afforestation reported by China and despite continued high rates of net loss in many countries in South and Southeast Asia.

To accomplish this, an amount of material consumed by that person (tons per year) is divided by the yield of the specific land or sea area (annual tons per hectare) from which it was harvested, or where its waste material was absorbed.

Of about 2.6 million hectares of land that burned between June and October 2015, 33 per cent were carbon - rich peatland ecosystems, which are home to orangutans and other endangered species.

In its submission Nama noted there are currently more than 400 hectares of «serviced and ready» land which could deliver 18,000 housing units, at an average of 43 units per hectare.

Jatropha Basics For those not up on Jatropha, it is a small tree or shrub, the leaves and seeds of which are toxic on ingestion to both animals and people, which produces seeds with a high oil content and a high yield per hectare.

(11/12/2009) A new report states that boreal forests store nearly twice as much carbon as tropical forests per hectare: a fact which researchers say should make the conservation of boreal forests as important as tropical in climate change negotiations.