Sentences with phrase «plantation area»

Growth in plantation area has accelerated, increasing by 2.8 million hectares a year since 2000.

The need to do so will only grow more urgent as the number of such operators continues to increase, expanding their share of Indonesia's oil palm plantation area to 60 percent by 2030.

Nonetheless, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projects that as plantation area expands and yields rise, the harvest could more than double during the next three decades.

The property offers a choice of accommodation in 10 rooms and 9 bungalows in a striking mango plantation area overlooking the ocean.

Researchers found the Radcliffe's Night frog and the Kadalar Night Frog inside private or state - owned plantation areas facing threats such as habitat disturbance, modification and fragmentation.

Upon completion the melangit river track, the adventure will be continued to farm and plantation areas.

Election results from 2016 do show that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats continue their decades - long dominance (and mismanagement) of the modern urban - plantation areas.

Not exact matches

As a result, the vast area of tropical forests has been destroyed to develop huge plantation of corn, tapioca, cotton and other commercial products.

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

This paper looked at the diversity and abundance of frogs and salamanders in an area of tropical montane cloud forest, shade coffee farms, and corn plantations in southern Mexico.

Farms located in areas where the original natural vegetative cover is forest must establish and maintain, as part of the conservation program, permanent shade distributed homogenously throughout the plantations; the shade must meet the following requirements:

This area is one of the main agricultural areas of Costa Rica, and much of the land is used for growing fruits and vegetables (including some mammoth banana plantations) and for raising cattle.

With a seemingly endless expanses available for its production, coffee plantations in Brazil often cover immense areas of land, need hundreds of people to manage and operate them, and produce huge quantities of coffee.

Akeredolu, stated this at the inauguration ceremony of the planting of teak / gmelina seedlings by the West Africa Forest Plantations Limited at the Ondo State Afforestation Project, Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state.

He spoke on Tuesday when the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Hajia Aisha Abubakar, came on a tour of sugar plantation and facilities at the Lafiaji Sugar Company at Lafiaji in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State.

A comparison of the performance of certified versus noncertified oil palm plantations over a 15 - year period showed that certification reduced the rate of deforestation by 33 % — a significant reduction, yet most of the certified areas already retained little residual forest.

Large areas of tropical lowland forests have been replaced by oil palm plantations, with major impact on environment and people.

Scientists travelled to Peninsular Malaysia where they spent two years studying communities of frog species in four oil palm plantations and two areas of adjacent forest.

ZSL, together with collaborators from Queen Mary University of London, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and University of Malaya, continues to work closely with Malaysian palm oil producers in determining if simple modifications to agricultural practices may bring some of the forest species back into areas planted with oil palm and allow them to survive and reproduce in plantations.

Scientists only found this species in forest areas, and if palm oil plantations continue to take over, the peat swamp frog, along with its forest home, could be a thing of the past.

There were also huge areas where humans had not yet left their mark: no settlements or farmland, no deforestation or plantations for miles around.

Such areas were thought to be too far from plantations to be affected.

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

The plantations are being developed on areas of highly degraded, effectively second - growth forests that have been logged repeatedly over more than 40 years; large parts burned during the major fires that swept Sabah in the early 1980s.

«Borneo is a network of timber plantations, agro-forestry areas and mines, with patches of natural forest,» said Loken.

Areas that were inaccessible due to armed conflicts between the government and ethnic groups, for example, are starting to open up for timber production and commercial plantations.

According to Prof Esler, pine plantation and invasion management in the Fynbos biome should consider for how long pines have grown in an area.

Olam, however, denies the claim, insisting it will only put the plantation on «land that is classed as savannah mosaic, woody pioneer areas, logged or degraded forest that does not support significant conservation priorities,» and it is working with authorities to develop an ape management plan that aims to «safeguard ape populations wherever they are found.»

Ngansou and other villagers in the area have embraced the planned palm oil plantations as a welcome addition to a region that mostly survives on growing cassava, bananas, yam and coco, as well as the declining bush meat trade.

In deforested areas, layers of peat — sometimes dozens of meters deep — become flammable as they dry out, which is sometimes exacerbated by deliberate draining in order to make them more suitable for palm oil and timber plantations.

Overall, 20 of the areas had illegal cocoa plantations and approximately 74 percent of the total land in these areas was transformed into cocoa production.

The Abbott government, however, asked to delist part of the site as part of a «minor boundary modification,» arguing that the area was «degraded,» «logged,» or part of a plantation.

In the last two decades, the area of palm oil plantations has expanded nearly eight times in Indonesia alone, according to a recent Agriculture Department Foreign Agricultural Service report.

We expected to see a gradient from least affected in the selectively logged areas, to heavily impacted for the streams in oil palm plantations.

«This work suggests that it might be economically advantageous to not farm in certain areas of a plantation,» Karp said.

Primates have been relatively safe in the Amazon basin, but climate change and the construction of large hydro - electric dams and the rise of enormous soy plantations in the area are taking a toll on primates.

As we walk away from the demonstration area, Esko tells me that the shrubland and pine plantations contain few species and so their removal offers large benefits for biodiversity.

In the catchment area of the river Yangtzekiang in Southern China defor - estation takes place in order to gain arable land and build tea plantations.

A medium deforestation rate, in which 53 percent of the forest is preserved (of the original 70 percent) and the remainder is used as agricultural land and for tea plantations, most closely approximates the ongoing expansion rate of agricultural areas in this Chinese region.

SciDevNet — The initiative known as Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is focusing on eight priority areas — self - sufficiency in rice, intensification of cassava, food security in the Sahel, transforming savannas as a breadbasket, restoring tree plantations, expanding horticulture, increasing wheat production and expanded fish farming.

So they have to make new banana plantations in a new area, clearing more jungle.

How about a small garden / plantation tour of the area??

Getting quotes on screening in our outside porch area and finishing the plantation shutters in a few of our rooms.

The story centers on a 17th century family that's moved alone to an uncharted area on the edge of the New England wilderness; they've willingly left their Puritan plantation over a religious disagreement.

Like Machado and her bandmates, the town's inhabitants are mostly Afro - Venezuelans, the descendants of slaves who had worked on the area's cacao plantations.

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Lovina Beach Lovina Beach, about three kilometers drive from Banjar hot spring will arrive in Lovina Beach, on the way you may see a lot of grapes plantation grow up around Banjar Village, the name of Lovina became from the word of Love Indonesia (INA), the beach has black sand with small wave and the area the base of tourist object in north of Bali.

From the coastal areas, it is not too far to experience misty mountains and lush tea plantations.

In the 1880s sugar was introduced to the area and the Kanakas were brought from the South Pacific islands to work on the sugar plantations.