Sentence examples for acreages from inspiring English sources
It finds that in 13 American states that have been growing transgenic soyabeans, herbicide applications per acre have fallen by 9%, but 14% more herbicide is being used in total because acreages have expanded as well.
Two or three plantings a year are normal, given the steady water supply, constant sun and rich soil.Despite the doubling of its population since 1980, and the loss of vast acreages to urban expansion, Egypt imports less food now, proportionately, than it did in those days.
He introduced innovative techniques for conducting large-scale sample surveys and calculated acreages and crop yields by using the method of random sampling.
For example, large acreages of banana are irrigated on coastal lowlands of the torrid tropics where annual rainfall exceeds 60 inches (1,500 millimetres).
The sparsely populated Gypsum Hills section of western Oklahoma is devoted largely to grazing and farming, with large wheat acreages in the north and smaller cotton farms in the south.
Finally, epiphytotics may occur when host plants are cultivated in large acreages where previously little or no land was devoted to that crop.
MacInnes showed how under- represented this class of people was, especially in the media: "As one skips through contemporary novels or scans over acreage of fish-and-chips dailies and the very square footage of the very predictable weeklies... it is amazing - it really is - how very little one can learn about life in England here and now".
Although less than 0.1% of the global acreage of GM crops is cultivated in the EU, more than 70% of EU animal protein feed requirements are imported as GM crop products.
Also there has been an increase in farmed acreage and a 300% increase in bank lending to farmers in the past four years.
A different target for non-intensive acreage could be set each year.
The state, which now controls about 40 per cent of the sugar acreage, was determined on diversification; the gross mistake (which Cubans themselves acknowledge more fiercely than any outsider) was to pick on some of the most productive sugar fields for the changeover.
