Sentence examples for harvesting about from inspiring English sources

Last year, one of his fellow master gardeners reported harvesting about 31 pounds of a grafted heirloom called Persimmon, a large, sweet orange tomato.

Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, the raw material for heroin, with its farmers harvesting about 80 percent of the world supply.

And in late August, when six of them are dropped into the rapid currents of the East River alongside Roosevelt Island, these giant "tidal turbines" will begin harvesting about 150 kilowatts of electricity.

And of course the timber communities only operate in a minute fraction of that on any year, harvesting about half of 1% and then assiduously resowing with the same species," he said.

At Brown's Harvest in Windsor, one of the state's oldest tobacco farms, these "old-fashioned ways" mean close to 300 local and migrant workers planting, tying, trimming and harvesting about 1 million tobacco plants on the farm's 100 acres, said Kathi Brown Martin, 44, whose great-grandfather James Brown started the farm in 1874 and whose family still works it today.

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Brazil's agricultural and livestock production has soared over the past decade, yielding a harvest of some 238 million tons in the 2016-17 haboutt, about double the crop in 2005-06, according to government estimates.

The value of last year's garlic harvest (about $200 million) made many better-established crops, including spinach ($112 million), look sick by comparison.

Note that the global annual agricultural harvest (about 6 Gt) has an energy value of about one third that of the fossil oil consumed annually.

Last year's harvest yielded about 600 bottles of of oil.

This year's harvest is about to swell from a trickle to a flood.