Assuming those projects were paid the average price per hectare, the government paid about $360 per hectare for avoided deforestation and about $205 per hectare for regeneration.
Research has found that over a short period yields per hectare for individual crops are greater in intense agricultural systems.
Growers and big champagne houses have set the ceiling on grapes which can be used for champagne this year at 9.7 tonnes a hectare for small producers, and 8 tonnes a hectare for vineyards owned by the big champagne houses.
FMG has been ordered to pay an offset of between $750 and $3,000 a hectare for any new land cleared.
In Tanzania, where 2.4 million people's livelihoods rely on coffee, production has fallen by about 137kg per hectare for every 1C rise in the minimum temperature on farms.
Ridgewell calculated that, with current carbon prices, farmers could earn 23 euros per hectare for the CO2 they prevent from reaching the air.
Plant breeders fear that, with current technology, ten tonnes a hectare for rice in intensive-farming systems may be the limit, though it is not clear why.
The company, which has already demonstrated its technology to customers in Israel, South Africa, France and the UK, sells its data to those advising farmers at prices ranging from $2 a hectare for cereals to $15 a hectare for higher value crops such as grapes.
Because electric motors can be two to three times more efficient than internal combustion engines, solar PV can result in 200 to 300 times as much usable energy per hectare for vehicle transport compared to bioenergy.
On Sunday, the anticorruption activist Arvind Kejriwal released a "black paper on irrigation" in response, which claims that the cost per hectare for irrigating land in Maharashtra is among the highest in India.
The service usually costs less than $15 per hectare for a handful of readings a year, and can increase yields by as much as 10%.Such precision farming using satellite-based intelligence is in its infancy.
