Sentence examples for hectares a from inspiring English sources

Instead, 12m hectares a year are lost through soil degradation.

An American study found that the manual teams pulled up an average of 20.5 hectares a day, while the spray planes covered 734 hectares a day.

Progress Deforestation declined to 7.3 million hectares a year; 1.6 billion people have access to drinking water since 1990.

"Seven hundred hectares is well below the government and Forestry Commission aim of [planting] 5,000 hectares a year.

Many of the fires recorded up to 8 March were unusually big, roaring through up to 40 hectares a time.

Field surveys across Brazil's Amazonia suggest that logging crews and fires severely damage 1m hectares a year which are probably not included in the FAO's own figures.

It uses the most land for food production – sugar is grown on 31m hectares, an area the size of Italy.

Despite the good news, it points out that since 1990, the world had lost forests covering some 129m hectares – an area the size of South Africa.

In 2011, they were grown by 16.7 million farmers in 29 countries on 160 million hectares – an 8 per cent rise on the previous year.

Unseasonably hot temperatures, extremely dry conditions and winds of up to 43.5mph (70kmhelpedlped fuel the fire's remarkable growth to 156,000 hectares – an area more than 15 times the size of Manhattan – up from 10,000 hectares earlier in the week.

The researchers arrived at a range in annual value of about $18 to $24 per hectare (a hectare is about 2 1/2 acres).