Sentence examples for land equivalent from inspiring English sources

Land equivalent ratio (LER) was used to evaluate productivity of the intercrop.

Weeds and insects were surveyed and both crop yields and land equivalent ratio (LER) were calculated.

In Brazil, one government study estimated that foreigners owned land equivalent to about 20 percent of São Paulo State.

However, rice-water spinach intercropping gave a higher land equivalent ratio (1.02 1.17) therefore improved land utilization efficiency.

The values of land equivalent ratio (LER) for all treatments of planting dates and PGPR were more than one.

Since the 1930s, the state has lost nearly 2,000 square miles of land, equivalent to roughly one football field every 45 minutes.

There is no on-land equivalent," said Michael Manga, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary sciences who is a co-author of a paper about the aftermath of the eruption published online today in the journal Science Advances.

In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to leave lands equivalent to 100 percent of the West Bank and again to divide Jerusalem.

In Italy, publicly bad-mouthing the Mafia is the dry-land equivalent of punching a shark in the gills.

In terms of land of equivalent productive capacity, a farm of 20 hectares in one region can be equivalent to a farm of 80 or more hectares in other regions.

Until the land transport equivalent of Nasa or a bored billionaire intervenes, California will have to take the train.