By the timeit was over, thousands of hectares had been inundated.To feed that room.
Planes accompanied by U.S.-funded helicopters sprayed chemicals over hundreds of thousands of hectares.
But he noted that in Australia, in the first half of the century, millions of hectares of land were ruined by the dung of imported cows.
For India, with millions of hectares of crops and rain that falls for only a few months every year, you have to store water.
The amount of coca needed to supply the global market is relatively small: a plantation of two hundred thousand hectares, roughly half the size of Long Island, would be enough.
After West 8 won the competition for the park, in 1997, the firm decided to concentrate on the design of fifty central hectares of open green space, called the Binnenhof, or courtyard, which would hold classic park elements, like playgrounds, canals, and gardens.
Champagne has been produced in Russia since 1896, in Abrau-Durso, on the Black Sea, in an area of 12,000 hectares.
Immigrants from Germany, they had bought a timber estate of four hundred and forty-nine hectares near Agunnaryd, about twelve miles from Älmhult, after seeing an advertisement in the back of a hunting magazine.
According to a United Nations report, the amount of arable land per person in developing countries has decreased from about one-third of a hectare per capita in 1961 to one-fifth of a hectare in 1992 and will decline to one-tenth of a hectare by 2050 as population increases.
And the story of the thousand truckloads of orange peel that the A.C.G. took off the hands of an orange-juice plant in exchange for fourteen hundred hectares of prime forest, and how a mischief-making environmentalist then sued the juice company for illegally dumping the peels on public land, even though, by the time the suit was settled, they'd decayed into a rich, reforestation-promoting loam.
What else would explain the magnificence of Angelina Jolie, with her streaming tresses, the two and a half hectares of scarlet lip gloss required to cover her mouth, and, most telling of all, the single, flawless leg that was permitted to emerge from the slit of her long skirt and planted cockily in full view?
