Sentence examples for tons per hectare from inspiring English sources

Rice farmers there typically harvested two tons per hectare (an area 100 by 100 meters, or 2.47 acres).

Broad variation is the rule, but rates of soil loss exceeding 10 metric tons per hectare annually signal accelerated erosion.

These values add up to a total net production of 30 metric tons per hectare per year.

In comparison the rates of natural soil formation range from 0.2 to 9 metric tons per hectare per year.

Let's shoot for three or four.' " Dr. Uphoff oversaw field trials for three years, and the farmers averaged eight tons per hectare.

African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilisers heavily.

Deep, coarse-textured soils are assigned a T-value of 11.2 metric tons per hectare (5 tons per acre), fine-textured soils have a T-value of 9 metric tons per hectare (4 tons per acre), and shallow soils or those with an impeding layer are assigned T-values in the range of 2.2 6.7 metric tons per hectare (1 3 tons per acre), depending on texture.

The average annual rate of normal soil erosion is nearly 1 metric ton per hectare (0.45 ton per acre), while that of natural soil formation is nearly 0.7 metric ton per hectare (0.3 ton per acre).

But the soil in Kampong Speu Province is sandy and parched, yielding less than one ton per hectare, or 2.5 acres, half the national average.

Values are in deci-tons per hectare (dt/ha) fresh mass for maize and dt/ha grain weight for winter wheat.

The RMSE values for maize and winter wheat are at 42.9 dt/ha (deci-tons per hectare) fresh mass (maize) and 9.6 dt/ha grain weight (winter wheat); the percent errors are at 9.36% (maize) and 11.5% (winter wheat), and the Willmott index of agreement is at 0.89 for maize and 0.74 for winter wheat.