hectare

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• Having a sustainable lawn that attracts and supports pollinator populations is crucial as the number of bee colonies per hectare has declined by 90 percent since 1962, according to Greenpeace USA.

• The group investigated a plantation of willow trees in Quebec and found that the lovely, weepy trees were able to filter over 30 million liters of primary wastewater per hectare in the course of three years.

• These forests can stock away more than five times as much carbon per hectare as most other terrestrial forests.

• The three cenotes each had “massive” amounts of soil organic carbon, the researchers report, averaging about 1,500 metric tons per hectare.

• Each year in California, thousands of wildfires ravage hundreds of thousands of hectares of land.

• It has been estimated that the labour of 19.8 persons (200 per hectare) is needed for a tambu of mulberry field.

• And land so employed is very often let on leases of three, six, or nine years, at thirty-five pounds a hectare.

• The sale was to be effected at the figure of 10 francs per hectare—about 3s.

• The ordinary unit of land area is the Hectare (about 2-1/2 acres).

• Linant Bey computed that twenty-nine cubic mètres per day sufficed to irrigate a hectare in the Delta.