: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see Metric System Table
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In its pilot year, five projects spanning 3,040 hectares (about 7,512 acres) brought 78 farmers in Turkey—the world’s second-largest organic cotton-producing country—under OCA’s purview.
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Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 14 July 2025
Some 2,000 hectares have burnt there, the local prefecture said.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
As part of that effort, at group of women called the Green Brigade has successfully restored more than 1,000 hectares of mangrove forests in the Sundarbans, in eastern India.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
France’s first significant forest fires of the season consumed 400 hectares (988 acres) of woods Sunday and Monday in the Aude region in the south.
—Suzan Fraser, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
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Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 14 July 2025
Some 2,000 hectares have burnt there, the local prefecture said.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
As part of that effort, at group of women called the Green Brigade has successfully restored more than 1,000 hectares of mangrove forests in the Sundarbans, in eastern India.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
France’s first significant forest fires of the season consumed 400 hectares (988 acres) of woods Sunday and Monday in the Aude region in the south.
—Suzan Fraser, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
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“Hectare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hectare. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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hectare
noun
hect·are
ˈhek-ˌta(ə)r 
-ˌte(ə)r
-ˌte(ə)r
-ˌtär
: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see metric system
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