hectare

noun

hect·are ˈhek-ˌter

-ˌtär

: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see Metric System Table

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Per hectare, Kenya produces a third as much maize as Brazil, where GM maize is widely grown. —

Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023 Mamadou Billo Barry, a retired researcher with the Agronomic Research Institute of Guinea, said those subsistence methods yield only about 1 metric ton of rice per hectare. —

Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023 The owner said some growers and packing companies pay 1,000 Mexican pesos (around 50 U.S. dollars) per hectare monthly to criminal groups. —

Karol Suárez And Cristopher Rogel Blanquet, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2023 Subsequent studies have underlined their dangers: one 1997 study found that each hectare dredged caused another 2.85 hectares of marsh to disappear. —

Boyce Upholt, Wired, 23 July 2022 Thanks in part to algae’s high protein content, 1 hectare of algae ponds can generate 27 times as much protein as a hectare of soybeans. —

Amy Nordrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018 Not long ago, the site of the 438 hectare (1,080 acre) expo was barren desert. —

Aya Batrawy And Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2021 By July 28, the number of yields per hectare of wheat in Ukraine had fallen 20% from a year earlier, according to Green Square Agro Consulting, which specializes in farming in the Black Sea area. —

WSJ, 30 July 2022 Lesser prairie-chickens, for instance, are 40 times less likely to use grasslands with just five trees per hectare compared to a landscape without any trees. —

Brianna Randall, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2021 See More

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