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Let's say the productivity of biofuel plantations is 1,200 liters of biofuel per hectare per year.
Over 1,000 drums of water fell on every hectare of that land that day.
But fire also leaves the soil bare, releasing carbon, and worse than that, burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars.
And with desertification, sandstorms, the Gobi Desert, the Ogaden, we are finding increasing difficulty of a hectare to produce as many calories as it did even 15 years ago.
We see companies like the Brazilian forestry company Fibria that's figured out how to avoid tearing down old growth forest and using eucalyptus and getting much more yield per hectare of pulp and making much more paper than you could make by cutting down those old trees.
African farmers only use some 22 kilograms of fertilizer per hectare, compared to 144 in Asia.
We were asked to accommodate 100 families that had been occupying illegally half a hectare in the center of the city of Iquique in the north of Chile using a $10,000 subsidy with which we had to buy the land, provide the infrastructure, and build the houses that, in the best of the cases, would be of around 40 square meters.
During harvest time, the plot of land without Tassa technique yielded 11 kilograms of millet per hectare.
The plot of land with Tassa technique yielded 553 kilograms of millet per hectare.
Instead of having 100 hectares to make oils or to make proteins, you can make it in these vats at 10 or 100 times the productivity per hectare.
I feel so strongly that you cannot ask a small farmer to work the land and bend over to grow a hectare of rice, 150,000 times, just to plant a crop and weed it.
They used to aggregate up to the tens of thousands, 30,000 groupers about this big in one hectare, in one aggregation.
On average, they apply less than 10 kilograms of fertilizer per hectare, compared to 140 kilograms in India.
The merits of “bio-prospecting” have been examined carefully, and the returns are in fact very modest, ranging from just $0.20 per hectare in parts of California to $20 in Western Ecuador.
For a landowner, the value of cleared land works out to $300 per hectare on average.
So let’s assume that governments will need to pay at least $500 per hectare to stop them from felling their trees.
The average chemical fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa is 12.5 kilograms per hectare of arable land, compared to the world average of 102 kg/hectare.
They are often very productive by hectare, since they maximize the use of the soil, and achieve the best complementary use of plants and animals.
African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.
In 1965, India averaged 854 kilograms of grain per hectare in use, while Sub-Saharan Africa averaged almost the same, 773 kilograms per hectare.
But, by 2000, India was producing 2,293 kilograms per hectare, while Africa was producing only 1,118.
Rice yields in India increased from 1.52 tons per hectare in 1961 to 3.37 tons/ha in 2008 – a total increase of 122%.
For example, experts might estimate with 90% confidence, based on available data and their own experience, that farmers’ average maize yields in a given region are 0.5-2 tons per hectare.
Food yields per acre (or hectare) are inadequate because impoverished farm households lack some or all of the four inputs needed for modern and productive agriculture: soil-nutrient replenishment (through organic and chemical fertilizers), irrigation or other water-management techniques, improved seed varieties, and sound agricultural advice.
For example, burning a hectare of harvested willow on a field previously used for barley (the typical marginal crop in Denmark) prevents 30 tons of CO2 annually when replacing coal.
The start of this turnaround could be associated with the other two trends, as the cumulative result of more favorable policies and increased labor per hectare, but it could also reflect the gradual spread of improved crop varieties that resulted from earlier investment in agricultural technology.
Yields per hectare have been stagnating.
Fertilizer use in Africa amounts to just 13 kilograms per hectare, compared to 90 kilograms in South Asia and 190 kilograms in East Asia.
However, only 15% of the most marginal farmers (those with less than one hectare of land) have access to formal credit, so a loan waiver does little to help the poorest.
Starved for ScienceAMSTERDAM – In the Mekong Delta, farmers obtain 6-7 tons of rice per hectare in dry seasons and 4-5 tons per hectare in wet seasons, using fast-maturing rice varieties that allow up to three consecutive yields annually.