The program costs about 1,330 per hectare of farmland to implement, but produces 2,020 per hectare of benefits.

In 1965, India averaged 854 kilograms of grain per hectare in use, while Sub Saharan Africa averaged almost the same, 773 kilograms 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 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.

Their farms are small, perhaps one hectare (2.5 acres) or less.

In places with the best management practices, they re already getting 30 tons per hectare.

As a rule, villages have large plots of land, sometimes stretching to half a hectare.

For a landowner, the value of cleared land works out to 300 per hectare on average.

But, by 2000, India was producing 2,293 kilograms per hectare, while Africa was producing only 1,118.

In his home village, he has half a hectare of fertile land, all overgrown with weeds.

AMSTERDAM 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.

Under the new program, farmers and ranchers are paid 120 per hectare to reforest or terrace their fields.

Right now the average yield in Malaysia and Indonesia is 18 ½ tons of fresh fruit bunches per hectare.

Popular Russian photo blogger Ilya Varlamov gained access to the grounds, photographing various sights on the 140 hectare property.

Incentivizing the transfer of productivity boosting knowledge among palm producers could make each hectare of plantation as productive as possible.

Indeed, smallholder farmers are often extremely efficient producers per hectare, and can contribute to a country s economic growth and food security.

So let s assume that governments will need to pay at least 500 per hectare to stop them from felling their trees.

A single hectare of peatland rainforest can release 6,000 metric tons of planet warming carbon dioxide when it s converted into a plantation.

The solution is to increase grain yields to at least two tons and in some places to three or more tons per hectare.

Their numbers show that each American uses 9.4 hectares of the globe, each European 4.7 hectares, and those in low income countries just one hectare.

Under traditional agricultural conditions, the yields of grain rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, or millet are usually around one ton per hectare, for one planting season per year.

One cornerstone of the project was smallholder farmers, meaning peasant farm families in Africa, Latin America, and Asia working farms of around one hectare (2.5 acres) or less.

Opponents fear that the 614 hectare project, of which less than 96 hectares or 16 percent is allocated for residential purposes, will destroy Hong Kong's remaining farming communities.

For a farm family of five or six living on one hectare, this means extreme poverty, and for their country, it means reliance on expensive food imports, including food aid.

Africa s farmers produce roughly one third or less food per hectare of farmland than their counterparts around the world, resulting in massive hunger, which is exacerbated by a heavy disease burden.

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.

Vladimir Yakunin, president of the state run company Russian Railways, starred in such a scandal last year, when anti corruption blogger Alexey Navalny published materials on Yakunin's 70 hectare property outside of Moscow.

As Russia recovers from massive wildfires in the Siberian regions of Khakassia and Zabaikal, Ukraine has encountered an even more alarming problem a 400 hectare wildfire dangerously close to the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

By contrast, West African rice farmers harvest only 1.5 tons per hectare of traditional upland rice annually, while other cereals yield no more than one ton a figure comparable to yields in medieval Europe.

Crop yields are below one ton of cereal per hectare of farmland far less than half of what is readily achievable if farmers are helped to gain access to fertilizers, improved seeds, and basic infrastructure.

The violent demolition has sparked a wave of indignation online. Billionaire Henry Sy's SM Development Corporation (SMDC) owns the 9.7 hectare lot which it plans to clear for the construction of condominiums and commercial establishments.

The solution is to increase grain yields to at least two tons and in some places to three or more tons per hectare. If water can be managed through irrigation, this could be combined with multi cropping (multiple harvests per year) to produce a crop during the dry season.