Hectare example sentences

One hectare equals the area of a square with one side measuring 100 metres.A typical farm size in the USA is about 250 hectares.Joe Horan, a farmer in the Midwest USA, in Iowa State owns about 300 hectares of land.Munna Lal is a small farmer in this village who has farmland of about 5 hectares.Banerjee, villagers were involved in the protection of 1,272 hectares of badly degraded sal forest.The standard unit of measuring land is hectare, though in the villages you may find land area being discussed in local units such as bigha, guintha etc.At present, there are about 130 million hectares of degraded land in India.With the HY seeds, the yield went up to 3200 kg per hectare.She plans to cultivate wheat on her 1 hectare of land.For instance, take the case of a small farmer, Laxmi , owning about two hectares of unirrigated land dependent only on rain and growing crops like jowar and arhar.Let us suppose that one hectare of wheat can provide employment to two people for 50 days (including sowing, watering, fertiliser application and harvesting).India's rural population is about 600 million which depends upon 250 million (approximate) hectares of agricultural land, an average of less than half a hectare per person.In Palampur, the yield of wheat grown from the traditional varieties was 1300 kg per hectare.A few of the large farmers have land extending over 10 hectares or more.Of the remaining families who own land, 240 families cultivate small plots of land less than 2 hectares in size.