: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see Metric System Table
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Recent Examples on the WebWith three harvests a year, each typically yielding $700 to $1,400 per hectare before labor, pesticides and other costs, coca is far more profitable than other Amazonian crops, even with the risks associated with the illicit trade. Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022 For example, research shows that women are more likely to take on the time-consuming manual work of weeding, threshing and cooking; weeding a single hectare of sorghum by hand takes up to 324 hours of labor. Vivian Polar, Scientific American, 25 July 2022 At myAgro, farmers purchase seeds that are proven to significantly increase harvests per hectare and, as a result, increase farmer income. Myagro, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 And despite these investments, yields per hectare haven’t increased significantly in over 4 decades. Myagro, Forbes, 28 June 2022 Summer 2022 The new One&Only Aesthesis property is found within a six-hectare forest reserve, on the Athenian Riviera and aims to embody Athens’ golden age of glamour. Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021 Enlarge / Cotoca, a 125 hectare settlement, sits at the center of a network of causeways linking it to smaller communities. Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022 The sheer volume of plant diversity is astounding -- there are between 350 and 400 species of plants per 2.5 acres (1 hectare). Lucy Sherriff, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022 Despite the country’s monitoring system, local researchers say that for every hectare (2.5 acres) of mangrove restored in southeast Mexico, 10 hectares (25 acres) are degraded or lost.The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021 See More