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• Industrial crops such as flax and dye-plants (madder, woad, and weld), and other cash crops such as coleseed, hops, and tobacco, increased revenue per hectare, enabling more people to live from the earnings of smaller plots.
• The forest services are providing for a pilot project involving 47 hectares of short-rotation willow coppice.
• Istria is planted with around 3,000 hectares of Malvazija, a white grape variety that, in the case of western Istria producer Roxanich, produces a white wine with a copper gold color, an unusual nose with notes of marzipan, a slight sherried character and a tangy minerality. Discovering Classic Croatia
• The drought has caused great harm to the growing of wheat in the province, with more than about 733,000 hectares of wheat land unable to be sown.
• The wetland park, which will soon be the animal's permanent home, will cover 64 hectares of land and include tropical marshland.
• Lara's 100%-owned Araguaia Nickel Project comprises 53,889 hectares of exploration licenses and claims in a district that has seen several significant nickel discoveries in recent years: Araguaia adjacent to Vila Oito (Teck), Serra da Tapa and Vale dos Sonhos (Xstrata) and Lontra (Horizonte Minerals plc). The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• There have been other setbacks-like 160,247 hectares of farmland converted to industrial, residential or commercial uses.
• The Banaue creations, covering thousands of hectares, are the world's finest example of rice terracing.
• Tanzania had 40 million hectares of cultivatable land, but was able to plough only six million. ANC Daily News Briefing
• Wilson said there had been a resurgence in interest in restoring native woodlands, resulting in an increase of more than 30,000 hectares in Caledonian pinewoods alone over the past 15 years.