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  • noun Size, as measured in hectares.
  • noun An extent or area of land measured in hectares.

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Examples

  • Outside of the ultra wealthy, only those who inherit can realistically hope to own any land at all, let alone anything of decent hectarage.

    Ackerly Pond Vineyards is For Sale 2008

  • This class of European grasslands often include considerable hectarage that have been partially cultivated by humans, are which are, in fact, effective refugia for grass and forb taxa that might otherwise have become extinct.

    Habitat fragmentation 2009

  • According to the Herald, a report released around the December 21 indicated that Mashonaland Central had the biggest cumulative hectarage of 16,074ha, followed by Mashonaland East with 12,966ha, Mashonaland

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The number of countries adopting the four current major biotech crops is expected to grow, and their global hectarage and number of farmers planting biotech crops are expected to increase as the first generation of biotech crops is more widely adopted and the second generation of new applications for both input and output traits becomes available.

    Biotechnology for the Masses Nick Anthis 2006

  • The number of countries adopting the four current major biotech crops is expected to grow, and their global hectarage and number of farmers planting biotech crops are expected to increase as the first generation of biotech crops is more widely adopted and the second generation of new applications for both input and output traits becomes available.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Nick Anthis 2006

  • And this sealed agreement would launch the Philippines, known for its vast hectarage of idle public lands, as one of the biggest sources of jathropa seeds for large-scale bio-diesel production.

    Gov't should tap small cooperatives for jathropa farming 2008

  • The Rome warning came just days after the Zimbabwean government said the country's new wheat farmers had planted less than 40 per cent of their target hectarage this season.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Zimbabwe's new wheat farmers have planted less than 40 per cent of their target hectarage this season, spelling doom for the country, s food prospects, it was reported Friday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Analysts blame the low hectarage on shortages of diesel for tilling machines and fertiliser in the southern African country, which has been bedevilled by a lack of basic goods and equipment in the last few years.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • "What they are doing is to go into the houses where whites were living and they want land, they just plough a small hectarage, and they are saying that's enough," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

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