liter per hectare
Volume per areaexact by definition
The litre per hectare is the metric unit of sprayer output and liquid fertiliser rate: exactly 10⁻⁷ m³/m², since a litre is 10⁻³ m³ and a hectare is 10⁴ m². Field sprayers typically deliver 100 to 300 L/ha.
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About the liter per hectare
Spray volume is the carrier, not the chemical. A label specifies a product rate — so many litres or grams of product per hectare — and separately a water volume to carry it, and the sprayer is calibrated to deliver that water volume at a given speed and pressure.
The conversion to US gallons per acre is L/ha ÷ 9.354 = gal/ac. A common 200 L/ha becomes 21.4 gal/ac, which is squarely in the normal North American range of 10 to 20 gal/ac for field crops.
And the one worth knowing cold: 10,000 L/ha is exactly 1 mm of depth, because a litre per square metre is a millimetre deep. A 200 L/ha spray is putting 0.02 mm of water on the crop, which is why spraying is not irrigation.
One liter per hectare in every volume per area unit
| 1 | liter per hectare (L/ha)this unit | |
| 0.001 | cubic meter per hectare (m³/ha) | |
| 0.1 | milliliter per square meter (mL/m²) | |
| 0.0001 | millimeter of depth (mm) | |
| 0.00001 | centimeter of depth (cm) | |
| 0.106907 | US gallon per acre (gal/ac) | |
| 0.00245424 | US gallon per thousand square feet (gal/1000 ft²) | |
| 0.00000393701 | inch of depth (in) |