When the business belongs to a separate lessee, the lessee may recover for business loss as an element of compensation separate from the value of the land whether the destruction of the business is total or partial. Richmond County v. 0.153 Acres, 208 Ga. App. 208, 210-211 ( 430 S.E.2d 47) (1993). Moreover, such evidence of business loss cannot be remote or speculative.

Fulton County v. Dangerfield, 195 Ga. App. 208, 210 (2) ( 393 S.E.2d 285) (1990), rev'd on other grounds, Fulton County v. Dangerfield, 260 Ga. 665 ( 398 S.E.2d 14) (1990). See also Richmond County v. 0.153 Acres of Land, 208 Ga. App. 208, 210-211 (2) ( 430 S.E.2d 47) (1993); Buck's Svc. Station v. Dept. of Transp., 259 Ga. 825, 827 (2) ( 387 S.E.2d 877) (1990). Thus, evidence as to Ison's projected losses was admissible in this instance to help establish the diminution in value of the nursery's business resulting from the loss of the muscadine plants located on the condemned property.