VOA慢速英语2012 Agriculture Report - Grow It Yourself: Diving Into Aquaponics

Agriculture Report - Grow It Yourself: Diving Into Aquaponics

农业报道 - 生态水培技术

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.

这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。

Aquaponics is the idea of producing vegetables and fish in the same closed system. It combines aquaculture, or fish farming, with hydroponics, a way to grow plants without soil. Supporters see aquaponics as a way to increase world food supplies and reduce climate change, groundwater pollution and overfishing.

生态水培技术（Aquaponics）是一种在同一个封闭系统中种植蔬菜和养殖鱼类的理念，它结合了水产养殖和水培的特点。水培是一种不用土壤种植作物的方法。支持者认为，生态水培技术是增加全球粮食供应，减少气候变化、地下水污染和过度捕捞的一种解决之道。

Sylvia Bernstein says the idea is as old as nature.

Sylvia Bernstein称生态水培技术理念和大自然一样历史悠久。

SYLVIA BERNSTEIN: "Aquaponics is really a recirculating wetland system, so it's happening right on the banks of our lakes."

Bernstein：“生态水培技术实际是一种湿地循环系统，这种系统就在我们的湖泊岸边。”

Ms. Bernstein grew plants in water with a chemical fertilizer for years. Then she discovered she could use wastewater from fish to grow organic vegetables and fruit.

Bernstein女士多年来一直使用化肥在水中种植作物。后来她发现她可以使用养鱼的废水种植有机蔬菜和水果。

SYLVIA BERNSTEIN: "Honestly, I was very skeptical 1 and just couldn't believe that something as simple as fish waste could become a complete fertilizer. So I had to actually see a system that was in a friend's basement. But when I did, it changed my life."

Bernstein：“说实话，我对鱼废物可以作为肥料这样简单的事情很是怀疑。所以直到我在朋友家地下室看到这个系统后才相信。但当我看过这一系统后，它改变了我的生活。”

That was three years ago. Ms. Bernstein built her first system with her son outside her home in Boulder 2, Colorado. Today she raises tilapia and trout 3. She feeds them once a day. Her plants grow in containers. There are no weeds in her aquaponics garden, and no need to worry about watering.

那是三年前，Bernstein女士和她儿子在科罗拉多州博尔德市的家中建造了第一个系统。今天她养殖了罗非鱼和鳟鱼，并隔天喂养它们。而作物在容器中生长。在她的生态水培花园中没有杂草，也不用担心浇水。

SYLVIA BERNSTEIN: "I, just this morning, pulled four radishes and some lettuce 4 for lunch. In my greenhouse right now, I grow all sorts of herbs, tomatoes, peppers."

Bernstein：“就在今天上午，我拔了四根萝卜和一些生菜做午餐。现在我在温室中种了各种生菜、西红柿和辣椒。

Ms. Bernstein started her own business called the Aquaponics Source. She has a YouTube channel, teaches aquaponics at the Denver Botanic Gardens and recently published a book.

Bernstein女士开创了自己名为Aquaponics Source的生意。她Youtube网站开设了一个频道，在丹佛植物园教授生态水培技术，最近还出版了一本书。

Aquaponics farmer James Godsil says the Internet is helping 5 many aquaponic gardeners connect and learn from one another. Three years ago, Mr. Godsil helped create an aquaponics farm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, called Sweet Water Organics. In twenty-ten, he helped establish a foundation.

采用生态水培技术的农民James Godsil表示，互联网帮助了许多生态水培农户联系并互相学习。三年前，Godsil先生帮忙在威斯康星州密尔沃基市创建了一个名为淡水有机物（Sweet Water Organics）的生态水培农场。2010年他帮忙建立了一个基金会。

JAMES GODSIL: "The Sweet Water Foundation was dedicated 6 to democratizing and globalizing the information and the methodologies required to advance this very Earth-friendly food production system, which, by the way, only uses about ten percent of the water normal farming does, and uses no pesticides 7. It's all natural."

Godsil：“淡水基金会（Sweet Water Foundation）致力于该信息的民主化和全球化，这种教学法要求推进这种非常环保的粮食生产系统。顺便提一下，它只需要使用正常耕作用到的10%的水，而且不用农药。一切都是纯天然的。”

Mr. Godsil is traveling to other countries to teach aquaponics.

Godsil先生还到其它国家传授生态水培技术。

JAMES GODSIL: "I was asked to go to Venezuela this March. And I'm working with people who have a project in Ecuador. I'm working with people in the Congo and Uganda and Tanzania."

Godsil：“今年三月我被邀请到了委内瑞拉。而且我和在厄瓜多尔有项目的人一起合作，和刚果、乌干达和坦桑尼亚的人们一起合作。”

Subra Mukherjee is with a group in Kolkata, India, called the Society for Appropriate Rural Technology for Sustainability. The group is working with the foundation to develop aquaponics in a community in West Bengal with poor soil conditions for growing food.

Subra Mukherjee就职于印度加尔各答一个名为农村适宜技术可持续发展协会的组织。该组织和淡水基金会合作，在西孟加拉邦的一个土地贫瘠的社区发展生态水培技术用于粮食种植。

SUBRA MUKHERJEE: "So I believe technologies like aquaponics are ideal for these kinds of situations. We can actually bring it right into the middle of slums in the cities. So it becomes a very good model for urban and village-based communities."

SUBRA MUKHERJEE：“我认为生态水培技术一类的技术对这种情况非常适合。我们可以将其引入城市贫民窟。因此它成为了城中村社区的一种非常好的模式。”

And that's the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Have you ever worked with aquaponics? Tell us about it at voanews.cn. I'm Jim Tedder 8.

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Contributing: Faiza Elmasry