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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United Nations says forty million more people around the world went hungry this year, mainly because of higher food prices. Early estimates from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization show

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Heating Buildings with Chicken Fat

AGRICULTURE REPORT – February 26, 2002: Heating Buildings with Chicken Fat By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. American scientists are developing a new use for chicken

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - Scientists Recycl

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Recycling programs usually give new life to materials like paper, metal, plastic and glass. But a program in the eastern United States is recycling shellfish to help the Chesapeake Bay. Oysters are

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - Test Your Word Kn

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we have a test for you -- a vocabulary quiz. The words are all related to agriculture. We start with two questions about terms for plants. Ready? First question: What do we call a plant that l

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - In the Garden: Ge

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. People have grown chrysanthemums for more than two thousand years. Chinese and other Asian cultures make tea with the flowers. But mums also make bright and colorful gardens. One basic kind of mum i

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - A Vegetable Garde

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Earlier this month, Michelle Obama and twenty-three schoolchildren helped prepare the ground for an organic vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House. The first lady showed the young gar

VOA慢速英语2009年-Agriculture Report - Remembering Norman Bo

This the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Norman Borlaug led what was known as the Green Revolution. As a plant scientist, he may have saved more lives than anyone else in history -- as many as a billion, by some estimates. He traveled the wo

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - Housing Plan Thre

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Russia's Pavlovsk Experimental Station houses one of the oldest seed and plant collections in the world. But this month a court agreed to let the Russian Housing Development Foundation take control

VOA慢速英语2012 Agriculture Report - Vietnam's Big Year for Coffee, Rice Exports

Agriculture Report - Vietnam's Big Year for Coffee, Rice Exports 农业报道 - 越南大米和咖啡出口的重要一年 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 This is a big year for Vie

VOA慢速英语2009年-Agriculture Report - Study Finds More Tree

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers, especially in developing countries, are often criticized for cutting down forests. But a new study suggests that many farmers recognize the value in keeping trees. Researchers using satell

VOA慢速英语2009年-Agriculture Report - Learning the Secrets

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists now have a genetic map of the potato. The project is the work of a team from fourteen countries, the Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium. Potatoes are one of the world's leading food cro

VOA慢速英语 Agriculture Report - Growing Chili Peppers: A Heated

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Chili peppers Some people who like to eat very hot chili peppers say that they can help you breathe better if you have a cold. Others believe that chilies give you added energy. We cannot confirm t

VOA慢速英语2009年-Agriculture Report - Some Crops (Like Some

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Companion planting is the idea that when some crops are planted together, they help each other grow. These compatible plants generally have similar needs for nutrients, soil and moisture. Advice fo

VOA慢速英语2009年-Agriculture Report - Group Works to Expand

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A cow with East Coast fever Each year a million cows in Africa die from East Coast fever. The disease is spread by tick bites. Young cows are most at risk; they can die within days. Farmers and her

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - World Food Prize

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. This year's World Food Prize will honor two leaders of hunger-fighting groups based in the United States. The winners are David Beckmann of Bread for the World and Jo Luck of Heifer International. T

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - Oil Spill Puts Fi

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American officials have suspended all fishing in parts of the Gulf of Mexico for at least ten days because of the huge oil spill. The restrictions will give scientists time to study the effects on s

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - Fight to End Rind

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In nineteen ninety-four, animal health experts started a worldwide campaign to end rinderpest. This disease is closely related to the measles virus but it does not infect people. Yet for thousands o

美国官方提出要预防来自动物的传染疾病

> 25 美国官方提出要预防来自动物的传染疾病 DATE=5-22-01 TITLE=AGRICULTURE REPORT - Preventing Infections from Animals BYLINE=George Grow （Start at 59

VOA慢速英语2010年-Development Report - Growing Crops Wit

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water

VOA慢速英语2010年-Agriculture Report - Putting Your Head

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We have talked about growing carrots and beets. This week, we move from root vegetables to a leafy vegetable. Cabbage is related to mustard, turnips, kale and collards. The leaves that form a head o