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Agriculture Report - Surviving a Drought: A Farmer's Old-Fashioned Lessons This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In recent days the remains of what had been Hurricane Isaac moved into the American Midwest. The storm brought rain to some

VOA慢速英语2012 Agriculture Report - Farmers Learning Limits of Popular Herbicide

Agriculture Report - Farmers Learning Limits of Popular Herbicide 农业报道 - 农民认识到除草剂的局限性 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Pigweed spreads fast and grows

VOA标准英语2013--Floods Challenge Midwest Farmers

Floods Challenge Midwest Farmers On his land outside Peoria, Darrel Kammeyer is keeping one eye on the rising Illinois River and another on the only thing standing between it and his farmland, a seven-meter-tall levee. It was constructed to hold back

VOA慢速英语2011--Training Fishermen to Become Fish Farmer

EducationReport-TrainingFishermentoBecomeFishFarmers 教育报道 - 缅因州培训渔民进行水产养殖 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 There are schools of fish, and there are sc

超级简单英语阅读:A Farmer

A farmer owns a lot of land. He grows food on that land. He grows the food from seeds. He plants seeds into the land. The seeds grow into corn. The seeds grow into wheat. The seeds need water. The seeds need sunlight. A farmer owns a tractor. He driv

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Black Farmers Protest

AGRICULTURE REPORT – September 10, 2002: U.S. Black Farmers Protest By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Hezekiah Gibson operates a farm in Manning, South Carolina. Las

VOA慢速英语2011--Seeking a Better Way for African Farmers to Fight a Fever

Agriculture Report - Seeking a Better Way for African Farmers to Fight a Fever 农业报道 - 寻求对抗东海岸热疾病的更好办法 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 East Coas

VOA慢速英语2012 Agriculture Report - What Rio Conference Means to Farmers

Agriculture Report - What Rio Conference Means to Farmers 农业报道 - 里约+20峰会探讨农业可持续发展 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Next week, leaders and officials

VOA慢速英语2012--Agriculture Report - A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers

Agriculture Report - A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers 农业报道 - 呼吁在农业上赋予女性农民平等权利 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 A new report says if w

VOA标准英语2012--Syria Crisis Hurts Lebanese Farmers

Syria Crisis Hurts Lebanese Farmers In the Bekaa Valley, a wide variety of fruits and vegetables are grown for domestic consumption and export to Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf countries. But as the conflict in Syria intensifies, Antoine Howayek, the pre

VOA标准英语2012--Drought Kindles US Farmers' Appetite for African Grain Sorghum

Drought Kindles US Farmers' Appetite for African Grain Sorghum Walking through lush, green fields of sorghum, Nebraska farmer Fred Prokop treads on ground deeply scarred by weeks of drought. But he says the sorghum crop is patient. It'll wait for wat

VOA标准英语2012--Securing Rights for Women Farmers

Securing Rights for Women Farmers Despite the large role women play in agriculture in the developing world, experts say they continue to face discrimination, gender inequality and a lack of access to credit. A global partnership is campaigning to sec

VOA标准英语2011--Farmers Urged to Throw Plow Away

Farmers Urged to Throw Plow Away Since the dawn of agriculture, tilling the soil has been fundamental to farming. But today, experts say this age-old practice may do more harm than good, at least in some places. That's why they've been telling farmer

VOA标准英语2011--Afrikaner Farmers Migrating to Georgia

AfrikanerFarmersMigratingtoGeorgia A South African court on September 12 convicted Julius Malema, president of the African National Congress Youth League, of hate speech for singing shoot the Boer, kill the Boer at a rally last year. But some Boers (

VOA标准英语2011--Fukushima Farmers Worry About Region's B

Fukushima Farmers Worry About Region's Brand With the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant set to continue through most of this year, many people in the region are worried about the long-term impact on the Fukushima brand. Nowhere can

VOA标准英语2012--US Aims to Empower World's Women Farmers

US Aims to Empower World's Women Farmers Women face a number of obstacles that men do not. They tend to own less land and have fewer rights to that land. They have less access to credit and training. And they have less input in decision-making. With

VOA标准英语2013--Stevia: a Sweetener for Kenyan Exporters – and Farmers’ Pockets

Stevia: a Sweetener for Kenyan Exporters and Farmers Pockets Stevia, known worldwide as a natural sweetener, comes from plants that are grown in the tropics and subtropics. The leaves of the popular plant are sweet and ideal for people conscious of t

VOA标准英语2011--Texas Farmers Want More Crop Per Drop

Texas Farmers Want More Crop Per Drop With water scarcity emerging as a major global issue in the 21st century, a drought in the southern U.S. state of Texas highlights the need for farmers to get more out of limited water supplies. Some are using ne

VOA标准英语2011--Kenyan Farmers Going Green

Kenyan Farmers Going Green As scientists and political leaders around the world grapple with the issue of climate change, many farmers are looking at technologies that rely on renewable energy for their operations. Farmers in Kenya are now using two

新西兰英语 305 Young Farmer of the Year

The winner of the Young Farmer of the Year Contest is Stuart McNaughton from the Tasman region. About 300 young men and women entered the contest earlier this year. Each region had one finalist. They each got good prizes. Then those seven finalists c