2010-11-02 Fight to End Rinderpest Is Declared a Success
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In nineteen ninety-four, animal health experts started a worldwide campaign to end…
2010-10-26 New Attention Given to Child Cocoa Workers in Ivory Coast, Ghana
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and more than half of those beans…
2010-10-19 Unwrapping the Genetic Secrets of a Chocolate Bar
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cacao or cocoa trees grow in hot, rainy areas of Africa, Asia…
2010-10-12 In the Garden: Growing Your Own Lettuce
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some people like to start their dinner with a salad of lettuce…
2010-10-05 US Considers First Genetically Modified Animal for Food
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in the United States have grown genetically engineered crops since the…
2010-09-28 Many Farmers and Gardeners Turn Away From Tilling
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers and gardeners have turned the soil for centuries. But many now…
2010-09-21 World Leaders Urged to Meet Development Goals by 2015
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. World leaders are meeting in New York to discuss progress on the…
2010-09-14 Pretty Flowers Lead Two Scientists to a Discovery
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Not all research begins with a plan. Some studies begin by accident.…
2010-09-07 Want Sweaters That Feel Like Home? Try Raising Your Own Goats
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Goats are valuable not just for their milk and meat,or for their…
2010-08-31 Test Your Word Knowledge With a Quiz About Farm Terms
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we have a test for you — a vocabulary quiz. The…
2010-08-24 Housing Plan Threatens Seed Bank in Russia
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Russia’s Pavlovsk Experimental Station houses one of the oldest seed and plant…
2010-08-17 Phone Call About Fertilizer Could Be a Big Help to Philippine Rice Farmers
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Advice on how much fertilizer to use will soon be just a…
2010-08-10 Ideas for Getting a Firm Grip on Weed Control
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. When is a plant considered a weed? Experts at Penn State University…
2010-08-03 Slaughterhouses on Wheels Come to the Aid of Small Farms
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. One of the great American success stories after World War Two was…
2010-07-20 Uncooperative Goat Becomes the Mother of an Invention
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Mike Henry has a two-hectare farm in Palmer, Alaska. About a year…