Agriculture Report (农业报道)

2009-10-20 Learning the Secrets of the Potato, and an Enemy

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists now have a genetic map of the potato. The project is…

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2009-10-13 Scientists Help Cut the Mystery Behind Pruning

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We talked last week about when and how to prune plants. Today…

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2009-10-06 Do-It-Yourself: Pruning Plants (First of Two Parts)

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Pruning makes no sense. You cut off parts of a plant. Yet…

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2009-09-29 How to Strike Oil (From Seeds, That Is)

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. From the beginning of human history, people have used oils from seeds…

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2009-09-22 Remembering Norman Borlaug

This the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Norman Borlaug led what was known as the Green Revolution. As a plant…

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2009-09-15 New Findings About Disorder in Bees

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Colony collapse disorder first struck honey bees in the United States in…

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2009-09-08 Poultry Farms With Unhappy Neighbors? Plant Some Trees

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Planting trees around poultry farms can improve air and water quality --…

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2009-09-01 Study Finds More Trees on Farms Than Was Thought

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers, especially in developing countries, are often criticized for cutting down forests.…

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2009-08-25 Watching Out for ‘Wicked Plants’

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Just because a plant looks nice does not mean you should eat…

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2009-08-18 In Afghanistan, Preparing for a Threat to Wheat Plants

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in Afghanistan already struggle with the effects of drought and years…

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