Agriculture Report (农业报道)

2008-06-10 World Gets a Call to Raise Food Production

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A United Nations conference on rising food prices ended with an agreement…

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2008-06-03 Researchers Seek Drought-Resistant Crops

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. One cause of the current food crisis is drought. Food prices are…

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2008-05-27 UN Aims to Raise Potatoes’ Appeal

Some governments and agricultural experts have this advice to help people deal with high grain prices: Eat more potatoes. The…

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2008-05-20 Cork: More Than Just a Bottle Stopper

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cork is a light brown material harvested from the cork oak tree.…

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2008-05-13 Honey Bee Losses Still a Problem in US

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Honey bees add billions of dollars in value to around one hundred…

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2008-05-06 Using Charcoal to Make Soil Into Black Gold

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In South America, the fertile soil of the Amazon River basin in…

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2008-04-29 Damage Control on the Farm

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States Department of Agriculture has a program called Wildlife Services.…

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2008-04-22 When Tuberculosis Hits Animals

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bovine tuberculosis is a progressive wasting disease. It affects mainly cattle but…

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2008-04-15 Fighting a Food Crisis That Threatens to Spread Hunger and Unrest

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Food inflation has led to growing protests in developing countries. In Haiti,…

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2008-04-08 The Danger of Desertification

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Desertification is a process. It changes productive land into useless land. One…

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