Category: Agriculture Report (农业报道)

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Organic farming avoids the use of chemical pesticides and manmade fertilizers. Supporters say organic farming is better for the environment than conventional…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The University of Georgia is a respected research university. Thirty-five thousand students attend the main campus in Athens, Georgia, and extended campuses…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. South America’s Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest and river system on Earth. But the Amazon is disappearing at the rate of…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A new report says if women farmers had the same rights as men, more could be done to reduce world hunger. The…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bees add an estimated eighteen billion dollars a year to the value of American crops. They pollinate flowers that become fruits, nuts…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A new American intelligence report says water-related problems will likely increase tensions around the world in the next ten years. These problems…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some people in the Netherlands are spending three hundred thirty thousand dollars on a hamburger. The people are scientists at the University…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Seth DeBolt is a plant scientist at the University of Kentucky in the United States. He and other scientists wanted to find…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Old properties and empty lots in cities and towns around the United States are finding new life as urban farms. Eco City…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Companion planting is the idea that some kinds of plants can help each other grow. Plants that are compatible together generally have…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. This June in Brazil, delegates will mark the twentieth anniversary of what is commonly known as the Earth Summit. The United Nations…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Valentine’s Day, February fourteenth, is one of the biggest days of the year for lovers of chocolate. Americans are expected to spend…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Aquaponics is the idea of producing vegetables and fish in the same closed system. It combines aquaculture, or fish farming, with hydroponics,…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Pigweed spreads fast and grows as tall as two meters. This weed can overpower cotton and other crops. It comes from the…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A discovery in a laboratory could help lead to new generation of drought-resistant crops. Drought conditions cause plants to produce a stress…