Category: Agriculture Report (农业报道)

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Foreign investment in African land is growing. Countries like China, Saudi Arabia and South Korea are leasing or buying millions of hectares…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. MIRANDA (TV’s “Sex and the City”): “I’ll start with a salad with extra blue-cheese dressing, thank you.” Many people have lettuce in…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Food prices are down from their record highs in February. But prices are still higher than they were a year ago. Many…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Two of Santa’s reindeer — Comet and Dancer — got loose on a busy roadway in Texas just days before Christmas. Think…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Less than a third of people in developing countries own or have any official right to the land they live on. Groups…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A cash crop is a crop grown for money. Four hundred years ago the first cash crop for European colonists in North…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United Nations estimates that world food production will have to increase by seventy percent by twenty-fifty. A world population growing in…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In sixteen twenty-one, a big celebration took place at Plymouth Colony in what is now the state of Massachusetts. European settlers known…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we have a vocabulary quiz. We start with two questions about terms for plants. OK, first question: What is the name…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. East Coast fever kills hundreds of thousands of cattle ineastern and central Africa every year. The animals become infected when they get…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Beets are a tasty root vegetable that do not require much work in the garden. People might think beets are always dark…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Generations of newcomers have brought their tastes and sometimes their farming skills to American soil. These include refugees who have gotten help…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. There are growing concerns about food insecurity in the developing world. Rising food prices, weather emergencies and political problems are deepening the…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Blueberries are generally grown in northern climates with cool winters and mild summers. But some newer varieties do well in very cool…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. United Nations agencies are warning of food shortages next year in South Sudan. The Food and Agriculture Organization says the new country…