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…
2010-07-27 Got Baboons in Your Crops? Offer Them a Snake Sandwich
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. When farmers and wild animals share land, conflicts can be hard to…
2010-07-13 Growing Trees in the Desert, With the Aid of a ‘Waterboxx’
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Pieter Hoff used to export lilies and tulips from the Netherlands. He…
2010-07-06 Farming in the City: The Joys of Growing Food
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For many years, people in American cities have depended on farmers in…
2010-06-29 In the Garden: Getting the Most Out of Mums
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. People have grown chrysanthemums for more than two thousand years. Chinese and…
2010-06-15 In the Garden: Getting Started With Roses
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Most kinds of rose plants come from Asia. But roses are also…
2010-06-08 Farmers in East Africa Struggle Against Cassava Disease
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. About eight hundred million people in Africa, Asia and South America eat…
2010-06-01 A Chicken in Every Pot: Finding New Uses for Feathers
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Chicken feathers are useful, and not just to a chicken. Some go…
2010-05-25 A Cotton Plant Kills One Kind of Bug, but Gets Blamed for Another
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In two thousand eight, scientists reported on a study of cotton grown…
2010-05-18 Why Grafting Still Fits Nicely Into Agriculture
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Grafting is a way to produce plants from pieces of existing plants…
2010-05-11 In Kenya, Low-Cost Crop Insurance for Small Farmers
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Weather does not discriminate between large and small farms. If it rains…
2010-05-04 Oil Spill Puts Fisheries, Birds at Risk Along US Gulf Coast
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American officials have suspended all fishing in parts of the Gulf of…
2010-04-27 Transgenic Crops Get Good Marks in General in US Study
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American farmers first planted genetically engineered crops in nineteen ninety-six. Today eighty…
2010-04-20 Study Warns of Dangers to World’s Mangrove Forests
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Mangroves are unusual looking trees. They have roots that stand in saltwater…