2009-02-10 Progress on Treaty Against Fish Piracy
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Everyone knows that ships are a favorite target of pirates. But another problem takes place under the sea and often gets less…
2009-02-03 Growing Flowers in a Stormy Economy
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We have a question from a Chinese student who is interested in floriculture. Wang Yue wants to know what kinds of flowers…
2009-01-27 Liberia Seeks Help as Caterpillars Attack Crops
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Officials in Liberia say tens of millions of caterpillars are destroying crops and polluting waterways in the country’s agricultural centers. The United…
2009-01-20 Project to Develop Electronic Maps of Soil in Africa
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Poor soil keeps many farmers in Africa from growing good crops. Low soil fertility has slowed agricultural production in parts of the…
2009-01-13 India’s Camel Population Drops
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. India had more than one million camels during the middle of the nineteen nineties. But the population of the animals known for…
2009-01-06 Giving Grasslands a Rest
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Grasslands need time to rest when cattle and other animals feed on them. Moving animals from one area of pasture to another…
2008-12-30 Finding Uses for Marginal Lands
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We have a question from Jonah Ojowu in Benue State, Nigeria, about a subject we have discussed in the past. Jonah is…
2008-12-23 Food Safety After a Flood
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. People can get sick if they eat food touched by floodwaters. Floodwater may contain human and animal wastes, and other pollutants like…
2008-12-16 Getting Enough Food a ‘Distant Dream’ for Almost a Billion
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United Nations says forty million more people around the world went hungry this year, mainly because of higher food prices. Early…
2008-12-09 Soil Erosion Threatens Chinese ‘Breadbasket’
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A new study says almost forty percent of China is losing soil because of wind and water erosion. The Chinese government recently…
2008-12-02 Looking for Energy in Algae
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The search for new fuels has led some researchers to algae. Algae is a name for thousands of different organisms. They include…
2008-11-25 Vertical Farming: Potatoes? They’re on the Fifth Floor
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Dickson Despommier is a public health professor at Columbia University in New York City. His area is environmental health sciences. One day…
2008-11-18 Growing Crops With Less Water
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. Almost sixty percent of the…
2008-11-11 Food for Thought: Starting a Fish Farm
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A listener in Abuja, Nigeria, named Okorie wants to know more about fish pond farming. Raising fish in ponds of standing water…
2008-11-04 Study Says Pest-Resistant Cotton May Help Other Crops
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bollworms are a traditional threat to cotton crops. Young ones feed on the boll, the part of the cotton plant that contains…