Category: Agriculture Report (农业报道)

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Aid to farmers has become a major issue in world trade talks. Industrial nations provide farmers with payments to improve…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Until last year, only China, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam widely used vaccines in an effort to protect farm birds against…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers often feel they need a lot of sunshine to produce a good crop. But lots of vegetables grow well…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers usually have to destroy all of their chickens and other birds if a case of bird flu is found.…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Many different kinds of plants are part of the leguminosae group. They are called legumes. These plants can produce their…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. About one-third of all agricultural land in America is now planted with genetically engineered crops — about fifty million hectares.…

This is Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean.…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The American Midwest is known as the corn belt. Most of the nation’s maize is grown along that stretch of…

I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Mulch is important to farmers. Mulch is a protective cover of material that is spread on top of soil. It…

I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. To increase profits, some farmers change what they grow. But some farmers in the American Midwest are changing where they…

I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A listener in Burkina Faso named Irisso wants to know the place that agriculture occupies in the United States economy.…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bees not only produce honey and wax, they also provide an important service to farmers. Many crops require bees to…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Last week we talked about how bees make honey. Yet bees also produce other useful materials. Beeswax is another product,…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Most people have heard the sound of bees among flowers. Bees live almost everywhere in the world — except the…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In many colder northern countries, poinsettias are a sure sign that Christmas is near. Nearly all sales of this flowering…