Category: Agriculture Report (农业报道)

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cranberries are a little red fruit native to North America. They are raised on more than sixteen thousand hectares across…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Goats have provided meat and milk for people longer than sheep or cows have. There are several hundred million goats…

I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. China says it will give all of its farm birds a vaccine to protect them against avian influenza. The chief…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The Forest Service is responsible for the forests on public lands in the United States. It supervises almost seventy-eight million…

I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Students are taught at an early age about how insects help plants reproduce. Schoolchildren learn that plants release sweet juices,…

I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Many Americans celebrated Halloween on Monday by placing pumpkins outside their homes. A Halloween tradition is to cut a face…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Apples are the second most valuable fruit crop in the United States, after oranges. Autumn is a time when fresh…

I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Plant scientists consider them fruit. Most other people think of them as vegetables. Whatever you call tomatoes, there are many…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Raising cows for milk is not an easy way to farm. The costs and labor involved make it difficult for…

I’m Jim Tedder with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Last week, we heard how cheese maker Jonathan White in New Jersey uses traditional methods to make his products. An…

I’m Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The ancient way to store milk for long periods of time is to make it into cheese. Industrial methods create…

I’m Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In recent years, some concerns have been raised about the health of the world’s banana plants. A number of media…

I’m Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. New Orleans has always been a busy center for ships and trains. The city is close to the mouth of…

I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In nineteen seventy-five, a young husband and wife in the United States began an organization to save seeds from rare…

I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A few months ago, we talked about a system to harvest rainwater. The water travels from the roofs of buildings…