Generous spacing gives healthier trees and better crops.
足够大的间距使树长得更健康，庄稼长得更好。
Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into new crops.
目前正鼓励农民兼种新的农作物。
这些庄稼可望丰产。
Biodiversity ensures a resource for new food crops and medicines.
生物多样性确保了新的粮食作物和药物的来源。
These new crops must also be more resistant to drought, heat and pests.
这些新作物还必须具有更强的耐旱、耐热和抗虫害能力。
It took humans 10,000 years to learn how to grow most of the crops we now take for granted.
人类花了1万年的时间，才学会种植我们现在习以为常的大部分农作物。
In only one of these last eleven years was the weather unfavorable for growing citrus crops.
在过去的11年里，只有一年的天气不利于柑橘作物的生长。
Sugar cane and pineapples are Hawaii's main crops. Tourism is Hawaii's most important industry.
甘蔗和菠萝是夏威夷的主要作物。旅游业是夏威夷最重要的产业。
The chipmunk population increased strikingly due to two successive years of abundant acorn crops in the forest.
金花鼠数量显著地增加，是因为森林里连续两年丰硕的橡子收成。
Donna helped the people of the village to organize an irrigation project, and she also advised them on planting crops.
唐娜帮助村民们规划了一个灌溉工程，还建议他们种庄稼。
Thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughed up for crops might be able to revert to forest or wilderness.
由于人口增长放缓，目前用于种植作物的耕地可能会恢复成森林或荒野。
Many have been attempting to conserve water by irrigating less frequently or by switching to crops that require less water.
许多人试图通过减少灌溉频率或改种需水量更少的作物来节约用水。
Genetic engineering also may provide a partial solution, as new strains of drought-resistant crops continue to be developed.
随着抗旱作物新品种的不断开发，基因工程也可能提供部分解决方案。
She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.
她正在努力寻找一种方法，从那些适应极端干旱天气的稀有野生植物中获取特性，并将它们用于粮食作物。
She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extremely dry weather and use them in food crops.
她正在努力寻找一种方法，从适应极端干旱天气的珍稀野生植物中提取性状，并将其用于粮食作物。
Perhaps it is time for farmers to put their feet up now that robots are used to inspect crops, dig up weeds, and even have become shepherds, too.
现在，机器人已经被用来检查作物、铲除杂草，甚至还能牧羊，也许农民是时候停下来休息了。
Imagine a world where there was no need for farming or growing crops and the same tastes and structures could be printed from an uncooked "food ink".
想象一下这样一个世界——不需要耕种或种植作物，同样的口味和结构可以用生的“食品墨水”打印出来。
Donkeys, which were imported to the district, have become more common and contribute, in particular, to the transportation of crops and goods to market.
引进到该地区的驴已变得越来越常见，而且它们特别有助于将作物和货物运输到市场。
Similar advances with other crops have released people from hard and boring jobs for more creative work, whilst machines harvest crops more efficiently with less waste.
对于其它作物，相似的改进把人们从艰难又枯燥的工作中解放出来，可以做更多创造性的工作，同时机器收割庄稼的效率更高，浪费更少。
Once the idea of planting diffused, Africans began to develop their own crops, such as certain varieties of rice, and they demonstrated a continued receptiveness to new imports.
一旦种植的想法传播开来，非洲人就开始培育他们自己的农作物，例如某些品种的水稻，他们对新进口的作物表现出持续的接受能力。
Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty of answers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.
南非开普敦大学的生物学家吉尔·法兰特表示，对于那些想要在无法预测降雨量的地区种植作物的人，大自然会给出很多答案。
庄稼长得真好。
By about 6000 BC, people had discovered the best crops to grow and animals to raise.
大约在公元前6000年，人们已经发现了最适宜种植的庄稼和最适宜饲养的牲畜。
The drizzle and the wet air "water" the ground, which makes the crops and the plants grow.
细雨和潮湿的空气“滋润”了地面，使庄稼和植物生长。
At the beginning of the year, farmers plow the soil, giving crops the best possible environment.
农民会在年初时犁地，给作物提供尽可能好的环境。
Scientists hope to learn more about this plant warning system, so that we can use it to grow more crops.
科学家希望对这种植物预警系统有更多了解，这样我们就可以利用它种植更多的作物。
Modern irrigation devices, each capable of spraying 4.5 million liters of water a day, have produced a landscape dominated by geometric patterns of circular green islands of crops.
现代灌溉设备，每台的日喷水量可以达到四百五十万升，从而形成了一种像群岛一样的由几何圆形的绿色农田所构成的景观。
Yuan once said he had two dreams—to "enjoy the cool under the rice crops taller than men" and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the global food problem.
袁曾经说过他有两个梦想——“在比人高的水稻下乘凉”，以及杂交水稻可以在世界各地种植，帮助解决全球粮食问题。
The timely rain revived the droughtstricken crops.
这场及时雨使受旱的禾苗都缓过来了。
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