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farmer

英 ['fɑːmə] 美['fɑmɚ]

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n. 农夫，农民
n. (Farmer)人名；(英)法默；(法)法尔梅；(西)法梅尔

考试真题

Mr.Kibara and hundreds of other farmers have been removing some of their tea bushes and planting a new kind of tea developed by the Tea Research Foundation of Kenya.

All appears to be well, but the farmers who planted the bushes are worried.

Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U.S. as there were 20 years ago.

While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

In poor, dry regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

Farmers and consumers may be affected by harmful bacteria.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Vernon Bowman, a 75-year-old farmer from rural Indiana, did something that got him sued.

If this were a Hollywood movie, the courageous old Indiana farmer would beat the profit-minded corporation before the credits rolled

If farmers like Bowman are able to use these seeds without paying the designated fee, it will remove the incentives for companies like Monsanto to innovate.

He said "Monsanto should not be able, just because they've got billions of dollars to spend on legal fees, to try to terrify farmers into obeying their agreements by massive force and threats

But Bowman's supporters argue that Monsanto is trying to expand the scope of patents in ways that would enrich big corporations and hurt small farmers.

Allow small farmers to grow genetically modified soybeans

Whether measures should be introduced to protect small farmers.

In the Netherlands, Shell delivers CO2 to farmers who pipe it into their greenhouses, increasing their yield of fruits and vegetables.

Through using CO2, Dutch farmers have been able to

"My vision is for the subsistence farmer," Farrant says.

And not every farmer has the option of going grass-fed.

Joseph has learned that a farmer has to have a certain mindset to successfully convert.

Reading magazines like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture.

The idea that all energy and wealth comes from the sun really intrigued him He thought the shorter the distance between the sun and the end product, the higher the profit to the farmer.

Usually a farmer will get to the point where financially, what they're doing is not working.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper.

A study found that a strong nifio in 1997-98 helped America's economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the midwest gained from extra rain.

A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

Another reason for corn's rise: the government encourages farmers to grow corn instead of rice to improve water quality.

As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition NYFC (美国青年农会) and a family farmer myself, I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.

Before the tool came out, small farmers couldn't touch the price per pound offered by California farms.

But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players.

By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in the ecosystems (生态系统), small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys.

Developers, and established large farmers makes owning one's own land unattainable for many new farmers.

Farmers in many countries are also adapting like this—either by growing new produce, or by growing the same things differently.

In 1943, a Mexican farmer was surprised to see smoke rising from a small part of his land.

In my hometown, there is always a harvest supper for the farmers after all the wheat has been cut.

In Peru, local farmers around a mountain with a glacier that has already fallen victim to climate change have begun painting the entire mountain peak white in the hope that the added reflectiveness will restore the life-giving ice.

It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California.

Loans to small local farmers are necessary.

Many farmers opposed the plan because they feared that wolves would kill their farm animals or pets.

Papa, as a son of a dirt-poor farmer, left school early and went to work in a factory, for education was for the rich then.

Small farmers may gain some advantages over big ones.

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

The conflict between farmers and gray wolves.

The farmer freed him, and he began to run happily around again.

The officer immediately sent a local farmer out to check on the pony.

The sustainable success of small farmers, though, won't happen without fundamental changes to the industry.

There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and fair farm economy, but farmers can't clumsily put them together before us.

With a new farm bill to be debated in congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.

With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation's farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation's food.

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.