"Farmers have to choose between growing specialty cash crops like cocoa, tea and coffee - or food staples to make a living," Ickes said.

农民必须选择是种植可可、茶和咖啡等专门的经济作物，还是选择种植养家糊口的主食作物。

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Robotics: Six presenting firms offer robotic and software systems to maximize yield and productivity including Energid Technologies that has developed a robotic citrus harvesting system that automatically finds and removes fruit at a lower cost than manual harvesting, and Vision Robotics that will use stereo vision-based robots to pick, prune and other tasks on specialty crops.

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