Farmers in the Amazon basin have long used "the dark earth of the Indians" as fertiliser.
亚马逊盆地的农民长期使用“印第安黑土”作为肥料。
But as China struggles to meet its food sufficiency targets, and as fertiliser markets tighten, that is changing.
但随着中国力争实现其粮食自给目标，以及化肥市场吃紧，这种情况正在改变。
At the same time, some in the fishing industry have realised that selling anchoveta as food for people, rather than as fertiliser or animal feed, is more profitable.
同时，渔业有些公司已经明白将鳀鱼卖给人们当成食品，比当成肥料或动物饲料出售更有利润。
Women and girls in rural villages lose time and energy walking around collecting dirty solid fuels, ranging from crop waste to cow dung (better used as fertiliser).
农村的妇女和女孩浪费时间和精力到处收集脏兮兮的固体燃料，从庄稼废弃物到奶牛的粪便（更好的利用方式是当做肥料）。
Until now, seaweed has been valued mainly as food, but also as fertiliser, animal feed, and recently for a growing phycocolloid industry producing algin, AGAR and carrageenan.
在此之前，海藻主要被视为食物，但是也被用于肥料、动物饲料，最近还被用于不断增长的藻胶产业，这个产业生产褐藻胶、琼脂和角叉胶。
As a food crop, corn is also far more damaging to the environment than other crops, such as soybeans, because it USES more pesticides and fertiliser.
作为一种粮食作物，玉米比大豆等其他作物对环境影响更大，因为它需要更多的肥料和杀虫剂。
Other ideas include extracting water and leaving a dry residue for use as fuel or fertiliser, or making latrines into fly traps, hence cutting the spread of disease.
其他构思还有抽离水分将干燥的剩余物用作燃料或化肥，将公共厕所设成捕蝇器从而切断疾病的传播途径。
Even so, the number of sugarcane farms in Louisiana has dwindled to 550 compared with 850 as recently as 2002, thanks to years of stubbornly low sugar prices and rising fuel and fertiliser costs.
尽管如此，路易斯安那州的甘蔗农场数量已经由2002年的850个减少到了550个。因为很多年来，蔗糖价格一直很低，而油价和肥料的价格却越来越高。
Benefits will flow faster as cash transfers replace clunky subsidies for fuel and fertiliser.
随着现金调拨取代笨重的燃料和化肥补贴，救济金的流动将加快。
Such is the allure of potash that rumours last year suggested that Vale or BHP might bid for a big global fertiliser company such as America's Mosaic or PCS of Canada.
钾肥的诱惑如此之大，去年甚至有传闻称，淡水河谷和必和必拓可能竞标收购全球最大的化肥公司诸如美国的美盛公司和加拿大钾肥公司(PCS)。
Genetically modified (GM) agriculture could play an important role, as this technology can greatly increase yields while using smaller inputs of fertiliser, insecticide and water.
由于转基因农业技术在降低化肥、杀虫剂和水利灌溉等投入的同时可使产量剧增，因而它能在未来扮演重要角色。
Both countries' share the problem of surging fertiliser prices as well as a sharp rise in rural wages in the past year or so.
两国还面临一个共同的问题：过去一年左右，两国的化肥价格都出现了激增，农村地区工资水平也大幅提升。
It is a long shot, but by 2050 wheat plants could be making their own fertiliser, as well as having acquired desirable genetic characteristics from other plants and being larger and more productive.
这是一个很长远的目标，不过到2050年小麦可以达到自己合成肥料，除此之外它们还可以从其他植物中不断引入所需要的基因特征而变得产量更高。
A recent flurry of takeovers suggests that fertiliser companies see the subsequent drop in prices as a buying opportunity before the next ascent begins.
最近一系列的并购说明，化肥公司把随后的化肥价格的回落视为在下一次价格攀升前一个很不错的买入机会。
Experimental crop plants that use nitrogen more efficiently provide the same yields as normal crops with less fertiliser.
能更有效地利用氮肥的实验性农作物能在使用较少肥料的情况下做到和普通农作物的产量一样。
What remains is wet straw. (The washing water, which seeps into the soil, acts as a good fertiliser.)
剩下的是湿草梗，而用于冲洗的水则渗入土壤，成为优质肥料。
At the same time Mr Moore's colleague, Giles Oldroyd, is investigating how some plants, such as legumes (peas and beans), make their own fertiliser, in the hope of transferring this trait to cereals.
同时，摩尔先生的同事，贾尔斯·奥尔德罗伊德，正在研究如豆类(豌豆和豆类)的植株如何生产自己的肥料，希望豆类的形状能够转嫁到谷物类上面。
The deal will extend Yara's lead as the world's biggest maker of nitrogen-based fertiliser.
此项交易将进一步扩大亚拉公司作为全球最大氮肥制造商的领先地位。
She survives because, as well as the bottle of agricultural fertiliser she swallowed, she drank one of washing-up liquid, thinking that any chemical in a bottle was poison.
由于她认为任何在瓶子中装着的化学制品都是有毒的，因此她吞下了一瓶农药，同时还喝了一种洗涤剂。
In a few hours, the corpse dissolves into an inorganic liquid, which can be used as a fertiliser, and a white ash-like residue.
在几个小时内，尸体便会溶解成可用来施肥的无机液体和白色粉末状的残渣。
China's demand for fertiliser is expected to be particularly buoyant as a result of its huge population and the poor quality of its arable land.
由于中国的巨量人口及其贫瘠的可耕地，中国的化肥需求有望看涨。
The gas is produced as a byproduct of fertiliser use in agriculture and other industrial processes.
该气体是农业施肥及其他工业活动的副产品。
Local communities are choking, says Jiang Gaoming, as the country wastes a valuable resource for power generation, fertiliser and food.
蒋高明指出，燃烧秸秆产生的呛人烟味在侵扰着当地的居民。同时，农民烧掉的是宝贵的肥料，粮食和能源资源。
It's used as a valuable source of fertiliser. A clue to the source of the guano can be heard above the noise of the river.
这是一种宝贵的天然肥料。鸟粪的源头能听到河水上空的鸟鸣。噪音因为山洞而被放大。
It's used as a valuable source of fertiliser. A clue to the source of the guano can be heard above the noise of the river.
这是一种宝贵的天然肥料。鸟粪的源头能听到河水上空的鸟鸣。噪音因为山洞而被放大。
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