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。

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But these Numbers are artificially low. They omit the states' deficits and also most of the cost of fertiliser and fuel subsidies (which all told add another 3.5% of GDP).

但是这些数字都被人为调低了，各州的赤字以及大部分对化肥和燃料的补贴并没有被计算在内(这几项加在一起应该占gdp的3.5%)。

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But these Numbers are artificially low. They omit the states' deficits and also most of the cost of fertiliser and fuel subsidies (which all told add another 3.5% of GDP).

但是这些数字都被人为调低了，各州的赤字以及大部分对化肥和燃料的补贴并没有被计算在内(这几项加在一起应该占gdp的3.5%)。

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