• New irrigation methods are expected to double wheat production while using one-third of the water required for full irrigation.

    VOA: special.2010.02.08

  • Hard to believe today, but Sicily was one of the major granaries of the Mediterranean world at that time, tremendously fruitful, able to grow the best possible crops, very good wheat and so on.

    在今天很难想象,但西西里是当时地中海地区,最主要的粮仓之一,产物丰盛,能够种植最好的谷物,上乘的小麦等等

    耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

  • Another is how much it's processed and how if you take things that started out as food like wheat or corn, and then they're processed many different ways, and things are added to them or done to them that change their chemical properties, does that affect whether we would consider them food?

    另一个是它们被加工过程和程度,比如对于用来食用的麦子和玉米,有很多种加工方式,可以向它们添加一些东西,或进行一些加工去改变它们的化学性质,这会影响我们去判断它们是否为食品吗

    耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

  • He says farmers in some parts of North Dakota plant wheat that is ready to harvest in only about one hundred days.

    VOA: special.2010.02.09

  • In nineteen forty-four, Borlaug left his job with DuPont, and began a project to increase Mexico's wheat production.

    VOA: special.2009.11.10

  • He worked in the fields to show farmers new ways to grow wheat, rice and other crops.

    VOA: special.2009.09.22

  • Borlaug worked in fields to show farmers new ways to grow crops like wheat and rice.

    VOA: special.2009.11.10

  • He also worked in the laboratory to create new versions of wheat that could resist disease.

    VOA: special.2009.11.10

  • And he worked in the laboratory to breed new wheat varieties that could resist disease.

    VOA: special.2009.09.22

  • This was done by crossbreeding different kinds of wheat to make stronger, more resistant ones.

    VOA: special.2009.11.10

  • Borlaug worked with wheat genes to shrink the plant while keeping the grain large.

    VOA: special.2009.11.10

  • And almost all Afghan farmers grow wheat to feed their families or to sell.

    VOA: special.2009.08.18

  • Then,in Kenya, it destroyed anywhere from twenty to eighty percent of wheat crops.

    VOA: special.2009.08.18

  • Farmers had a new way to send wheat and grain to ports.

    VOA: special.2010.01.11

  • By nineteen fifty-six, the country produced enough wheat to feed its population.

    VOA: special.2009.11.10

  • Wheat used to be America's top crop, says economist Charlotte Hebebrand.

    VOA: special.2010.12.07

  • Coming from the world's fourth largest wheat producer, this report contributed to a 25-percent spike in world wheat prices in July.

    VOA: standard.2010.07.23

  • Agriculture officials Remove DDT," around the world race to protect wheat crops against a major new threat.

    VOA: standard.2009.09.16

  • "This is a new strain of stem rust organism that has the power to destroy most of the wheat varieties being grown around the world."

    VOA: standard.2009.09.16

  • U.S.subsidy programs for maize, wheat,and other crops are very similar to the cotton program.

    VOA: standard.2010.04.28

  • "There had recently been riots in Morocco due to the cost of wheat going up, so I traveled there to bake alongside Arab women in a large village oven.

    VOA: standard.2010.07.16

  • It was a return to his roots. He began his work in the 1940s in Mexico, breeding wheat crops that were immune to another type of wheat rustthat had devastated crops there.

    VOA: standard.2009.09.16

  • In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

    VOA: standard.2009.09.13

  • We have a big job on our hands,". Borlaug expressed concern about a new variety of wheat stem rust attacking wheat plants in Africa and advocated greater coordination of researchers around the world to stop its spread.

    VOA: standard.2009.09.13

  • Borlaug remained involved with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, even after his research took him to other parts of the globe, where he replicated the success he had had in Mexico, building his reputation as father of the "green revolution" in the 1960's.

    VOA: standard.2009.09.13

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