Wheat, maize and sugar beet are planted in rotation.
小麦、玉米和甜菜是轮流种植的。
Sugarcane needs less land than maize.
甘蔗比玉米需要更少的土地。
The maize and millet were just putting forth ears.
玉米和谷子正在抽穗。
The use of the modified maize inadvertently imperils monarch butterflies.
使用转基因玉米无意中危及黑脉金斑蝶。
In some African markets, maize and wheat prices have risen by 30% this year.
今年，在一些非洲市场上，玉米和小麦的价格上涨了30%。
Nevertheless, yields of maize, sorghum and wheat doubled between 1983 and 1985.
然而，玉米、高粱和小麦的产量在1983年至1985年间翻了一番。
By the time of Columbus, maize had already become the staff of life in the New World.
在哥伦布时期，玉米已成为美洲大陆的主食。
His family had a 40-hectare farm on which they grew wheat, maize and hay and raised pigs and cattle.
他家有一个40公顷的农场，种植小麦、玉米和干草，还养猪和牛。
Nine thousand years ago, the maize cob was very hard, and eating it raw would have made you very ill.
九千年前，玉米芯是很硬的，生吃的话你会病得很惨。
Maize pollen is dispersed by the wind and often blows onto milkweed plants that grow near maize fields.
玉米花粉被风吹散，经常吹到生长在玉米田附近的乳草属植物上。
The warmer temperatures mean that some of them can now grow peaches and maize where previously they could not.
气温升高意味着一些村民能种植桃子和玉米这些从前不能种植的作物了。
This is an interesting quote about maize from this particular book called Prehistoric Food Production in North America.
这是一句关于玉米的有趣引用，来自于《史前北美食物生产》。
Pellagra was virtually unknown at that time in the Americas, however, even among people who subsisted primarily on maize.
然而，糙皮病在当时的美洲几乎还不为人所知，甚至在主要以玉米为生的人之间也是如此。
When, in experiments, these caterpillars were fed milkweed leaves dusted with pollen from modified maize plants, they died.
在实验中，这些毛毛虫被喂食沾有转基因玉米花粉的马利筋叶子，然后它们死亡了。
Even the major food crops of the poor—wheat, rice, white maize, potato, and cassava—are also being neglected, according to SOFA 2004.
根据《2004年粮农状况》，即使穷人的主要粮食作物——小麦、稻米、白玉米、马铃薯和木薯——亦受到忽视。
In certain locations things were dominated by certain cereals; rice in Asia, wheat in Europe, sorghum and millet in Africa, and maize in the New World.
不同的地方有不同的主食，比如亚洲主食米饭，欧洲主食小麦，非洲主食高粱和小米，美洲主食玉米。
Certain genetically modified strains of maize produce a natural insecticide that protects against maize-eating insects.
某些转基因玉米品种可以生产一种天然杀虫剂，保护玉米免受以玉米为食的昆虫的侵害。
It is also responsible for the relative resistance of immature maize to the European corn borer (Crambidae).
它还是未成熟玉米对欧洲玉米螟（草螟科）产生相对抗性的原因。
In Kenya the price of maize has tripled.
在肯尼亚，玉米的价格已经翻了三倍。
And sugarcane needs less land than maize.
而且甘蔗比玉米的占地少。
But beans and squashes don't become gods - why does maize?
那为什么豆类与瓜类都成不了神，唯独玉米可以呢？
So maize readily produces hybrids, which tend to be more vigorous.
所以很容易产生玉米杂交品种，杂交品种生长更加旺盛。
In the Maya creation myth, the first humans were made of maize dough.
在玛雅人的创世神话中，第一批人由玉米面团捏成。
FOR the past decade maize has been the seed companies' favoured crop.
在过去的十年里玉米是种子公司比较受欢迎的作物。
There, they depend on agriculture — and nearly every farmer grows maize.
在那里，他们以农业为生——几乎每个农民都种玉米。
In some African markets maize and wheat prices have risen by 30% this year.
今年，在一些非洲市场上，玉米和小麦的价格上涨了30%。
In Iowa in the US, the average rain-fed maize yield is 10 tonnes per hectare.
在美国爱荷华州，靠雨水供养的玉米平均产量为每公顷10吨。
Participating farmers are estimated to have harvested some 10,000 tons of maize.
据估计，参与该项举措的农民收获了大约10000吨玉米。
Participating farmers are estimated to have harvested some 10,000 tons of maize.
据估计，参与该项举措的农民收获了大约10000吨玉米。
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