中国农民数量占全世界的40%左右,而耕地面积仅占9%。
China has about 40 per cent of the world's farmers but just 9 per cent of the world's arable land.
促进农民获得税收转移支付的一个原因居然是因为美国农民数量太小,这是很荒谬的。
The small number of American farmers is, paradoxically, a factor that facilitates their obtaining transfer payments from taxpayers.
20世纪地球的人类数量增长了293%,此前的9个世纪平均仅为22%,农民数量显然跟不上总人口的增长。
Earth's human population grew 293 percent in the 20th century - compared with an average of 22 percent each of the previous nine centuries - and farmers couldn't keep up.
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