As far as the crops themselves are concerned, there are three runners at the starting gate: grasses, trees and algae.

在粮食作物作为原料之前，起跑线上有三种原料：草料，树木和水藻。

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Stretching across terrain already gridded by Andalusian farms, Andasol 1 and 2 rely on the same energy source as the crops.

辽阔的地形已经被安达卢西亚农场分成格子，安达索尔1和2像农作物一样依靠同样的能源。

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Much of the nitrogen pollution from agricultural production is linked to meat and dairy farming, as the crops needed to feed them are grown with the help of fertilisers.

由农业生产造成的氮污染大多数与肉乳品业相关，因为喂养动物所需的农作物需要氮肥才能生长。

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In many countries, women are half as likely as men to use fertilizers to increase the amount of crops.

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The biodiversity has shrunk for various reasons of profitability and as a consequence of that things like corn crops, and the orange crops in Florida are particularly susceptible to certain environmental conditions, certain pests, and certain types of blight.

生物多样性的减少源自利益的驱动,和玉米一样,佛罗里达的柑橘作物很容易受到,一定环境条件的影响,还有虫害和枯萎病

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Well, now one of the things farmers in history discovered is that it's very hard to do well as a farmer if all you do is grow the crops, because people normally don't use what you grow in the form in which you grow it.

关于农民我们在历史上能够得知的一件事是,当好农民很困难,特别是只种农作物的农民,因为人们一般不会将,你从地里种出来的东西留作种子

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Delegates left Rome without consensus on key issues such as the increased demand for crops to produce biofuels and the impact on world food prices, and there is also no agreement on the lifting of trade barriers and the issue of farm subsidies, officials said.

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"The big barrier as far as bioenergy crops are concerned is a fear of the unknown in terms of soil carbon losses or gains - this is the gap we are trying to fill, " explained lead researcher Niall McNamara.

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Once the fermentation process that creates the methane is finished, the remaining solid matter, or "digestate" is used as an organic fertilizer for crops that will later be used as feedstock for the animals.

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