Ogallala water has enabled the High Plains region to supply significant amounts of the cotton, sorghum, wheat, and corn grown in the United States.

奥加拉拉河使高平原地区能够向美国供应大量棉花、高粱、小麦和玉米。

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In addition, the region is heavily dependent on energy imports and (especially the smaller countries) on agricultural exports such as cotton, tea and rubber.

此外，该地区在很大程度上依靠进口能源，尤其是一些较小的国家依靠出口棉花、茶叶、橡胶等农产品。

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It also promises to increase shipments of cotton from the western region of Xinjiang, and to cut the price of electricity, gas and rail transport for fertiliser makers.

它也承诺从西部的新疆地区增运棉花，降低化肥制造商的电力，燃气以及铁路运输价格。

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Almost a century ago, boll weevils destroyed two-thirds of the cotton crop in this region.

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Until then, cotton had been the region's largest crop.

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During the 1960s, planners in the former Soviet Union began to divert its water sources to irrigate cotton and other crops in the region with disastrous consequences.

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Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic have leveraged those temperature swings to help solve the arid region hydration conundrum with a cotton material that absorbs water straight from the surrounding air.

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Until recently Ram Krishna Khodpe and his four brothers were eking out a meager living cultivating cotton on their 5-acre farm in the semiarid region of Jalgaon in India's western state of Maharashtra.

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