Whether the crops grow well or badly depends also on how the work is done.

庄稼长得好坏，也要看活的粗细。

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With their enormous size and weight, today's farm machines have significant downsides: they compact the soil, reducing porosity and killing beneficial life, meaning crops don't grow so well.

由于庞大的体积和重量，现在的农业机械有显著的缺点：它们会把土壤压实，降低土壤孔隙度，杀死有益的生命，这意味着农作物不会长得太好。

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Mr. Wang's team encourages farmers to grow fruit trees as well as more traditional crops such as corn on their terraces to improve the retention of soil and water.

王先生所带领的团队鼓励当地农民在梯田上种植果树和其他如玉米等更传统的农作物来保持水土。

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The results showed that well-managed hoop houses can grow high-quality crops.

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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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However,crops are not the only things that grow well.

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The settlers worked hard, clearing the forests along the valley floors, and making their living from livestock in a region where few crops grow well, but Alpine meadows are pasture for goats and cattle which produce unrivalled milk and cheese.

BBC: Hiking the Alpine Walserweg trail