The fallow fields glitter like water indeed.

休耕地似水面波光闪耀。

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West of the boundary, the land appears as a patchwork of brown fallow fields and green growing crops.

边界西边的土地由灰色的休耕地区与绿色的生长作物组成。

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The fields lay fallow.

这些地休耕了。

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But the hills used to be sown with maize and the wildflowers are a sign that the workforce has left the fields fallow to toil in more profitable ones in the United States.

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You know the sorts of things, leaving verges on fields, low pesticide use, perhaps even fallow periods and so on.

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The government says it makes no sense to allow much of the country's best soil to lie fallow while farmers struggle to squeeze a living from minuscule, dust-blown fields.

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