You cannot grow crops on exhausted land.

地力耗尽的土地上种不了庄稼。

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A lot of our land is used to grow crops for export.

我们很多的土地用来种植出口作物。

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What's worse, many cocoa farmers in Africa and other cocoa producing countries like Indonesia and Venezuela are changing to easier to grow crops such as corn or rubber.

更糟糕的是，非洲和印尼、委内瑞拉等其他可可生产国的许多可可种植者正在改种玉米或橡胶等更容易种植的作物。

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All these things cost money. So a plains farmer had to grow crops that were in big demand.

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Hard to believe today, but Sicily was one of the major granaries of the Mediterranean world at that time, tremendously fruitful, able to grow the best possible crops, very good wheat and so on.

在今天很难想象,但西西里是当时地中海地区,最主要的粮仓之一,产物丰盛,能够种植最好的谷物,上乘的小麦等等

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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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It will also push up the price of farmland, whether to grow crops for food or fuel.

BBC: Biofuel crops transform German farming

Plans to suck carbon from the air by growing trees conflict with the need to grow crops.

ECONOMIST: Geo-engineering

And people now are less able to grow crops and run cattle than they were, say, a hundred years ago.

NPR: Can Climate Change Explain Odd Weather?