The glut has prompted a battle over this year's harvest. Each year the CIVC determines how many grapes the champagne houses must buy from the growers.

供应过剩引发课今年丰的丰收战，每年香槟酒行业委员会决定香槟酒商要从葡萄种植商购进多少葡萄。

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The Gaza flower Growers' Association estimates that the Strip used to export about 40m flowers a year - other estimates are as much as double that.

加沙花卉种植者协会估计，先前加沙地带每年出口的鲜花总量达到四千万株，而据其他人估计，出口量大约比这还要高一倍。

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This was installed and managed by Pembrokeshire Bio-energy and supplied by a cooperative of local growers and timber suppliers to provide 6, 000 tonnes a year of woodchip and energy crops.

这个系统由彭布鲁克郡生物能源机构安装并管理，由当地的能源农作物种植者和木材供应商联合向其供应原材料，每年提供六千吨木材片和能源农作物。

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But any American growers or home gardeners hoping for an early spring this year just got some bad news.

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During an on-crop year, growers often treat the fruit so it can stay on the tree longer.

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The Agriculture Department says growers in California led the nation in the value of floriculture products in two thousand seven, the latest year available.

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The state faced similar labor shortages last year, when growers persuaded Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire to declare a labor emergency, which allowed farms to hire prisoners to bring in the harvest.

WSJ: So Many Apples in Washington State This Year, So Few Pickers

The UN ran out of patience this year with the opium growers in northwest Pakistan, freezing aid until they agreed to destroy their crops.

BBC: Afghanistan's opium harvest

Mr Picken said that for 10 years supply and demand had been in the whisky industry's favour, but this year had swung towards the growers.

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