Long before the use of machinery and fertilizers, industrious and creative farmers had already used different kinds of methods to increase crop yields.

早在使用机械和化肥之前，勤劳和富有创造性的中国农民就已经采用各种各样的方法来增加农作物产量。

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Over the last five decades, improved farming techniques and technologies have helped to significantly increase crop yields along with a 12% expansion of farmed land use.

在过去50年里，改良的农业科技技术显著提高了农作物的产量，耕种面积扩大了12%。

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Pineapple farmers in Ghana are using PDAs and bar coding technology to facilitate transport and increase crop yields.

加纳的菠萝种植农正使用掌上电脑和条码技术来促进运输和增加作物产量。

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Usess of the Airware technology, which started shipping last November, so far include agricultural drones that use image analysis to decrease waste of water and increase crop yields.

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These technologies increase crop yields and offer a variety of crop-specific benefits, including better nutrients, improved resistance to pests, drought-resistance and other characteristics that allow farmers to grow more with less environmental impact.

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Indeed, how else to explain why Honda has studied the maddeningly evasive cockroach (for anticollision technology), decoded the rice genome (to increase crop yields and create more-productive crops for biofuels) and developed a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).

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