Many people have gone hungry in the past few months thanks to a poor harvest: instead of falling evenly through the 2004-05 growing season, the rains came all at once, mostly early on.

由于庄稼歉收，过去几个月许多人都在挨饿；在2004年到2005年庄稼生长季节里，雨水下得并不均匀，而是过早的下起了暴雨。

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They work out, say, peas that will ripen all at once. The farmer can then harvest his peas and thresh them and be done with them.

例如他们搞出同时成熟的豌豆品种，这样农民便可以收获、脱粒，一次完事。

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Once a year at harvest time, the local cotton company sends a four-wheel-drive truck to pick up his sacks of cotton.

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