No one could raise crops on this barren land.

没人能够在这么贫瘠的土地上种庄稼。

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It is different from settled farming because shifting cultivators raise crops in a place for only as long as the soil allows the crops to grow well.

它不同于固定的耕种，因为轮作耕种者在一个地方种庄稼的时间长短要视那里的土壤适合庄稼生长的时间而定。

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Then,some people learned to grow crops and raise animals for food.

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It is also encourages farmers to grow other crops like vanilla and raise cattle to supplement their incomes.

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There, farmers still raise the same crops their fathers and grandfathers did.

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They assemble in groups of three to five to plant crops, ship goods and raise edifices, compressing into a cheerful hour or two the wheeling and dealing that consumed the careers of 16th-century colonists in the Caribbean.

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