This area of southeast Texas is one of the best rice growing areas of the United States.

德州东南部的这个地区是美国最好的大米种植区之一。

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The United Nations World Food Programme fears that the cyclone and flooding in two major rice growing areas could also affect food supply in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

联合国世界粮食计划署担心台风和洪水对这两个主要的大米产地的影响还会波及斯里兰卡和孟加拉国。

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Located on the Mediterranean just two hours south of Barcelona, the Ebro Delta produces 120 million kilograms of rice a year, making it one of the continent's most important rice-growing areas.

埃布罗三角洲位于地中海，距巴塞罗那南部仅两小时车程，当地的稻米年产量是1.2亿公斤，是欧洲大陆最重要的稻米产区之一。

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Whether the price is highor low he stills plant pepper because,apart from growing rice, it is all he has ever known.

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Farmlink staff members say that while pepper requires more labor than growing rice, it is more profitable for farmers.

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longer growing season." For third-generation Texas rice farmer Ray Stoesser, Cuba is a promising market and he does not want politics to get in the way.

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Rice growing, in particular, is a heavy consumer of water: it takes some 5, 000 liters of water to produce 1 kg of rice.

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And in places like California (the second largest rice growing state in the U.S.), weeds are now resistant to almost every (legal) chemical known to humankind.

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Rice growing and eating comes from the south.

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