Farmers in the Indian state of Punjab, traditionally wheat and rice growers, have long relied on groundwater to irrigate their crops.

旁遮普邦的印度农民传统上种植小麦和水稻，他们长期以来依靠地下水灌溉庄稼。

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His wife Tien held, through the Bogasari flour mills, the state monopoly on the import and milling of wheat.

他的妻子Tien通过Bogasari磨粉厂控制了小麦进口和磨粉的垄断权。

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North Dakota grows more hectares of sunflowers than any other American state. But North Dakota is better known as a top wheat producing state.

北达科他州种植的向日葵比美国其它州好多公顷。但是北达科他州更以盛产小麦而出名。

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But North Dakota is better known as a top wheat producing state.

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There was a New Deal case of a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption: the Feds claimed the right to restrict this as his non-consumption, as a result of growing his own, of out of state wheat meant that this was inter-state commerce.

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Filburn, from 1942, the Court said that the federal government could regulate the amount of wheat grown on a farm, even if none of the wheat was sold across state lines, or even if no wheat was sold at all.

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The government of Indira Gandhi dithered for months before the main Sikh political party, the moderate Akali Dal, threatened to disrupt grain supplies from the wheat-rich state.

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