The miller ground winter corn and summer rice are on the same mill stones used by his grandfather and great-grandfather.

磨坊主人用上两代留下的石磨，研磨冬季玉米和夏季稻米。

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Mr.Gunjal said the success or failure of the corn crop, as well as the rice crop, would depend mostly on rainfall this spring and summer, not the shortage of rain this winter.

Gunjal先生说，玉米作物以及水稻作物收成的成败与否主要取决于今年春季和夏季的降水，而不是今年冬天雨水不足。

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When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger - while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer.

冬天来了，蚱蚂没有粮食，都快要饿死了。这时，蚱蚂看到蚂蚁们正分发他们在夏天时收集并储存起来的玉米和谷物。

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About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.

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The explained variance of this residual yield by climate is generally about 50%, which is very close to the average I found for corn, soybeans, and winter wheat.

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