Land in Rwanda is scarce. But the major problem confronting those who work the land is that almost 90% of arable land is on hillsides.

卢旺达的土地资源稀缺，但农户当前面临的一大问题是近90%的耕地都是坡地。

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Farmers are relying on increasingly sophisticated equipment to work the land and boost crop yields, placing a premium on agricultural technicians and engineers.

农民在耕作和提高农作物产量方面越来越依赖复杂的机械设备，由此造成了农业技术人员和工程师的短缺。

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Many younger people are leaving the land to find work in the cities.

许多年轻点的人陆续离开农村到城市去找工作。

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Share-cropping made it possible for blacks to work the land for themselves for the first time in their lives.

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Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

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So, marginal land is brought into play with hard work and ingenuity, and this is one of the things that Hanson emphasizes that is so helpful.

那么,边际耕地需要,在一定的生产条件下,生产收益正好足以补偿所需费用的土地,这就是汉森所强调的相当有益的一点

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Mr Sumer argues that he needs as many sons as possible to work the land.

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"Finding Florida" is essentially an unending litany of white "ethnic cleansing" of the original Floridians and merciless abuse of the black slaves imported to work the land.

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He is willing to pay enough to make the farmer rich beyond his wildest dreams, and will employ the farmer to work the land until the end of his days.

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