这种扩大直接表现为农民收入的绝对数在增加，但相对数增长缓慢甚至下降，其根本原因在于农民人口的基数过大。

The enlargement show as peasant absolute number of income increase, but relative to count growth even drop slowly directly, its basic reason lies in the base figure of peasant's population is too big.

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那时，人口只有150人，主要由农民和他们的家人组成。

Then, the population was 150, and was made up of mostly farmers and their families.

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一方面，为了迎合人口增长，农民在未来40年里种植的小麦和玉米必须超过过去500年的产量。

On one reckoning, in order to keep up with population growth farmers will have to grow more wheat and maize over the next 40 years than was grown in the previous 500.

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