(单词翻译:单击)
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report.
Crop disease continues to be a problem for farmers everywhere. The non-profit Center for Agriculture and Biosciences International(CABI) says pests and diseases destroy up to 40 percent of the food grown worldwide.
The center based in Britain is trying to change that with a crop protection program, the program is called Plantwise. In the past three years, Plantwise has trained almost one thousand so-called plant doctors in 24 countries, one of those countries is Uganda.
Recently, plant doctor Daniel Lyazi set up a table under a small tent, join market day in Mukono, the village is about 15 kilometers from Kampala, the capital.
People brought samples of diseased plants to his clinic. One farmer brought cabbage covered in slime. Nothing can be done to save his cabbages this year, but Daniel Lyazi's advice may save the next season's crop.
"So he's telling me there's a small caterpillar which eats [the cabbages] starting from the youngest leaf. He's told me that the whole garden has been attacked and affected by this caterpillar. So according to me, I know that it's a diamondback moth."
The farmer has been using an insecticide but Mr Lyazi says the chemical is the wrong one.
"It's tolerant - it doesn't kill the diamondback moth caterpillar. So I'm recommending him to use another insecticide called Fenkill, and in another planting season he should plant with onions. Onions can repel (the caterpillar) and he can get income."
He advises the farmer to plant onions between the rows of cabbages as an additional measure of protection. The clinic lasts about three hours, in that time Daniel Lyazi advises about 20 farmers. The clinic takes place twice-a-month, it started last year.
The Plantwise program says there are now about 90 of these clinics in Uganda, this year donors spent close to $300,000 training plant doctors and expanding the system in the country.
Joseph Mulema coordinates the Plantwise program in Uganda and Zambia. He argues that plant clinics are a far more effective way to get advice to farmers than the traditional model. In the traditional model, agricultural extension workers visit farms.
"Plant clinics can help so many farmers in a very short time. In fact, more farmers are seen in a plant clinic session, if good mobilization is done, than actually an extension officer can look at in an entire month."
Robert Karyeija is a crop protection officer for the government. He says training plant doctors has been very important, this is because even though there were thousands of agricultural extension workers, they just didn't know enough.
"They were there. But the problem [was] they would be general agriculturalists who knew agronomy but didn't know much about pests and diseases."
Since 2010, The Center for Agriculture and Biosciences International has set up Plantwise clinics in 12 African countries - nine of them in East Africa and three in West Africa.
And that's the Agriculture Report from VOA Learning English.
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词汇解释
1.slime n. 黏液；烂泥
He swam down and retrieved his glasses from the muck and slime at the bottom of the pond.
他潜下水去，从池塘底部的烂泥污物中找回了眼镜。
2.caterpillar n. [无脊椎] 毛虫；履带车
A caterpillar transforms into a butterfly.
毛虫变成了蝴蝶。
3.insecticide n. 杀虫剂
Spray the plants with insecticide.
给植物喷洒杀虫剂。
4.mobilization n. 动员；调动
The mobilization of the army was completed in 48 hours.
在48小时内军队的动员完成了。
5.agronomy n. 农学；农艺学；农业经济学
The science of agronomy helps farmers obtain larger and better crops .
农业经济学帮助农民获得更多更好的农作物。
内容解析
1.Recently, plant doctor Daniel Lyazi set up a table under a small tent, join market day in Mukono, the village is about 15 kilometers from Kampala, the capital.
set up 建立；装配；开业；竖立
The two sides agreed to set up a commission to investigate claims.
双方同意成立一个委员会，调查索赔问题。
The government announced the setting up of a special fund.
政府宣布设置了一项特别基金。
They married, and set up home in Atlanta.
他们结了婚，在亚特兰大安了家。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。
作物疾病仍是各地农民面临的一大问题，非盈利组织国际农业和生物科学中心(CABI)称害虫和疾病破坏了全世界40%的粮食。
这家位于英国的中心试图通过一个作物保护项目来改变这一现状，该项目名叫Plantwise。过去三年来，该项目在24个国家培训了将近1000名所谓的作物医生，其中包括乌干达。
最近，作物医生Daniel Lyazi在帐篷下放了一张桌子，参加Mukono村的赶集日，这个村子距离首都坎帕拉大约15公里。
人们将生病作物的样本带到诊所里，一位农民带来了被粘液覆盖的白菜。今年他的白菜没救了，但Daniel Lyazi的建议可能会拯救下一季的作物。
“他告诉我有一种小毛虫从最嫩的叶子开始吃白菜，他告诉我整个菜园都受到毛虫的侵袭和影响，据我所知，这是菜蛾。”
这位农民一直在用一种杀虫剂，但Lyazi说这种化学品用错了。
“这种杀虫剂并不能杀死这种菜蛾毛虫，所以我建议他使用另一种名叫Fenkill的杀虫剂，下个种植季节他应该和洋葱混种，洋葱能赶走毛虫，这样他就有收入了。”
他建议在白菜行列之间种植洋葱，作为额外的保护措施。该诊所会持续大约三小时，在此期间Daniel Lyazi给大约20位农民提供了咨询。诊所每月营业两次，是去年开始的。
Plantwise项目称乌干达现在有90个这种诊所，今年捐赠者花了大约30万美元来培训作物医生，并在该国推广该系统。
约瑟夫·穆莱马在乌干达和赞比亚负责协调Plantwise项目，他说与传统模式相比，作物诊所是给农民提供建议的更有效办法。在传统模式下，农业推广人员会访问农场。
“作物诊所能在很短的时间内帮助许多农民，事实上，如果动员得好，农作物诊所比农业推广人员一个月接帮助的农民还多。”
Robert Karyeija是政府的作物保护官员，他说培训作物医生非常重要，这是因为即使有几千名农业推广人员，他们的知识仍是有限的。
“有推广人员，但问题是他们是普通的农学家，懂得农学，但对害虫和疾病不了解。”
2010年来，国际农业和生物科学中心在12个非洲国家成立了Plantwise诊所，其中9个在东非，3个在西非。
这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。
