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听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report.
Vietnam is working to meet goals for food production and food security. In doing so, the government supports use of pesticides and other chemicals on crops. Farmers use these substances to help crops grow, and to protect them from insects and other threats.
Signs around Vietnam carry the message "don't abuse pesticides, think of the buyer." But the government has fewer rules restricting the use of the pesticides. Some Vietnamese are so worried about the issue that they buy food only from growers they know, or they buy food online.
Tran Thuy Nhat is a 30-year-old mother who lives near Hanoi. She shops in the city center, but she worries about pesticides, so she buys vegetables only from people she knows in her village. If she did not, she says the food could harm her baby.
Not everyone knows a trust for the farmer, but there is a website that can help. It lists stores in Hanoi that sell "safe vegetables". The Vietnamese buyers group Vinastas set up the website in 2011.
Dang Kiem Hien is part of the team that runs the site. Ms Hien says stores have to meet requirements to be included on the website. For example, they have to prove that they get there vegetables from farmers who do not use chemicals. Ms Hien says a store will be removed from the list, if it does not obey the rules.
Eduardo Sabio is with VECO, a Belgian non-government agricultural group. It supports the local website. Mr Sabio says pesticide misuse in Vietnam is a real problem.
"The government has a list of pesticides that are allowed, but almost always there are "illegal" pesticides that get over the border and get to the farmers," Sabio said.
Mr Sabio says the Vietnamese safe food website uses what is known as the Participatory Guidance System. It supervises food safety through quality reports from farmers groups, traders and local officials. The system is used in more than 20 countries around the world. And Mr Sabio says Vietnamese farmers keep detail notes about their pesticide use as well as that of neighboring farmers.
And that's the Agriculture Report from VOA Learning English, I'm Caty Weaver.
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词汇解释
1.pesticide n. 杀虫剂
This pesticide is diluted with water and applied directly to the fields.
这种杀虫剂用水稀释后直接施用在田里。
2.abuse n. 滥用；虐待；辱骂；弊端；恶习，陋习 vt. 滥用；虐待；辱骂
If I calmly pocket the abuse, I'll be laughed at.
如果我平静地忍受这种辱骂，我会被耻笑的。
3.misuse vt. 滥用；误用；虐待 n. 滥用；误用；虐待
I noticed a misuse of the word “who” in your letter.
我发现在你的信中误用了who这个词。
内容解析
1.The government has a list of pesticides that are allowed, but almost always there are "illegal" pesticides that get over the border and get to the farmers
get over 克服；恢复；熬过；原谅
It took me a long time to get over my cold.
我这次感冒很长时间才好。
The actress had to learn to get over her fear of the public.
这位女演员必须学会不怯场。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。
越南正努力实现在粮食生产和粮食安全方面的目标，为此，政府支持在作物上使用杀虫剂和其他化学品。农民们使用这些物质来帮助作物生长，保护作物免受害虫和其他因素的威胁。
越南各地都有这样的标语，“不要滥用杀虫剂，为购买者考虑下吧！”但政府对杀虫剂的使用制定的规定很少，有的越南人很担心这个问题，因此只从他们熟悉的种植者那里购买食物，或者在线购买。
Tran Thuy Nhat是一位居住在河内附近的30岁母亲，她在市中心购物，但她担心杀虫剂，所以她只从村里她认识的人那里购买蔬菜。她说如果不这么做，食物就可能给孩子带来伤害。
不是人人都知道农民的信誉，但现在有个网站可以帮上忙。网上列出了出售“安全蔬菜”的河内商店，越南购买组织Vinastas2011年建立了这个网站。
Dang Kiem Hien是运营该网站的团队成员，她说商店要满足一定要求才能列在网站上。比如，必须保证蔬菜是从不适用化学品的农民那里购买的，她说如果商店不遵守这一规定，就要被从列表中剔出。
Eduardo Sabio就职于比利时非政府农业组织VECO，该组织支持这个当地网站。Sabio说在越南，杀虫剂滥用是一大问题。
“政府列出允许使用的杀虫剂名单，但总是存在一些‘非法’杀虫剂越轨进入农民手中。”
Sabio说这个越南安全食物网站使用所谓的参与指导系统，通过来自农民组织、商人和当地官员的质量报告来监督食品安全。该系统在全世界20多个国家使用，Sabio说越南农民详细记录了自己和邻居农民对杀虫剂的使用情况。
这就是美国之音慢速英语农业报道，我是凯蒂·韦弗。
