The havoc that the "treadmill syndrome" can bring about is well illustrated by what happened to cotton farmers in Central America.
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2. 一些棉花科学家和棉农在棉花节上获得奖励。
Several cotton scientists and farmers were honoured at the cotton festival.
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3. 试图保持低价有利于纺织品生产商却不利于棉农。
Trying to keep prices low favours textile makers but is bad for farmers who grow the stuff.
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4. 这份研究涉及棉铃虫，对棉农来说，这是最大的威胁。
The study involved bollworms, a major threat to cotton farmers.
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5. 棉农现在有些担心，今年的棉价不会像他们希望的那么高。
Right now farmers have some fears that cotton won't do as well as they hope this year.
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6. 在这个季节，棉农为种植该作物基本上都是自己提供资金。
During this season, most of the farmers generated finance for the crop from their own sources.
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7. 旱粮棉区的棉农创造了多种棉花和粮食作物的间作套种方式。
In the dry crop areas, the cotton planters have developed various patterns relay-interplanting of cotton and cereals.
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8. 棉农负责计划、组织、控制、协调和执行农业操作种植棉花。
Plans, organises, controls, coordinates and performs farming operations to grow cotton.
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9. 回顾一下，美国被发现非法补助美国棉农，我们仍然补助美国棉农。
To review: The United States was found to be illegally subsidizing U.S. cotton farmers. We are still subsidizing U.S. cotton farmers.
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10. 同时，辩证利用棉农行为与信息技术采用特点，提高棉花的精准生产。
Utilized cotton farmers action and information technology, improved the accurate production of cotton.
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11. 相比之下，世界上最贫穷的国家之一的马里，有大约16000名棉农。
By contrast, there are some 16, 000 cotton farmers in Mali, one of the poorest nations in the world.
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12. 同时，中国种植抗虫棉的棉农报告称，杀虫剂毒害事件少于常规品种种植。
At the same time, Chinese cotton farmers cultivating Bt strains reported fewer instances of pesticide poisoning than those growing conventional varieties.
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13. 南方的棉农对议员进行游说，反对通过一项准许从埃及进口棉花的法律。
The cotton farmers from the South lobbied against a law to allow importing cotton from Egypt.
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14. 由于后市看涨，多数棉农持观望态度，惜售心理较重，市场成交量较少。
Because most cotton farmers market outlook is bullish, becoming ambivalent, psychological is heavy, market rised less volume.
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15. 高额补贴导致全球棉花价格低靡，使得西非和其他地区的贫困棉农遭受收入损失。
Huge subsidies depress the world price in cotton, taking income away from poor producers in West Africa and elsewhere.
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16. 若棉农放弃对棉花的种植将会给极大的依赖于该作物的纺织行业带来巨大的损失。
Abandonment of cotton crop by the farmers would take its toll on the textile industry that immensely depends on this crop.
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17. 另一方面，中国棉花供应商和机械制造商也可以为非洲的棉农和轧花厂提供产品。
On the other hand, Chinese cotton inputs providers and machinery manufacturers can offer their products and services to African farmers and ginners.
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18. 棉农的从棉花的收入只有美公斤30美分，如此低额的收入难以抵消高额的生产成本。
Cotton farmers are just paid us 30 cents for a kg of cotton, which is not viable to offset the high production costs.
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19. 其他谈判代表则说在大选年里，美国决不可能跟包括棉农在内的农业游说团体正面对抗。
Other negotiators said that in an election year, the United States probably never wanted to confront its farm lobby, including cotton farmers.
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20. 他接着表示，在全球棉价于2008年下跌后，中国棉农对高棉价是否能持续产生了疑虑。
After global cotton prices fell in 2008, China's cotton farmers have become sceptical that high prices can last, he added.
The above example shows what a contract is all about: The farmers were bound by "contracts", that is, by promises to sell cotton that the law would enforce.
Factors that have brought down the price of cotton include more farmers planting cotton, so that globally, the industry is producing more than it is consuming.
Based on a survey involving 273 farming households in Zhoukou, Henan Province, the farmers' cognizance and evaluation on genetically modified cotton were analyzed.
Mr Younis learned field ecology in a farmer field School, a method pioneered by FAO and first introduced in Pakistan to train cotton farmers in Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
Mr Younis learned field ecology in a farmer field School, a method pioneered by FAO and first introduced in Pakistan to train cotton farmers in Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
