AGRICULTURE REPORT-Biotech This is Steve Ember with the VOA specail English Agriculture report. Genetically enginerred crops are part of American agriculture.The farmers also have to make decisions based on the markets for thier crops.The market for corn , or maize,is a good example. Farmers want to increase their production.But they also want to trade in many different markets.In some cases , these two desires conflict.In nineteen-ninty-eight, the European Union suspended the approval of additional products made from biotechnology. Lately E-U offical have been considering new approvals.American corn farmers ?????? closely.As Farm Journal recently reported,European policy has head a big influence on what they planted.Farmers can buy several kinds of corns that are genetically ????? to resist damage from the insects or chemical treatment.Such kinds of crops are known as genetically modified organisms,or G-M-Os. Corn farmers who choose to plant this crops,but want to sell to the European Union,must meet E-U conditions.Sometimes,a farmer plants genetically modified corn next to the fields of a farmer who dosen't not.Researchers have found that wind can carry the pollen up to several kilometers.The corn can partly fertilize the other crops. This give it some of the genetically modified material. If tests show it has happened,the farmer with the other crop may not be able to ???????? to the Europeans.In Novermber of two- thousand-two,the director of the Illinois Farm Bureau,a farmer's organization ,took a position.They urged farmers in the state not to plant any kind of genetically modified corn not approved by the European Union.The reason was simple.Much of the crop corn from Illinois is processed and exported to Europe.Farmers,though,are still free to plant any kind of corn they wish. The department of the corn planted in the United State this year was genetically modified.Latest it's up from thirty-four percent in two-thousand- two.But the planting rates differ from state to state.They are lower in states that export a lot of processed corn to Europe.They are higher in state where is ????? mainly to cattle and other animals.In ???? Dakota,for example,seventy -five percent of all corn planted is biotech. In Ohio,it is nine percent ??????????????. This VOA special English Agriculture report was ???? by Mario Riter. 有些字真的厅不太出来 .....=.= 仅供参考罗... 对了..系上有多少人是上高照明老师的英文阿? --

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