Low-vegetable-prices-affect-farmers(英语阅读)

精品文档 1欢迎下载 LowLow vegetablevegetable pricesprices affectaffect farmersfarmers Recently the price of many vegetables has been going down substantially That may be good news for consumers but it s quite the opposite for farmers CCTV reporter Wang Tao finds out why the costs have been dropping What lies ahead for the cabbage is not harvest but destruction Farmer Wu Xiaolin said It is a great pity It hurts us deeply to see them destroyed The surplus of cabbages has driven prices down so farmers have to get rid of them in preparation for the coming planting season And its not just cabbages Vegetable prices are going down across the board Fu Yu Wumart said The price for vegetables has been reduced by 20 percent on average For instance cucumber it is now 3 56 yuan per kilo and it was 5 36 yuan per kilo the same time last month That is a decline of 1 8 yuan The price dive is due to oversupply the result of two main factors For one this year s unusual climate has led to vegetables ripening at the same time in northern and southern China And secondly farmers chose to grow more produce due to the price hikes seen in the second half of last year Wan Fuxiang Hubei Provincial Agricultural Dept said After this spring festival the temperature was lower than previously It took 15 days more for vegetables to grow And the prices for broccoli and cabbage last year encouraged farmers to grow more All this caused the current excess Experts are calling for more agricultural information to be delivered to farmers They also see a need for unified growth plans to be carried out to prevent a similar surplus problem 滞销蔬菜滞销蔬菜 unsalableunsalable vegetablesvegetables 为缓解外地部分蔬菜品种 滞销卖难 现象 北京超市方面已开始行动 从蔬菜源头增加 农超对接 的采购量 如何解决 菜贵伤民 菜贱伤农 的难题 还要多从流通环节着手 请看新华社的报道 Farmers had been throwing away unsalable vegetables the prices of which plunged after vegetables in North China ripened early impacting the market already saturated with vegetables from southern China 因北方蔬菜成熟较早 直接影响到已有南方蔬菜饱和供应的市场 致使蔬菜价格猛跌 菜农已开始扔弃滞销蔬菜 文中的 unsalable vegetables 就是指 滞销蔬菜 unsalable 就是 滞销的 比如 unsalable products 积压产品 unsalable stock 无销路股票 Unmarketable poorselling 等词也可以用来表示 滞销 为了把滞销商品尽快销售出去 商家常会开展 sales promotion 促销 如今 为了解决目前的 oversupply of vegetables 蔬菜供应量加大 不少地区已组 织超市等单位掀起 buying spree 收购潮 尽力避免菜农遭受 heavy loss 巨大损失 为解决这一难题 还要着眼流通环节 据称 each link in distribution 每个流通环节 都会加价 10 至 15 收购蔬菜 精品文档 2欢迎下载 TheThe Five StripsFive Strips BoyBoy HuangHuang YiboYibo ShouldShould NotNot BeBe CriticizedCriticized During the May Day a 12 year old boy suddenly caught people s eyes Some people are impressed by his talent for politics and curious why this little boy care about politics so much He can understand CCTV news when he was 2 and He began to read Peoples Daily when he was 7 He has published more than 100 hundred essays on some important newspapers and periodicals He never plays games when surfing the Internet instead he pays close attention to the international and domestic news But more people doubt that their parents have intentionally leaded him to do this which violated children s nature to which I don t agree First I believe it s his own will to become a young politician We have seen many photos of his and his family and we can recognize that proud expression on his face That at least means he likes his living situation he feel proud to work as a group leader And it is too late to criticizing his family cultivation now because even if the original motivation is his parents guidance he has accepted it not to mention that there is another possibility that he is a born politics genius Then for what reason can we criticize him and his family What s more who defined that the nature of children is to play If he is happy we should be happy for him and genuinely feel proud for him Second the variety of the society should be encouraged rather than be suppressed We already have many piano genius snooker genius and dancing genius and we have paid heartfelt admiration and good wish for them But why it becomes so embarrassing when things matter politics He is also a flower of our future not different from any other children Maybe he will become the youngest president of China Will we criticize him then So it s our responsibility to protect this flower 精品文档 3欢迎下载 Third I feel worry about the phenomenon that too many people paid much attention to this boy In my opinion it s not a big deal and doesn t worth too much attention I don t understand why every time when something actually it can t be called a thing happened it will stir up a hot debate for a long time until another surprising thing happen What s worse they are easy to be affected by others idea Nowad