The farmer worked tirelessly on his vast expanse of
farmland.
农夫在他的广阔农田上不知疲倦地劳作。
The government implemented new policies to protect and preserve
farmland from urban sprawl.
政府实施了新政策以保护农田免受城市扩张的影响。
The fertile
farmland around the river delta is ideal for rice cultivation.
河口三角洲周围的肥沃农田非常适合种植水稻。
The drought has severely affected the crop yields on local
farmland.
干旱严重影响了当地农田的作物产量。
Farmers in the region use sustainable practices to maintain the health of their
farmland.
该地区的农民使用可持续农业方法来保持农田的健康。
The
farmland was once lush green, but now it's barren due to overgrazing.
这片农田曾经绿意盎然，但由于过度放牧现在变得荒芜。
The construction of a new highway will bisect several acres of valuable
farmland.
新建的高速公路将穿过数英亩宝贵的农田。
The farmer's children inherited the
farmland and continued the family tradition of agriculture.
农民的孩子继承了农田，继续家族的农耕传统。
The government provided financial aid to farmers whose
farmland was flooded during the monsoon season.
政府向在雨季遭受洪水的农民提供了财政援助。
Conservationists are advocating for the establishment of buffer zones around
farmland to protect biodiversity.
自然保护主义者主张在农田周围设立缓冲区以保护生物多样性。
And the land reclamation and reservoir projects they are working on are on track for timely completion and will boost local agricultural productivity, as the projects are expected to create 654 hectares of new farmland and provide water for around 65,000 households.
他们正在进行的土地复垦和水库项目有望及时完成，并将提高当地农业生产力，因为这些项目预计将创造654公顷的新农田，并为约6.5万户家庭供水。
Syngenta Group China, a business unit of seed and crop protection as well as nutrition product manufacturer Syngenta Group, plans to build more Modern Agriculture Platform (MAP) -themed farmland in China to help cut water usage and improve soil quality in the coming years, said an executive.
一位高管表示，先正达集团（中国）是种子和作物保护的业务部门，也是营养产品制造商先正达集团，计划在未来几年在中国建造更多以现代农业平台（MAP）为主题的农田，以帮助减少用水，改善土壤质量。
By introducing its MAP beSide, a program that helps farmers grow high quality, traceable crops in a climate-smart way, Syngenta Group China transferred 8,000 mu（533 hectares）of farmland in Xianghe village, Dawukou district, in Shizuishan, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region and built a MAP beSide farm there in 2022.
先正达集团中国有限公司通过引入其MAP beSide项目，帮助农民以气候智能的方式种植高质量、可追溯的作物，于2022年在中国西北部宁夏回族自治区石嘴山大武口区香河村转让了8000亩（533公顷）农田，并在那里建造了MAP beSide农场。
After completion, it can effectively solve the water shortage problem of over 1.5 million acres (600,000 hectares) of farmland in three regions of Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic located in Uzbekistan.
建成后，它可以有效解决乌兹别克斯坦自治共和国卡拉卡尔帕克斯坦三个地区150多万英亩（60万公顷）农田的缺水问题。
This initiative will cover an extensive farmland area of 160,000 mu (about 10,667 hectares) and significantly enhance the income of 7,000 local barley growers.
这一举措将覆盖16万亩（约10667公顷）的大片农田，并显著提高7000名当地大麦种植者的收入。
The program provides smart farming services in over 19 million mu of farmland (1.27 million hectares), covering 29 provinces and autonomous regions, according to its corporate data.
根据其公司数据，该项目在覆盖29个省和自治区的1900多万亩农田（127万公顷）提供智能农业服务。
According to the 2022 "No 1 central document," China will develop 6.67 million hectares of high-standard farmland, promote national projects on black soil protection, and launch the third nationwide soil condition census, as per the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
根据农业农村部2022年“中央一号文件”，中国将开发667万公顷高标准农田，推进国家黑土保护工程，并启动第三次全国土壤状况普查。
In recent years, the company has applied the water conservation technology to 10,000 hectares of farmland in 17 countries, including Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.
近年来，该公司将节水灌溉技术应用到包括塔吉克斯坦和哈萨克斯坦等17个国家的一万公顷农田上。这句话的主语是“该公司”，描述了该公司近年来在国际农业领域推广节水灌溉技术的情况。具体来说，他们将这项技术应用于17个国家的一万公顷农田中，其中包括塔吉克斯坦和哈萨克斯坦两国。这表明该公司致力于通过技术创新来解决全球水资源短缺问题，并为农业生产提供更加高效、可持续的解决方案。节水灌溉技术的应用有助于提高水资源利用效率，减少浪费，同时也有助于提高农作物产量和质量，对促进当地农业发展和农民增收具有重要意义。
Syngenta Group, the seeds, crop protection and nutrition product manufacturer, plans to improve soil health and improve carbon sequestration on at least 2 million hectares of farmland by 2023 – about 2 percent of the country's farmland, its global head said.
先正达集团全球负责人表示，这家种子、作物保护和营养产品制造商计划到2023年改善至少200万公顷农田的土壤健康并提高碳封存能力——这大约相当于中国耕地面积的2%。
Through the project, which aims to protect farmland ecology, technical solutions by the company offer tire pressure settings and tire maintenance recommendations for farm machinery.
通过这个旨在保护农田生态的项目，该公司提供了针对农用机械的轮胎气压设定方案及轮胎维护建议等技术解决方案。
Researchers will also study the impact of soil structure, efficiency of agricultural machinery, farmland ecology and grain yield in the next three years.
研究人员还将在接下来的三年中研究土壤结构、农业机械效率、农田生态以及粮食产量的影响。
Under the partnership, Budweiser APAC will acquire 30,000 metric tons of barley from Jiangsu Nongken Group, covering more than 3,000 hectares of farmland and benefiting 5,000 local growers with a combined income of about 30 million yuan ($4.65 million).
根据这项合作，百威亚太将从江苏农垦集团收购3万吨大麦，覆盖超过3000公顷的农田，惠及5000名当地农民，使他们的总收入达到约3000万元人民币（465万美元）。
Budweiser plans to acquire 25,000 metric tons of barley on an annual basis from the long run, covering more than 3,000 hectares of farmland and benefiting between 4,000 and 5,000 local farmers and their families.
In recent years, the company has explored markets along the Belt and Road, applying the water-saving technology to 10,000 hectares of farmland in 17 countries, including Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.
Bosch among those tapping into plan to make integrated region a gateway for opening-upWhen German industrial giant Bosch decided to establish its China headquarters in western Shanghai's Hongqiao Central Business District 11 years ago, the land where its buildings now stand was in the middle of farmland.
In terms of promoting farmland produce to city dwellers, digital technologies are also being used.
Company insiders said that its farmland in Parvomay, Plovdiv region, Bulgaria, will see its highest harvest in recent four years.
Until this year, the farmland it manages hit 7,600 hectares.
As COFCO expects to strike a balance between supply and demand on an even higher level and create a more diverse import scenario, it will deploy more resources in BRI economies to accelerate cultivation of farmland, enlarge area under cultivation, adjust crop structure, enhance production technology and increase total supply capacity.
PR major Edelman is on course to ride opportunities presented by rise of mainland firmsWhen Richard Edelman first visited Shanghai in 1986, Pudong, now home to the world's leading financial institutions as well as skyscrapers, was just a piece of farmland.
He found suitable farmland during a 2012 marathon competition in Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
The rotating harvest in each of the plantation blocks allows them to earn extra money to supplement what they earn from their own farmland.
Charlie Yao, CEO and president of Yuhuang Chemical Industries Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Co Ltd, wanted to build a $1.85 billion methanol production facility on 1,200 acres of farmland in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
In addition, nearly 50 percent of the available farmland in Pakistan is used for wheat crops, said Zhang Shengquan, manager of the scientific research department with CNSGC Hybrid Wheat Seed (Beijing) Co. Muhammad Arif, a professor at the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, said in a recent interview that hybrid wheat cultivation will help Pakistan to conserve a lot of land for growing other important agricultural products.
Produced by Shaanxi Zhuangke Agriculture Science and Technology Company, the UAV gathers data for 10 hectares of kiwi fruit farmland.
Chinese investment revived about 3,000 hectaresxa0of arable farmland in Naumovka, providing jobs to more than 130 villagers.
With safe and stable food supply being a major concern of the country's rural work, the annual conference highlighted the production of grain and key agricultural products, vowing to stabilize farmland acreage and increase grain yields per unit.
Grain output of more than 650 billion kilograms continues to be a target this year, together with strengthened efforts in farmland protection, according to the meeting.
The meeting has underscored concrete measures such as prioritizing high-standard farmland construction in areas with black soil, plain fields and irrigation systems, and raising investment subsidies.
When designated a new area in 1990, Pudong was still a vast expanse of desolate farmland, said Shao Yudong, then head of Pudong's development office.
The projects are mainly in fields like post-disaster recovery reconstruction, improvements to disaster prevention and reduction capability, and construction of high-standard farmland.
Totaling 237.9 billion yuan, the budgeted amount was issued recently and will be allocated as subsidy funds to three areas — 107.5 billion yuan for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction and improvement of disaster prevention and reduction capability; 125.4 billion yuan for high-standard farmland construction in places including Northeast China and disaster-stricken areas in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; and some 5 billion yuan for the construction of key comprehensive natural disaster prevention and control systems (meteorological infrastructure construction).
The 125.4 billion yuan for high-standard farmland construction and improvement will cover new construction, improvement or restoration of 54 million mu (3.6 million hectares) of farmland in 1,336 counties nationwide.
The 13 main grain-producing provinces account for 42.02 million mu of farmland covered, or 78 percent of the total.
The funds will also cover all 2.483 million mu of farmland damaged by disasters as reported by provinces to support their recovery in a timely fashion.
The farmland in Chongli district, Zhangjiakou, Hebei province creates a colorful scene in September when fruits and vegetables have ripened and farmers excitedly harvest their cabbages, tomatoes, peppers, beans and pumpkins, all of which fill the air with the "taste of harvest".
There are 5000 mu (about 333 hectares) of high-standard farmland on the island.
Gu Quan, Party secretary of Zhenze township, said farmland transfer has helped to increase local villagers' income and improve their wellbeing.
It felt like I was at a scenic spot rather than farmland.
For Liu Xiaojun, deputy head of the Heqing township government in Mianyang, Sichuan province, his greatest relief last year was the completion of more than 30,000 mu (2,000 hectares) of high-standard farmland construction accumulated by the end of last year.
"With local farms upgraded with high-standard farmland, agricultural mechanization has been greatly improved.
Payments of 14 government-levied charges, including farmland reclamation fees and sewage and household waste disposal fees, amounting to over 53 billion yuan ($7.49 billion) will be deferred without incurring overdue fines.
Major agro-related banking institutions have granted loans for developing 131,333 hectares of high-standard farmland.
In addition, Henan has developed a total of 75.8 million mu (5 million hectares) of high-standard farmland, and the province's annual grain output exceeded 65 billion kg over the past five years.
It can help China save more natural resources such as farmland and water, and assist manufacturers, in particular in automobile, pharmaceutical and telecommunication equipment sectors, to accelerate their innovation pace to seize more market shares across the world, as well as push manufacturers in many sectors to shift their export products from labor-intensive goods to high-end items, Jiang said.
"For many years, the Maowusu Desert has endangered the farmland.
He encouraged the workers to develop profitable agriculture endeavors by transforming the desert into farmland and planting vegetables and fruit, which could be sold in the market.
When the desert was transformed into farmland, the workers at the forest farms benefited as well, with many now earning 120,000 yuan ($17,904) annually, according to the staff.
Commercial lenders should scale up loans for sustainable water conservancy projects, while small and medium-sized banks should provide necessary financial support for local farmland irrigation and water conservancy projects, said the central bank.
China will nurture 6.67 million hectares of high-quality farmland and protect 5.3 million hectares of black soil this year, and the third national soil survey will be launched, it said.
Tang attributed the bumper harvest to China's efforts in developing high-standard farmland, adding that the yield per unit area of land also hit a record high.
The 6-square-kilometer village has only 840 mu (56 hectares) of farmland, and about 85 percent of the area is heavily forested.
Therefore, planting grasslands, by taking full advantage of agricultural farmland resources, is actually saving food for humans," Ren Jizhou, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in an interview with China Science Daily.
Li said the Jinling restoration and tourism project mainly consists of an ore waste processing line with an annual processing capacity of 6 million metric tons, and land reclamation to turn the scarred mountain into farmland and green spaces.
A cooperative has been established in the village to lease farmland from villagers, organize them to plant trees and flowers in the park and support them to develop homestay operations.
"By leasing the farmland to the park, villagers have become shareholders in the project.
Near Wuxi, the visiting journalists also visited the Hongshan Intelligent Farmland.
Zhao, the former head of the Information Office of the State Council, China's Cabinet, and a former deputy mayor of Shanghai, played a pioneering role in transforming Pudong New Area from farmland into one of the world's most spectacular financial and commercial centers.
The income from its farmland rose from 555 yuan per mu (0.067 hectares) to 5,800 yuan per mu from 2019 to 2022.
Understanding the limited usage of farmland in the village, Liu tailored a project to invite urban visitors and companies to adopt a unit for paddy cultivation.
Last month, authorities in Arkansas ordered Syngenta Seeds to divest its ownership of farmland in the US state, after China National Chemical Corporation acquired 80.7 percent of the company's shares in 2017.
Of the more than 1.2 million mu of farmland in the county, there are 700,000 mu of mild to moderate salinized land.
Working on her own half-hectare plot of farmland, she found it difficult to make ends meet, as she also needed to take care of her ailing husband and support the education of their two children.
After learning that the county wanted to rent her farmland to plant tea and hire her to sow seeds, remove weeds and fertilize the soil, Tan hesitated in fear of the possibility that the tea crop might not develop well and she may not be capable of providing for her family.
"Chen said that their camping site was within farmland about two hours' drive from downtown.
"The air is quite fresh there and the owner of the farmland is also friendly and generous.
These are the resource tax, urban maintenance and construction tax, real-estate tax, urban land-use tax, stamp tax and the tax on farmland used for non-agricultural purposes, as well as the education surcharge and the local education surcharge.
"This is just our first trial, but it serves as a good example for our future possible development models regarding rural revitalization," Ai said, adding that as such small-scale activities do not cause damage to arable land, such initiatives can help multiply the value of a small piece of farmland some fifty-fold.
Over the past decade, China has seen significant improvements in its agricultural infrastructure and ensured its farmland area remains above the redline of 1.8 billion mu (about 120 million hectares).
Accumulatively a total of 900 million mu of high-standard farmland had been fostered.
In 2022, China aims to develop 6.67 million hectares of high-standard farmland, promote national projects on black soil protection, and launch the third nationwide soil condition census.
Gansu is among the largest cultivation bases of imported vegetable and flower seeds in China, with the farmland for imported seed cultivation reaching about 4,667 hectares.
Last year, China's grain output hit a new high of 683 billion kg, with grain farmland exceeding 117 million hectares.
"A single drone can spread fertilizer over about 10 hectares of farmland in a day," Xue said, adding that drones spread more evenly than agricultural workers.
The plan also identified forest and grass planting areas to ensure that no arable land or permanent farmland is occupied.
China has pledged to safeguard grain security and protect farmland, make down-to-earth structural adjustments, expand the planting of soybean and oil crops, as well as ensure the supplies of pork, vegetables and other agricultural and sideline products, according to the annual central rural work conference held in December last year.
去年12月举行的中央农村工作会议提出，中国承诺保障粮食安全，保护耕地，实实在在地进行结构调整，扩大大豆和油料作物种植，并确保猪肉、蔬菜以及其他农产品和副产品的供应。
Vineyards in China's winemaking hub set sights on latest global opportunitiesOn a hilly expanse of farmland near the coast of East China's Shandong province, Wan Qiuhua has earned enough from her crops to buy her only son an apartment and car, giving him the opportunity to get married and live a comfortable life.
Private capital is encouraged to focus on the protection and restoration of natural ecosystems, farmland ecosystems, urban ecosystems, mining ecosystems, and marine ecosystems while exploring the development of ecological industries, the circular added.
该通知补充指出，鼓励社会资本致力于保护和修复自然生态系统、农田生态系统、城市生态系统、矿山生态系统以及海洋生态系统，并在此过程中探索生态产业的发展。
"We will push forward an all-round 'farmland chiefs system' to firmly curb non-agriculturalization of arable land and strictly guard the permanent basic farmland and observe the bottom line of the cultivated land area," Kang said.
“我们将全面推行‘农田首席制’，坚决遏制耕地非农化，严格保护永久基本农田，坚守耕地红线。”康说。
Besides looking after his 53 hectares of farmland, he also provides spraying services to other farmers.
除了管理他的53公顷农田，他还为其他农民提供喷洒服务。
Located where the Yangtze and Jialing rivers converge, the site used for the new area was occupied 10 years ago by numerous hillside homes and large areas of farmland.
位于长江和嘉陵江交汇处的新区所使用的场地，在10年前曾被众多山坡住宅和大片农田占据。
"In recent years, smart-technology equipment in the form of farm drones has continued to help farmers increase revenue and cut costs," Chen said, adding that DJI will continue to put more resources, build digital agriculture solutions based on spatial intelligence solutions with partners, help farmers improve farmland management and provide new solutions for China's agricultural development.
陈说：“近年来，以农业无人机形式的智能技术设备不断帮助农民提高收入并降低成本。”他补充说，大疆将继续投入更多资源，与合作伙伴一起建立基于空间智能解决方案的数字农业解决方案，帮助农民改善农田管理，并为中国农业发展提供新的解决方案。
Drone operators who use T30 drones equipped with updated barrier-avoidance radar systems and dual cameras can spray pesticides over about 16 hectares of farmland an hour, 33 percent more compared to the previous generation of aerial drones.
使用配备了最新避障雷达系统和双摄像头的T30无人机的操作员每小时可以喷洒大约16公顷的农田，相比上一代无人机，效率提高了33%。
Jiangsu shows how to balance socioeconomic trade-offs while creating lively biz environmentA recent week-long visit to many modern factories, beautiful parks, and pleasant villages and farmland in East China's Jiangsu province with a group of international journalists made me think of English poet William Blake's magnificent song Jerusalem.
在华东的江苏省，我和一群国际记者花了近一周的时间参观了许多现代化的工厂、美丽的公园、宜人的村庄和农田，这让我想起了英国诗人威廉·布莱克那首壮丽的歌曲《耶路撒冷》。江苏展示了一种平衡社会经济权衡的同时创造活跃商业环境的方法。
Zhou's family also received more than 100,000 yuan for their farmland taken over to build the resort.
To make up for the occupied farmland, the district will have to turn the same amount of construction land into farmland elsewhere to ensure that the minimum amount of arable land is maintained, said Wang with Jiutai's natural resources bureau, adding that all land transactions have to be approved by villagers.
"We will offer them seeds and organic fertilizers for the farming, and the quality corn they plant will add about 5,000 yuan worth of yield to each hectare of farmland," said Li Xuesong, chairman of the plant.
The area of imported seed-cultivated farmland has reached over 4,666 hectares in the province, according to Lanzhou customs.
And, Zhang Guizhen, who is 70 years old, says she has witnessed the transformation of Dounan from rural farmland into a well-known place with tall buildings and people who earn more money.
The report also pointed to the increase of farmland quality, higher irrigation efficiency and better garbage and sewage disposal for rural residents.
Drone operators who use such drones can spray pesticides on about 10 hectares of farmland an hour.
Kopi's daughter Priscilla planned to grow more rice on her father's farmland and build a shed to grow mushrooms.
With the household contract responsibility system introduced in late 1970s, which allowed farmers to own farmland through a collective, often a village committee, farmers of Sanyuanzhu village started growing fruits on barren slopes, in hope of raising income to buy food and clothes.
Meanwhile, he praised the dam developer for its proper resettlement and compensation for affected residents, saying that an affected family had received a 20-meter-by-50-meter parcel of residential land and a 5-hectare plot of farmland.
Still, the report also listed problems ranging from farmland pollution, use of substandard pesticides, to weak enforcement in agricultural products inspection.
It warned that 2.9 percent of China's farmland is moderately or severely polluted.
On top of this, in 2010, Wan contracted 14 hectares of farmland as a Chinese yew plantation and hired 65 villagers.
It took me two months to fertilize my 80 hectares of farmland with help from four employees.
According to Li, the company has till date provided 200 equipments to farm owners, and their products are now used over 7,000 hectares of farmland.
Drone operators who use T50 drones can spray pesticides over about 21 hectares of farmland per hour.