新世纪的农业类专业人才，不仅需要掌握扎实的专业基础和技能，而且还应当具备一定的专业英语运用能力，以提高获取本专业前沿知识的能力和拓展交流本专业知识和技能的空间。《现代农业科技英语听读教程》的编写目的就是帮助广大农业类高职高专院校的学生及工作者提高专业英语的运用能力。因此，本书适合用作农业类高职高专院校英语类专业的泛听和泛读教材或其他专业的选修课教材，也可供有关英语爱好者自学使用。本教材由傅江华主编。

Unit 1 "Fertilizer Trees" Could Help 1ncrease Food Production

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Unit 2 Prawns and Tobacco Find a Home Together

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Unit 3 "Property Ladder" Helps Poor Gain Land Rights

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Unit 4 Two of Santa's Reindeer Flee In Texas (Really)

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Unit 5 In the Garden: Growing Your Own Lettuce

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Unit 6 Big Investors, Small Farmers In Africa: A Fair Deal?

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Unit7 Steps toward Drought-resistant Crops, "Designer" Rice

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Unit 8 Farmers Learning Limits of Popular Herbicide

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Unit 9 Really, It's OK to Pinch Mums

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Unit 10 Will Cost of Cocoa Raise the Price of Valentine's Day?

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Unit 11 Putting Agriculture at the Center of Climate Talks

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Unit 12 Friends with Benefits, In the Plant World

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Unit 13 The Appeal of Urban Farming

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Unit14 Making Power from Coconut Shells, Mango Pits

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Unit 15 For Meat Lovers, the Challenge of Faking It

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Unit 16 Water Problems In a World of Insecurity

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Unit 17 New Findings about Loss of Bees

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