美国国家新闻VOA报道ABM-RP肥料种植法

（VOICE OF AMERICA）美国国家新闻：

Growing More Rice with Less Water, Fewer Chemicals

少水，少料，多稻米

What if there was a method that could help developing-worldfarmers grow more rice while using less water and fewerchemicals than their usual methods?

假如有种方法能帮助发展中国家用比通常方法更少的水和化学肥料，种植出更多稻米，那会怎么样呢？

It could make a big difference at a time when the population isgrowing, farming costs are rising, and water is becomingscarcer.

当人口在增长，耕作成本提高，水变得更短缺，这种方法就意义重大了。

'Even I didn't believe it'

“甚至起初我都是不敢相信的”

A lunchtime conference in Washington, DC,   is a long way from   India, but the environmentalgroup the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) , brought Duddeda Sugunavva here   from herfields in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh .She gets excited when she describes her experiencewith ABM-RP.

虽然在华盛顿特区举办的午餐会议距离印度很远，但环境公益组织世界自然基金会仍然努力将杜迪达苏古纳瓦从她的老家印度安得拉邦请了过来。只要一谈起她用ABM-RP这个方法种植水稻，她就显得无比的激动。

'Even I didn't believe it'“甚至起初我都是不敢相信的”

"Even I didn't believe it initially," she says.

她说：“一开始我是根本不相信的”

"The first time I did it, I didn't believe that it could bepossible. Then I tried it, and then I believed it."

“记得第一次我去尝试的时候，我认为那是不可能的。尝试后，我相信了这方法。”

It may be hard to believe, but Sugunavva says she produces more grain while putting fewer plantsin the field and spacing them farther apart than she normally would. She uses less water becauseher fields are flooded and drained, not constantly flooded like rice paddies usually are. Shefertilizes with manure, and weeds and aerates the soil with a simple tool. That reduces the cost of,and pollution from, inputs like chemical fertilizers and herbicides.

也许难以置信，苏古纳瓦说按照ABM-RP的方法，每亩水稻田栽种少一点稻苗，并且把它们之间的栽种距离分开一点，却收获更多的稻谷。

Dramatic gains

奇妙的大丰收

Using these tricks and a few others, Sugunavva says she's been amazed by the results.

只是用了一些小技巧，苏古纳瓦说她被产量惊呆了。

"This is not the first day I'm doing agriculture. I've been doing it for 20 years," she says.

苏古纳瓦说她种水稻二十年了，并不是第一天插秧。

Sugunavva says she makes enough money now to pay off some debts and buy a water buffalo tobring in extra income.

苏古纳瓦说她现在可以通过稻田挣足够的钱去还清欠债，并且用额外收入买了一头水牛。

And she is not alone. The conference highlighted a report that says in eight countries, farmersusing ABM-RP increased yields by nearly half, reduced water use by 40 percent and costs by 23percent, and increased their incomes by two-thirds on average.

苏古纳瓦并不是特例。会议公布了八个国家的研究数据，发现证明正确采用ABM-RP水稻种植法可以增产近一半，减少40%的水用量，减少23%的种植成本，并且平均增加三分之二的收入。

Biksham Gujja heads a joint project of WWF and the global agriculture research institute ICRISAT.He says the idea that farmers can get more with less goes against what experts have been sayingfor years.

作为世界自然基金会和全球农业科研机构的项目负责人，毕克莎古瓦说农民若是摒弃原来专家固有的传统种植思维，可以收获更多。

"We told the farmers the last three, four decades,

'If you want a little bit more, by the way, you'vegot to give more. You've got to give more seeds, more water, more fertilizer,'" he says. "Givingmore has become so much more, they got into a debt trap. And also, they've spoiled the entireenvironment and ecosystem."

他说：“我们告诉农民，过去的三四十年里，人们一直是这样想的，即要想产量更高，人们就得投入更多的种子、水和肥料。但现在已经给的太多太多了，多的许多地区尤其是发展中国家的农民都不得不负债累累，同时更破坏了环境和生态系统。”