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American farmers again started to farm more land.

They also used more yield-boosting technology—as did farmers in other parts of the world.

美國農民再一次開始大面積耕種。

They also used more yield-boosting technology—as did farmers in other parts of the world.

他們也用了更多增產的科技，就像世界其他地方的農民所做的一樣。

A record 179m productive acres were brought in worldwide since 2006, says Dan Basse at AgResource, a research firm.

Dan Basse來自一家名為AgResource的研究公司，他表示，自2006年起，全世界賣出了創紀錄的17.9億畝的耕地。

Things started to turn sour after a year of record profits in 2013, when the rapidly growing global supply of grains outstripped demand, the appetite for ethanol stagnated and the Chinese economy slowed down.

2013年利潤創下紀錄的一年之後，情況開始惡化，那時全球糧食供應迅速增長，超過所需，對乙醇需求量大不如前，中國經濟增長也放緩。

American net farm revenue dropped from $120 billion in 2013 to an estimated $62 billion this year.

But unlike the previous big crisis, the balance-sheets of many farmers are robust.

美國農業凈收入從2013年的1200億美元預計下跌到今年的620億美元。

但是，和之前危及不同的是，許多農民的收支平衡表依然穩健。

Moreover, interest rates are still low and demand remains steady even if it isn t growing much any more.

此外，利率依然很低並且人們對農產品需求保持穩定，即便沒有更多的增長。

And although the values for farmland dropped last year for only the second time since the 1980s, these drops were far less dramatic than they were back then: the value of land in Indiana, for instance, fell nearly 60% between 1981 and 1986.

儘管去年農田價值自八十年來以來第二次下跌，但下跌幅度比起過去來看是微乎其微的，比如，在印第安納州的土地在1981年到1986年之間下滑了近乎60%。

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The going is tough for African Tech-Hubs and startup incubators.

「You are either part of the solution or part of the problem,」it says in painted letters on a wall.

「Stay hungry, stay foolish,」says the wall opposite.

An old rickshaw sits among beanbags and a vase of flowers rests on an ancient oil barrel in the corner.

「We wanted the space to feel like Google,」says Eleni Gabre-Madhin, the founder of blueMoon, a new agribusiness incubator that opened in Addis Ababa in February, without a trace of irony.

Incubators and their cousins, accelerators, provide hands-on training and mentoring, and often a physical space, to help early-stage business ideas develop.

In Silicon Valley they find capital for startups and take a slice of equity in return for their services.

Ms Gabre-Madhin says that blueMoon draws inspiration from Y Combinator, an American accelerator founded in 2005 whose investees include Dropbox and Airbnb.

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