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VOA慢速英语:Grow It Yourself: Diving Into Aquaponics
这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。
Aquaponics is the idea of producing vegetables and fish in the same closed system. It combines aquaculture, or fish farming, with hydroponics, a way to grow plants without soil. Supporters see aquaponics as a way to increase world food supplies and reduce climate change, groundwater pollution and overfishing.
水培技术是一种在同一个封闭系统中种植蔬菜和养鱼的想法。它结合了水产养殖和水培的特点,是一无需土壤的种植过程。支持者认为,水培技术是增加全球粮食供应,减少气候变化、地下水污染和过度捕捞的一种方法。
Sylvia Bernstein says the idea is as old as nature.
Sylvia Bernstein称这种想法和大自然一样历史悠久。
SYLVIA BERNSTEIN: "Aquaponics is really a recirculating wetland system, so it's happening right on the banks of our lakes."
SYLVIA BERNSTEIN:“水培技术实际是一个湿地循环系统,因此它就是我们的湖泊岸边。”
Ms. Bernstein grew plants in water with a chemical fertilizer for years. Then she discovered she could use wastewater from fish to grow organic vegetables and fruit.
Bernstein女士使用化肥在水中种植作物已有几年时间了。后来,她发现她可以使用养鱼的废水种植有机蔬菜和水果。
SYLVIA BERNSTEIN: "Honestly, I was very skeptical and just couldn't believe that something as simple as fish waste could become a complete fertilizer. So I had to actually see a system that was in a friend's basement. But when I did, it changed my life."
SYLVIA BERNSTEIN:“老实说,我很怀疑,简直不敢相信像鱼儿的排泄物这么简单的东西居然可以作为完整的肥料。所以,直到我在朋友家地下室看到这个系统后才相信。但是,当我看过这一系统后,它改变了我的生活。”
That was three years ago. Ms. Bernstein built her first system with her son outside her home in Boulder, Colorado. Today she raises tilapia and trout. She feeds them once a day. Her plants grow in containers. There are no weeds in her aquaponics garden, and no need to worry about watering.
那是三年前,Bernstein女士和她儿子在科罗拉多州博尔德市的家中建造了第一个系统。如今,她养殖了罗非鱼和鳟鱼,每天喂养它们一次。而作物生长在容器中。在她的水培花园中没有杂草,也没有必要担心浇水问题。
SYLVIA BERNSTEIN: "I, just this morning, pulled four radishes and some lettuce for lunch. In my greenhouse right now, I grow all sorts of herbs, tomatoes, peppers."
SYLVIA BERNSTEIN:“就在今天上午,我拔了四个萝卜和一些生菜做午餐。现在我在温室中,我种了各种生菜、西红柿和辣椒。
Ms. Bernstein started her own business called the Aquaponics Source. She has a YouTube channel, teaches aquaponics at the Denver Botanic Gardens and recently published a book.
Bernstein女士开创了自己名为Aquaponics Source的公司。她在Youtube拥有一个频道,在丹佛植物园教授水培技术,并于最近出版了一本书。
Aquaponics farmer James Godsil says the Internet is helping many aquaponic gardeners connect and learn from one another. Three years ago, Mr. Godsil helped create an aquaponics farm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, called Sweet Water Organics. In twenty-ten, he helped establish a foundation.
采用水培技术的农民James Godsil称,互联网帮助了许多水培园丁建立联系并互相学习。三年前,Godsil先生帮忙在威斯康星州密尔沃基市开办了一个名为Sweet Water Organics的水培农场。2010年他帮忙建立了一个基金会。
JAMES GODSIL: "The Sweet Water Foundation was dedicated to democratizing and globalizing the information and the methodologies required to advance this very Earth-friendly food production system, which, by the way, only uses about ten percent of the water normal farming does, and uses no pesticides. It's all natural."
JAMES GODSIL:“该Sweet Water 基金会致力于该信息的民主化和全球化,这种教学法要求推进这种非常环保的粮食生产系统。其中,顺便说一下,它只需要使用正常耕作用到的10%的水,而且不用农药。这一切都是纯天然的。”
Mr. Godsil is traveling to other countries to teach aquaponics.
Godsil先生还前往国家教授水培技术。
JAMES GODSIL: "I was asked to go to Venezuela this March. And I'm working with people who have a project in Ecuador. I'm working with people in the Congo and Uganda and Tanzania."
JAMES GODSIL:“今年三月份,我被邀请到了委内瑞拉。而且我和在厄瓜多尔有项目的人一起合作,和刚果、乌干达和坦桑尼亚的人们一起合作。”
Subra Mukherjee is with a group in Kolkata, India, called the Society for Appropriate Rural Technology for Sustainability. The group is working with the foundation to develop aquaponics in a community in West Bengal with poor soil conditions for growing food.
Subra Mukherjee在印度加尔各答一个名为Society for Appropriate Rural Technology for Sustainability组织工作。该组织和淡水基金会合作,在西孟加拉邦的一个土壤条件较差的社区发展水培技术用于粮食种植。
SUBRA MUKHERJEE: "So I believe technologies like aquaponics are ideal for these kinds of situations. We can actually bring it right into the middle of slums in the cities. So it becomes a very good model for urban and village-based communities."
SUBRA MUKHERJEE:“所以我相信,像水培技术这样的技术是这些情况下的理想选择。事实上,我们可以将其引入城市贫民窟。因此,它成为了城中村社区的一种非常好的模式。”
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