非洲着眼提高水稻产量以对抗饥饿(1/2)
Hints:African Rice Congress
Cameroon
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Samantana Mark
SEMRY
Sahara
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本期材料发音模仿地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/11885/item/843537/http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201311/201311081000054199014.mp3Researchers are developing ways to increase rice production in Africa as part of efforts to fight hunger. Their work was discussed at the African Rice Congress in Cameroon last month. Experts say 60% of the 30 million tons of rice used in Africa is imported from Asia.
They estimate that Africa spends $5 billion on rice imports every year. And yet the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says there are still rice shortages on the continent.
Rice production was reduced in some African countries after the economic crisis of the 1990s. Samantana Mark is director general of Cameroon's rice production company, SEMRY
He says that with the beginning of the crisis, African countries stopped making investments in rice production and in the marketing of rice. Issues like climate change and extreme temperatures have slowed rice production, especially in areas south of the Sahara desert.作为消除饥饿的一项举措，研究人员正在开发提高非洲水稻产量的方法。上个月在喀麦隆举行的非洲水稻大会（Africa Rice Congress）就他们的研究工作进行了讨论。专家表示，非洲消耗的3000万吨水稻中有百分之六十进口自亚洲。
他们估计，非洲每年进口水稻的花费为50亿美元。而联合国粮农组织（United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization）则称，非洲大陆上仍存在水稻短缺的现象。
20世纪90年代的经济危机以后，一些非洲国家的水稻产量就减少了。萨门达那•马克（Samantana Mark）是喀麦隆水稻生产企业塞姆瑞公司（SEMRY）的总经理。
他说经济危机爆发之初，非洲国家便停止了对水稻生产及其市场营销的投资。气候变化和极端气温这类问题都导致了水稻产量的下降，这种情况在撒哈拉沙漠以南的地区尤为明显。
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