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Desireandlove Posted 17 years ago
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Bumper harvest, strains, salt tolerance, prompted


Bumper harvest

Rice strains

Award for his decades of work developing rice strains with higher salt tolerance

The move prompted huge increases in productivity and turned the once famine-plagued country into the world's second largest rice exporter by the 1990s.


Hi, can someone here explain for me in an easily way what the words with bold+italic mean?


Thanks for helping me, I really appreciate it.
  

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Bumper harvest = a really big harvest, successful with lots of crops. Strains = types of rice. It could mean that they have different genetic characteristics.

— BRS

  • Bumper harvest = a really big harvest, successful with lots of crops.
  • Strains = types of rice.
  • It could mean that they have different genetic characteristics.
  • Salt tolerance = the ability for the rice to grow in soil/water that has more salt that usual.
  • It won't die even with higher salt.
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Bumper harvest = a really big harvest, successful with lots of crops.

Strains = types of rice. It could mean that they have different genetic characteristics.

Salt tolerance = the ability for the rice to grow in soil/water that has more salt that usual. It won't die even with higher salt.

Prompted = caused; lead to
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