hungry soil

基本解释

Paper pledges, however, will not put seeds in soil or food in hungry mouths.
然而，一纸承诺不能将种子播撒于土壤，也无法给予饥民果腹之物。
‘Right now on Earth, water tables are falling, soil is eroding, glaciers are melting, and fish stocks are vanishing. Close to a billion people go hungry each day.’
在我们今天的地球上，地下水位不断下降，土壤受到侵蚀，冰川正在融化，鱼群种类不断减少，还有近10亿人口每天都在挨饿。
From introduced new varieties were screened B1008 and BT85(triploid Chinese white poplar) as farmland shelterbelt species fitting to grow on hungry and alkali soil of Hexi Passageway.
从新品种的引种上筛选出适于河西走廊发展的农田防护林树种为三倍体毛白杨B10 0 8和BT85 ，并能在瘠薄和盐碱化土壤上良好生长；

There he found one of the poorest populations on earth, and an environment quickly degrading as hungry farmers tried desperately to cultivate rice in the eroding soil.
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