erratic

[다니엘쌤]

The weather has become erratic: the growing season might begin with a week of downpours followed by drought.

날씨가 변덕스러워졌다. 성장기는 가뭄에 이어 일주일간의 폭우로 시작될지도 모른다.

1.불규칙한, 일정치 않은, 변덕스러운 2.(빙하에 의한) 표석(漂石)

Middle East and Africa
Sep 28th 2019 edition

The underground revolution
Better seeds could help African farmers grow far more

But their governments are standing in the way

중동과 아프리카
2019년 9월 28일판

지하 혁명
더 좋은 씨앗은 아프리카 농부들이 훨씬 더 잘 경작할 수 있게 할 수 있다.

하지만 정부가 앞을 가로막고 있다.

Sep 28th 2019

KIBOKO AND SIRONKO

An air of Malthusian gloom hangs over smallhold farmers in Sironko, in eastern Uganda. In the old days, they say, their parents reaped plentiful harvests from fields fed with manure. Now the soil needs to be coaxed into life with chemical fertilisers they cannot afford. As the population grows, farmers squeeze onto shrinking plots of land. The weather has become erratic: the growing season might begin with a week of downpours followed by drought. The rain and the sun no longer balance, complains one farmer, Zaituni Mudondo, banging a maize cob on the ground.

So there is something unusual about Ruth Akello, who lives just down the road. Her house is sturdier than the rest, with a solar panel outside. She is also building another home in a nearby town. Asked about maize—Uganda’s most ubiquitous crop, which accounts for about 20% of people’s overall calorie intake—she pulls out a record book and phones her husband to check the numbers. The couple have grown 100 bags this year (about ten tonnes) and sold almost all of it. Her neighbours use old-fashioned methods of farming, she explains. “But me, I use the modern way.”

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