What also happened that year is in the areas where there were good rains, and where farmers had previously produced surplus grain, farmers had decided to withdraw from the fertilizer market, not use fertilizer and actually had dropped their use of fertilizer by 27 percent.
那一年还发生了一件事。 在雨水充沛， 过去谷物生产过剩的地区，农民们决定 退出肥料市场，不再使用肥料。 实际上肥料的使用量减少了27%。