Climate change has caused a rise in sea levels. This has increased the amount of salt in fresh water used on coastal farms. As a result, farmers are increasingly unable to use fields close to the sea.

气候变化会导致海平面上升，这就导致沿海农场使用的淡水的含盐量增加，结果农户们越发难以利用沿海农田。

Scientists call this process “ salinization ” which means the mixing of salt and water. Salinization is reducing the world's irrigated lands by 1 to 2 percent every year.

科学家称这一过程为“盐碱化”，也就是盐和水的混合。盐碱化使得全世界可灌溉土地每年减少1%~2%。

But a farmer in the Netherlands is now using a mixture of sea and fresh water to grow healthy and tasty vegetables. Marc Van started with an experiment.

但荷兰的一个农民现在使用海水和淡水的混合物来种植健康美味的蔬菜。马克·范开始了这个试验。

“We put in a lot of plants in the fields and then we put them in fresh water and in sea water and all the varieties between them, and then we see which variety is surviving and which variety is dying. ”

“我们把很多作物种在田里，然后把它们分别放到海水、淡水以及各种比例的淡水和海水的混合物当中，看哪种能存活下来，哪种会死掉。”

Mr. Van worked on the project with scientists from the Free University of Amsterdam. He divided a farm into eight areas. Separate pipes pumped fresh and sea water, and a computer program created water with eight levels of salinity.

范先生和阿姆斯特丹自由大学的几位科学家一起进行这个项目的研究，他把农场分为 8个区域，用不同的管道来输送淡水和海水，并用电脑程序生成8 种不同浓度的盐水。

Computerized measuring devices called “ sensors ” controlled the water levels and the levels of salinity. Mr. Van says he was able to harvest vegetables from most of the eight test areas. He says the vegetables were smaller than those grown in fresh water. But he says they also have more sugar and salt, so they taste better.

名为“传感器”的电脑测量装置控制水位和盐度。范先生表示，8个实验区域大都能收获蔬菜，这样种植出的蔬菜比在淡水中种植出的蔬菜个头要小些。不过，他也说，因为这种蔬菜含有更多的糖分和盐分，所以口感更好。

The farmer grew carrots, cabbage and onions. But he found that potatoes grew better than the other vegetables in the combination of sea and fresh water. Mr. Van says four kinds of these potatoes were recently sent to Pakistan, where thousands of hectares of land have been damaged by salinization. Farmers in Pakistan will test these potatoes to see if they can be grown in those fields.

这位农民种植胡萝卜、大白菜、洋葱。不过，他发现，在海水和淡水的混合物中，土豆比其他蔬菜长得更好。范先生说，其中的4种土豆最近被送到巴基斯坦，那里有数千公顷土地被盐碱化，巴基斯坦的农民将用这些土豆来做实验，看它们是否能在本国土地上生长。