Climate change has caused a rise in sea levels. This has increased the amount of salt in fresh water ____61___(use)on coastal farms. As a result, farmers are increasingly ___62____(able) to use fields close to the sea.
But a farmer in the Netherlands is now using a ___63___(mix) of sea and fresh water ___64___(grow) healthy and tasty vegetables. In an interview, he said he worked on the project with scientists from the Free University of Amsterdam and divided a farm ___65___ eight irrigated areas. Separate pipes ___66___(pump) fresh and sea water. And a computer program created water with eight levels of salinity(盐分). He was able to harvest vegetables from most of the eight test areas. The vegetables were smaller than___67___ grown in fresh water. But he said they also had more sugar and salt, so they tasted much better. He found that ___68___(potato) grew better than the other vegetables in the combination of sea and fresh water. Some of them would___69__(send) to Pakistan, ___70___plenty of land was damaged by salinization .