• Volume 3 Test 3 Reading The pesticide-free village
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  • Initially the farmers’ cotton yields were low.
    At first, in the first years.
  • A quick 'high' of booming yields and incomes hooked growers during the early years of cotton in the region.
    Output; the amount of crop produced.
  • The immediate payoffs from chemically-dependent cotton agriculture both ensured and obscured the fact that the black dirt fields had gone into a freefall of environmental degradation.
    The process of the environment being damaged or made worse.
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