which was the way to harvest the crops

使农民可以在可以收获作物的情况下
and to greatly increase the efficiency

并且大大的提高效率的方法
of a farmer being able to harvest things, especially wheat.

尤其是农民收割小麦上
In the 1830s this man became popular.

十九世纪三十年代此人变得街知巷闻
His name was John Deere.

他的名字是约翰·迪尔
He was famous for developing a particular plow, a steel plow,

他因开发改进了一个很出名的钢制犁
made a company out of this and then

且成立了一个公司
of course we all know the John Deere Company of today.

就有了我们今天都知道约翰·迪尔公司
So these people were important players.

这些人都曾是很重要的绿色革命参与者
Particularly interesting, a bit of technology has to do with irrigation.

特别有趣的是灌溉与科技的发展有些关系
If you think about the fact that

如果你考虑一个事实
we're growing vast amounts of crops in pretty arid land in California,

我们在十分干旱的加州种植了大量的作物