Zhu Hengjun, a 52-year-old ginger(姜) grower, feels very depressed. Although he’s ______ with the decrease in his earnings compared with last year, he feels fortunate that he has _______ a contract with a processing company that ______ a competitive price. ______ he not done this, Zhu might have been ______ serious losses, in common with many other growers this year.
“I heard that a lot of growers have ______ losses this year. To be honest, I feel lucky because ______ I didn’t lose money,” said Zhu, from Zhangli Village in the city of Laiwu in East China’s Shandong Province.
Currently,70 percent of the area ______ with ginger in Laiwu is jointly developed by farmers and enterprise,______ the deputy head of this district.
Zhu ______ 6,000 kilograms(kg) of ginger produced on his 1,330 square meters of farmland to a local company ______ a price of 1.4 yuan (22 cents) a kg in mid-October. In doing so, he didn’t earn much money but ______ manage to balance his costs of around 8,000 yuan.
In recent years, Chinese farmers have often suffered from the severe price turbulence(动荡) that has ______ crops such as ginger, garlic and mung beans. The uncertainties have ______ them to seek new ways to avoid losses ______ by price fluctuations.
The price of ginger has ______ rapidly in recent years, prompting an increasing number of farmers to grow the crop. ______, in late October it fell by more than 70 percent, ______ with the same period in 2010.
In Laiwu, a major production base for ginger, farmers have ______ to form a targeted sales relationship with the processing companies as insurance against the ______ of fluctuating(波动的) prices.

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