Japan's powerful farm lobby has shifted into hyperdrive.

日本强大的农业界国会活动集团已开展极度紧张的活动。

Why? Because ethanol is domestic: It replaces oil, and the farm lobby is powerful.

为啥？因为乙醇是国货：它替代原油，而且农场游说团强大得很。

It would mean facing down the farm lobby to remove barriers to some of the planet's most protected rice.

这将意味着面对院外农业集团，从世界大米保护最严格的地方去除壁垒。

Negotiation of such treaties has been held up by Japan's powerful farm lobby-even though farming accounts for just 2% of GDP.

由日本强有力的农业游说团已进行了以上类似条约的谈判，尽管日本农业仅占gdp的2%左右。

Other negotiators said that in an election year, the United States probably never wanted to confront its farm lobby, including cotton farmers.

其他谈判代表则说在大选年里，美国决不可能跟包括棉农在内的农业游说团体正面对抗。

Washington's negotiating team was also under pressure from the country's powerful farm lobby, and the European Union was under pressure from its own.

华盛顿的谈判小组也处于来自国内强大的农业游说压力之下，而欧盟也承担成员国内的压力。