Plenty is a seasonal crop in Ocara, a parched district of Ceara, a state in Brazil's north-east. Most of its inhabitants piece together a living from odd jobs and family gardens until September, when the annual harvest of cashew nuts brings relief like a long-awaited rain. Recently, the contrast between fat months and lean ones has become less marked, for Ocara's poorest citizens are now drawing a year-round stipend from the government. It is not much, 120 reais ($52) a month at most for a family of five or more. But for Maria Rita Albino da Silva, a "farmer" and cheerful mother of two, it makes the difference between too little food and enough.
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机译：丰收是巴西东北部一个州塞阿拉（Ceara）一个干燥地区的奥卡拉（Ocara）的一种季节性作物。它的大多数居民在零星的工作和家庭花园中谋生，直到9月份，那时腰果的年度收获带来了如期待已久的降雨般的缓解。最近，胖月和瘦月之间的对比变得不那么明显了，因为奥卡拉最贫穷的公民现在正从政府那里获得全年的津贴。这并不多，一个五口之家或五个以上的家庭每月最多120雷亚尔（52美元）。但是对于玛丽亚·丽塔·阿尔比诺·达席尔瓦（Maria Rita Albino da Silva）来说，她是一个“农民”，又是两个孩子的开朗母亲，这使得食物不足和食物不足之间存在着差异。
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