Chapter 22 Cat Winter Season and Snow Banana in Northeast China
Today's [Chaoqun Group] can be said to be a big family and a big business, with major businesses all over the country, and some businesses have even expanded overseas.
It is impossible for Wu Siyuan to do everything as he did a few years ago.
Even if artificial intelligence is secretly assisting.
Wu Siyuan is too busy even if he has three heads and six arms, so there is no need to do so.
What he is doing now is to grasp the direction of strategic development, and leave the rest of the tactical execution to his subordinates.
Just like this pig price war.
After Wu Siyuan set the tone in January 2019, he handed over full power to Guan Xuelia and Su Shixian.
Then he himself, along with He Youman, flew to the Northeast.
The Northeast region, known as Youzhou in ancient times, is the collective name for the land in the northeastern part of China, with a land area of 1.45 million square kilometers and a total population of 120 million.
The Northeast region spans the mid-temperate zone and the cold temperate zone from south to north. It has a temperate monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, hot and rainy in summer and cold and dry in winter.
From the southeast to the northwest, the annual precipitation drops from 1000mm to less than 300mm, transitioning from a humid area, a semi-humid area to a semi-arid area.
The basic characteristics of the ground structure in the Northeast are that water surrounds mountains and fertile fields are thousands of miles away. The soil is mainly black soil. The black soil in the Northeast Plain is one of the three largest black soil belts in the world. Its fertility is astonishing. In the past, in the Great Northern Wilderness
There is a saying that goes, "When you grab a handful of black soil, oily flowers sprout, and when you insert chopsticks, they sprout." Although it is a bit exaggerated, the fertility of the Northeastern land is indeed true.
In history, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huguang were once the largest granaries in China. There was a saying that "the food from Suhu and Huzhou is enough for the world" and "food from Huguang feeds the world". But things have changed now, and Northeast China has become the largest granary in China.<
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The total grain output of the three northeastern provinces is 10,000 tons, accounting for about 20% of the country's total grain output, far exceeding Jiangsu and Zhejiang's 43.07 million tons and 55.83 million tons.
Of course, this is based on the fact that the saline-alkali land jointly developed by [Chaoqun Group] and the country has not yet succeeded.
Once the saline-alkali land is successfully developed and one to two hundred million acres of land suitable for cultivation is released, the honor of being the country's largest granary may change.
However, at present, the largest granary in the country is undoubtedly the Northeast region.
Northeast rice grown in the Northeast is famous throughout the country.
Northeastern rice is Japonica rice, which is mainly grown in the vast plains of the three northeastern provinces. It is grown in extremely fertile black soil, absorbing enough nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other mineral elements, with abundant sunshine, rain and dew, and pure and pollution-free irrigation.
Using water, the growth cycle is generally about five months.
Real Northeastern rice has a short and round grain shape, an aspect ratio of about 1.6:1, less belly white, a high gum rate, and a clear and transparent beige color.
The unique geographical advantage ensures the unique high quality of Northeast rice.
However, the Northeast is also trapped by its unique climate and terrain.
The bitter cold weather in the Northeast means that Northeast rice can only be harvested once a year.
In the south, two crops a year are very common, and three crops a year are also common.
Rice in the Northeast is generally planted in May and harvested in October. However, from November to April of the following year, the fields in the Northeast are all bare and no crops can be planted.
Because it’s too cold! No crops can survive!
In the fields in the south, after planting early rice, you can plant late rice. If things fail, you can plant something else. Anyway, you can always survive.
But in the Northeast, it is impossible.
If farmers in the Northeast do not have dozens or hundreds of acres of land, they will not be able to make any money just by farming.
Even though farming seems very simple, just drop the seeds, weed and fertilize, and that’s it. The cost is not high.
But in fact, every aspect of farming requires money. The first is the land contract fee. The land contract fee for growing rice is generally around 600-700 per mu. Calculated at 650 yuan, one hundred acres is one yuan.
Seeds cost about 5.5-yuan per pound, and 1,200 kilograms of seeds are needed per 100 acres of land, which is another 7,200 yuan of seeds, not counting the expenses of the greenhouse.
There is also a lot of investment in chemical fertilizers. Each mu of land requires 30 kilograms of compound fertilizer and 26 kilograms of urea. If the soil is not enough, 5 kilograms of chemical fertilizer must be added. Every 100 acres of land will cost 9,000 yuan in chemical fertilizer investment.
The use of water resources also costs money. On average, one mu costs more than 20 yuan, and one hundred acres costs more than 2,000 yuan.
Field road maintenance costs 500 yuan per 100 acres.
After the rice is harvested, it needs to be dried. If you don't have your own drying ground, you have to rent it, which will also cost about 500 yuan.
The parking fee for machinery costs about 500 yuan.
There is a lot of land in the Northeast, and traditional fertilization methods are too backward, so civilian aircraft are commonly used to spray foliar fertilizers, fungicides, and insecticides on rice.
One hundred acres requires an investment of 6,000 yuan.
As for pesticides, one hundred acres will cost 3,000 yuan.
If you use drones to weed, it will cost 2,500 yuan for 100 acres.
Farming and transplanting rice requires hiring workers, and it takes two days to plant 100 acres of land. Labor is expensive nowadays, and it costs roughly 5,000 yuan.
There are also harvesting fees and diesel consumption. These add up to 100 yuan.
All kinds of expenses are added up, and it will cost 100 acres to cultivate one hundred acres of land.
If an mu produces 1,000 kilograms of grain, and based on the grain price of 1.3 yuan per kilogram, the income per mu is only 1,300 yuan. At the end of a year of hard work, you have not made much money.
Of course, these expenditures are calculated at a higher level, and there are also fluctuations in yield per mu and grain prices, and the government also provides subsidies.
The actual situation is not so bad.
On average, it is normal to earn three to four hundred per acre of land. If it is more, it is possible to earn five, six, six, or seven hundred.
But the premise is that there must be enough land for planting.
Because here in the Northeast, there is only one crop a year, and for at least half a year, there is no way to cultivate the land.
What Wu Siyuan is interested in is this six-month break.
To be fair, there is really no crop in the world that can grow in such bitter cold weather in the Northeast winter.
But there is another world.
Wu Siyuan got a seed called [Snow Banana] in the world of "Beast Blood Boils".
This kind of [Snow Banana] only grows in the Taimurraya Snow Mountain. The colder the weather, the stronger it grows.
After it grows up, [Snow Banana] is cold when you hold it. The white skin with slightly sesame spots has a sweet aroma. When you put it in your mouth, a bone-chilling chill immediately fills your mouth. This coldness has passed.
After that, an indescribable sweetness, sweetness and refreshingness appeared on the tip of the tongue. The flavor in it is unmatched by any fruit in the real world.
After Wu Siyuan obtained the seeds of [Snow Banana], he gave them to He Youman for research.
After research, it was found that although [Snow Banana] is a herbaceous plant like banana, its growth cycle is relatively long. From planting to maturity, it takes at least more than 20 months. However, the yield is more than three times that of banana.<
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It is normal for the output to be so exaggerated. [Snow Banana] is supplied to the mammoth tribe in the world of "Beast Blood Boils". The mammoth tribe eats an amazing amount. If [Snow Banana] had not produced enough, it would have been eaten to extinction long ago!
However, the ripening time of [Snow Banana] is still a little too long.