Li Qingye was currently in Sirat Port, a city on the shore of Qattara Lake.
As the Homo sapiens company dug the northern canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Qattara Depression, two huge canals with a width of 550 meters and a depth of 35 meters brought huge amounts of Mediterranean seawater into the Qattara Depression.
After nearly two years of continuous injection, the entire Qattara Depression was completely submerged, forming a saltwater lake with an area of 18,000 square kilometers, the Qattara Lake in front of Li Qingye.
This huge lake with an area of 18,000 square kilometers and an average depth of 62 meters has 1 trillion cubic meters of sea water. Because it is directly connected to the Mediterranean Sea, Lake Qattara will basically not be depleted.
Li Qingye stood on the 500-meter-high Silat Broadcasting Tower, looking down at the surroundings. The scenery that greeted his eyes was not only the blue sea and sky, but also the endless green fields.
"Mr. Chairman, with our efforts, the Numidian Desert will become the granary of North Africa." As the general manager of the Numidian branch, Hu Mingliang was beside Li Qingye at this time.
"The terrain here is very flat, so there should be a lot of area available for agriculture, right?"
"Yes, the Matruh Province of Suez and the northeastern part of Numidia are a plain desert area covering an area of 600,000 square kilometers. The altitude is less than 200 meters. All of them can be transformed into seawater farms."
At this moment.
This large-scale construction will be a huge boost to the entire northeastern region of the Sahara Desert.
After all, Homo sapiens now has 2.6 billion employees, and this number is still rising year by year. Starting from 500 kilograms of grain per capita per year, at least 1.3 billion tons of grain are needed.
If you continue to dig the canal to the west, you will encounter the Nafusa Mountains and the Hamra Stone Desert with an average altitude of more than 500 meters. And continuing to the west, you will reach the Republic of Abdwad. Therefore, the northern line of the Northern Canal is now
There is no need to continue digging to the west at this stage.
The southern route of the Northern Canal goes south from the Tazirb Oasis, passes through the Raibyanai Desert, the Kufra Oasis, enters the operating area of the Chad Branch, and successively passes through the Lake Unianga heritage area, Bo
The Terai Depression, the Wadi el-Ghazal area, and finally the city of N'Djamena.
Judging from the canal progress map provided by Hu Mingliang, it can also be seen that the Numidia Branch has no intention to continue westward, but is digging the middle and southern lines of the northern canal.
Why are Chad Branch and Meroë Branch developing the slowest among all branches?
The reason is that transportation and infrastructure are extremely backward.
"How's the yield?" Li Qingye picked up the telescope and looked at the lush wheat fields in the distance.
It is precisely by using this large-scale transport airship that the Chad branch's economy has barely improved, without the need for long-term blood transfusions from the head office.
“Where did the northern canal between Numidia and Suez end?”
Woo woo woo...
Li Qingye is quite satisfied with this production capacity.
Hu Mingliang nodded quickly: "I will strengthen cooperation with them."
The reason why Li Qingye gave this order was because he planned to arrange some important industrial and scientific research bases in the hinterland of the Sahara region.
Therefore, the current agricultural development direction of Homo sapiens Company is, on the one hand, focusing on genetically modified seawater crops, and on the other hand, indoor lightless farms.
"Yes, but not all of them. Only about 300,000 square kilometers are planted."
When seawater can replace freshwater as agricultural water, the agricultural potential of North Africa is suddenly increased dozens of times.
"Mingliang, over at Chad Branch, your Numidia Branch needs more support."
Hu Mingliang shook his head: "No, the climate here is suitable for wheat. We used genetically modified technology to insert the root genes of sea rice into the wheat genes, as well as perennial genes."
The Sahara Desert in North Africa is the large agricultural area that Homo Sapiens Corporation focuses on. After all, the low-altitude desert here is very suitable for large-scale mechanized production.
Hu Mingliang quickly replied: "It's two harvests a year, Chairman. Because of the perennial gene, genetically modified wheat can be seamlessly connected, so it can achieve one season of winter wheat and one season of spring wheat."
Li Qingye nodded slightly: "More than three million is indeed too little, ten million is more reasonable."
Genetically modified technology has given crops the ability to tolerate salt-alkali and can be grown directly in seawater, solving the inherent shortcomings of North Africa's lack of freshwater resources.
"That's quite a lot. After all, it's 450 million acres. By the way, is this kind of genetically modified wheat harvested once a year?"
Fortunately, the Ceylon Ocean Transportation Group, a subsidiary of Homo Sapiens, has recently put hundreds of large transport airships into service. 50% of these transport airships are basically invested in Chad Branch and Meroe Branch.
Li Qingye looked at the route map and found that the northern line of the Northern Canal was almost completed.
"Is there a shortage of manpower here in Matruh Province?"
"At present, the northern plain area of Numidia has been opened, and the westernmost end is the port of Hassan Pool."
"Yes, there are currently only 3.52 million employees in Matruh's secondary branch. We are working with the Human Resources Department to transfer manpower from the Nile Delta and Cairo."
Li Qingye turned the direction of the telescope and found a cruise ship docking at the port.
"In other words, do you plan to plant genetically modified wheat in these 600,000 square kilometers of plains?"
A rapid whistle sounded from the direction of the port.
Hu Mingliang took out his tablet and projected a construction progress map.
He had always wanted to carry out a special project before, but there was no suitable place. This time he finally had a large enough experimental area.
"The manpower here is okay, but the Numidia branch is even more lacking." Hu Mingliang was a little helpless.
"Do they all grow rice?" Li Qingye didn't know much about the agricultural industry of each branch recently.
The agricultural potential of the Southeast Asia Region Branch and the South Asia Region Branch has been squeezed out to the max. If reclamation continues, terraces will need to be built and a large amount of forest will be cut down.
Therefore, the southern route of the Northern Canal is a vital lifeline for Chad Branch.
This place is surrounded by desert and is a plateau itself. The local population is sparsely populated, making it very suitable for setting up secret bases and conducting some more dangerous special experiments.
"The annual yield per mu is about 850 kilograms. If all desert transformation is completed, it is expected that the annual output of 382.5 million tons of wheat can be achieved in 300,000 square kilometers."
The middle line of the northern canal is from Qattara Lake to the west, passing through the southern Numidia Desert, Tazierb Oasis, Sabha Oasis, Obari Desert, and finally arriving at the border town of Atshan.
The location he chose was the northern part of the Darfur Plateau between Suez, Meroe, Chad, and Numidia.
Especially the Chad branch, it was really poor, with no railways, no canals, and very few decent roads. It was located inland, surrounded by either big deserts or similarly poor places.
Therefore, he must develop several surrounding branches to support the material consumption of that project.
He traveled all the way to North Africa not just to inspect the industry, but because he had more important things to do.
After inspecting the company around Getarahu for more than a week, Li Qingye, escorted by the aerospace fleet, headed west into the operating area of the Numidia Branch.
At the same time, the project that Li Qingye was secretly preparing in the Darfur Plateau was also undergoing preliminary preparations.
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