Although the total area of the Cocos Islands is 14.2 square kilometers, there is not much land area that can be developed, and the uninhabited coral reefs have to be removed. The overall plantation area is not large.
The suburbs of Pas are all high-quality farms, with a total of 3,500 acres, all of which are high-quality pastures. These 3,500 acres are also the private property of the Clunis Ross family. Compared with the Cocos Islands, which are far away from the mainland, John III’s opinion of Tang En Very satisfied with the arrangement.
Tang En was even more satisfied. Although the 3,500 acres of land on the outskirts of Pas is not cheap, compared with a high-quality transfer station, it is worth paying no matter how high the price is. The Cocos Islands can only be used in the hands of the Clunis Ross family. Single plantations were developed to make profits by collecting copra, but in the hands of Australian companies, the value of the Cocos Islands was infinitely magnified.
What I want to explain here is that the terrain of the Cocos Islands is actually similar to that of Zhenghe Island. There is also a ring of coral reefs on the outside and a huge central lagoon in the center.
In this way, the Cocos Islands, like Zhenghe Island, have the potential to become a natural harbor. Of course, Australian companies must carry out more scientific transformation of the Cocos Islands so that the Cocos Islands can play a greater role.
Australian companies also have more advantages than when Adan Company developed the Adan Islands before.
With the experience of developing the Adan Islands, the first batch of workers to come to the Cocos Islands are all workers from the Christian Construction Company. They will build ports and airstrips in the Cocos Islands. This work should be completed within this year.
Building an airport is very simple. Today's aircraft do not have high requirements for the airport. As long as the runway is basically flat, it can meet the take-off and landing requirements of large transport aircraft.
The port is relatively more difficult. The situation in the Cocos Islands and the Addam Islands is similar. Basically all building materials have to be imported from outside. However, compared with the Adane Islands, which is far away from the mainland, the Cocos Islands are only 800 kilometers away from the Straits Settlements. It is still much easier to transport building materials from the East Indies to the Cocos Islands than from southern Africa to the Addam Islands.
No matter how Tang En carried out his work, Roque valued the development of Victoria and Dias more than the Australian company's investment.
In fact, the development of Victoria and Dias has begun since the occupation of Southern Africa. Most of the new immigrants after 1916 were settled in Victoria and Dias. Many of them were in Victoria. and Dias bought land to become new farmers, while some people could only work on large farms in Victoria and Dias because they were unable to obtain loans from the Rand Bank.
The large farms here refer to those with an area of more than 100,000 acres.
There are many such farms in Victoria and Dias, and they are basically the property of large enterprises such as South African companies or Nyasaland Agricultural Company. South African companies have more than 1.5 million hectares of farms in Victoria, which is about 15,000 hectares when converted. Square kilometers, Nyasaland Agricultural Company is almost the same.
The person in charge of Nyasaland Agricultural Company in Victoria is called Gao Wei. Gao Wei is a graduate of Nyasaland University School of Agriculture. The current Nyasaland University School of Agriculture has been separated from Nyasaland University.
After becoming Nyasaland Agricultural College, Gao Wei came to Nyasaland Agricultural College at the end of April and found his former teacher Harrison McIntosh, the current dean of Nyasaland Agricultural College, hoping to facilitate
Cooperation with the College of Agriculture.
"Gao, you're late. I'm sorry that I don't have any outstanding graduates for you, not even those with average grades." Harrison McIntosh thought Gao Wei was here to ask for someone.
Harrison McIntosh has a good relationship with Gao Wei. Gao Wei's professional skills are not outstanding, but his organizational skills are excellent, so he can serve as the head of Nyasaland Agricultural Company in Victoria.
Nyasaland Agricultural College currently has about 600 graduates every year. This number seems to be a lot, but in fact it is completely insufficient compared to Southern Africa, which has more than a dozen states and a total area of 5.5 million square kilometers.
Every year during the graduation season, graduates from Nyasaland Agricultural College are snapped up by federal governments and major agricultural companies. They don’t have to worry about jobs at all. Many parents send their children to the Agricultural College to study.
The purpose was to better manage their own farm after graduation. However, it was only when the children graduated that they discovered that they would never return to work on their own farm. There was a broader world waiting for them in the outside world.
The same goes for other institutions that broke away from the University of Nyasaland. Although there are more and more students from southern Africa, the high level of education at the University of Nyasaland is recognized by everyone. Now in Nyasaland
All colleges and universities in China combined can produce nearly 30,000 graduates every year. These graduates are in short supply in the job market. This situation has lasted for more than ten years.
"Professor, I am not looking for you. I hope to promote cooperation between the School of Agriculture and Nyasaland Agricultural Company. Our Nyasaland Agricultural Company has 1.8 million hectares of land, forests, pastures, lakes, and swamps in Victoria.
, all kinds of terrains are available——" If Gao Wei wants someone, he won't come to Harrison McIntosh. It would be more appropriate to go directly to the head office.
A considerable number of graduates from Nyasaland Agricultural College every year choose to work for Nyasaland Agricultural Company. Relatively speaking, Nyasaland Agricultural Company has relatively abundant human resources.
"Wait a minute, Gao, our Agricultural College has already cooperated with your Nyasaland Agricultural Company. Our cooperation has lasted for more than ten years." Harrison McIntosh was very dissatisfied with Cushman & Wakefield's performance.
When Gao Wei was studying at the Agricultural College, he interned at the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, and then naturally worked for the Nyasaland Agricultural Company.
"Professor, I know these situations, but what I want to say is that I hope that the School of Agriculture can have more in-depth cooperation with the Nyasaland Agricultural Company in Victoria. For example, the School of Agriculture can consider relocating some laboratories to Victoria.
, you can even conduct part of the teaching work in Victoria." Gao Wei has high demands, hoping that the Agricultural College will open a branch in Victoria.
"Hahaha, Gao, this is impossible. If it could be done, the Agricultural College's branch campuses would have been all over southern Africa." Harrison McIntosh smiled bitterly. He also wanted to open branch campuses all over southern Africa, but there were conditions.
Not allowed.
Nyasaland Agricultural College now has a total of 15 laboratories, which are responsible for breeding improvement, introduction of innovation, etc. The work content of the laboratories is very complex, basically covering agronomy, horticulture, plant protection, resources and environment, and animal husbandry.
, veterinary medicine, aquaculture, and other subject areas.
According to the plan of the School of Agriculture, the School of Agriculture will establish two new laboratories this year, responsible for research in food science and engineering, and agricultural engineering. These two laboratories were named by Roque and placed in Nyasaland.
Probably in Victoria.
Although the industrial development in southern Africa is very good, the federal government's emphasis on agriculture has never relaxed.
At its core, Southern Africa is still an agricultural country. Farm management is very important to Southern Africa. Southern Africa's agricultural products effectively supported the Allied Powers' victory over the Central Powers during the World War. After the end of the World War, during the relief and reconstruction of Europe, Southern Africa's agricultural products remained.
is playing an important role.
While agricultural products are selling well in Europe, agricultural products from southern Africa are also facing competition from American agricultural products.
During the World War, the United States did not play as important a role as it did in another time and space. Southern Africa completely replaced the United States and became the mainstay of the Allied Powers.
After the end of the world war, American products continued to try to open up the European market, but they were also stubbornly attacked by southern African products. Now the United States can only rely on its price advantage to dump to some areas in southern Africa that it does not pay attention to.
Such as the Balkans, such as Russia, and such as North Africa.
Now Rock no longer cares about the specific operation of the farm, but focuses his main energy on a higher level. Food science and engineering, and agricultural engineering are Rock's useful attempts. Now southern Africa has solved the problem.
Now that we have solved the problem of eating well, we need to start researching on eating well.
"Professor, I'm talking about part of it, part of it -" Gao Wei emphasized that the Victoria branch is not qualified to compete with the head office for resources, but the head office eats meat, and the branch office also needs to drink some soup.
Nowadays, Southern Africa is also facing social problems such as unbalanced development among states, the gradually widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the upgrading of environmentally polluting industries. In the past, the development of Southern Africa was mainly based on the three northern states. Now the three northern states are dominated by
Transvaal and Rhodesia have gradually fallen behind, and Nyasaland is almost unrivaled in strength, surpassing all of southern Africa.
Roque now wants to maintain Nyasaland's leading position, but he cannot ignore the economic development of other states. After Ade leaves office, Roque is likely to succeed Ade as the Prime Minister of Southern Africa. By then, Roque will face greater pressure.
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It doesn't matter. Only when there is pressure can there be motivation. Today, Europe can still rebuild with its own strength. If there is another world war, then European countries will lose the strength to rebuild. By then, southern Africa will play a greater role.
During this period of time, Rock needs to work hard on his internal skills, integrate Nyasaland's resources, continue to improve Nyasaland's scientific and technological strength, maintain Nyasaland's leading position in scientific research, and then promote the entire southern Africa to continue to move forward.
forward.
In order to ensure that Nyasaland takes the lead, the addition of laboratories in the College of Agriculture is just a microcosm. In fact, during this period, scientific research institutions and institutions of higher learning throughout Nyasaland are making adjustments to meet the needs of future development.
ps: It’s the last day, it’s the rainy season, the tickets will get moldy if left there——
