After Liu Xiaopang said these words, Liu Qingyu's face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.
Growing up, many of Liu Qingyu's thoughts were deeply influenced by his father Liu Fei. He knew very well that his father Liu Fei hated genetically modified products, especially with the current epidemic of hypertension, diabetes and other diseases in China. The incidence of chronic diseases continues to increase. As the infertility rate among Chinese people increases, Liu Qingyu is even more disgusted with genetically modified products, especially when he sees that some large grain and oil companies use gutter oil. There is no lower limit to pretending to be edible oil. Liu Qingyu doesn't have much favorable impression of these foreign-funded grain and oil companies.
Now, Liu Xiaopang actually said that the entire Ruiyuan County had become the birthplace of genetically modified seeds, which made Liu Qingyu almost furious.
As the secretary of the Ruiyuan County Party Committee, Liu Qingyu knows the agricultural positioning of Ruiyuan County very well.
Ruiyuan County has positioned itself as the birthplace of seeds for the entire Nanhua City and even the entire Baiyun Province since more than ten years ago. Around this strategy, many cadres in Ruiyuan County have been working hard, even if they are No matter how weak the department's capabilities are, with years of development, Ruiyuan County has become the largest source of seeds in Nanhua City. A large part of the seeds in Baiyun Province are sold by Ruiyuan County.
If Ruiyuan County is full of genetically modified seeds, it means that the entire Nanhua City and even the entire Baiyun Province will almost fall into a crisis of genetically modified seeds. If that is the case, this will have a great impact on Baiyun Province, a major agricultural province, especially a major grain exporter. Provincially speaking, this is definitely a disaster.
Liu Qingyu knows that not all genetically modified foods have problems, but there is no way to prove that most genetically modified foods are safe, especially for consumption. Otherwise, the EU and other countries will not ban the import of genetically modified foods. .
Liu Qingyu's heart was almost crazy at this moment.
However, Liu Qingyu still managed to calm himself down first, and asked in a deep voice: "Fat man, are you sure the result you said is reliable? I can tell you, if what you said is true, then The nature of this problem is extremely serious.”
When Liu Xiaopang saw the boss's expression, he knew that the boss was very serious this time. He also said very seriously: "Boss, I can assure you that what I said is all true. Why have I been here for so many days?" The reason for the following investigation is to thoroughly understand the true situation of the seed industry and market in Ruiyuan County. To this end, I have conducted an extremely detailed and thorough investigation.
According to my detailed investigation of people in various towns and villages in Ruiyuan County, I found that many farmers now basically do not use their own seeds when planting, but use finished seeds purchased from various seed companies. Regarding the source of seeds, I found that most of these seeds come from abroad. Even if they are packaged as domestically produced, in fact, a large part of them come from abroad, especially from the United States, and more than 90% of these seeds are genetically modified seeds.
Another thing that shocked me was that farmers in Ruiyuan County have been buying finished seeds for more than ten years. This is the real reason that shocked me. According to my understanding, in more than twenty years, In the past, farmers often used grains with fuller seed grains from their own fields as seeds for planting. However, in the past 16 or 17 years, farmers no longer save their own seeds. The reason is very simple. Now if they If they continue to save seeds like this, there is no way to use the seeds they save, because the yield of the seeds they save is quite low and the seedlings are weak.
I remember a relevant agricultural information showed that in order to ensure their absolute control over the genetically modified seeds, the research and development institutions of genetically modified seeds deliberately left some defects in the seeds when designing their genetic sequences, allowing the seeds to After two or three generations of planting, the germination rate and planting rate will completely decline. In this way, ordinary people have to buy their latest seeds, and they can control the price at will, thereby controlling the entire grain market."
Liu Qingyu nodded: "You are right. This method is indeed a common practice of many companies producing genetically modified products. Can you conclude based on this alone that these farmers are growing genetically modified corn and soybeans?"
Liu Xiaopang shook his head and said: "Of course not. In order to confirm my conjecture, I went to nearly 100 farmers, extracted grain samples from their homes for the past ten years, and then sent them to the Yanjing Genetically Modified Product Identification Center. I went for identification, and the identification results shocked me. I sampled more than 800 samples from more than 100 farmers, and personally 756 of the samples were genetically modified products, especially corn samples, whose genetically modified rate was as high as 98%. Boss Ah, tell me, how serious the situation is now."
After listening to this, Liu Qingyu felt a chill running down his back.
Liu Qingyu knew very well that his father once served in Baiyun Province. During his tenure, he was very disgusted with genetically modified corn and soybeans, and took various measures to combat it. However, he never expected that such After many years, not only has genetically modified corn not disappeared, but it has become more and more intense and has even spread across the province.
This situation is really too serious.
What should I do? What should I do? For a moment, Liu Qingyu fell into deep contemplation.
After pondering for a long time, Liu Qingyu slowly raised his head and asked, "Fat man, tell me why Ruiyuan County became the birthplace of genetically modified corn and genetically modified soybean seeds."
Liu Xiaopang said with a wry smile: "It's very simple. Collusion between government and business and the monopoly of foreign companies are the root cause. If some local officials did not accept bribes to open the door for these foreign-funded seed companies, these foreign companies would not be able to transport genetically modified seeds so smoothly." Entering Ruiyuan County, if some officials did not use their power to vigorously crack down on the sales, survival, transportation and other aspects of our domestic seed companies in Ruiyuan County, as long as they are given a little profit and a way to survive, they will not be cut off. The normal sources and channels of seeds will prevent foreign-funded seed companies from forming a monopoly advantage in Ruiyuan County, so that they can set prices and increase prices arbitrarily. Although my views are a bit extreme, I still want to say that I think that in Ruiyuan County, In this kind of thing, many officials in Ruiyuan County should bear the main responsibility. If they could be a little more responsible and not so greedy, then this situation would not be the result."
After Liu Xiaopang finished speaking, Liu Qingyu's expression became even more serious. Although Liu Qingyu did not fully agree with Liu Xiaopang's words, he had to admit that Liu Xiaopang's words were quite reasonable. From his perspective Judging from the survey results, it is precisely because officials at all levels in Ruiyuan County have vigorously promoted the survival of the seed brands of Yihai Group and other foreign seed companies in Ruiyuan County for their own interests, and even some officials have taken bribes. scale, and vigorously suppressed and squeezed out other domestic seed brands, resulting in Ruiyuan County becoming a monopoly of three major foreign-funded seed companies.
Thinking of this, Liu Qingyu's eyes flashed with two strong murderous auras, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Now it seems that the anti-corruption clamor I set off in Ruiyuan County is not big enough. Agriculture, an area related to the national economy and people's livelihood, It has also become the hardest hit area for [***], which I absolutely cannot tolerate. It seems that it is necessary for me to carry out the anti-corruption work more deeply and thoroughly."
Liu Xiaopang said: "Boss, it's not too late to remedy the situation. Act quickly. Otherwise, once planting starts this spring, genetically modified corn, genetically modified soybeans, and rice seeds will fully occupy the farmland in Ruiyuan County. I'm afraid that by then the entire Baiyun County will be occupied. The province will also become the hardest hit area for GMOs."
Liu Qingyu nodded slightly: "Well, that's good. It's not too late to make up for the situation before it's too late."
After hanging up the phone, Liu Qingyu immediately fell into deep thinking.
Although Liu Qingyu's heart was full of murderous intent and anger, he also knew that the reason why Ruiyuan County became the hardest hit area for genetically modified seeds was definitely not formed overnight, and it definitely could not be solved by himself in a word or in a meeting. This must involve the interests of all parties, such as the Nanhua Municipal Agriculture Bureau and the Baiyun Provincial Department of Agriculture. Don’t they know about genetically modified seeds?
Liu Qingyu believed that they didn't know it for a year or two, but this was a genetically modified seed that was 16 or 17 years old. Didn't the Provincial Department of Agriculture know anything about it? Did they never know about Ruiyuan County or Baiyun Province? Are the grains subject to regular testing?
That is absolutely impossible, because they all have regular testing tasks. However, in the past ten years, not a single testing report mentioned the matter of genetically modified seeds. Is it because the technical level is not up to standard or some people deliberately conceal it? .
How many people and interests will be involved?
The more I think about Liu Qingyu, the more I feel the importance of this matter and the seriousness of the problem.
He knew very well that he really couldn't act rashly in this matter, otherwise, if he alerted the snake, it would affect the whole body. Even if he had Zeng Hongtao's support behind him, he might be killed at the Nanhua City level. By that time, it would be impossible for Zeng Hongtao to pull him away even if he wanted to.
Smoking cigarettes one after another.
Liu Qingyu kept standing up and pacing back and forth in the office.
He was too irritable, too disappointed, and too sad.
Food security is a major issue related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Why do some people not pay attention to it at all? There are even some experts who campaign for GMOs all day long.
Yes, genetically modified technology is indeed something that our country should master. There is no problem with this, and it is also an important strategy. But the problem is that genetically modified products, especially genetically modified grains, should not be used as guinea pigs by us Chinese people.
