Gu Cheng was curious but didn't dare to ask. Ye Han was on the contrary. He planned to satisfy his curiosity: "Just leave this thing casually, aren't you afraid of losing it?"
"Of course I'm not afraid!" Gu Cheng said, "This thing crawls slowly and can't go very far at all. Moreover, each snail has a biochip in its brain, which can control the snail's range of activities so that they can only move within a designated area.
, I will definitely not lose it."
"Mercenaries don't steal?"
"I stole it, but the consequences were very serious. Then I didn't have the guts to steal again."
Ye Han was a little confused: "How serious is this?"
Gu Cheng said: "This is a long story... Giant snails are not aggressive at all. If they encounter other bugs, they will be eaten. The shell looks strong, but it can actually withstand it."
A little while ago, when the ranch was first opened, the losses were not small. Later, the higher-ups thought of many ways, and finally installed biochips on the snails. They used the chips to control their range of activities and to locate them. When encountering wild giant insects, they also
You can use the chip to call the police.”
Having said this, Gu Cheng took a breath: "Then, a group of armed drones are assigned to the ranch, and the drones are used to patrol the ranch. Once the snails sound an attack alarm, the drones can provide nearby support and kill the attack.
Snail bugs... Over the past few years, the bugs near Qingtang have almost died. Now there are not only drones, but also many mercenaries guarding the pasture all year round... There will definitely be losses from stocking, but they cannot be lost in a year.
A few."
Now Ye Han finally understood, but he only had a little understanding. He was still full of curiosity about the snail ranch: "So advanced?" Even biochips are used, this place is definitely the most modern giant worm ranch!
"It's not bad." Gu Cheng said calmly, "There are many similar giant insect ranches, both at home and abroad, all of which are insect-eating giant insects... Most of us here are snails, and some of them are genetically modified.
locust……"
"Locusts?" Ye Han was shocked again.
"Yeah, it's a locust that has weakened its hind legs and wings, but it doesn't have as much meat as a snail, the meat quality isn't as good as a snail, it doesn't have a shell, and it's not very capable of self-defense. Basically no one keeps it now."
Ye Han was sweating. Thinking about it, he was asked to choose between snail meat and locust meat. He would definitely choose snails instead of locusts: "Have you ever raised anything else?"
"There are also some ants," Gu Cheng said, "but the ants are not specially raised. The main reason is that the border ant colonies are too big. They have been hunted regularly in the past few years, you know."
Ye Han does understand that nowadays, materials are scarce and no resources can be wasted, especially food.
Gu Cheng added: "You may not know that 40% of domestic meat comes from Giant Insect Ranch. Think about it, how much insect meat does Giant Insect Ranch produce in a year!"
Ye Han didn't believe it: "No way? I didn't meet many along the way!"
Gu Cheng laughed: "All you see are breeding cattle. Real beef cattle can be sold when they grow to the size of a football."
"Isn't it a waste?"
"Of course not. The giant worms are bigger and have a longer growth cycle. It would be too wasteful to kill them when they grow up. The size of a football is the most suitable... It is not the egg-laying period now. When you have the opportunity in the future, you can come over and watch the breeding cattle lay eggs.
There are hundreds of them at a time, and when the eggs hatch, the mountains and fields are filled with snails of all sizes, and you can’t even count them!”
Ye Han had seen so much of the sea of insects that he could really imagine the appearance of snails all over the ground: "How big is this ranch?"
It has been more than ten minutes since meeting the first giant snail. The convoy has driven at least more than ten kilometers and encountered as many as eighty snails along the way. However, there are still not even a shadow in the urban area of Qingtang.
Can't see.
"I don't know much about this, but I know that the ranch is at least dozens of times larger than the city!" Gu Cheng said.
Ye Han couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The changes are really huge!"
"Yes, the changes have been huge!" Gu Cheng nodded in agreement, "A few years earlier, who would have thought that giant insects could become an industry?"
Both of them were talking about great changes over the years, but what Ye Han was referring to after waking up was not the same thing. Xiao Yuan and others understood the reason, but Gu Cheng had no idea at all.
Ye Han suddenly thought of something else: "Don't they plan to expand the pasture? The meat gap is quite big now, isn't it?"
"It is indeed not small, but the cost of pasture is too high. Meat mainly comes from seafood. Shrimp and crabs are not small in size. Molluscs such as squid, sea cucumbers, and starfish have also begun to grow in size. They are all high-quality meat.
source."
Ye Han nodded clearly.
Seafood is indeed a good source.
This matter also has something to do with aliens. They have laid out their plans on the seabed. The continental shelf is full of alien giant vines. Many aquatic creatures feed on these giant vines, and the population of marine life has exploded.
Compared with the high cost of grazing, the cost of fishing is almost negligible, which is a huge profit!
If all countries in the world were to liberalize Kejin fishing, no amount of seafood would be able to fill the bellies of billions of people. However, we can count on one hand the number of countries that have this technological strength and dare to go to sea.
Come here, and the supply of meat is always limited, the huge ocean is not short of this little seafood.
Now that he knew everything he needed to know, Ye Han became curious about the development of agriculture in the past few years.
Gu Cheng did not disappoint Ye Han and introduced the development of agriculture.
To put it simply, agriculture is developing at a good pace.
On the one hand, benefiting from the rapid progress of soilless cultivation technology, space-style indoor farms have been established in various places. Although they have shortcomings such as high cost, time-consuming and labor-intensive, in order to ensure food security, no matter how many difficulties must be overcome, in recent years
, the food produced in indoor farms alone accounts for 30% of the country's total output.
On the other hand, based on the advancement of genetic technology, key indicators such as the yield and resistance to pests and diseases of food crops have been greatly improved, and the grain yield per mu has doubled, which has played a decisive role in alleviating food shortages.
As for whether it is genetically modified or not, haha, who cares about this even if we don’t have enough food to eat? To put it bluntly, nowadays even people are genetically modified products, so what does it matter whether the food is transformed or not?
Another very key reason is aliens!
It sounds like eight poles can't be hit, but when Gu Cheng explained it in detail, Ye Han understood - in order to deal with humans, the bugs released by the aliens were all aggressive carnivorous bugs. They only like to eat meat.
Plants that can be seen everywhere are ignored. Only those wild giant insects that eat vegetables have the bad habit of destroying crops everywhere.
This kind of giant insect has always been the key target of Beidu. After several consecutive years of eradication, the number of agricultural giant pests is now very small. What is even more bizarre is that alien giant insects often feed on wild giant insects and are harmful to humans.
The agricultural contribution is indeed not small.