Although sweet potatoes and corn also need adaptive cultivation, the good news is that experts from the Department of Agriculture at the Royal Institute of Technology said that adaptive cultivation of sweet potatoes and corn is much easier and will take less time than the cultivation of hybrid rice.
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After many years of cultivation, experts from the Department of Agriculture at the Royal Institute of Technology said that it is estimated that after about five years of cultivation, sweet potatoes that are initially adapted to most parts of China will be able to be obtained.
Now, Li Xuan is counting on the large-scale promotion of sweet potatoes in five years to increase the total grain output and initially solve the people's feeding problem.
Although the nutritional value of sweet potatoes is relatively low, far from being comparable to wheat and rice, the yield is high!
The high yield is enough to make up for the shortcomings of low nutritional prices.
Developing domestic arable land and expanding imports are the current solutions, while promoting the planting of sweet potatoes and corn is a mid-term solution, while hybrid rice and chemical fertilizers, as well as immigration to the world, are long-term solutions.
However, in the short term, grain production is still a big problem, and it is still difficult to solve the problem of low grain reserves.
Now Li Xuan can only hope that God will continue to give him face in the next few years and not cause any large-scale natural disasters. At the same time, he must also do his best.
The construction of water conservancy facilities cannot be stopped. After all, it is unreliable to put your hope in whether God will give you face. This year’s harvest is good, but who knows what the situation will be next year. What if there is another big flood next year? Even if there is no big flood,
, what if there is a large-scale drought or earthquake?
Well, you can't prevent earthquakes, but you can still prevent floods and droughts.
As time enters September, it is the most suitable time of the year for large-scale construction. The autumn and winter periods are the most suitable for carrying out various large-scale projects.
Therefore, the entire Tang Empire launched a wave of large-scale infrastructure construction again!
Among them, the key projects are still the management of the Yellow River and the Huaihe River. This area is most prone to floods and has the greatest harm, so related management is urgent.
Relatively speaking, large rivers such as the Yangtze River and the Pearl River are relatively easy to manage. However, as a precaution, some treatment projects have been carried out on the Yangtze River starting this year to reinforce dams in more dangerous areas and to prepare for
Following the Hongze Lake expansion plan, we plan to select some relatively low-lying and dangerous places around some stretches of the Yangtze River to serve as reservoirs.
However, it is only preparation work and no immediate relocation is carried out, because the Yangtze River is still relatively stable. When large areas need to be used as reservoirs, it will basically be a major flood that occurs once in dozens. When the flood comes
It is wise to conduct an emergency evacuation when the flood is over and return after the flood has passed.
You can't just abandon large areas just to prevent a major flood that only happens once every few decades. The officials are willing, but the people are not willing either.
Starting in September, a new round of major projects has begun on the Hongze Lake embankment. More than 100,000 workers are working hard on the embankment and nearby areas to build a new embankment.
It's just different from last year. Last year's civilian husbands were all recruited, but this year's civilian husbands adopted a direct employment model.
Because the government made calculations and found that the money spent on recruiting civilian workers last year was more expensive than directly hiring the same number of workers, and it also caused great public resentment.
When there was a flood last year, civilian laborers were urgently recruited. Naturally, those peasant laborers would not have any complaints. After all, this was to protect their own hometown. However, in the autumn and winter of last year, a large number of civilian laborers were recruited for the construction of the Hongze Lake embankment, and they were forced to do so.
Sexual recruitment has caused great dissatisfaction.
Due to many reasons, this time the person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and the Jiangbei Province government also learned wisely and did not conduct conscription, but adopted employment methods.
Hire people directly with salary, love will come or not!
To the officials' surprise, the number of people who signed up to build the embankment was huge!
Although the fee is only one yuan a month, and food and drinks are not included, many people still sign up!
This situation is also beyond the expectations of many officials, because if calculated, the food expenses of a civilian husband recruited last year plus a small amount of subsidies would have reached one yuan and two cents per month. This still attracts
caused great public dissatisfaction.
Now, only one yuan is given, but so many people sign up. This situation is incomprehensible.
However, smart people can still see the problem here. Last year's recruitment was compulsory. Although many people felt that they did not suffer a disadvantage, there was no one who did not want to come but was drafted. This is what happened.
contradiction.
Nowadays, the employment model is adopted, and it is entirely voluntary to come or not, thus excluding those who are unwilling to come. When people no longer have the psychological resistance to being forcibly recruited, they will find that it is actually very cost-effective to work on the embankment.
Anyway, now is the autumn and winter period of farming. The men in the countryside are idle and waste food while staying at home. If they go out to work, although the wages may not seem much, at least they can feed themselves.
, you can save some and save some money.
If you calculate it this way, although building dams is a hard job and will be very hard, it is still relatively cost-effective.
It is not surprising that there is such an enthusiastic registration.
This situation made the officials in charge feel quite good. They thought before that they could not recruit enough people locally, so they planned to recruit from other places. Fortunately, now, they have recruited enough workers in Jiangbei.
Similar situations also occurred in other places. In northern Anhui, Henan and other places with key water conservancy facilities projects, the hiring model was also adopted, and it was very smooth. The number of people who signed up far exceeded the number of people scheduled to be recruited.
After all, in this era, the source of income for farmers is too single. They can only rely on farming to make a living and go out to work in big cities. To be honest, relatively few people do this.
People these days are not willing to leave their hometown. Well, it does not mean that they have deep feelings for their hometown. This thing is only for literati. For ordinary people, it is not something as high as nostalgia.
Their main reason for not wanting to leave their hometown is fear.
Fear of the distance, fear of the unknown!
This fear makes them unwilling to leave their hometown and go to unknown places to seek life, even if they have little income or even insufficient food in their hometown.