"A good reputation is actually a valuable intangible asset, and in this regard our situation is much better than most farmers or ranchers in the area." The person in charge who accompanied Lawrence and the others to visit the ranch.
He said, then pointed to a brand-new looking stone building in the distance.
"Especially this time we have prepared priests from the Agricultural Church and several agricultural experts. With their help, we have made a lot of big moves recently."
The so-called big movement is not just widespread disinfection, but more importantly, a large amount of infrastructure construction.
It has to be said that the previous group of people basically only wanted to get a vote and leave. Therefore, although the overall environmental level of these areas is good, no one has carried out construction work, resulting in a mess of infrastructure construction. It can even be said that these agricultural areas
They all depend on heaven for food.
"You don't know how bad the situation was when we came here a while ago." As everyone kept chatting, the person in charge also discovered that Lawrence was not a traditional old aristocrat, but a lively young man.
So they quickly started talking about what they had encountered when they first arrived.
"When we first arrived here, we found that these agricultural areas were in a mess. Taking pastures as an example, the area close to the river was a low-lying, waterlogged land, while the areas far away from the water source were severely degraded, with only a few
Part of it can be used for grazing.”
"The same is true for farms. Only the narrow land on both sides of the river can be used to grow wheat. In other areas, because the soil moisture content is too low, the ground temperature is too low, and there is a lack of irrigation. Only those that do not have high requirements for water and land temperature can be planted.
of potatoes, rye and barley.”
"It sounds really bad, but I think the situation here should be good." Lawrence said and pointed to several construction sites in the distance.
In those areas, workers were sweating profusely digging the ground and moving the excavated soil to other places. It looked like they were building an irrigation canal.
"This is the first batch of irrigation canals built under the planning of the agricultural church priests and some staff. In addition, we are also preparing to build a medium-sized reservoir and six large reservoirs."
Another manager sent here said, “For this purpose, we previously applied for a fee to purchase wasteland for the construction of the reservoir.”
"Ah, I know about this." Before Lawrence could realize when the money was approved, Saifei said suddenly from the side.
"I remember that a sum of federal dollars equivalent to 300,000 crowns was indeed approved for the purchase of land. By the way, is that money enough? I heard that the land purchased this time is quite large."
“In fact, we only spent more than half of the money on purchasing wasteland,” said the manager responsible for the construction of water conservancy facilities.
"The land in this area that can be used for agricultural and animal husbandry production is indeed not cheap, but the wasteland is much cheaper. At least the wasteland we selected located upstream of the river is so cheap that we haven't even spent the budget."
"Then I asked them to buy more wasteland." Saifei turned to Lawrence at this time and said.
"This is a decision I made after asking several priests of the Agricultural Church. According to them, the water temperature and water quality in this area are very good, so we can buy more land and build larger reservoirs, so that those reservoirs can provide more than just water.
In addition to the irrigation capacity, some freshwater aquaculture work can also be carried out.”
"This is indeed good." After seeing Saifei and several managers staring at him, Lawrence immediately expressed his support.
Because according to the results of previous exchanges with the priests and researchers of the Agricultural Church, raising fish is the most cost-effective thing in terms of farming.
Therefore, with the support of Lawrence, the group of priests and agricultural scientists of the Agricultural Church invested a lot of energy in fish breeding research.
Some of them have started seafood farming operations in several bays of New Saul Island, and the overall progress of this plan is not bad.
Especially after a large group of Loka fishmen joined, the speed of the entire plan suddenly increased several times, and it has even recently entered the era of commercial production.
According to statistics in recent months, these farmed seafood have supplied 1/5 of the island's demand, and this proportion can continue to rise.
However, the progress of the overall plan for freshwater aquaculture is far behind, because there is really a shortage of manpower on the island, so all such manpower is concentrated on the more important marine aquaculture experiments.
Those experts and scholars responsible for freshwater aquaculture technology and priests of the agricultural church can only do some theoretical research by observing marine aquaculture data.
So when Saifei asked them about whether to buy wasteland, the group of agricultural professionals naturally gave her a suggestion to buy a large area of wasteland.
At least in their view, since they have already planned to build several reservoirs and store water, why not spend a little more money to build larger reservoirs.
At least with an additional budget of less than 25%, the reservoir can be transformed from a reservoir used purely for water storage and irrigation to a breeding ground that can provide everyone with a large amount of aquatic products in addition to irrigation and water storage.
"To be honest, although the overall national strength of the White Eagle Federation is relatively strong, the amount of protein and fat obtained by ordinary people is still a little low." Another young woman wearing a burlap robe from the Passion Church said.
"According to my statistics, the protein intake of an ordinary citizen in the Federation is not much different from that of the Western Republic of New Zealand, but the fat intake is slightly higher."
"This doesn't sound too bad." Saifei asked with some confusion, "If I remember correctly, the living standards of the three northern powers in the New World have always been at a good level. So we and
The new state republic to the west of the big mountain range should not be considered a bad thing overall in terms of this data——"
“The federal government also claims this,” said the young priestess of the Passion Church, “but they ignore the dietary differences between the two sides. The Easterners, who are mainly Cathayans, do not eat too much dairy products.
So purely from the perspective of eating meat, they may eat more than us."
"But then again, both the Great Lakes region and the areas we passed through by boat when we came here are relatively wealthy areas in the Federation. But even so, there are still many people who have to suffer from food shortages due to various problems.
themselves, to the point of affecting their physical health.”
As a clergyman of the Passion Church, the priest naturally investigated the situation in the entire area after arriving here, and the results of the investigation were obviously somewhat different from what was officially announced.
"So I think raising fish here is a good choice." Lawrence said while looking at the busy construction site in the distance. "At least fish meat is cheaper than other meat, so if fish meat can be produced here, then we can
It can help some people from some aspects."
After talking about issues related to water conservancy facilities, Lawrence continued his farm and ranch inspection trip.
When he was having dinner, he unexpectedly found that the temporary buildings used as canteens were crowded with workers who came to eat. "Where are these people recruited from? Are they the local engineering team?"
"No, of course not." A manager said to Lawrence, "The people here are very mixed. Some of them are people who come from the city to do odd jobs, and some of them are farmers, herdsmen or agricultural workers who come here to make money during their leisure time.
.The last part is the workers recruited by our factories."
"Factory workers." After hearing what the manager said, Lawrence immediately observed the group of people and found that many of them were wearing uniforms with a simple white rabbit drawn on their backs.