"Then you've maintained your physical strength really well. [Read full text]."
"It sounds like I'm very old, I'm only thirty years old!"
"ah?"
"You look like this after working at the grassroots level for a long time." Yang Guobao's smile was bright, "Let's go together." He said and shouted, "Beibei, go! Drive Wu Kelan back!" Following him With the sound of shouting, a dog ran out quickly and drove back a large white pig that was trying to gnaw the bark of a tree on the roadside.
"Is it called Beibei?"
"Yes, there are six in total, they happen to be: 'Beibei', 'Jingjing', 'Huanhuan', 'Yingying', and 'Nini'."
"Where's the other one?" Wu Nanhai was infected by his bad taste and eager to know the name of the last one.
"It's called the Olympics." Yang Baobao said with a serious face, and roared again: "Olympics!" A dog that was walking quietly suddenly jumped up, ran to his feet, and circled happily. He stroked its neck hair with satisfaction.
"You really know how to train dogs."
"This is my specialty, not a profession. It's just for fun." Yang Guigui waved his whip and cracked it one after another. "I can also drive a cart. I learned it from farmers in the countryside. But there are no carts here. When I arrived, The industrial group said that they should make a few large rubber-coated carts and hitch them with the Yunnan horses we captured. Two sets of carts would be able to pull a thousand kilograms. This group of people kept saying that these carts were backward and they were working hard to solve the problem. Four-wheeled farm carriages are all nonsense, can that kind of carriage be driven by a small horse?"
"I can definitely pull the horse with the iron ridge," Wu Nanhai looked at the two particularly tall and strong heavy-duty horses in the queue. This is the best draft horse bred in China since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It has the bloodlines of many of Europe's best draft horses and riding horses. The maximum pulling force can reach 45o kilograms, and a single horse can pull a double-rubber cart with a load of 1,000 kilograms.
"They can pull, but these two horses have to be kept as stallions and are not suitable for more work. Moreover, the Tieling draft horse breed has actually degenerated a lot." (Note: Tieling draft horses stopped breeding in the 1990s. Work, there are only a handful of degraded stallions left. This horse breed will soon disappear. Yang Guogui sighed, "Nanhai, to be honest, I am very worried about our agricultural team."
"Well, I also think there are some problems, but there are so many things. I don't know where to start?" He imitated Yang Baogui, waving the willow branch in his hand to drive the livestock.
"Nanhai, you are a student of agriculture. You should know what the basis of high yields in modern agriculture is, right?"
"Pesticides, chemical fertilizers, improved seeds, water conservancy, genetic modification, soil chemistry..." Wu Nanhai said,
“Is it possible to replicate such a pattern here?”
"It's more difficult. The conditions are too bad. Intensifying farmland water conservancy and promoting improved seeds are more realistic means of increasing production." Wu Nanhai thought, "Fertilizers are okay, as long as the chemical industry team builds a combined ammonia manufacturing plant and a sulfuric acid plant. But pesticides It’s very difficult. This has to do with the organic chemical industry. I think it’s impossible without 30 or 40 years of industrial development experience.”
"No," Yang Baoguo shook his head, "these problems are still superficial. The biggest problem is that modern society is a large division of labor system, and agriculture is no exception. Under such a division of labor system, the professional capabilities of us agricultural technicians are actually limited. The government has degraded - and so have the farmers.
"In the past, farmers had to select and raise seedlings by themselves, but now they just need to buy the seeds directly. Agricultural technicians actually know what seeds to use, how to manage sowing, when to apply which pesticides, and what fertilizers to apply..."
"There are no seed companies here, nor are there pesticide factories, veterinary medicine factories, or agricultural machinery stations... everything has to be done by ourselves. We were all trained under this large division of labor system, and we only know what we have to do. Modern agriculture It’s a complete chain, and we only have some sporadic links.”
He pointed at a few pigs being driven by dogs: "Let's talk about those pigs - Georgia! Where are they running?" Yang Baogui scolded loudly and drove another pig back with a whip. On the way, "Everyone is counting on them to develop large-scale pig farming and live a life of eating meat, right? No one knows how many vaccines a piglet needs in a modern pig farm from birth to slaughter. How many medicines are needed just to disinfect the pig pens? Even if one person accidentally causes swine fever, a large number of them will die."
Wu Nanhai told him that he became worried. It was not that he had never thought about these issues, but he had never considered them so deeply.
"It looks like they have to be rebuilt one by one." He looked at the carefree pigs, humming and looking for food as they walked around. "They also have names?"
"Yes, they are both breeding boars and breeding sows. They have names that are easy to remember."
"What is your name?"
"Ukrain, Great Britain, Georgia, Oros——"
"Haha, Eros must be that boar, right?" Wu Nanhai pointed to the most ferocious and largest pig.
"No, it's called the Soviet Union."
The two of them were walking and chatting. The more than ten kilometers of simple roads are well maintained. Except for the dust after the cars drive by, driving livestock can walk leisurely on the road. On one side is the surging Wenlan River. In the sparse farmland on both sides, the ears of rice are already ripe, but there is no familiar sight of billowing rice waves - the agriculture here is still quite backward. Wu Nanhai sighed with emotion as he walked, thinking about how to turn everyone's knowledge into productivity, but the difficulties before him were overlapping.
The road is very peaceful. Although you can occasionally see some local people working in the fields, they are far away. The several towers along the road also give the passers-by a great sense of security. These originally rough wooden structure towers have now been converted into three-story blockhouses of mixed masonry structure. Searchlights are installed on the roof. There is also an open space surrounded by deep trenches and barbed wire downstairs. In the event of an attack, Pedestrians and vehicles on the road can quickly avoid them.
The entire marching column walked for almost three hours before reaching the camp at Bairentan. All members of the Agriculture Committee are waiting for them - today is the day when the Agriculture Committee officially moves into its new location.
Unlike those departments that were already stationed in the Executive Committee compound, the entire team of the Agricultural Committee was located in what was later called the "Nanhai Model Demonstration Farm." Wu Nanhai was educated in college: Agriculture is not done by sitting in an office writing plans and making reports, but by each agricultural technician working step by step on the land, fish ponds and orchards. As an agricultural technician, you have to live close to farmland.
The entire farm is built with the latest red bricks produced by the brick kiln. There is probably no more magnificent building complex in Bairen City than here: offices, agricultural technology laboratories, warehouses, agricultural machinery stations, cellars, and neatly arranged grain fields. There is a water-powered mill on the bank of the river, and the newly built corral exudes the fragrance of logs. The only concrete building is a row of pressurized biogas digesters - treating all kinds of garbage, wastewater and feces discharged from living and agricultural areas. The generated biogas is supplied to the canteen for cooking. In the future, when there is more waste, more biogas produced from the waste can be used for electricity. Biogas slurry is good for fertilization or feed additives, and the final biogas residue is still a good fertilizer.
There was originally a permanent glass greenhouse in the construction plan, but the industrial sector has not yet produced glass, so it is temporarily suspended. Fortunately, Hainan has a subtropical climate, and even the accumulated temperature during the Little Ice Age was sufficient. .
"The area designated for us as the experimental field," Ye Yuming pointed to the benchmark that served as the boundary of the land, "stretches from here to the water-powered mill by the river."
The distance from here to the river is more than 100 meters, and the length is also 200 meters. It is an irregular rectangle. Calculated, it is about more than 20 acres in modern area. There is no problem in using it as a vegetable field or experimental field. A small part of this land has now been leveled, and some vegetables such as cabbage, green vegetables, green peppers, and tomatoes have been sown. At this time, some vegetables have entered the harvesting period, and the dining table in the canteen can be a little richer.
However, most of the land is still composed of more rocks and less soil. There are still many tree roots left. The land needs to be leveled and some soil may have to be transported. He observed the height of the river bank and the waterline during the wet season, and estimated how many irrigation canals were needed and whether to build flood control levees and other water conservancy facilities. Where can we plant fruit trees, dig fish ponds, and where can we temporarily settle the tropical crop seedlings we brought in? All these must be considered one by one.
The entire building complex of the Agricultural Committee cannot be spared, so we can engage in courtyard economy. We can set up a grape trellis on the corridor in the yard. A grape trellis on half an acre of land can harvest 1,000 kilograms of grapes, and it does not occupy any space and can be harvested. shade. You can plant some fruit trees behind the house...
He was thinking about it, feeling happy. However, the labor force is now insufficient, so Wu De needs to recruit some local farmers to help with the work - it is best to hire them directly as long-term workers. As for the local agricultural situation, it would be best to find a landlord to ask, but I heard that the landlords and rich peasants have been let go. What a pity. These people have rich experience in agricultural production and know a lot about the social conditions in rural areas. But he doesn't speak Lingao dialect, so he has to find someone to translate it. It's troublesome. It seems that he has to learn it by himself. Not to mention, in the future, when asking for a wife to take a concubine, there must be some emotional communication. Should we start with ah oh goose move? ? But these were all agreed upon tomorrow. After walking for several hours, he was really tired.
That day he fell asleep in the office of the Committee of Agriculture. After so many days, he finally had a tile on his head and was able to sleep in the room. He felt very happy. It seems that happiness really depends on comparison.
