China’s soybean strategy not only successfully exported it to Argentina, but also made a fortune in the futures trading market.
Subsequently, the futures team of Huaguo Seed Company repeated this operation for sea rice, and also made huge profits in the futures market.
At the same time, whether it is super soybeans or super adaptable sea rice, while they can be exported overseas in large quantities, they will also be popularized domestically.
The middle and lower levels of the financial market may not be clear for a while why the originally weak Huaguo Seed Industry suddenly launched a series of attacks and developed seeds that are much better than Monsanto's R&D team.
There is a huge gap between the domestic breeding industry and foreign countries. Monsanto alone has a scientific research team of more than 20,000 people worldwide and has 106 R&D centers.
As for the domestic R&D teams, at the end of 2019, there were ten A-share listed companies mainly engaged in the seed industry, including Longping Hi-Tech and Tsuen Yin Hi-Tech, with a total of 1,048 R&D personnel.
(Data comes from the 3rd and 4th issues of China Economic Weekly in 2021)
The gap between the two countries is huge.
As for some people who say that the Academy of Agricultural Sciences is more responsible for this task in China, but according to data from the official website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs:
From 2012 to 2017, China invested a total of 3.28 billion yuan in agricultural science and technology.
Monsanto’s annual investment in 2017 was 1.6 billion yuan, which was more than China’s total investment in agricultural science and technology in the past five years.
We must know that not all of China’s investment in agricultural science and technology is invested in the seed industry, and only a small number can go to the seed industry.
"I need to know the Chinese people's technical route. Have they made fundamental changes in their technical route?" Monsanto's CEO Grant was very angry. Super soybeans would prevent them from selling their genetically modified soybean seeds for three years.
Because the price set by Huaguo Seed Group is very low, the export price is not high, and the domestic price of Huaguo is even lower.
The price of super soybean seeds is almost the same as the price of Monsanto’s best-grade genetically modified soybean seeds.
Three years is just a conservative estimate because it wants to develop super soybeans. Three years is the most optimistic estimate within Monsanto.
"Our annual investment far exceeds that of China. Why were super soybeans and sea rice developed first by China?"
"I can understand seawater rice, because the Chinese have a foundation for seawater rice, and they have been developing this technology route for a long time. But how do you explain super soybeans?"
"Our R&D center in Argentina has purchased Chinese super soybeans, and the planting effect is very obvious. Now I need to explain, why are the Chinese suddenly so far ahead of us?"
"Actually, seawater rice cannot be tolerated. At that time, you swore that the seawater rice route had no potential. It was great in theory, but it could not be implemented in practice. Why did the Chinese people have implemented seawater rice?"
The more important significance of sea rice is to improve the ecological environment of saline-alkali land, which is particularly significant today when environmental protection is so advocated.
Forelli's accusation against Grant had been anticipated.
Because when the news about China's super soybeans came out, Grant sent him many emails in a row the next morning.
Forelli had anticipated this day since super soybeans were approved in Argentina.
He is the chief technology officer of Monsanto. He has been in this position for more than ten years and has seen too many storms. He reassured:
"No one could have imagined that Chinese people would be where they are today. I have already inquired about it. Although Syngenta is now part of the Huaguo Seed Group, the super soybeans and sea rice have nothing to do with Syngenta."
"People from Syngenta have not participated in China's projects, so they probably don't trust them."
Syngenta is a Swiss seed industry giant. After it was acquired by Huaguo Chemical Import and Export Group, when Huaguo Seed Group was spun off, Syngenta was also transferred to Huaguo Seed Group.
Forelli mentioned Syngenta first, indicating that although we have not done it, Syngenta has not done it either, and it is not my fault.
He continued: "This matter is weird from beginning to end. As soon as we got the genetically modified soybean seeds from China, we sequenced their genes in the laboratory using current-type gene sensors."
Current-type gene sensors are a technology that was invented not long ago. They sequence genes through pna probes fixed on carbon nanometer printed electrodes.
"China's super soybeans have a lot of genetically modified sites, many of which have never appeared in our database. We currently don't understand how these sites work, and we don't know what the underlying logic of the Chinese technology is. of."
"You know, what we studied before was how a single gene fragment works in soybean seeds, but from China's super soybeans, I vaguely feel that super soybeans are made up of multiple genes working together."
"If it is true as I think, this technology is generationally different from the technology we use now. This is simply unexplainable. The technology of a seed industry company on Blue Star is one generation or even several generations ahead of Monsanto!"
Forelli is confident in Monsanto. He is well aware of industry trends and cutting-edge technologies. “It is impossible for China’s seed industry to be so developed.”
"And what is also very strange is that China's previous sea rice technology route was clearly hybrid, and Yuan adopted the third-generation hybrid rice seed breeding technology."
"But the sea rice we got used genetically modified technology, and a large number of gene fragments were edited."
"It's not that our technical department didn't expect this. I'm sure that seed industry companies around the world didn't expect it. The Chinese technology is very questionable."
"Compound gene editing technology is not only available to Monsanto, but also to other seed industry companies. I suspect that Hua Guocong has figured out how some genes work in combination, and even understood the underlying logic."
"Either they have obtained alien technology, or the Chinese technology cannot be explained."
Grant asked: "If we obtain China's technology implementation principles, how long will it take for you to develop super soybeans, or even more super crops?"
Forelli: "One year at most."
Grant: "Okay, prepare a trip. I will personally visit China to discuss cooperation. If cooperation doesn't work, we have other ways."
Unfortunately, his trip was in vain. Even if Monsanto used commercial espionage, he would not be able to get what he wanted.
The Chinese people's breakthrough in the seed industry was based on the magic brain, but no one in the Huaguo Seed Group knew the existence of the magic brain.
Not to mention that even if Monsanto knew about the existence of the Demon Brain, they wouldn't be able to get it.
It is already September of 2022. China and Russia have each obtained three magic coins, while America has obtained four, temporarily leading the other two countries.
As for the Neon League, England and Australia received two magic coins, and the Europa League received three magic coins.
