Variety has a greater impact on crop yields than farming practices.
When Olan first started farming, he didn't understand much about this. Some of the students were from farmers' families and provided a lot of help.
The threshold for breeding is not high, but it is a very time-consuming and laborious job, which is not suitable for doing in a magic academy. Therefore, after working as a visiting professor here for a period of time, Olan focused on ensuring production.
The increase in production in terms of agricultural skills is all due to the students.
For example, soil air permeability is a highly variable indicator. A few crops do not care about air permeability, but most of them require looser soil to ensure the speed of root development. In addition to loosening the soil during plowing, you can also rely on microorganisms and annelids. maintain.
The students were very active and divided into groups to conduct many experiments. The result was that plowing saves time and energy.
There is no need to consider insect pests for the time being, because the college’s experimental fields are new and there is no breeding environment for crop diseases yet.
Olan is mainly responsible for the artificial transformation of the environment, including light, temperature, humidity, etc.
After several rounds of improvements, the yield of a vegetable variety called Lamosa has increased from 60 kilograms per acre (0.01 hectare) to 110 kilograms.
Lamosa seeds were introduced from far south and have better low temperature tolerance than local crops. However, the name is difficult to remember in Qin dialect. At the suggestion of the students, it was renamed dwarf lettuce... …It’s actually not much better.
The yield of 110 kilograms per acre is equivalent to 11 tons per hectare, which is three times the output of Xincheng soybeans, and the harvest cycle is faster.
The difference between vegetables and staple food crops is that vegetables are harvested in their youth and only a small area of land is left for the seeds.
Taking dwarf lettuce as an example, after comprehensively calculating the growth efficiency, texture and taste statistics given by the students, it is believed that the best harvest period is between 45 and 60 days. At this time, it is crisp and slightly sweet when eaten raw, and loses its flavor after frying. Most of the crispness but the sweetness is more pronounced. Its seeds will not produce until 100 days. At this time, chewing them is similar to chewing a small stick soaked in water.
Therefore, vegetables only require a smaller area to supply the needs of a large population. Of course, their role is only to allow citizens to selectively supplement vitamins and improve their taste. The caloric intake is not as good as staple food and meat.
Olan and his students also have experimental fields for making staple food, but the relative effect is much worse. The main reason is that staple food generally has poorer tolerance to low temperatures. Especially after the floating island takes off, it is particularly difficult to maintain the temperature at night.
For example, soybeans grow well when temperatures are above 18 degrees. The problem is that at an altitude of 2,000 meters, ice trees are still being planted in the north. Sometimes a gust of wind blows at night, and it may suddenly drop to ten degrees. If the wind direction and force are relatively stable, it will be very difficult. Yield reduction is prone to occur.
Anyway, the soybeans in the experimental fields were only 50 kilograms per hectare at the highest level a few months ago.
The turning point was when a student told the story about the experimental field when he returned home, and the agricultural companies in Phoenix learned about it.
The name of the agricultural enterprise is Fengyu Products. It formerly operated Xiaoqiang Ranch and later added the direction of glass greenhouse cultivation.
Glass was considered a luxury product in the penal colony. Even if there was a glass factory in Fenggu, its main products were supplied to various manufacturers. Then there was the construction industry, which had no retail sales, so the terminal price was never much cheaper. Those who can connect agriculture and glass must not be locals in the exile, and they have survived so many earthquakes and are still doing it, which is enough to show that they have absolute confidence in glass greenhouses.
After Fengyu Products got the news, they took the initiative to contact the school, hoping to sponsor Olan's project.
Of course, there is also a need for repayment, which is to provide them with technology and products as a priority and improve glass greenhouse production technology.
Olan is a knowledgeable mage, but a homebody. After the school communicated with him, he took his junior sisters and students to Fengyu Products to visit the glass greenhouse, and he was very inspired.
For the magic planting project that Oran is researching, the biggest advantage of the glass greenhouse is not the heat collection effect during the day, but that it can effectively intercept the natural wind and keep the farm temperature and airflow in a controlled state, which greatly reduces the impact on the farm. Requirements for the magic array’s environmental control capabilities.
After returning, he signed an agreement with Fengyu Products in the name of the experimental team.
Oran's magic agriculture group is not a department in the college, but an interest group drawn from several classes he takes, or it can be understood as a graduate tutor project group.
Therefore, the project funds have to go through the school, but the school does not have much to do.
After receiving funds from Fengyu Products, the team hired someone to build its own glass greenhouse experimental field.
This glass greenhouse is completed in one step. It uses the latest greenhouse structure of Fengyu Products. It is a multi-layer structure. One greenhouse has two rows, arranged in "//", "\/" or "\\" shapes according to the sunlight conditions.
The magic lamp previously developed by the project team is used on the top to provide fill light and night lighting, and the bottom is directly changed to a boiler-type pipe heating radiator for temperature control to keep the overall temperature in the greenhouse above 22 degrees.
After just one planting period, there was a significant increase in yield.
The original yield of soybeans per acre was 50 kilograms. After the new greenhouse was converted into a flat planting area, the yield increased to 68 kilograms.
It seems that the improvement is limited, but the output is actually higher than before the big collision. In addition, the artificial environment with nighttime supplementary light has shortened the harvest cycle by 15% compared with before the big collision, which is already quite impressive.
Fengyu Products also sent people to check it from time to time, and they were very happy when the results came out. However, when contacted again, they suggested that they still want to change it to magic insulation.
"Teacher Olan, the price of food is very limited. The cost of burning boilers for agricultural products is still too high. Even if the initial investment for using magic is higher, as long as it doesn't break, we can keep using it."
"I didn't think enough about it."
Olan admitted his mistake, took out the magic array design draft that was gathering dust in the bookcase, and started working on it again.
At this time, people from the Ministry of Agriculture also came, saying they would help promote technology.
The students were very happy. The Ministry of Agriculture took action to explain that their results should be implemented nationwide. Regardless of whether they can become powerful magicians in the future, this is something they can brag about for a lifetime.
After all, Olan was an adult, so he still told Fengyu Products about sponsoring the experiment.
It doesn't matter. Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture went back and worked around for a while and proposed two compensation plans for Fengyu Products.
One is medal plus tax.
There is no such tax as agricultural tax in the kingdom, but it is for agricultural land. Agricultural enterprises have to report land tax for office buildings, and Fengyu Products and logistics departments have to pay road maintenance tax. The total amount is not large, but it is there.
This plan is that the person who gave the idea to sponsor the project and the business owner will each be issued a third-class Phoenix Medal, and then the existing tax will be tax-free for 99 years. For example, their total tax amount last year was 6,200, then the tax will be reduced by this amount every year in the future. If there is more, if there is less, it can be accumulated to the next year.
In terms of money alone, it is a profit, because the total cost of Fengyu Products' support projects is less than 100,000.
More importantly, it means encouraging private enterprises to promote technological development.
The other plan has no medals and is purely about money, allowing Fengyu Products and the college project team to jointly establish a technical operation company, which will specialize in all aspects of the new magic glass greenhouse.
The franchise is only for three years, but it’s not like you can’t continue to do it after the franchise is cancelled, but the money you make will definitely be much less.
Fengyu Products operates Xiaoqiang Ranch. This agricultural enterprise has a history of more than ten years, and it is not a newbie.
The franchise seems wonderful, but what we are doing now is agricultural transformation. This project is no longer necessary to think about outside the country. Nowadays, human life outside is not as good as that of camels and beasts. It is impossible for anyone to spend a lot of money to build a magic glass greenhouse, so the market is only within the country.
There is sugar water in the country that can guarantee the normal survival of everyone and is sold at a low price. The importance of food will not increase indefinitely. Even if the asking price is high, no one will want it. If the asking price is lower, whether you can earn 200,000 yuan in three years is a question.
The greenhouse construction contractor, glass provider, steel structure manufacturer, and magic module manufacturer all have to share the money. The scale of their own logistics team is probably not enough to cope with it, and the profit they can make is actually very limited.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that business owners with abundant products still want rare medals.
In short, after the Ministry of Agriculture proposed the plan, Fengyu Products quickly chose the first solution. Under this plan, the credit of the Olan team will be paid by the magic module manufacturer to buy the drawings and provide a certain percentage and years of sales commission. .
The production of the magic module was directly handed over to Pang Xun to avoid crowding out the production capacity of the Manufacturing Bureau and the Redstone Magic Equipment Factory.
