In Puxing Township, E City, next door to Jiang County, the cumulative precipitation in 36 hours reached 397 millimeters, setting a new high in the new high school.
Shuangfu Village below Puxing Township is low-lying. The whole village has nearly 1,000 acres of vegetable greenhouses and is completely immersed in the ocean.
Some greenhouses collapsed completely, and some beams and columns were broken.
Much of the soil in the shed has been washed away, and tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, bitter gourds and other vegetables that have been uprooted by heavy rains have basically lost their harvest.
If a badly damaged greenhouse like this is rebuilt, the cost of building a new one will be nearly twice as high.
In Yougoubian Village, 25 kilometers away from Puxing Township, the greenhouses were relatively lightly damaged.
Some vegetable farmers who did not buy the second-generation seeds from the Pea Group will also have their income greatly affected this year.
Everyone frowned: "Even if we drain the water in the greenhouse and dry the ground now, I don't know what else to plant at this time."
Spring is not spring, autumn is not autumn!
No matter what vegetables you plant, it’s not in season!
This is really a devastating blow!
"With this heavy rain, the vegetable industry that Jiang County has worked hard to develop for more than ten years has been completely destroyed!" County Magistrate Lu Qing said sadly when giving a work report in the city.
"Half of the vegetable greenhouses in the county collapsed, and most of the remaining half had broken spines."
In the face of such a severe natural disaster, open-air and ordinary greenhouse vegetable farmers are basically defenseless.
Insurance companies do not have vegetable insurance, and vegetable farmers have no concept of purchasing insurance.
"If the relevant government departments do not increase subsidies, it will be difficult for half of the vegetable farmers in Jiang County to get back on their feet." Lu Zhiping made the final conclusion.
Secretary Wang of the municipal party committee had already turned red, drank half a cup of strong tea, and sighed:
“Not just in Jiang County, but in the city’s agriculture, 99% of it is distributed planting with extensive management, with stragglers working alone to enter the market. It lacks scale and unified organization, and cannot form an industry. Not only is the economic benefit not obvious, When encountering natural disasters, we are helpless to fight back.”
The director of the Municipal Agriculture Bureau saw that everyone was silent and the atmosphere was depressed for a while. He took a sip of tea to break the deadlock:
"When it comes to industrialized planting of agricultural products, Jiang County's Pea Group must take the lead! I wonder how their group responded to this natural disaster?"
The leadership team of Wandou Group is in hot discussion, and the employees are patting their chests and saying they are lucky.
"It's really good that some of our early-maturing varieties mature early. Tomatoes and baby pumpkins have been sold for at least two months. Those people in other counties who grow ordinary tomatoes and sea peppers are doing evil!"
"Not only are we grateful for the early-maturing seeds, but we are also grateful for the cold storage our group built! Our wise boss allowed us to fill up the cold storage three days in advance, so we can sell it for at least two to three months!"
"Hey, when we were repairing it, I thought that the cold storage area was too big after expanding from 2,000 tons to 4,000 tons. Now it seems that 4,000 tons is not enough!"
"I feel sad that there are still those honeydew melons that will be ripe in less than half a month. Now they are seven-year-old. How can I fix them?"
How to fix it? Can we eat honeydew melons grown on a thousand acres, eight ripe, and soaked in rain water for several days?
Eat, it must be edible!
However, the shelf life is relatively short, and it will rot easily if not eaten within a week.
Moreover, honeydew melons grown in such a high temperature and drought environment are extremely sweet even when they are seven years old, but the flesh of the melon is not as soft and glutinous as before, and it no longer has the silky texture of jelly.
Ten villagers in Dongfeng Village raised funds to build a 50,000-square-meter smart greenhouse. You can imagine their mood when they looked at the completed greenhouse.
One of the ten villagers said: "Our smart greenhouse is completely unaffected by external heavy rains and droughts. Even in such a heavy rainstorm, we can't even get water in!"
Villager No. 2: "We just have to wait until next month to install the irrigation system and the pipes for soilless cultivation substrate, and then we can plant another season of honeydew melons."
The third villager: "Calculate the time, it will be on the market around the time of the Chinese New Year. Hehehe, you don't have to think about it to know that the selling price cannot be bad!"
Song Yongchang is also extremely grateful that he listened to the advice at that time, and also admires that he borrowed money to build a greenhouse despite huge pressure.
Villagers in Dongfeng Village who have not followed Song Yongchang's footsteps, especially those who used plastic greenhouses to grow honeydew melons this year, are now pulling the honeydews out of the sand one by one and transporting them home.
A honeydew melon seed costs five yuan, and it takes several months of hard work to grow it. The cost of planting per acre of land is not less than eight to nine thousand yuan.
Fortunately, they signed an underwriting contract with a fruit and vegetable company.
The fruit and vegetable company has informed everyone that it can also purchase soaked honeydew melons at a price of 10 yuan per pound!
There is a fruit and vegetable company to help everyone, so no one panics at all!
A new variety of honeydew melon weighs two kilograms more than before, and costs two yuan more per kilogram. The female goddess of wealth is not only the god of wealth, but also a bodhisattva who saves people in need.
The female Bodhisattva made a painful decision:
Previously, I had planned to sell the intermediate second-generation honeydew melons at a wholesale price of thirty yuan per pound, and I wanted to give customers a 50% discount.
Samples of honeydew melons were also delivered to all customers early, and the reasons for the discounts and shelf life were also explained.
After eating these honeydew melon samples, half of the regular customers said they could accept it!
Even if it has been soaked in rain, even if it is only a seven-year-old honeydew melon, they still want it!
At the same time, the words in red and bold font "Been soaked in heavy rain for 36 hours, 50% off ice cream and honeydew!" were also put on sale simultaneously on the official website mall, Tmall flagship store, and all directly operated stores.
With a 50% discount, you can get ice cream and honeydew melon for 15 yuan a pound. How delicious must it be?
Moreover, are there any such honest sellers nowadays?
As long as the buyer doesn't tell him, who would know that the seven-year-old honeydew melon has been soaked in rainwater?
The online customer service and the clerks at all directly-operated stores have repeatedly warned all buyers of honeydew melons to eat the honeydew melons within 24 hours as much as possible.
Because honeydew melon seeds are not mature enough, farmers who want to save seeds are advised to be cautious.
It's so real that many members and customers are really moved.
50% of the honeydew melons were consumed by catering channels, and were only sold in the official website mall and all direct stores until the 31st of this month.
In just a few days, the inventory loss was as high as 30%, and the gross profit from 1,000 acres of honeydew melons was only 2.5 million.
Protecting the interests of growers, Pea Group worked hard for more than a week and made a profit!
Heavy rainstorms can also easily bring landslides and mudslides.
Cooperating mountain growers have lost about 40% of their asparagus, and the sweet potatoes that were buried in the soil have to be dug out.
What surprised You Yu was the 300 acres of red-heart kiwi fruit orchard in Houerling. (End of chapter)
