At a post-drought agricultural sustainable development forum held on May 20 by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture, You Yu concluded this way:
"Building smart greenhouses for soilless cultivation will be the most powerful guarantee for our home growers!"
Secretary He took the time to listen to the on-site report of the forum and specially called You Yu to the office: "Does your group want to promote smart greenhouses throughout the province?"
You Yu replied respectfully: "Leader, Wandou Group has made three five-year plans for smart agriculture. In the first five years, Jia City will be the base camp! We want to use it for fifteen years or even longer. accomplish the goal.
What makes us feel more confident is that the area of greenhouses to be built by our group in the first half of the year has reached more than 6,000 acres among vegetable farmers in nine towns in Jiang County alone. By June next year at the latest, the planning of 10,000 acres of smart greenhouses in Jiang County should be completed! "
Ten thousand acres?
Secretary He couldn't help but want to swallow his saliva. If the current vegetable varieties in Jiang County are planted, without restrictions on crop rotation and seasons, their output value cannot be underestimated!
Don’t say it yet!
It is not impossible for the four districts and six counties of Jia City to build a greenhouse of 100,000 acres within five years!
Continue to copy it city by city, fifteen years later.
Seeing the confident light shining in the little girl's eyes, Secretary He just wanted to work in Sichuan Province for two more terms, and he really wanted to see the scene she described.
After pondering for a long time: "Comrade Xiao You, your group's third five-year plan is still very grand! However, you can't just use fertile land to grow fruits and vegetables with high economic value. You must also ensure that there is enough arable land to grow food!"
In a year when grain and oil production is reduced in more than ten provinces across the country, Tianfu Granary needs to play its important role.
You Yu agreed with this, and at the same time gave Secretary He a new idea: "Since high technology can be moved to rural areas, why can't agriculture be moved to cities?
Urban agriculture is also a direction worth studying, including hydroponic systems, solar greenhouses and vertical farms, which have low demand for natural resources.
Using closed-loop hydroponic irrigation systems, vertical crop columns, LED lights, and growing in year-round solar greenhouses, you can achieve high yields in a limited space on high-rise rooftops, abandoned parking lots, or even just some shipping containers.
Urban agriculture can not only receive economic returns from agricultural products, but can also cooperate with schools around the city and combine it with experiential courses on campus to develop some sustainable development courses. "
"Huh? This is really possible!" Secretary He slammed the table with joy. As long as three or five urban farms are successfully hatched, they can be copied indefinitely.
“The growth cycle of three-dimensional hydroponics for vegetables such as lettuce, cherry radish, spinach, water spinach, cress, and Shanghai greens only takes one month!
Recycling, as long as it is managed properly, a greenhouse can harvest at least twelve batches of pollution-free vegetables a year!
In as little as half a year, or as little as more than a year, the cost of building a greenhouse can be recovered.
There is a trend in our food system right now where farms and consumers are moving further and further apart.
Most consumers have no idea how or where the vegetables they eat every day are grown.
In urban agriculture, when consumers are closer to their farms, they have the opportunity to become more involved in the process of growing their food.
If promoted properly, consumers are more likely to favor pollution-free agricultural products labeled as "local".
As more and more consumers pay more attention to the vegetables and fruits they need every day, urban agriculture will become more valuable. "
"Oh! Well said! Well said!" Secretary He was also convinced and quickly called the director of the Department of Agriculture and others to listen to Comrade Xiao You's urban agricultural business experience.
After getting the business experience, he also expressed his willingness to help the Wandou Group organize an urban farm incubation class lecture in CD City a month later.
At that time, well-known agricultural enterprises in the province, enterprises that have the conditions to grow and are interested in urban agriculture will be invited to participate.
You Yu, of course You Yu can’t wait to do it!
The provincial government came forward to help with promotion and publicity, but if it failed to attract customers, it could only be blamed on its own incompetence!
After staying in Chengdu for three days, I returned to Jiashi after a round of reporting.
Secretary Wang and others took You Yu for another day of meetings.
After coming back from the city, I have to do another round in Jiang County.
For the three five-year plans of Wandou Group, provincial, municipal, and county-level governments and relevant agricultural departments have given great attention and support.
While You Yu's heart was burning, he also felt an unprecedented urgency.
Of course, existing greenhouse orders must be digested quickly!
After returning to the company, General Manager You put forward efficiency requirements for accelerating the construction of greenhouses at an intelligent equipment engineering technology research center in Beijing.
During the video conference, she emphasized this: "Time is money! For the vegetable farmers who have suffered from drought and floods, if they build their greenhouses one month earlier, they can put into production one day earlier. They cannot afford to delay!"
"Mr. You, 90% of our engineering team is currently constructing more than 3 million square meters of smart greenhouses in South China. Last month, we invited several large domestic state-owned enterprise construction units to bid! We will try to sign a contract with your company before the Spring Festival next year. Installation completed for all customers!”
"Well, your task is still very arduous. It is possible that orders from Sichuan Province will surge in the second half of the year!"
"Hahaha, then we will just wait for the good news from Mr. You!"
The person in charge of the Intelligent Equipment Engineering Technology Research Center was so happy that his teeth were exposed at the other end of the video.
Back then, they just wanted to use low prices and services to win the largest strawberry farm in Asia from a Dutch company and open up the market for domestic smart greenhouses!
Unexpectedly, from the beginning of this project, there was no time to stop.
Although, after several rounds of price negotiations, the profit margin has indeed been severely squeezed!
I can’t stand it, the order volume is huge now!
With Wandou Group acting as an intermediary, they neither need to develop customers themselves nor worry about customers' payment collection and collection issues.
Just stay down-to-earth, have peace of mind, and complete the project while maintaining quality and quantity!
Not only do they feel at ease, but the majority of family growers also feel that signing an agreement with the Pea Group is reliable.
Especially for growers in the province, once there is a technical failure in the smart greenhouse, they can directly go to the Pea Group. They cannot afford to go to Beijing to find trouble with the Intelligent Equipment Engineering Technology Research Center.
Besides, after the smart greenhouse is repaired, fruit and vegetable companies will give priority to greenhouse growers to cooperate with an endless stream of high-quality seeds and later fruit and vegetable sales.
All three parties are satisfied and the cooperation is win-win!
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