The development speed of industry is developing rapidly.
Gao Jianwu just breathed a sigh of relief when the brigade commander came to his door.
"Boy Gao, there are so many people in this base area that many places have difficulty eating. They are hungry half the year and full half the year. Is there anything you can think of in this area?" said the brigade commander.
"Brigadier, I..." Gao Jianwu was a little dumbfounded when he heard this. This problem was so big that he couldn't move.
In times of war and chaos, food is the most important, even if the base area is trying every possible means to ensure food production. However, due to various reasons such as farming technology and irrigation in this era, the grain yield per mu has not increased much.
"Don't worry about this or that. If you can make industry prosperous, you should also think of ways to deal with agriculture. As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people. If you don't eat for a day, you will starve. If this problem is not solved, everything will be in vain." The brigade commander was still as strong as ever, as if he was sure Gao Jianwu had a solution.
"Brigade Commander, let me think about it first." Gao Jianwu said helplessly. The Brigadier's actions were also out of public interest. Now that so many people are hungry, they must be solved.
"Think about it carefully. I'll be here waiting for you to come up with a solution before leaving." The Grand Brigade Commander adheres to the style of doing things that must be done, which means not letting go until the goal is achieved.
"Brigadier, if you want to have a meal, just do it. Why do you have to speak so openly?" Gao Jianwu said with a wry smile.
"Haha, I think your kid is about to go to heaven now. Am I trying to get rid of you? I'm trying to give you more motivation to solve the problem. Let's see how long your allowance can last." The brigadier laughed loudly. .
There is no official reception now. According to the rules defined by Gao Jianwu and others, relatives and friends have to use their own allowance to treat guests to dinner, or the visitors must bring their own food to accompany them.
When the brigade commander came to Gao Jianwu, he would certainly not bring food with him.
The conditions in the base area are difficult and everyone is the same, so we usually do things neatly and try to save time.
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Solving the food problem is too big a proposition. Gao Jianwu recalled that in the original time and space, he had been groping for decades. It was not until the advent of hybrid rice and joint production contracting that the two swords came together to completely solve the problem.
Neither of these conditions are met now.
It’s difficult, it’s really difficult.
Gao Jianwu recalled carefully, while also using his brain to start working on a truly feasible solution.
First of all, there is no need to delay in terms of technology, and research work on hybrid rice should be carried out immediately. The key problem in this work is that Gao Jianwu does not know the technical details, and the controllability is poor. It takes a certain amount of luck to hybridize good varieties.
Grandpa Yuan has been doing this all his life, which shows that this matter is still very difficult.
But Gao Jianwu also has advantages, that is, the principles are very clear and the general research direction is also very clear, so Gao Jianwu feels that this area should be much faster than the original exploration of historical time and space.
Because Gao Jianwu felt that he could collect all the rice varieties currently available in Asia, and then conduct experimental screening in a place like the Nanhai base area where three crops can be harvested a year.
Moreover, he can provide sufficient human and material resources and set up thousands of acres of land for experimental fields, so that hundreds of combinations can be tested in each season's experiments.
An experiment of this scale will definitely greatly facilitate the selection of excellent hybrid seeds.
This is a technical idea.
In addition, the current indigenous methods that can increase production cannot be discarded. High-yield sources should be searched for in every part of the base area, combined with the use of farmyard manure and chemical fertilizers and irrigation projects.
This aspect involves a lot of content. Gao Jianwu first drew up an outline and prepared to convene professionals according to this outline for in-depth discussion and research.
The last aspect is to increase the enthusiasm for production. Those who live in this area should be relatively good now. However, considering that the current farming technology is low and backward, it is necessary to send a large number of technical personnel to go deep into the fields to work with the farmer brothers to find ways to use it. Some scientific planting methods.
The problem is that the current education penetration rate is too low. There are not so many farmers in the base area.
Professional planting technical personnel to support.
Gao Jianwu thought hard for a while about how to solve this problem. I found that we still have to start with education. It turns out that the several colleges and universities that I established for industrial development basically did not involve agriculture.
Now, of course, there is no way to implement the dissemination of agricultural technology along the lines of university construction.
Gao Jianwu thought of the night school model of the original time and space.
It is planned to select a group of agricultural experts to form a teaching team based on the current technical conditions. First, a part of the backbone will be selected from each county to conduct intensive training in agricultural technology. After the technical personnel in these counties have learned the technology, they will then return to the county to open night schools. We will train technical personnel at the rural and rural levels again.
In this case, the first thing to solve is the problem of practical technical training materials. It is impossible for Gao Jianwu to ask technical experts to start from basic principles. Instead, the focus is on practicality and simplicity.
Thinking of this, Gao Jianwu listed the compilation of agricultural technology training materials as a very important task.
Then starting from the types of grains, we listed wheat, rice, corn, millet, sorghum, sweet potatoes, soybeans, potatoes, beans, peas and other bulk grains as the types that require practical technical training in the first phase, and made a list.
From the aspects of seed selection, seedling cultivation, field operations, top dressing, irrigation, etc., how to operate in detail, the contents of practical technologies are listed.
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The Brigadier's words made Gao Jianwu think hard for many days to figure out this matter.
"Jianwu, my trip was really not in vain. After reading these measures and plans of yours, I feel that there is really hope to solve the food problem. You have really worked hard these days.
If your plan produces results, thousands of people will thank you, and you may be worshiped as a Buddha for thousands of families. "
The brigade commander looked at Gao Jianwu, who had dark circles under his eyes, and opened the handwritten notes on how to solve agricultural problems written by Gao Jianwu. The more he read, the more surprised he became.
Because Gao Jianwu didn't play any tricks in this plan. From scientific research projects on hybrid rice to technology dissemination channels in agricultural art schools, each item lists the problems to be solved in detail.
Although there is still a lot of work to be done next, with this idea in mind, the Brigadier seems to see the day when everyone can have a full stomach.
Because Gao Jianwu's definition of successful hybrid rice breeding is a yield of 500 kilograms per mu! What is the concept? The current rice yield per mu is around 200 kilograms under normal annual conditions. Gao Jianwu would have more than doubled it!
Although I don’t know where Gao Jianwu got such data, judging from his past behavior, Gao Jianwu has never told lies on these major issues.
"Brigadier, that's not possible, absolutely not! There is no need for me to participate in the follow-up of this matter. I am only at this level. I have proposed an idea for this plan. You have to find leaders and experts to improve it. Just don't sign it for me." Gao Jianwu was startled and hurriedly excused himself.
Wan Jia Sheng Buddha, just kidding, this hat is too big, Gao Jianwu can't bear it.
"Okay, don't be afraid of this or that. I was just joking with you. We who are doing revolutionary work are not in the mood to talk about this. Speaking of which, there are so many things to do with your plan.
The outline alone took more than 10 pages. The next set of work will probably be quite a lot. I will submit this plan later. As the person who proposed the idea, you can't just let it go. It's up to you to check and guide what to do next. "The Grand Brigadier waved his hand.
"Time is tight and the task is heavy. I won't talk nonsense here. I have to go back quickly to thoroughly understand your plan and formulate the materials to report. If we want to do this, we must do it in a big way. Solving the food problem in the entire base is not a small problem. . I believe that the leaders are also very concerned about this issue."
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What the Grand Brigadier said soon came true. When he handed over the report, it really attracted great attention, and this matter even became the first priority in the base area.
Hybrid rice research is a good decision, leaders photographed
Banchai mobilized no less than 50 agricultural experts from the base area for special research, and selected 5,000 acres of good paddy fields in the Nanhai base area for research. The collection of rice varieties began immediately. From this year onwards, at least hundreds of hybrid combinations will be tested. The initial stage will definitely be We cannot use 5,000 acres for hybridization because the dominant varieties have not yet been selected for breeding. At most, one acre of paddy field for each hybrid rice is enough.
The remaining paddy fields are used for Gao Jianwu's experiments on increasing the yield of existing varieties. Experts are now refining and testing a series of practical technologies such as how much fertilizer to use, how much spacing to plant in the field, how much water should be used for irrigation, and how to weed.
These practical techniques will be written into practical training materials in the future. Rice is the bulk of food cultivation. If this area is done well, most of the food problems will be solved.
Next, wheat varieties will also have to carry out special improvement projects based on this idea, but this will have to be done in the north. Five thousand acres of land will also be used to improve wheat hybridization and practical technology for planting existing varieties.
Scientific research is actually easy to implement, and the investment in manpower and material resources is not too much.
The irrigation work mentioned by Gao Jianwu is a bit endless. Now there are basically no basic farmland water conservancy facilities, which means that everything has to be started from scratch. Not to mention anything else, the reservoir alone will take an unknown amount of work right now. What's more, in addition to the reservoir, ditches also need to be built.
This matter also involves a series of issues related to hydropower generation. Gao Jianwu wants to push these things out, but it is impossible now, because no one knows better than him how these will evolve and develop in the future. If the design is not done now, If so, many things will have to be started from scratch later, which will waste a lot of manpower and material resources.
Due to the current technical conditions and material resources, Gao Jianwu has now put all water conservancy projects on large rivers aside. Focus mainly on the construction of tributary water conservancy projects.
Gao Jianwu proposed the first batch of water conservancy projects, selecting comprehensive utilization projects that focus on flood control, irrigation, urban and rural water supply, and power generation, as well as shipping, and have benefits such as sand retention and siltation reduction as priority development targets.
In this way, water conservancy projects in areas with fertile farmland and densely populated areas are regarded as priority projects, and are selected according to Gao Jianwu's principles, and the construction of water conservancy projects is carried out according to the conditions that the current material resources can afford.
Doing dozens of them a year, and if the land area irrigated can reach millions or tens of millions of acres, it will be tens of millions of acres in a five-year plan. This will not just depend on the weather.
At present, the maximum capacity of self-produced hydropower installed units has begun to reach 50,000 kilowatts, which is not far from the 65,000 kilowatts unit produced in Switzerland in the Manman Reservoir. The conditions for carrying out large-scale water conservancy projects are basically met.
From 500K to 50,000 kilowatts, it is time for the progress of hydropower to come into play. Compared with the current unsolvable pollution problem of thermal power, the sequelae of hydropower stations are much smaller, but the effect is much greater.
Gao Jianwu's suggestion in this regard is to do our best and build wherever suitable places are available.
Every aspect of Gao Jianwu's agricultural construction is a big problem, so even if he is only regarded as a consultant in this work, there are too many problems involved, so after the Grand Brigadier left, this matter It's not the end, it's just the beginning.
More than half of the time was spent on this matter.
People in this era are not as far-sighted as Gao Jianwu, so a suggestion made by Gao Jianwu using the experience of later generations may be commonplace for him, but it may not be so for people of this period, so he has to come up again and again. Ask him about this "general counsel".
Fortunately, Gao Jianwu also knew that this was the most important thing in the world, and he did not feel impatient about it. Instead, he tried his best to provide explanations and suggestions in the way he thought was right.
In the end, an outline of the agricultural development plan for the base area was formed, which was several hundred pages long.
This is because this outline also contains a chapter on practical agricultural extension technologies that have been collected and confirmed to be effective. After this outline is issued by the above, each base area needs to carry out technical training and technology promotion according to these. This outline will be printed and published in The three levels of county and rural areas have been consistent to the end. With the current high enthusiasm for production, many local methods have begun to be obtained.
promotion.
In particular, practical technologies such as farmyard manure composting and fermentation are beneficial to increasing field fertilizer in areas that cannot be covered by chemical fertilizers. A learning-use linkage mechanism has been formed at the county and rural levels, and it is required to be implemented in every household.
Local farming experts have also been selected at different levels this time to drive production locally. Now the military and civilians in the base areas are integrated. When doing these things, the troops stationed in each base area not only select military intellectuals to learn from and lead the local people, but also cultivate some fields themselves according to the above The technology is tested and local adaptability is summarized.
As the initiator of this agricultural promotion activity, Gao Jianwu did not leave this large-scale production activity. He also led his agency staff to plant 2 acres of rice according to the seasons.
Gao Jianwu never thought of solving these problems at once, but according to the current large-scale production method, with the cooperation of the weather this year, grain growth should be a high probability problem, but he does not know how much.
The real and complete solution will depend on the results of the two research teams on hybrid rice and hybrid wheat. It just needs to select the dominant varieties and promote them on a large scale. This matter cannot be solved overnight. According to Gao Jianwu's plan, the five-year plan can It would be very ideal to develop hybrid grain varieties that can be promoted on a large scale.
