Chapter 27 Farm Progress
Chapter 27 Farm Progress
Walking into the office building of Nanhu Farm.
"Lao Lu, what's the current situation on the farm?"
Lv Weibin, who was planning the packaging workshop, turned around and saw Jiang Miao, and hurried over: "Boss, I am planning several workshops for the next purchase of equipment and setting up positions."
"Thank you for your hard work." Jiang Miao handed over a bottle of mineral water and reminded him, "Although work is important, you still have to eat on time, otherwise gallbladder polyps can easily develop into gallbladder stones, and then you will have to have your gallbladder removed."
"Uh...thank you for your concern, boss." Lu Weibin didn't expect that the boss would pay so much attention to him.
In fact, he didn't know that Jiang Miao could tell at a glance through the identification panel that Lu Weibin did not eat on time, which led to bile secretion disorder.
"The company cafeteria is only a few minutes away. I go there to eat when the time comes. Health is the capital of revolution. If the body is broken, what is the use of making more money?"
Lu Weibin nodded quickly: "Boss, this is a very insightful suggestion. I will definitely eat on time in the future."
"Let's get back to business. The Human Resources Department has already found a deputy and an assistant for you. They are currently doing some training and will probably be here in two or three days."
"I understand. Now I can finally breathe a sigh of relief." Lu Weibin exhaled a breath of air.
The group arrived at the farm.
At present, workers are already busy in the greenhouse of the farm.
Lv Weibin picked up the intercom and called agricultural technician Zhou Xinwang: "Awang, come over here."
"Hiss...Got it!"
After a while, a young man wearing glasses and with bronze skin walked towards the crowd.
"Boss, Manager Lu."
"Awang, how are the strawberry seedlings?" Jiang Miao asked himself.
Zhou Xinwang raised his glasses and said, "800 jasmine strawberries have been planted, and 500 have sprouted; 600 cheese strawberries have been planted, and 400 have sprouted; 500 vanilla strawberries have been planted, and 500 have sprouted."
“Are there enough people?”
Zhou Xinwang shook his head. "It's enough for now, but as the first batch of planted seedlings enter the growth period, we can start breeding runner seedlings. The three ordinary employees on the farm are not enough. I estimate that before the strawberries enter the peak fruit-bearing period, at least five more ordinary employees will be needed."
Jiang Miao nodded: "Okay, I'll ask the Human Resources Department to recruit as soon as possible."
He is quite concerned about Nanhu Farm. After all, the eel industry will soon face market saturation and its prosperity will only last for one or two years at most.
When the eel industry enters a low-profit phase, it will be necessary to find new sources of revenue. Otherwise, the company will face increasing financial pressure to maintain so many employees.
The strawberry industry is one of the new sources of revenue that Jiang Miao has prepared for the company.
Only by diversifying business operations can a company's ability to resist risks be enhanced.
Of course, the strawberry industry alone is clearly not enough.
Jiang Miao has been thinking about a new technical direction recently.
That is the transgenic grafting technology.
The so-called transgenic grafting technology is to first use transgenic technology to cultivate a grafting stake that can graft two varieties, and then use one variety as the rootstock and the other variety as the scion, and connect them with the grafting stake in the middle.
Perhaps many people will find it strange that if you are going to graft, why go to the trouble of making a middle grafting stake?
The reason is that ordinary grafting has a prerequisite, that is, the closer the relationship between the two grafted parties, the higher the survival rate.
For example, lychee and longan, although they belong to the same Sapindaceae family, Sapindaceae genus, Sapindaceae subfamily, they need to be further divided into the genus Litchi and the genus Longan.
Only in recent years have scientific research institutions in Yangcheng successfully achieved the grafting of lychees and longans, which was extremely difficult.
Jiang Miao plans to use genetic modification technology to create a grafting stake that can safely graft two varieties of plants, thereby achieving rapid grafting and cross-genus grafting.
As long as this technology can be realized, its value will be enormous. And the two varieties he is interested in can be seamlessly connected.
As for how to realize the development of genetically modified grafted piles, we first need to determine the two varieties that need to be grafted, and then artificially adjust the genes suitable for both grafted parties based on the genetic maps of the two varieties.
Perhaps for other researchers, this technology is simply a fantasy.
Because humans currently don’t even fully understand their own genes, let alone the genes of other organisms.
In order to achieve cross-genus grafting between two varieties, the genetic maps of the two varieties must be thoroughly understood. Even national scientific research institutions find it difficult to support the financial expenditure of such a scientific research project.
The so-called human genome blueprint project was the result of the concerted efforts of various countries to barely produce a barely acceptable human genome blueprint, which has not yet analyzed the full functions of human genes.
Jiang Miao can use the identification panel to analyze the entire genetic map of each organism at once.
Conducting genetic modification experiments can also save a lot of time. There is no need for long-term observation and comparative experiments to obtain results on various situations after genetic modification.
Therefore, Jiang Miao's seemingly crazy project actually has the possibility of success.
The target of his research was the genera Kapok and Durio, both of which belong to the Bombax family.
The reason for choosing these two varieties.
On the one hand, it is to make money. After all, the price of durian is high enough, so it is convenient to invest and can quickly recover the money.
On the other hand, it is because the Lingnan region is one of the origins of kapok, and there are a large number of kapok trees in various parts of Lingnan, which makes it convenient to quickly expand the scale of planting.
As long as durian can be successfully grafted onto kapok, and by taking advantage of the kapok's ability to adapt to the Lingnan climate, durian can be made to bloom and bear fruit in the Lingnan region.
What's more, Jiang Miao can also select some high-altitude durian varieties with better cold resistance.
Therefore, Jiang Miao plans to invest 5000 million next year to build a genetically modified food breeding laboratory.
This laboratory requires a lot of professional equipment, such as PCR instrument, electrophoresis instrument, centrifuge, gel imaging system, nucleic acid protein analyzer, etc.
Originally, Jiang Miao had no need for testing equipment such as gel imaging systems and nucleic acid protein analyzers. However, in order to avoid attracting attention and make the scientific research results appear more reasonably, these testing equipment were indispensable.
In addition, the laboratory also needs a clean bench or something like that.
All of these require a lot of money.
However, Jiang Miao only needs to pay the money, and leave the professional matters to professional contracting companies.
Fifty million is really nothing for the current Hailufeng Company, not to mention that this kind of investment can effectively and reasonably lower the net profit and reduce tax expenditure.
In addition, Lin Shuya’s edible fungus laboratory also needs to be tendered.
He plans to put the two laboratories up for public bidding next year. Since both are biological laboratories, the equipment in both are relatively common.
However, there are certain uncontrollable factors in genetically modified fungi, so Jiang Miao would definitely not let Lin Shuya do the research. If some super bacteria were discovered, it would be the end of them.
When conducting plant genetic modification experiments, the experimental products can also be destroyed by physical means.
As for experimental products such as fungi and bacteria, even the top biological laboratories cannot guarantee that they can be eliminated 100%.
If even a little bit remains, it may lead to a disaster.
Even with the identification panel, Jiang Miao is still full of awe for the field of microorganisms, because microorganisms reproduce too quickly, are highly adaptable, and have difficult-to-control mutation characteristics. Once a problem occurs, it is very likely to cause catastrophic consequences.
When Lin Shuya went to study for a doctorate, he advised her not to choose the direction of medicinal fungi. In fact, he subconsciously respected microorganisms in his heart.
(End of this chapter)