Chapter 178: The fragrance of rice flowers speaks of a good harvest

After exploring the route from Hongcao Town.

Zhang Dashan called several clansmen who worked at Hailufeng Company and, under their guidance, they came to Nanhu Village in Magong Town.

Inside the office area of the Agricultural Planting Division.

Zhang Dashan found the Agricultural Technology Office, which was responsible for agricultural technical guidance, and explained his purpose to the office.

After listening to this, Zhu Xiaojie, the head of the Agricultural Technology Office, smiled and said, "Brother, do you want to lead the Shizhou Village Cooperative to use the three-season plan? But are you worried about the technology and the land's ability to bear it?"

"Yes! We have never planted like this before, and we are worried that the farmland won't be able to bear it." Zhang Dashan nodded.

Zhu Xiaojie stood up and said, "Don't worry, as long as you follow our technical guidance, not only will the farmland not become barren, but it will become more and more fertile."

He opened the iron cabinet behind him and took out a detailed three-season planting plan for the Lingnan region.

Then he carefully answered various questions for the crowd.

After more than an hour of explanation, Zhang Dashan and others finally understood the situation and put their minds at ease.

They decided to transform the 300 acres of soybean fields into three-season fields. After all, the terrain of these soybean fields is relatively high, and it was difficult to use water as rice fields. They are also basic farmland and cannot be converted into vegetable fields or orchards at will.

Now it has been changed to a three-season field, which can harvest one season of soybeans, one season of silage corn and soybeans, and one season of wheat, soybeans and hay in a year. Based on the current market price, the annual revenue per mu is 6000 yuan, and the gross profit is about 4000 yuan.

Although it’s still not very profitable.

But at least it makes more money than simply growing rice.

Even if the prices of soybeans and grain crops drop in the future, as long as the prices do not fall in half, there will still be a profit of about 2000 yuan per mu per year.

Moreover, this three-season planting plan has a great advantage, which is that it can cultivate soil fertility. If rotation is carried out every three years, converting grain fields into vegetable fields and vegetable fields into grain fields, the soil fertility balance can be maintained for a long time, thereby reducing the use of fertilizers.

Zhang Dashan and his team prepared to go back for a meeting to discuss the implementation of the three-season plan with the members.

After they had lunch in Magong Town and returned to Shizhou Village, the 300 acres of soybeans under their Shizhou Agricultural Cooperative had been harvested, and they collected a total of 391860 yuan in Hailufeng commercial bills.

In the afternoon, the sun was scorching outside.

High temperature and high humidity make people feel very uncomfortable.

Inside the small office building of Shizhou Village Agricultural Cooperative.

Zhang Dashan laid out his plan in full.

After hearing his ideas, everyone started discussing among themselves.

One of the more rebellious young men was the first to stand up and said, "President, our village only has more than a thousand acres of land. We might as well convert it into rice-based fish ponds. Now Egyptian fish is more profitable."

"Bullshit! The land in Beilong is more than one meter higher than the nearest river surface. How can we change it? Or you pay for an excavator?" Another old man tapped his pipe.

"Uh..." The prickly young man was speechless when he heard about paying money.

Old Huang stood up and expressed his opinion: "The president's plan is still not enough. I think the three-season field is too little."

"Still less?"

"You don't want to touch the vegetable garden, do you?"

Old Huang said bluntly: "If we don't move the vegetable fields, how can we move the rice fields?"

"Old Huang, what do you think?"

"Our village has a population of about 1600 people, and the total cultivated land in the village is 1500 mu, of which 1000 mu is basic farmland, 400 mu is vegetable land, and 100 mu is fish pond. Am I right?"

Zhang Dashan's face was very calm: "Old Huang, if you have any ideas, just say it directly, don't hide them."

“Basic farmland cannot be moved, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be replaced.” Old Huang’s eyes rolled around.

"replace?"

Zhang Fan responded: "Old Huang, are you saying that we should turn 300 mu of vegetable land into basic farmland, and then take out 300 mu of rice fields from the basic farmland as fish ponds?"

Old Huang expressed his thoughts: "That's right. As long as the higher-ups guarantee that we have 1000 mu of basic farmland, it doesn't matter whether these basic farmlands are used to grow rice."

The others also suddenly realized it at this time.

Compared with growing vegetables, they do prefer raising fish. After all, the profit from growing vegetables is not high, and it is too labor-intensive.

The registered population of their village is 1600, but in reality, there are only about 700 to 800 permanent residents, most of whom are middle-aged and elderly.

Much of the high-intensity labor involved in growing vegetables cannot be replaced by mechanized equipment. For example, weeding, transplanting, watering, spraying pesticides, harvesting, and selling all involve manpower expenditures.

Get up early and work late every day.

The income is not necessarily that good.

The labor intensity of fish farming is relatively low, and there is plenty of free time every day to manage the farmland.

In the absence of too many young laborers, if Shizhou Agricultural Cooperative wants to develop, it must change its previous model and reduce the number of non-mechanized vegetable varieties as much as possible.

The arable land replacement proposed by Lao Huang is to break the previous situation where rice fields can only be used to grow rice and not cash crops.

You know, the lotus root planting industry in Meilong Town is also good. Unfortunately, the proportion of paddy fields in their Shizhou farmland is relatively low, and they are basically all basic farmland within the red line, so there is no way to grow cash crops.

"I agree."

"Yes, the rice fields that have been converted into fish ponds can be used to grow lotus roots and breed Egyptian fish. Each household can receive tens of thousands of yuan."

"Yes! I think this is a good idea."

Seeing that everyone agreed, Zhang Dashan's eyes flashed with pride: "Okay, since everyone agrees, I will arrange it."

Coming to a blackboard, which was one of the facilities left over from the abandoned primary school, Zhang Dashan quickly drew the outline of Shizhou Village with chalk, and then carefully marked out the dry land, paddy fields, fish ponds, rivers, village roads and residential areas on it.

"All the rice fields near the south depression were converted into lotus root fish ponds. Together with the fish ponds that were already nearby, the total area is 400 mu. The excavated soil was all filled into the nearby rice fields. These rice fields were converted into three-season fields, a total of 1000 mu; and 100 mu of vegetable fields."

"Uncle, aren't you going to leave a vegetable garden?" A middle-aged man from the Zhang family seemed a little puzzled.

"Why are you so stupid?" Zhang Dashan explained, "How did we use our basic farmland in the past? We planted vegetables in winter!"

“That’s right…” The man scratched his eyebrows embarrassedly.

Zhang Dashan drew several arrangements on the blackboard, including:
Spring soybeans - summer soybeans + (green peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers) - winter soybeans + winter wheat.

Spring soybeans—summer soybeans + summer corn—winter soybeans + (green peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers).

The 100 acres of vegetable land are used as seedling nursery and for self-use.

In other words, Shizhou Village will no longer grow rice in the future.

After all, soybeans, corn, and wheat are also food crops. As long as the grain planting scale is maintained at 1000 acres each year, it will not cross the line.

Then Zhang Dashan looked at everyone and said, "In order to develop the economy, I have another plan, which is to buy a batch of sprinkler pipes to reduce the problem of watering in the future. This includes the money for digging fish ponds. All of this money will come from the profit from selling soybeans this year. These investments are necessary to make money. If you don't share the dividends for a year, you can buy equipment for the cooperative, which will also be convenient for everyone in the future."

Although some people feel sorry for the dividends, they can only go with the flow in the face of the general trend.

The Shizhou Village Agricultural Cooperative, which was in a state of poverty and was eager to change, took the first step in agricultural structural reform.

And also in the Xincheng fishing village of Meilon Town.

Rice is also being harvested at this time.

Because this year's rice was affected by drought, the harvest time was more than ten days later than in previous years.

After the rice was harvested, the farmland was quickly plowed by the tractor following behind. The turned-over soil buried the rice stubble and crushed rice straw to a depth of nearly 15 centimeters.

These rice fields will be naturally composted for about half a month, and then soybeans will be planted in early September. The soybeans can be harvested at the end of the year, and water can be added to breed Egyptian catfish from January to April next year.

The rice fields before us have been transformed. Not only are they neat and uniform, but they are also surrounded by embankments, forming large fish ponds.

Of course, in order to reasonably arrange the monthly output, the planting cycles of these rice-based fish ponds are staggered for a certain period of time. In order to avoid delaying the farming season, the Agricultural Technology Office of the Agricultural Planting Division of Hailufeng Company specially sent an agricultural technology team to provide technical guidance locally.

This is not a simple guide, but a reasonable selection of more suitable rice varieties according to the season. You should know that some rice varieties are not suitable for growing in winter, and some have a long growth cycle and quality, which all need to be taken into consideration.

The Xincheng Fishing Village Feed Factory, which was put into operation last year, consumes the local supply of 1.4 tons of Egyptian catfish per month.

These Egyptian catfish were split in two.

A portion of it is directly used as raw material for fish meal and fish oil, and then further processed into feed or refined fish oil.

Some of them are taken back to the Egyptian fish breeding base in Magong Town, where they are conditioned to remove the earthy smell and then made into fish products, or sold directly as live Egyptian catfish.

The entire industrial chain has not yet reached its peak, but it has begun to change the economic structure of Meilon Town.

In the past six months, 15 large and small fish and meat processing factories have been opened in Meilon Town.

These fish meat processing factories do not use ordinary Egyptian catfish from fish ponds as raw materials, but directly purchase Egyptian catfish paste from Hailufeng Company or Guotai Food Factory, and then use the fish paste to process it into various fish meat products.

For example, fish floss, fish cakes, cat food and dog food, fish sausages, fish balls, fish eggs, fish skin dumplings, etc.

Of course, consider the issue of industry impact.

In order to prevent small workshops from damaging the reputation of Shantou and Mei fish and meat products, Hailufeng Company and Guotai Food Factory have joined together to establish the Shantou and Mei fish and meat products association, which is specifically responsible for controlling and supervising small businesses that have joined the association.

As for the factories that do not join the association, Hailufeng Company and Cathay Food Factory will simply refuse to supply fish paste.

However, all is not well for these small factories that have joined the association. Hailufeng Company will randomly inspect their products, and if they fail to meet the standards, the company will be warned to make corrections.

Enterprises that fail to rectify the situation will be kicked out of the cooperation list.

It is a necessary means to prevent bad money from driving out good money.

Otherwise, those small factories would overthrow the entire industry in a matter of minutes, and the Egyptian catfish meat products market that Hailufeng Company had worked so hard to operate would be led to collapse.

The Food Safety Bureau of Haifeng County also strongly supports Hailufeng Company because they are also afraid.

You should know that the scale of Egyptian catfish breeding in Meilon Town has reached tens of thousands of acres, and many of them are raised through rice-based fish ponds and lotus root fish ponds, involving the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people.

In addition, as Hailufeng Company requires strict control, the Food Safety Bureau will naturally increase its monitoring efforts to prevent small factories from dragging the entire industry down.

In this environment, although 15 small fish and meat product factories have been added locally, under the dual pressure of Hailufeng Company and the Food Safety Bureau, these small factories can only follow the rules.

In fact, those small factory owners also know the seriousness of the situation.

After all, many of them are locals.

If the Egyptian catfish breeding industry is affected because of their factories, those breeders will probably want to kill, especially those large-scale breeders with dozens of acres of breeding scale, who will definitely mobilize the villagers to cause trouble.

The interests involved are too great.

This is not something that can be settled with a few million or tens of millions, but something worth tens of billions.

The owners of those small factories not only stay in the factories, but also pay to test the products. Fortunately, Jiang Miao has no intention of making money from their product testing. For general testing projects, he charges a premium of about 10% over the comprehensive testing cost.

In fact, a 10% premium is basically equivalent to not making any money for the testing industry.

Hailufeng Company does not want to increase the operating costs of these small factories. After all, it has already made a lot of money from fish paste, and the profits of these small fish and meat product factories are not high.

The best-performing company among them is a pet food company, which has a gross profit of about two to three million yuan per month.

Fang Yi, the head of the feed business unit, has been working in Meilong Town for most of the past six months. He had just dealt with a problem with the fish oil soft capsule production line in the factory. As soon as he sat down, he found that the Shanmei City Fish and Meat Products Association had sent him several membership applications.

He looked at it for a while, frowned, and then called Lin Dadong, the secretary general of the Shanmei Fish and Meat Products Association, to come over.

After half an hour.

Lin Dadong knocked on the door and came in hurriedly.

"manager."

"Dadong, these three companies have applied to join the association, but where are their factories?"

"It hasn't been built yet, but they promised that it won't violate the association's regulations." Lin Dadong quickly explained.

However, Fang Yi disagreed: "No, rules are rules. Let them build the factory and complete relevant preparations and procedures. Otherwise, who knows whether they are really investing or just selling a shell?"

Two months ago, he was cheated when a small factory secretly sold the association's membership to a fish and meat products company from another place, resulting in Hailufeng Company being unable to monitor the company's processing situation.

As a last resort, Hailufeng Company had to expel this member and stop supplying fish paste to that company.

Apparently someone saw the loophole and was ready to play the trick of selling the shell.

But Fang Yi is not afraid of these guys: "Dadong, if someone hints at you, just let him come to me, or go to the boss directly. As long as the boss agrees, I will approve it immediately."

“…” Lin Dadong broke out in a cold sweat.

After a few seconds, Lin Dadong smiled awkwardly and nodded: "Okay, I'll let them build the factory first."

"Well, you go down!"

Looking at Lin Dadong's leaving back, Fang Yi's face suddenly turned gloomy, and then he directly called the head of the Supervision Department and asked them to investigate Lin Dadong.

Then he called Jiang Miao again.

Jiang Miao, who was on the other end of the phone, couldn't help but sneer after listening to Fang Yi's report.

"That's interesting. Being too clever is not a good habit sometimes. Everything on your end should be as usual. Leave this matter to me."

"Okay, boss."

Jiang Miao hung up the phone and made a few calls directly.

Fang Yi also put this matter behind him.

After all, in Shanmei, there are basically no people who can threaten the Hailufeng Company.

This kind of reselling of qualifications is most likely done secretly by small-time characters who are neither up nor down.

After all, people like Li Jianming, whom Jiang Miao had contacted before, knew Jiang Miao's current power and naturally would not be confused about such things. On the contrary, those little devils dared to touch the tiger's whiskers of Hailufeng Company because of their ignorance and fearlessness.

Fang Yi picked up the research and development document again, which was a proposal to develop pet food, because the market research department found that the profit margins of domestic high-end pet dog food were very high.

In recent years, with the improvement of living standards and the increase in the number of people keeping cats and dogs in cities, the market size of pet food has been increasing year by year. Therefore, the market research department recommends that the feed division should pay attention to this industry.

After reading the report, Fang Yi thought of the pet food company in Meilon Town. They made a gross profit of two to three million every month just by selling cheap pet food. This industry really has great potential.

However, Fang Yike did not want to produce low-end pet food. It would be better to leave this hard-earned money to those small factories.

He looked at those imported brands of pet feed, such as ABCD's subsidiaries, which have layouts in this regard, among which ADM and Louis Dreyfus are the best.

Take dog food as an example: Suligao Amelica original imported pet muscle-building high-protein complete dog food: 58.6 yuan per kilogram.

Kaby four kinds of meat imported dog food Teddy general complete dog food: 22.79 yuan per kilogram.

Aikana Ocean Feast dog food: 65.87 yuan per kilogram.

Maybe this is not intuitive.

If converted into tons and compared with ordinary pig feed, you will see the huge difference between the two.

The current price of complete pig feed is about 3300 yuan per ton, and among these imported dog foods, the cheapest one is 2.2 yuan per ton; the most expensive one reaches 6.5 yuan per ton.

According to the analysis report of the market research department, the current annual domestic expenditure on imported pet food is 35 billion yuan.

Fang Yi was writing the report while checking the reports and other materials from the market research department.

His idea was to first set up a pet food laboratory to develop high-end pet food, and then launch some pet food.

As for Jiang Miao, he would not object to this matter, but he would not take the initiative to develop pet food either, because pet food alone is not something that he needs to take the initiative on personally. He now needs to focus more on more important scientific research projects.

(End of this chapter)

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