Chapter 201 Industrial Extension
Chapter 201 Industrial Extension
Rentian Town, Southern Jiangxi.
As November comes to an end, the local navel oranges have also ushered in a bumper harvest.
The town's navel orange planting area reaches 2.3 acres, making it a fairly large navel orange producing area.
The mobile purchasing team of the Agricultural Cooperative Division of Hailufeng Company arrived in Rentian Town three days ago with equipment and core technical personnel. The town government had previously approved a special piece of land for them.
A small team that used to build scaffolding for rural opera stages in Shanmei area was directly poached by the company. They spent two days building three large sheds on this vacant land of about 3 acres, plus a dozen RVs, to form a temporary factory and residential area.
Of the 2.3 acres of navel oranges in Rentian Town, 1.5 acres are contracted by the company.
As for why they did not go to the core production area of navel oranges in southern Jiangxi to contract, the main reason was that many navel orange plantations in the core production area were contracted, so the Agricultural Cooperation Division could only settle for the second best.
A 50-acre navel orange plantation in Rentian Town.
The plantation owner Li Gensheng and his family were very nervous.
His navel oranges are the most mature, so they are also the first batch to be purchased. Early this morning, the mobile quality inspection vehicle responsible for inspection work has arrived near his navel orange plantation.
At this time, five quality inspectors were carrying various instruments and conducting sampling tests on the soil, leaves, weeds and fruits of the navel orange plantation.
More than two hours later.
The head of the quality inspection team handed a simple quality inspection report to the head of the picking team: "Song, the soil pollution level is within the standard, the pesticide residues on the leaves and weeds are below the limit, and the fruit is not substandard. The sweetness and acidity are both acceptable."
"I'll keep a copy of the quality inspection report, and you can continue to inspect other gardens." Old Song took the quality inspection report and stuffed it into his cross-body bag.
"I understand." The quality inspection team leader nodded.
Although the company's quality inspection work has only been established for more than two months, the rules and regulations are very complete, and there is no opportunity for the quality inspection team, the purchasing team, or the growers to tamper with it.
The random inspection in the navel orange plantation at this time is called initial inspection, which only tests those items that can be tested quickly, which are also the more critical items.
These random samples will then be quickly sent to the testing center of the Gannan Branch for a second inspection. This time the inspection will be more accurate and in-depth, and some items that were not included in the initial inspection will be supplemented.
If that's all, there are still some loopholes.
Therefore, there are three inspections, and the testing center responsible for the three inspections is not an agency under the Agricultural Cooperation Division, but a testing center jointly managed by the Physical Division, E-commerce Division, and Sales Division.
The third inspection is mainly for products that are on sale, that is, they directly sample products from each store and warehouse. If any problems are found, they will go directly to the place of production and will not let the inspectors of the initial and second inspections re-inspect.
Three tests, by three testing agencies from different departments. If you can still get away with it, then it’s no small problem.
Such strict testing ensures that the products will not have any problems such as pesticide residues, pollution, and disease.
In fact, in addition to the three inspections of agricultural products before they are put on the market, there will also be irregular sampling of various items during the planting period of agricultural products. This has greatly reduced the problem of illegal use of pesticides and illegal chemicals in the planting process. The final three inspections are just for insurance.
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Seeing the test report, Li Gensheng quickly asked: "Team Leader Song, how do you decide the price?"
"Don't worry! We have met the standards. We are just waiting for the label to come out." Old Song smiled and cut open a navel orange with a knife. He took a bite of the flesh and handed the remaining half to Li Gensheng: "Our company's technology is pretty good, right?"
"That's good, that's good." Li Gensheng took a piece of navel orange and took a bite. "Your company's technology is really amazing. I have been planting in this garden for five or six years, and the fruits have always been sour, and the taste is not as good as the navel oranges in Xinfeng County."
The agricultural technician in charge of guiding the cultivation of navel oranges directly peeled the navel oranges and said: "The soil and organic fertilizer have a great impact on the quality of navel oranges. This is why your production area cannot compare with the core production area in Xinfeng."
"Technician Liu, can this technology be used in other places?" Li Gensheng's son Li Wenlong asked curiously.
"No, because the soil in different places is different. Even the planting area in your town is divided into three soil types. To ensure the best flavor, we must make a special customized soil improvement plan and organic fertilizer and chemical fertilizer supplement for each soil type."
Just then, a female employee came hurriedly carrying a box.
"Xiaoqin, have you finished labeling?"
"It's done." Xiaoqin nodded with a blushing face.
"Then let's get started!" Old Song turned around and said, "Old Li, you guys start picking!"
"Okay." Li Gensheng, who had been impatient for a long time, looked at the uncles and aunts sitting next to the fruit trees not far away and shouted, "Everyone, start picking."
Due to some prior training, the old men and women in the village only pick fruits that meet the standards.
Do not accept fruits with spotted skin, that are too big, too small, too light, or that have worm holes.
Soon, the first batch of standard navel oranges were pulled over by Li Wenlong on a tricycle and taken to a temporary screening machine on the roadside.
Xiaoqin and another employee worked with Li Wenlong to pour the fruits into a simple screening machine and filter out the fruits that did not meet the size.
The fruit that passes through the screening machine is automatically labeled on the conveyor belt.
The label reads:
【Gannan navel orange premium fruit】
[Hailufeng Agricultural Technology Company—Produced by a contracted grower (No. 200853), planting area…; picking time…; sweetness…; acidity…; no pesticide residues were detected in the initial inspection; fruit number 200853-0000001]
The reason for this kind of label is, on the one hand, to facilitate traceability; on the other hand, it is to prevent non-contracted growers from mixing fruits in through the relationship with contracted growers.
The area of Li Gensheng's navel orange plantation is 50 mu. After deducting some new trees, there are 40 mu left. After removing the substandard fruits, the yield per mu is about 2200 kilograms. This orchard produces about 88000 kilograms of navel oranges.
What Lao Song just said about labeling is estimated based on the production volume. Every navel orange must be labeled, so the number of labels will be calculated in advance.
There are huge benefits in this.
Because the purchase price given by Hailufeng Company is three yuan per catty, the price of navel oranges around Rentian Town in previous years was only one or two yuan per catty. Only the good orchards in the core production area of navel oranges in southern Jiangxi have a farm price of three yuan per catty.
The price difference can generate huge benefits.
Although the company has contracted 1.5 acres of navel orange plantations in Rentian Town, excluding some new plantations, there are still about acres of old plantations that are not within the scope of the contract.
These gardens that are not within the scope of the contract were either previously booked by someone else, or are owned by someone else doing e-commerce, or are simply being sold at a high price.
With a price difference of more than one yuan, it is very likely that someone will take the risk.
Therefore, the company directly put labels on each fruit to serve as an ID card. The label also has a QR code. After being sent to the temporary purchasing center in the town, it has to pass through a screening machine that has a special QR code reading system, which makes it impossible to counterfeit.
As each fruit is labeled.
Li Wenlong quickly loaded baskets of fruit onto the tricycle. After it was full, he quickly drove the tricycle to the temporary purchasing center in the town.
The navel oranges in the entire Rentian Town are mainly Newhall navel oranges, which are also the main cultivated variety of navel oranges in southern Jiangxi. They usually mature and go on the market in early November.
Picking can continue for 3 to 4 months, but considering the quality, two and a half months is basically the limit.
There are 1.5 acres of navel oranges, and an average of 200 acres are harvested every day.
For the next two and a half months, the acquisition team will be stationed in Rentian Town.
There are only five laborers in Li Gensheng's family. In order to ensure that the picking is completed today, he can only ask people in the village to come and pick the oranges. In fact, these people all grow navel oranges at home. They come to Li's garden to pick the oranges today and earn a little money, but they will have to pay others to pick the oranges in a few days.
Around 4:30 in the evening.
Li Gensheng and his son Li Wenlong pulled the last two carts of navel oranges to the temporary purchasing center next to the town.
"Captain Zhan, these are the last two cars."
Zhan Kaiwen, who was talking to another grower, called out, "Xiaoshan, take it."
"Ok."
After a while, Zhan Kaiwen settled the matter and paid Li Gensheng.
"The total is 88719 kilograms, 3687 kilograms of fruit do not meet the standards, and the actual collection is 85030 kilograms. You can take the fruit that does not meet the standards back. The total amount is 255090 yuan. This is the commercial bill. Go to the finance office next door to collect the money."
Li Gensheng was a little confused after receiving the commercial bill: "Captain Zhan, can I just go over and get the money for this bill?"
"Well, take the money and come back to pick up those bad fruits!" Zhan Kaiwen said casually, and then went to receive another grower.
"Ok."
The father and son hurried to the finance office next door.
I received the bank's remittance notification very soon.
Then they pulled in more than 3,000 kilograms of fruits that were of poor quality or had lost water.
As soon as the two of them drove out of the purchasing center, they were stopped. A middle-aged man wearing a peaked cap asked in a low voice, "Brother, are these oranges the inferior ones?"
"Yes! You want it?" Li Gensheng was thinking about how to deal with these inferior fruits. He turned around, picked up a fruit, cut it open and gave a piece to the man in the cap: "They are all good fruits, but some have spots on the skin."
The man in the cap took a bite and found it tasted really good, similar to the navel oranges from the core production areas of Gannan. He then said, "I'll take it for one dollar."
Li Wenlong shook his head: "One dollar? Not appropriate..."
"One dollar and two cents. This is second-rate fruit after all." The man in the baseball cap gritted his teeth and gave a new price.
Li Wenlong didn't believe that this was the other party's bottom price: "It's just a little flaw, at least one dollar and fifty cents."
"Brother, I can't make any money at $1.50! How about $1.30 each?"
The father and son talked in a low voice for a while and accepted the price.
The man in the baseball cap who took the more than 3,000 kilograms of inferior oranges came with Li Gensheng and his son's car to a private house in the town, and then unloaded the oranges in the yard of the house.
After earning more than 5,000 yuan, Li Gensheng decided to go to the market to buy some meat and vegetables and have a good meal tonight.
The temporary purchasing center, which received nearly 45 kilograms of navel oranges today, has arranged the company's exclusive trucks to quickly send these navel oranges to the Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and Beijing regions.
As for Jiangxi Province, except for some specialty stores in the north, other specialty stores do not stock navel oranges. After all, this is the place of production and the competition is too fierce.
You should know that the price listed by Hailufeng Company is 5 yuan per catty. This price is neither high nor low in the market, but if you only calculate fruits of the same quality, the price is actually much lower.
At present, in addition to the specialty store in Jiangxi Province, there are a total of 279 other specialty stores in operation, and each store has been allocated more than kilograms of navel oranges.
Since the Hailufeng specialty store has online users of the APP, if these users choose to place an order nearby, they do not need to pay extra express fees, and the goods will be delivered directly in the city by nearby stores.
The next day, early in the morning.
It's just dawn.
Magic City, Baoshan District.
The Baoshan branch of the Hailufeng store has been open for more than a month. Today, a small truck delivering goods from a nearby warehouse has arrived with the goods.
Four shop assistants and two drivers quickly unloaded the goods from the carriage, including a large number of pre-packed internal express deliveries.
"So many navel oranges?" Store manager Ye Linlin saw baskets of 20 kilograms of navel oranges in the carriage.
The driver took down a basket and said, "Your store has another batch, which will be delivered in the evening."
"How long will it take to sell this?" Ye Linlin looked troubled.
The driver ignored the matter and just smiled and said, "They are all good fruits. Many of these deliveries are navel oranges. Please arrange the delivery as soon as possible. In the future, there will be more than a thousand kilograms of navel oranges every day."
"I'm speechless~ Okay!" Ye Linlin was even more troubled: "When will the head office open a second branch in Baoshan? This is not a solution!"
The deputy store manager consoled him, "Hold on! Organize more promotions, and when stores in other places open, there won't be so many."
At this time, a few elderly ladies who were going to exercise passed by. One of them asked, "How much is a pound of your navel oranges?"
Ye Linlin quickly turned around and said, "Auntie, this Gannan navel orange is five yuan per pound. It was just picked from the place of production yesterday. I'll cut one for you to taste."
She reached into the pocket of her work clothes, pulled out a knife, cut open the packaging tape, took out a navel orange, and then cut it in a plastic basket nearby.
Several old ladies each took a small piece and took a bite.
"Huh? This orange tastes good."
“It’s sweet and sour, with a very strong orange flavor.”
"I haven't eaten such delicious oranges in a long time."
"Little girl, can you make it cheaper?"
Ye Linlin smiled and replied, "Auntie, this is the company's unified price, but if you buy 10 kilograms, we can give you a % discount."
"Weigh ten pounds for me."
"I want ten pounds too."
After this order, 60 kilograms were sold. Ye Linlin felt that these navel oranges were not that difficult to sell.
Another clerk drove a small van and delivered more than 150 express parcels to designated customers, all of whom were in Baoshan District.
However, compared with the Baoshan branch, the sales of the branches located in more prosperous areas are better.
As soon as the five branches, namely Jing'an branch, Pudong branch, Huangpu branch, Changning branch and Xuhui branch, opened, they were visited by a large number of customers for purchases.
Inside the Huangpu branch.
"Navel orange? Does your company also grow navel oranges?" A middle-aged man who is familiar with Hailufeng Company asked as he picked up a large bag of packaged navel oranges.
The store manager, Lu Xingzhi, smiled and replied, "These fruits are grown by growers who work with our company. These fruits are grown under the guidance of our company and under strict management."
“So cheap? Can the quality be guaranteed?”
"Our purchase price at the production site is three yuan per catty, which is the highest purchase price for navel oranges in southern Jiangxi. We make small profits but quick turnover, and we only make 80 or 90 cents per catty." The store manager explained bluntly.
The middle-aged man ate a piece and nodded: "It tastes good, it is indeed a high-quality navel orange. My hometown is Xinfeng County. This fruit is grown in Xinfeng County, right?"
"It shouldn't be. Here is the production area description..." Lu Xingzhi picked up an unpackaged fruit with a label on it.
"Rentian Town? The quality of the fruit there is so good? Never mind, they are Gannan navel oranges anyway, give me 5 baskets."
Lu Xingzhi was overjoyed: "Okay, guest."
Compared with other fruit stores, the Hailufeng store has the best value for money, and it has luxury goods such as white truffles, which makes many customers like to come to the Hailufeng store to buy things, mainly because the things are good and you can choose according to your budget.
The middle-aged man was about to pay the bill when he saw mutton in the refrigerator and quickly added, "By the way, give me another 5 kilograms of lamb ribs."
"No problem. Do you want it cut up or whole?"
“Cut it.”
"Your mutton is good. My husband likes it very much."
“It’s our honor that customers like it.”
After being busy for a whole morning, Lu Xingzhi finally sat down to take a breath. He looked at the shelves in the store and found that the 1000 kilograms of navel oranges that had just been put on the shelves in the morning were now almost gone. He quickly sent a message to the warehouse on the background of his computer, asking them to quickly deliver 2000 kilograms more.
Another clerk used the store's microwave to heat up four bags of pre-prepared meals, plus the rice that he had cooked in advance and brought from the dormitory.
"Manager, it's time to eat."
"Ah Sheng, you guys look after the store. Xiao Qing and I will eat first."
"Ok."
Come to the rest room.
He took a portion of shredded pork with fish flavor that he ordered, cut it open, and poured it on the hot rice.
After Xiaoqing came in, she picked up her portion of honey-glazed barbecued pork and a plate of sliced navel oranges. For a relatively low-priced product like navel oranges, the company did not restrict them from eating them themselves, but the only requirement was that they could not take them away or waste them.
The company's headquarters has recently expanded the production categories of pre-prepared meals. People like Lu Xingzhi who have received training at the headquarters all know how these pre-prepared meals are produced, so they naturally have no psychological burden when eating them.
If you really compare, those cheap takeouts out there may not necessarily be as good as the pre-prepared meals produced by the company itself.
Hailufeng Company has its own raw material production channels and strict procurement channels, so it can provide high-quality and low-price products. Many small workshops achieve low costs by cutting corners and using inferior raw materials. There is an essential difference between the two.
The two of them ate and chatted about something.
Lu Xingzhi is very satisfied with his current job. Although the salary of a store manager in Shanghai is only 5500 yuan, the benefits such as performance-based benefits are better. The most important point is that he does not need to worry about accommodation, as the company has purchased houses in Shanghai for employees to use as dormitories.
As for food, since there is no cafeteria in Shanghai, the company will subsidize 1500 yuan in meal allowance every month, and you can eat as much as you want from the ordinary products in the store.
More frugal employees will eat pre-prepared meals directly in the store, saving 1500 yuan in meal allowance each month.
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