Chapter 223 Impeccable

Chapter 223 Impeccable

Chapter 223 Impeccable
Yang Yang, who had cooperated with Hailufeng Company once before, happened to be in Qiongzhou at this time, so he called Li Zixuan.

The next day, various accounts on the social platform posted a video.

On the A B platform.

As soon as Yang Yang’s Fruit Hunter account posted the video, many fans started watching it.

On video content.

“…I have received many private messages from audience friends in the past few days, asking me to talk about this Little Mike Banana. Today it is here.”

The scene changes.

Yang Yang came to the Hailufeng Banana Farm in Qiongdong, Qiongzhou. The scene that came into view was a banana forest that looked like a green ocean.

"This is one of the six large banana plantations of Hailufeng Company in Qiongzhou, the Qiongdong Banana Planting Farm. Mr. Jiang and I have worked together before. Now I will take you to get to know it."

The video was quickly followed by a large number of comments such as “connections” and “neighbors”.

Xie Yingming, the manager of Qiongdong Banana Farm, was probably facing the camera for the first time. He said nervously, "Hello, dear audience friends."

"Thank you, Director. Are all Little Mike bananas planted in our farm?"

The two followed the camera to a large field of Little Mike bananas that were being harvested.

Watch the workers chop the bananas quickly.

"No, we have 1 mu of bananas planted in Qiongdong Farm. There are three varieties of bananas. The one we are harvesting is Little Mike bananas."

Yang Yang asked curiously: "What are the other two species?"

"One is the Red Grosbeck banana, and the other is the New Grosbeck banana." Xie Yingming replied with a smile.

"Red Big Mike? New Big Mike? In other words, these three breeds have Big Mike bloodlines?"

When it comes to professional matters, Xie Yingming answered fluently: "Yes, they are highly resistant varieties re-cultivated through new technologies based on the original Gros Michel banana."

Yang Yang immediately responded: "New technology? I'm very curious, what technology is it? I believe the audience is also very curious, I wonder if Director Xie would be convenient to talk about it."

"It's not inconvenient at all. Our boss used cell fusion technology, similar to the way polyploid crops are cultivated, to turn the triploid Gros Michel banana cells into hexaploid cells, and then continued various operations... and finally turned them into diploid cells, allowing the original Gros Michel banana to reproduce naturally."

"I see." Yang Yang showed an expression of sudden enlightenment on his face:

"You may know about the Gros Michel banana, but you may not know why scientists don't use breeding technology to improve the Gros Michel banana and make it resistant to yellow leaf disease. The reason is that the Gros Michel banana is triploid and it is difficult to reproduce naturally, which makes it difficult to improve the Gros Michel banana through hybrid breeding."

"Mr. Yang is right."

"This technology is still very difficult at the moment, so don't try it casually," Yang Yang joked.

Watching the bananas being chopped off.

Suddenly a worker came running over.

"Thank you. There is a banana that needs to be registered."

"Oh! Take me there." Xie Yingming turned around and said, "Mr. Yang, let's go over and take a look together!"

"it is good."

Several people followed the worker to a banana grass.

Xie Yingming looked at the slightly yellowed peel and said, "It's ripened ahead of time. Give me the mark."

"Ok."

Insert the sign and write "QD03" by hand spray paint.

Yang Yang, who was standing by, guessed something immediately: "QD03? Does this represent Qiongdong's third bud mutation?"

“Yes, this is the third bud mutation variety found in the Qiongdong banana farm so far.”

Yang Yang explained to the audience what bud mutation is: "…bud mutation is actually a natural mutation of many plants. They may be affected by solar radiation, temperature, soil, etc., causing gene mutations. Although this type of mutation is very common, mutations in a good direction are relatively rare."

Xie Yingming had someone cut off that large bunch of bananas.

First, quickly pack 10 bags in special sealed bags, then cut off a few leaves, pack them in the same way, and write "QD03" on the plastic bags.

"All these bud mutations will be sent for research, right?"

"Yes, Mr. Yang." Xie Yingming smiled and cut a few bananas for everyone to taste: "Try them all. I want to record whether the taste and flavor have changed."

"No problem. It seems that I am really lucky to encounter such a good thing as soon as I arrived." Yang Yang took the banana, peeled off the peel, and took a bite: "Hmm? It is the same as the one I bought in the supermarket. The taste has not changed significantly, and the sweetness and flavor are not much different."

After the others had eaten, they also expressed their opinions. Xie Yingming quickly recorded the feedback on his mobile phone before picking up the banana and taking a few bites.

After a while, Yang Yang smiled and said, "This bud mutation has some value. Maybe it can be used to cultivate a more early-maturing variety."

Xie Yingming put away his phone: "Thank you for your good words, but this kind of work is still in the hands of the company's scientific research team. Let's continue to look at the farm!"

"it is good."

Soon, the video introduced some characteristics of Little Mike, Red Big Mike, and New Big Mike, and how the straw of these varieties can also produce abaca.

This surprised many fans.

Then many people went to search on the Hailufeng specialty store APP and found that there were indeed products such as cotton and linen clothes, abaca carpets, curtain fabrics, and seat covers.

Many people have placed orders to purchase it, or directly went to nearby Hailufeng specialty stores or warehouse supermarkets to buy it.

After eating it once, many customers found that this banana is indeed unique. In addition, the price is relatively cheap, so customers with large family members often buy it by the box.

Of course, the retail price of five yuan per catty is still relatively high in the market, especially in Lingnan, Guangxi, and Qiongzhou, where local bananas generally cost two or three yuan per catty.

Some people buy it at two or three yuan per catty, and some people also buy it at five yuan per catty.

After all, imported bananas don’t taste as good as Little Mike bananas, but their price can reach seven or eight yuan per pound, or even more than ten yuan.

Therefore, the high-priced bananas in those boutique fruit stores suffered a severe blow.

Many customers who have tried Little Mac bananas are deeply attracted by its rich and sweet flavor, and feel that imported bananas cannot compare to Little Mac. Little Mac also has a great advantage in price, achieving the ultimate in cost-effectiveness.

Many customers from boutique fruit shops are gradually being attracted to the Hailufeng specialty store.

Some fruit wholesalers have already contacted Qiongzhou, hoping to get Little Mike bananas.

These people did not choose to go to Hailufeng Company's farm and get themselves into trouble, but instead went to find the contracted farmers.

In a small town in Qiongdong.

Several young people came to a plantation where Little Mike bananas were grown.

A banana farmer's family is busy checking the bananas, which will be ready for harvest in half a month. Next door, another banana farmer who grows Little Mike bananas is installing steel racks on the top of the mountain.

"Brother, your bananas are a new variety, right?"

The old banana farmer, who had seen the group of people a long time ago, took the cigarette from them, but he didn't smoke it. He put it to his ear and asked calmly, "Are you here to buy bananas?"

"Yes! You can just call me Aqiang, brother. Our company is quite strong. We have been purchasing fruits in Qiongzhou for more than ten years. We guarantee a fair price." Aqiang showed his big white teeth.

"Don't waste your time. These orchards are under contract." The old banana farmer shook his head.

A Qiang said with a smile: "Brother, we can still do it after signing the contract!"

However, the old banana farmer burst out laughing: "How much can you give? Hailufeng Company gives 2.5 yuan, and they also need to buy banana stalks and sell them to you, and you still have to pay for breach of contract. What else do I have to do?"

"Two dollars and fifty cents? Two dollars and fifty cents per pound?" A Qiang widened his eyes.

"Yes!"

After getting this answer, Aqiang and the others looked at each other in surprise. Before they came here, they had overestimated the price of Little Mac bananas at the farm gate, but they did not expect it to be so high.

The old banana farmer reminded again: "The penalty for breach of contract is 10 yuan per mu. If you are willing to pay it on my behalf, I don't mind selling it to you. By the way, semi-dehydrated straw is 1000 yuan per ton. Do you want it?" "Hehe..." A Qiang was speechless. If he dared to accept this price, the boss would directly chop him into eight pieces with a fruit knife.

A steel frame has been erected on the top of the mountain of the banana plantation next door, and a steel cable is connected to the concrete road at the foot of the mountain, where there is also a steel frame.

The cut bananas are hung on the steel cable in bunches, then pulled down through the pulley set, moving down along the steel cable at a constant speed.

These equipment were prepared by the purchasing team of Hailufeng Company, but the cement base and steel frame were built by farmers.

All mountain orchards that cooperate with Hailufeng Company have such facilities. In fact, flat land orchards also have them, but the penetration rate is not high.

This facility is mainly designed to reduce labor intensity. After all, a bunch of bananas weighs dozens of kilograms. If it is carried solely by manpower, even if the farmers do it themselves, it is not a long-term solution. Such high-intensity transportation will put too much pressure on the lumbar discs and knees.

These banana farmers initially thought that Hailufeng Company was too troublesome, but now after using it, they immediately feel that it is really convenient.

Both the bananas and the banana stalks were slid down the roadside at the bottom of the mountain on a steel cable.

Workers loaded the bananas onto a truck.

The banana straw is pressed by a pressing locomotive to remove most of the moisture, which can usually reduce the weight of the straw by half, reducing the pressure of transportation.

After watching for a while, Aqiang and others also began to back off.

Back to the door of a convenience store in town.

They saw their boss talking on the phone on the roadside.

"A Qiang, what's the situation?" A middle-aged man with a big gold chain, holding a cigarette, handed a bag of drinks to several people.

After taking a sip from a bottle of Dongpeng Special Drink, Aqiang began to talk about his experience of going to the countryside to pick bananas: "Brother Fang, there is no other way. Those farmers have signed contracts with Hailufeng Company, and the purchase price given by Hailufeng Company is 2.5 yuan per catty. We can't afford it!"

"Two dollars and fifty cents per pound? What is Hailufeng Company doing? The purchase price is so high, but the selling price is only five dollars. They only make one dollar and fifty cents per pound? Damn..." The middle-aged man started cursing.

A Qiang continued, "Brother Fang, and the Hailufeng Company will collect banana straw. One acre of straw is worth more than 2,000 yuan. We don't have the ability to collect straw."

The middle-aged man thought about it for a while and felt that the current situation was simply unsolvable. Even if they set up a farm to grow Little Mike bananas, they still couldn't get past the Hailufeng Company. He shook his head helplessly and said, "This job can't be done. Go pick other fruits this afternoon!"

"Ok."

As for the idea of ​​causing trouble for the Hailufeng Company, the middle-aged man was just talking for fun. If he were asked to really cause trouble, he really didn't have the courage to do so.

Other fruit buyers who tried to enter the market encountered this insurmountable obstacle in the local area and had to give up the idea of ​​purchasing Little Mike bananas.

After all, the Agricultural Cooperative Department knows exactly how many acres of bananas are planted by the contracted farmers of Hailufeng Company.

The purchase price of bananas is 2.5 yuan per catty. If the contracted farmers are to choose to breach the contract and sell their bananas, the purchase price must be higher than 3 yuan per catty, only then will the farmers feel it is barely worthwhile.

And the premise is that Hailufeng Company does not pursue the breach of contract by the contracted farmers, but this is obviously impossible.

After all, bananas cannot be planted in one piece of land for a long time. Generally, they need to be moved to a new place after five or six years.

If you want to move the planting to a new location, you have to purchase banana seedlings. The Mike series is a patented variety of Hailufeng Company. If you plant it without permission, you will be sued.

Qiongzhou officials have recently been studying how to support Hailufeng Company's local banana industry and strive to keep the banana industry in Qiongzhou.

After all, the Mike series of abaca dual-purpose is so fragrant.

Even if a typhoon hits during the planting period, the fallen banana stalks can be used to extract abaca hemp, thereby increasing the banana farmers' ability to resist risks.

What's more, the fiber strength of the Mike series is relatively high, especially the short-planted Mike, which has a very good ability to resist typhoons.

In mid-November, a typhoon hit Qiongdong head-on. It was a relatively strong typhoon, but compared to other banana plantations, the losses in the plantations planting Little Mike bananas were very small, only about one-third of the losses in ordinary banana plantations. The main damage was leaf breakage rather than stalk breakage, so the recovery was very fast.

After having survived the test of the typhoon, Little Mike has become even more popular among local banana farmers.

After all, for typhoon-prone areas like Qiongzhou, the thing farmers worry about most is encountering a typhoon.

This is another reason why many farmers like to grow betel nut, because betel nut is less affected by typhoons and will not be completely destroyed by a typhoon.

The Mike series has a very high straw fiber content and relatively high fiber strength, which enhances its overall wind resistance. A level 17 typhoon making direct landfall can only break its leaves but not its straw.

In this case, the complaints of a few fruit purchasing merchants cannot shake the layout of Hailufeng Company in Qiongzhou.

For the locals in Qiongzhou, they are more interested in the production of abaca, which can be used to make textiles. Developing an industrial chain with abaca as the core is more important than simply growing bananas.

After all, even if local farmers can grow bananas into flowers, they will not make money.

But abaca is different. It can undergo various deep processing.

The local authorities are already studying the idea of ​​cutting down some of the betel nut trees and guiding farmers to grow Mike bananas instead.

At this time, the market retail price of Mike bananas must not be too high, because if the retail price is too high, it will affect the overall consumption. The market cannot consume so many Mike bananas, and the scale of Mike banana planting will naturally not increase, which will in turn affect the production of abaca.

In fact, over time.

Mike bananas have begun to dominate the northern banana market.

The reason for this is very simple.

The North is not the origin of bananas, so the retail price of bananas in the northern region is generally higher.

In this way, the price-performance ratio of Mike Banana has improved.

In the south, close to the place of origin, local bananas are very cheap, and Mike bananas can only occupy the mid- to high-end market.

Of course, this does not mean that ordinary bananas in the north cannot be sold. This year, the wholesale price of ordinary bananas in the wholesale market in the north is generally 17 yuan per 27 jin, which is only 1.58 yuan per jin. It is still acceptable to sell them at three yuan per jin.

Only the mid-to-high-end market is the battlefield between Hailufeng Company's Mike bananas and imported bananas.

The current situation is that imported bananas are losing ground and have to lower their prices to five or six yuan per pound to compete head-on with Mike bananas.

As for the domestic high-quality bananas, such as Emperor Banana and Millet Banana, the market is still okay. After all, not everyone likes to eat Mike bananas.

Especially before the better-flavored Red Big Mac and New Big Mac were launched on the market, a Little Mac alone still seemed a little weak.

However, these two new products will be available in the market in mid-to-late April, and will basically cover the mid-to-high-end market by then.

The news that the Big Mike banana is back.

It has attracted considerable attention in the domestic agricultural community.

Including the 17 village channels, they have specially made an exclusive interview video.

Experts and scholars in the field of banana breeding in the south, as well as experts and scholars in the field of various hemp crops, also went to Qiongzhou for inspection.

Although not as good as the Senzu soybeans, the Mike series of banana varieties that can be used as both abaca and hemp have indeed attracted considerable attention in the domestic agricultural community. After all, it is related to three areas: tropical fruits, textile raw materials, and papermaking raw materials.

Plus, Little Mac bananas are already on the market, but Senzu soybeans have never been officially on the market.

To be precise, Senzu soybeans are not currently sold as food, but are sold as seeds. The cooperating companies have already obtained a large number of seeds from specific regions.

Although spring has not yet fully arrived on the major desert farms in the Northwest, this does not prevent them from making preparations.

The seed factory of the Mo'nan branch of Hailufeng Company currently has a reserve of more than 1200 tons of Senzu soybean seeds, which are only enough to plant million acres.

Therefore, the farm development limit for each company is 2400 million acres.

Why is it 2400 million acres?

Instead of 1200 million acres?

The answer is very simple.

Because at this time, it was at the Taminchagan Farm of the Mo Nan Branch.

Experts and scholars of all kinds are paying attention to this, especially the scientific research teams from agricultural universities such as Northeast Agricultural University, who have even stationed many people here.

As daytime temperatures at Tamintsagan Farm reached over seven degrees Celsius on March 3, soybeans planted last year began to sprout again.

(End of this chapter)