Chapter 323 Fungal Kingdom

Chapter 323 Fungal Kingdom

Chapter 323 Fungal Kingdom
During the Spring Festival.

This year, Jiang Miao and his family did not spend the New Year in Shanmei, but came to Yunnan Province for a tour, also to investigate the local industries of Hailufeng Company.

"Since last year, most of our company's edible fungi industry has moved from Shantou and Meishan to various parts of Yunnan Province." Fang Zhiqiang, manager of the Southern Yunnan branch, introduced the situation to Jiang Miao and his wife.

Although they came here for tourism, the two of them still had to inspect the local industries to some extent.

The group was currently in the office area of ​​the Southern Yunnan branch. Not far away were the staff dormitories and a large airship airport.

Like the branches of Hailufeng Company in various places, the headquarters of this branch is also located near a small town. In this respect, it was a small town before, but now it has the size of a small county town. The area is not too far from the provincial capital in southern Yunnan, about 85 kilometers away.

"What is the current production capacity of each edible fungus?" Jiang Miao looked at the mountains in the distance.

Fang Zhiqiang was well prepared: "White truffles and morels have reached the level of the headquarters."

"I know this. After all, the edible fungus cultivation factory at the headquarters has been closed for more than two months." Jiang Miao picked up a piece of flower cake from the dessert plate.

Shuya drank Pu'er tea and quietly admired the sunset in the distance.

"As for the production of other edible fungi, some local edible fungi varieties have been fully put into production, but there are differences in production capacity." Fang Zhiqiang continued to explain:
"The largest output is the Altissima. We have invested in five Altissima cultivation bases in Dianchi Lake, which can produce about 5 tons of fresh Altissima every year."

"What about the price?"

"The price is not bad. The wholesale price of fresh goods is about 20,000 per ton. If it is dried goods, it is almost 100,000 per ton."

Jiang Miao picked up the dehydrated salt and pepper chicken mushroom and glanced at the ingredient list on the package: "100 grams? 15 yuan a bag?"

Then tear open the packaging bag, open the seal, pour the pepper and salt chicken mushrooms inside onto a small plate, pick up a piece and put it into your mouth.

It is crispy when you put it in your mouth, then slightly salty and spicy, and then it is fresh, an extreme freshness, as if you were eating a handful of shrimp strips coated with a lot of MSG.

"It's too fresh. This is not a good product."

Shuya beside him also ate a piece and nodded: "After being dehydrated at room temperature, the flavor of the Alpinia hortensis is stimulated and concentrated. This thing is suitable for seasoning."

Fang Zhiqiang quickly took out a packet of seasoning from a pile of products: "This is the Alpinia hortensis powder developed by our product research and development center. There are no other additives. It is simply steamed Alpinia hortensis, dehydrated and ground into powder, and then packaged into small packages."

As he introduced, he tore open the package and took out a handful of small packages of chicken mushroom powder, similar to the powder packets for instant noodles.

“How is this product selling?”

"Sales are very good. We use those poor-looking and unsaleable Alpinia hortensis to make Alpinia hortensis powder. When making soups and fried rice, just a small bag will make it full of freshness and have a distinct Alpinia hortensis flavor."

Shuya took a look at the large number of products, most of which were related to edible fungi. These were actually new products derived from the edible fungi technology she had researched.

These include the chicken mushroom just introduced, as well as the white truffle and morel that were previously industrialized in Shanmei.

In addition, there are black truffles, matsutake mushrooms, chanterelles, blue-headed mushrooms, big red mushrooms, dry mushrooms, black tiger's paw mushrooms, delicious boletus, yellow boletus, and hairy-headed coprinus.

These are the 13 types of edible fungi that are currently being cultivated by the Southern Yunnan Branch.

"We plan to increase the scale of some edible mushrooms this year, especially the three types of dried mushrooms, big red mushrooms and blue-headed mushrooms that are very popular among domestic diners."

Jiang Miao turned his head and looked not far away. His father, mother and daughter were gathered around a grill, warming themselves by the fire while roasting various fragrant mushrooms.

The mushrooms that are more suitable for grilling are those with larger fruiting bodies, such as porcini and matsutake, which can be sliced, brushed with oil and grilled.

The accompanying team of chefs not far away also prepared a large plate of dried mushroom fried rice, and served each person on Jiang Miao's side a small bowl of fried rice and a small dish of various mushroom dishes.

Jiang Miao ate a spoonful of fried rice: "Yeah, not bad."

He smiled and looked at Shuya and said, "It tastes the same as the dried mushrooms you brought home from the lab before. It has the flavor of dried beef and the fresh aroma of mushrooms."

"Of course they are the same. This thing can't be grown in an open-air farm. They are all grown in unified indoor factories. The temperature and humidity are the same. Even the materials in the cultivation bags are the same. They must be exactly the same." Shuya also took two bites casually.

Fang Zhiqiang, who was very cautious, also lowered his head and ate a few bites, then drank a large cup of Pu'er tea, and continued to introduce other things about the branch to the two people:

"Boss, Madam Boss, Yunnan University is interested in cooperating with us in fungus research, but I submitted a report and it's been almost half a year, and there's still no response."

Jiang Miao shook his head: "I was the one who withheld the report."

"So that's what the boss means?" Fang Zhiqiang felt nervous.

"I read your report. Do you know why I didn't reply to you?"

Fang Zhiqiang did not try to be clever and guess his boss's thoughts. After all, the more he said, the more mistakes he made: "Please help me, boss."

Jiang Miao stood up and stretched. "If Yunda has the idea of ​​cooperating, you can go to investigate and invest, or even recruit their graduates to work in the company, but you can't do joint projects."

"..." Fang Zhiqiang broke out in a cold sweat.

The reason why Jiang Miao disagreed to carry out the joint project was mainly due to management and allocation issues.

As a public university, Yunnan University has its own system; as a private enterprise, Hailufeng Company also has its own system.

When it comes to managing various scientific research projects, many of the two parties' methods are different. If major problems arise in a project, it will affect both parties.

It’s not that Jiang Miao can’t suppress this kind of thing, but he doesn’t want to get too involved and be used as a shield by others.

This is not directed specifically at Yunnan University; he holds the same attitude towards other universities in the country.

Then cooperation is fine, donations are fine, investing in teaching facilities is fine, and recommending students is fine, but the premise is limited cooperation, not deep cooperation.

Mainly the management of public universities, which are not essentially oriented towards scientific research and education, but exist purely for management purposes.

In this situation, Jiang Miao really doesn't want to have any in-depth cooperation with these universities. Maintaining a distance in cooperation is a good thing for both parties.

Several of the collaborations mentioned in Fang Zhiqiang's report involved in-depth cooperation, which was why Jiang Miao deliberately withheld the report.

"Boss, I will explain this matter to Yunda University after I return."

Jiang Miao shook his head: "There's no need to be too clear. Just say that cooperation is fine, but don't mention things like setting up a joint venture. There's no need for that."

"Yes." If Hailufeng Company really wants to set up a joint venture, it should not be with a university, but with a specific scientific research team. Only in this way can Hailufeng Company occupy a dominant position.

For example, the strategic investment department of Xinghuan Energy and Hailufeng Company was able to obtain 51% of the shares and management rights because although Dr. Du’s team graduated from China PBC University, China PBC University does not account for a large proportion of their company’s shares.

If the proportion is large, Hailufeng Company will invest more cautiously instead of fully supporting it.

This answer does take the issue of interest distribution into consideration.

After all, if it is just a financial investment, like a friend's son, then Hailufeng Company will only provide various funds and assistance at a reasonable market price.

As for the joint venture that we already hold a controlling stake in, it is like an adopted son, so we naturally cannot be too stingy.

The resource packages that the two can obtain are definitely not of the same level.

Although both Yunnan University and Yunnan Agricultural University tried to invite Shuya to be a visiting professor, Shuya declined. She was already busy with her scientific research work, and she also had a family and doctoral teaching duties at Lion Rock Agricultural University. She did not have enough energy to be a visiting professor.

After all, a person's energy is limited. Even if she used Jiang Miao's special conditioning plan, Shuya felt that she was busy enough with current affairs and there was no need to make things difficult for herself and add to her burden.

"Tell me about the production capacity of edible fungi!"

Fang Zhiqiang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and replied, "Boss, in January before the Spring Festival this year, we produced about 34 tons of fresh edible fungi, of which the largest production capacity was morels, chicken mushrooms, delicious porcini and matsutake mushrooms, accounting for about 76%, and the rest were other mushrooms."

"Okay, but you need to pay attention to market trends and avoid overcapacity." Jiang Miao gave a final reminder.

"I have been asking people from the Industrial Research Office to follow up on this."

Fang Zhiqiang's political sensitivity is relatively poor, but his business management ability is pretty good, otherwise he would not have managed the Southern Yunnan Branch in such an orderly manner, and quickly brought the branch into the profit-making stage when the branch was just established.

Although the market potential of edible fungi is huge, it is certainly not unlimited.

For example, the annual production of fresh chicken mushrooms reaches 50 tons. Even if the national average is 0.35 kilograms per person per year.

Mushrooms are relatively light.

Plus not everyone likes to eat it.

Jiang Miao estimates that the production capacity of fresh Alpinia solani can only be expanded to 500 million tons at most, which is a relatively reasonable production capacity when taking into account the Southeast Asian and Northeast Asian markets.

Durian is a very obvious example.

After Serbia stabilized Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia, the three places formed a zero-tariff free trade zone. Why are ordinary people in South Korea willing to work as general workers in machinery factories with a monthly salary of 7500 yuan?

The answer lies in the influx of cheap agricultural products.

Durian produced in Shantou and the United States only costs 15 to 18 yuan per kilogram with the shell.

In the past, tropical fruits such as durian were only consumed regularly by the middle class and the rich in South Korea, but now ordinary working-class people can afford them.

Even though Shanmei, Qiongzhou and Leizhou Peninsula can produce nearly 20 million tons of fresh durian in shells every year, they can only give priority to meeting the domestic market and then consider the Northeast Asia region.

Now the durian industry in Southeast Asia has also recovered. They are currently entering the Seris and Northeast Asian markets mainly by the number of varieties and flavors, and have also made great profits.

Of course, the higher income of ordinary local people has also stimulated a lot of consumption.

All in all, the durian industry still has the potential to continue to increase production, but the Asian Durian Industry Association, which was established last year, has not yet agreed to plans to expand the scale of cultivation on a large scale in various regions.

The answer is that market consumption power has its limits.

The total population of the Asian Union is more than 23 billion. According to Hailufeng Company's research in China, the average annual per capita consumption of fresh durian in the shell has been around 2 kilograms in the past few years, which has basically reached a bottleneck that is difficult to improve.

It’s not that there is no way to continue to increase per capita consumption, but that doing so is not worth the cost.

After all, durian has to maintain a certain price, otherwise there will be no profit margin. Without profit margin, the durian industry will not be able to develop healthily.

In the future, the durian production capacity within the Asian Union is estimated to be capped at around 5000 million tons per year.

Referring to this situation, the edible fungus industry similar to ACID has the same result.

If we hastily launch a large amount of production capacity but fail to sell it in the end, the investment will be wasted and the entire industry will enter a vicious cycle.

Like durian, not every consumer likes to eat mushrooms.

Although the annual per capita durian consumption in China is only more than two kilograms, after excluding those who do not eat durian, according to data from surveys conducted in various places by the Commercial Research Department of Hailufeng Company, people in China who eat durian every year only account for about 27.9% of the total population.

It's about a quarter.

If calculated in this way, the average amount of durian eaten by people in China who like to eat durian would reach about 10 kilograms per person per year.

I guess the same is true for Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia.

There is no such thing as a food that is liked by everyone.

Even staple foods like rice, noodles and bread are disliked and allergic to by some people, let alone more special fruits and edible fungi.

Fang Zhiqiang suddenly whispered something: "Boss, the Hongsavadi branch came to negotiate recently and asked if I could give them a portion of the coffee planting share?"

"They think too much. Maintaining a certain planting area in the country is the bottom line. You don't have to pay attention to them. I will handle this matter." Jiang Miao's eyes turned cold.

He knew that some people in the company's management must have ulterior motives and felt that Southeast Asia was now very obedient and there was no need to maintain the domestic planting scale, especially for cash crops such as coffee.

For such people, he can only say one thing: short-sighted.

In addition, judging from Fang Zhiqiang's insincere expression, the management of the Hongsawadi branch most likely wanted to drag the Southern Yunnan branch into the mix for the sake of their own branch's performance, and they also deliberately blocked the Southern Yunnan branch in some of the two sides' cooperation.

They are simply courting death. Jiang Miao plans to take some time in the evening to check the management of each branch in Southeast Asia to see what these guys did secretly after going out to sea.

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, the sun was setting.

(End of this chapter)