Chapter 926 Mechanical Plowing Road
Dodoma City, Loringen Town.
“It’s such a waste of good crop land to be pushed away like this. If you put it in the Far East, it would be despised by others!”
Wang Weimo, an old farmer in East Africa, looked at how many years he had worked so hard. After ten years of land was bulldozed together, everyone couldn't help but feel sad on the sidelines.
"Dad, you can't hold on to the old ideas. Our East Africa is different from other places in that we have a lot of land. I heard that the second largest country in the world is East Africa. This land is nothing to East Africa. "Wang Weimod's eldest son Wang Lun persuaded him
"What do you know, you little brat? You don't feel bad for selling your farmland. When I was in the Far East... your grandfather and grandma didn't starve to death, but they were pretty much the same. Now we can't waste it just because we have more crops! What? The second largest country in the world can't delay the value of this land," Wang Weimo said, saying that iron cannot be transformed into steel.
This made Wang Lun people numb. He couldn't bear to hear his father talk about his life in the Far East. Although his father's life in the Far East Empire was indeed difficult, the new generation of East Africans like Wang Lun did not. Having experienced it before, those "hard" days were like a fantasy to Wang Lun.
Of course, when Wang Lun was a child, he might have loved listening to his father talk about life and legendary experiences in the Far East, but no matter how attractive the story was, he would have become tired of it after listening to it for more than ten years, not to mention that it was mixed with preaching.
"Okay, dad, tell me you're tired! You drink some water first. It's not that I don't understand or don't cherish the crops. I also know that it's a pity that the crop fields are destroyed, but if our country wants to develop, we must adopt new methods. Technology, new ideas, this mechanized plowing road must be built. If you think about how the small field ridge can be passed by something as big as a tractor, it will probably collapse as soon as it is pressed."
Wang Weimo took a look. The "iron lump" in the distance said disdainfully: "As for that tractor, isn't it for plowing? I don't think there may be cattle to use it. It broke down less than a week after arriving, and it took a long time to dismantle it. Okay, not resistant at all.”
Wang Lun comforted him: "That's different, technology will improve. In the past, domestic tractors would break down in half a day and only repair them in one day. Later, it would break down only once every two or three days, and now it only breaks down every one or two weeks." If there is a breakdown, this progress is visible to the naked eye, and this situation may not happen again in the next few months, or even two or three years.”
From the beginning of the popularity of tractors in Mozambique to now, tractors in East Africa. The performance has been greatly improved, and under this premise, the East African government began to promote tractors in other agricultural areas.
"Then it's not unreliable now. There are few people in our town who have seen tractors. Before, it was the city that came to knock out the pile of scrap metal." Wang Weimo disdained his son's excuse. Take a look.
“Hey, everything has a process. A few years ago, we had electricity in our town, didn’t you say it was of no use? It’s not so good now. The replacement of animal power by machinery is the general trend. I was born a few years ago. , or you should also read books. Look how smart we are. They can tinker with electricity. The same is true for tractors. There are not many people who know it now, but there will definitely be more in the future."
This has struck a chord with Wang Weimo. With the help of compulsory education in East Africa, a large number of "new youth" have been born in East Africa. Unlike their parents' generation, they all have a certain culture and vision.
Of course, Wang Lun, the eldest son of Dongfeng King Vimod, did not catch up with him this time, because he was born in the Far East and was already six years old when he first came to East Africa.
The age of six was actually not that old in East Africa at that time. The first batch of people to receive compulsory education were twelve or three years old because the East African immigrants had not yet had children and there were few school-age children. There are many primary school students.
But in Wang Lun’s time, compulsory education in East Africa had just started, so it was only promoted in towns at first. However, the town of Lolingen, where Wang Lun was located, had not yet developed at that time. It was not even a village, just a village. It can be called a colonial stronghold.
So there was not even a primary school in the Lorraine base at that time, and Wang Lun naturally had no chance to receive an education.
However, this opportunity allowed several of his younger brothers to catch up. After arriving in East Africa, Wang Weimo, an adult man who was previously malnourished, regained his second youth and could afford to have children. So Wang Lun had four more brothers. There should have been six, but two of them died in infancy.
In fact, according to his father, he had an older brother, but he died at birth in the Far East.
Now his brother's bones are still in the Far East, which is also a regret in the hearts of his parents. Originally, his early death was considered unlucky. Now that his family has immigrated to East Africa, thousands of miles away, it is even more pitiful to think about it. , but the times are like this, I can only hold my forehead and sigh. "You're right, old man. I'm useless and can't keep up with the changes of the times!" Wang Weimo sighed.
"Dad, what are you talking about? You are the treasure of our town, the evergreen tree." Wang Lun persuaded.
Wang Weimo is actually only fifty-three years old, but in a country like East Africa, ordinary people live longer, and those who are nearly a hundred years old like King Constantine of East Africa are truly rare. Green trees.
Even if Wang Weimo feels it is a pity, the reform of rural areas in East Africa will not change. Because of the development of tractors and automobiles, many original farm roads are obviously no longer adaptable to the new changes of the times.
So the farm roads in Lolingen Town also need to be improved. It is not too far from Dodoma City, so it is also a pilot area for high-standard farmland construction in East Africa.
With the development of the times, the high-standard farmland in East Africa has also been updated to the second generation. There are three main aspects of the work. The first is to merge farmland to adapt to mechanized operations. The second is to upgrade the irrigation canal technology, mainly to Windmills and other means originally used to lift water were replaced by new technologies such as pumps. The third purpose was to build mechanical farming roads to facilitate the operation of large machinery in farmland for mechanized harvesting. This was nothing more than strengthening and widening farming roads.
This is also the reason why the town of Lollingen backfilled some farmland. If people and cattle were used on the previous farming roads, horses would naturally have no problem, but replacing them with more cumbersome tractors and cars would not.
In addition, the second generation of high-standard farmland in East Africa should also have supporting measures such as the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. However, these are currently the shortcomings of East Africa, so it mainly relies on farmyard manure or imported fertilizers and pesticides.
Of course, East Africa is not completely dependent on imports. Priority can still be given to some developed domestic cities and coastal cities, as well as areas with a certain chemical industry foundation.
For example, Lolingen Town’s superior city, Dodoma, has small chemical companies, but its output can currently only satisfy the surrounding areas of the city. Although Lolingen Town is close to Dodoma City, it does not belong to the In its suburbs, there is no quota for relevant pesticides and fertilizers.
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The first town.
Minister of Agriculture Goldstein is reporting on agricultural improvements across East Africa. In order to facilitate management and promote mechanized farming, the Ministry of Agriculture has divided the country into regions.
Goldstein: "Now East Africa has formed nine major agricultural areas and several small agricultural areas. The nine major agricultural areas are the eastern coastal plain area (including northern Mozambique, Kenya, and the coast of Tanzania), the East African Plateau area (Tanga East of Lake Nyika), Great Lakes region (also mainly distributed in the East African Plateau), Mesopotamia region (Shabelle and Juba river basins), Central Plateau region (mainly in the Katanga Plateau and Matabele Plateau), Mozambique Region (South Mozambique Plains), Lake Malawi Region, Angola Region, South Africa Plateau Region"
"In addition to these nine major agricultural regions, such as the Azande Plateau, the Nile Basin, the Congo Rainforest, Southwest Africa, etc. etc., due to various constraints, large-scale agriculture has not yet been formed.”
“Among the nine major agricultural areas, the central plateau area and Mozambique area have developed the most rapidly, and have the potential to surpass the Great Lakes area.”
(End of this chapter)