Chapter 16 New Directions
October Golden Week.
The company has given some employees a holiday.
However, Jiang Miao and her brother-in-law are still at the fish farm in Yanding Village, and they have been talking about renting fish ponds for the past few days.
We have already negotiated with two families, one with 40 acres and the other with 50 acres, for a total of 90 acres of fish ponds, plus 3 acres of open space.
On the 3rd, we talked about the last one. This one is right next to the breeding base. It has a total of 120 acres of shrimp ponds and 8 acres of paddy fields. It is a shrimp farm jointly run by several families, and it is also a relatively difficult one to start.
After all, doing business as a partnership is the easiest thing to cause conflicts. The relationship between the five cooperative villagers has become tense due to various conflicts, large and small, in the past few years, and the farm is about to be unable to operate.
In order to avoid trouble, Jiang Miao originally didn't intend to take it. In the end, his brother-in-law came forward and negotiated with five villagers separately and won the 120 acres of shrimp ponds and 8 acres of paddy fields.
The average monthly rent per mu is 1,430 yuan, the lease term is 10 years, and the penalty is 50%.
These ponds and paddy fields add up to a total of 210 acres of ponds and 12 acres of open space.
Jiang Miao planned the new indoor breeding base next to the old indoor breeding base, covering an area of 20 acres.
Soon my cousin's engineering team came in to fill the soil, reinforce the foundation, lay underground pipes, etc.
It is estimated that the project construction will be completed by the end of the year.
Bulldozers, muck trucks, and excavators are constructing in an orderly manner.
Jiang Miao watched the construction site for a while, chatted with her cousin for a while, and sent him the test report that had just been completed yesterday.
"Brother Yao, as expected, the powder contains two hormones, dexamethasone and dexamethasone acetate. Taking too much can easily lead to femoral head necrosis. Don't take those folk remedies casually in the future."
"This mother-in-law actually gave me hormones. I'm going to report him." Jiang Yao cursed loudly.
Jiang Miao quickly reminded: "You can report it, but don't be impulsive and hit people. Things are no better than before."
"I know." Jiang Yao will naturally not be impulsive. After all, he has made a lot of money from completing these projects. There is no need to take risks for such a person.
The two chatted for a while, and then Jiang Miao went back to the breeding base next door.
However, he did not go to see the eel breeding pond, but came to the back of the breeding base, where there are four stacked container houses.
On one side of the container house, there is a row of plastic greenhouses, covering an area of about half an acre. This place was renovated from the remaining vegetable plots from the previous renovation.
Next to the greenhouse is the 8 acres of paddy field that I signed a contract to rent yesterday.
Jiang Miao does not plan to use these 8 acres of paddy fields as land for a new breeding base, but as a greenhouse area.
Open the container house.
There are a large number of glass bottles and plastic bottles on display, with special labels on the bottles.
The labels read "Ethyl Methanesulfonate," "Diethyl Sulfate," "Nitrosoethyl Urea," "Ethyleneimine," "5-Bromouracil," and "2-Aminopurine." , "Maleic acid hydrazide", "nitrous acid", "sodium azide", "colchicine", etc.
These are chemicals that can cause cells to produce genetic mutations.
Using a special box and grabbing some chemical reagents, he came to the container room next door.
In this room, there are two rows of iron shelves and an iron table. On the shelves, there are glass petri dishes.
Inside the glass petri dish are seeds of various sizes.
Since July this year, Jiang Miao has been conducting secret experiments here, and the project is to cultivate seeds.
For Jiang Miao, who has an identification panel, the difficulty of cultivating seeds has plummeted. After all, many agricultural breeding companies or institutions have to cultivate a commercial variety from a large number of varieties, which takes a long time. If it is a herbaceous plant, it will take at least five years to develop and breed a new variety with commercial value.
If it is a woody plant, this time will start at least 10 years.
Why is it so difficult and long?
The answer lies in the step of verifying the variety.
It is very simple to cause genetic mutations in seeds. Whether it is physical means such as ultraviolet light, X-rays, fast neutrons, ultra-low temperature freezing, etc.; or chemical means; or even genetically modified technology, etc., it can cause genetic mutations in seeds in large quantities.
However, after the genetic mutation is completed, the experimenters cannot find out the specific circumstances of the mutation in a short period of time.
This requires planting, observing, testing, selecting better individuals, planting seeds, sowing, observing, testing, and repeating this cycle several times before we can initially figure out the mutation of these seeds.
Therefore it takes a very long time.
But Jiang Miao was different at this time.
He can directly see the situation after the genetic mutation of each seed, including its survival rate, plant size, fruit size, fruit sweetness, fiber content, various trace elements, various vitamins, etc., as well as the most important genetic traits stability.
This saved Jiang Miao 99% of his time. He basically only needed to use chemical reagents to induce genetic mutations in the seeds, and then he used the identification panel to select valuable mutant seeds one by one.
The plants he selected as breeding targets were strawberries, melon and eggplant (ginseng fruit), soybeans, and alfalfa.
Naturally, he chose these four plants carefully.
First of all, these four plants are herbaceous plants, and they can grow seeds relatively quickly.
Secondly, strawberries and melons and eggplants are cultivated for economic reasons. The market value of these two fruits is relatively high.
The cultivation of soybeans and alfalfa is for future considerations. After all, these two things are related to the core interests of food security, edible oil security, and feed security.
Although Jiang Miao can't stand some people, when the nest is overturned, the eggs will never be completed.
Jiang Miao couldn't tell where the future of this era would go, so he could only make more preparations.
After finishing today's work of inducing mutation, Jiang Miao came to the plastic greenhouse at the door of the container house.
After more than two months of seedling cultivation and planting, dozens of strawberry seedlings have become lush and leafy. He took a sterilized knife and a cup of carbendazim solution and cut off part of the branches of these strawberries.
These cut branches will be used to grow stolons, which is a commonly used propagation method in the strawberry growing industry.
After all, it is difficult to produce enough seeds from just one mutant strain. Whether it is subsequent cross-breeding or seed production, a relatively large number is required.
There are currently 35 mutant seedlings in the greenhouse, all of which he carefully selected. They have genetic stability, high heat resistance, disease resistance, pest resistance, relatively good fruit hardness, moderate sweetness, high yield, and Varieties with special flavor components.
However, as for the special flavor components, the identification panel cannot give specific information. You have to taste it after it comes out to know the specific situation.
Of course, since he purchased various strawberries, he also collected the specific flavor components of these strawberry varieties.
Therefore, we can roughly guess the flavor of some mutant varieties. However, among the 35 mutant seedlings, 15 have flavor components that are not currently available on the market.
In other words, it’s not that it’s not there, but that the content is too low, making it impossible to feel it.
After all, the flavor components are all kinds of strange, and the content in the fruit is also different. The components with higher content are naturally easy to feel, while those that are not obvious will be ignored.
This is where this batch of mutated vaccines may have value.
(End of chapter)