Chapter 27 Farm Progress
Entering the office building of Nanhu Farm.
"Lao Lu, how is the current situation on the farm?"
Lu Weibin, who was planning the packaging workshop, turned around and saw Jiang Miao. He quickly came over and said, "Boss, I am planning several workshops to prepare for the next purchase of equipment and setting up positions."
"Thank you for your hard work." Jiang Miao handed over a bottle of mineral water, and then reminded: "Although the work is important, you still have to eat on time, otherwise gallbladder polyps will easily develop into gallbladder stones, and the only choice is to have the gallbladder removed."< br>
"Uh...Thank you for your concern, boss." Lu Weibin did not expect that his boss would pay so much attention to him.
In fact, he didn't know that Jiang Miao could see at a glance through the identification panel that Lu Weibin did not eat on time, resulting in bile secretion disorder.
"The company cafeteria is just a few minutes away. Go eat when time is up. Your body is the capital of revolution. If your body breaks down, what's the use of making more money?"
Lu Weibin nodded quickly: "The boss has great insights. I will definitely eat on time in the future."
"Back to business, the Human Resources Department has found a deputy and an assistant for you. They are doing some training and will be here in two or three days."
"I know, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief now." Lu Weibin exhaled.
A group of people came to the farm.
There are already workers busy in the farm's greenhouses.
Lu Weibin picked up the walkie-talkie and called agricultural technician Zhou Xinwang: "Awang, come here."
"Hiss... Got it!"
After a while, a young man with glasses and bronze skin came towards the crowd.
"Boss, Manager Lu."
"Awang, how are the strawberry seedlings doing?" Jiang Miao asked herself.
Zhou Xinwang raised his glasses and said with familiarity: "800 jasmine strawberries have been planted, and 500 seedlings have emerged; 600 cheese strawberries have been planted, and 400 seedlings have been planted; 500 vanilla strawberries have been planted, and 500 seedlings have emerged."< br>
"Are there enough manpower?"
week Before the fruiting period, at least 5 ordinary employees are needed.”
Jiang Miao nodded: "Yes, I will ask the personnel department to recruit as soon as possible."
He is more concerned about Nanhu Farm. After all, the eel industry will soon be saturated, and it will only be able to prosper for a year or two at most.
When the eel industry enters a low-profit stage, it will have to open up new sources of revenue. Otherwise, the company will have to maintain so many employees and the financial pressure will increase.
The strawberry industry is one of the new financial resources Jiang Miao has prepared for the company.
Enterprise operations must be diversified in order to enhance their ability to resist risks.
Of course, just the strawberry industry is obviously not enough.
Jiang Miao has been thinking about a new technical direction recently.
That is transgenic grafting technology.
The so-called genetically modified grafting technology is to first use genetically modified technology to cultivate a grafting pile that can graft two varieties, and then one of the varieties is used as the rootstock and the other as the scion, and the grafting pile is connected in the middle.
Many people may find it strange that since grafting is about to take place, why bother with a grafting pile in the middle?
The reason is that there is a prerequisite for ordinary grafting, that is, the closer the genetic relationship between the grafting parties, the higher the survival rate.
For example, lychees and longans, although they both belong to the Sapindaceae family and the genus Sapindinae, they need to be further divided into the genus Lychee and Longan.
In recent years, scientific research institutions in Yangcheng have successfully grafted lychees and longans, which is very difficult.
Jiang Miao plans to use genetically modified technology to transform a grafting pile that can safely graft two varieties of plants, thereby achieving rapid grafting and cross-genus grafting.
As long as this technology can be realized, its value will be huge. The two varieties he is interested in can be seamlessly connected.
As for how to develop transgenic grafting piles, it is first necessary to determine the two varieties that need to be grafted, and then artificially adjust the genes suitable for both grafting parties based on the genetic maps of the two varieties.
Perhaps to other researchers, this technology is simply whimsical.
Because at present, humans do not fully understand their own genes, let alone the genes of other organisms.
In order for two varieties to achieve cross-genus grafting, it is necessary to thoroughly understand the genetic maps of the two varieties. Even national-level scientific research institutions will find it difficult to support the financial consumption of such scientific research projects.
The original so-called human genetic blueprint project was a joint effort of various countries to produce a barely readable human genetic blueprint. This has not yet analyzed all the functions of human genes.
Jiang Miao can use the identification panel to analyze the entire genetic map of each organism at once.
Conducting transgenic experiments can also save a lot of time. Without long-term observation and comparative experiments, various situations after transgene can be obtained.
Therefore, Jiang Miao's seemingly crazy project has the possibility of success.
The targets he chose for research were Kapok and Durian, both belonging to the Kapok family.
The reason for choosing these two varieties.
On the one hand, it is to make money. After all, the price of durian is high enough, making it convenient for investment and quick recovery.
On the other hand, it is because the Lingnan area is one of the origins of kapok. There are a large number of kapok trees in Lingnan, which facilitates the rapid expansion of planting scale.
As long as durian can be successfully grafted onto kapok and Kapok can adapt to the Lingnan climate, durian can bloom and bear fruit in Lingnan.
What's more, Jiang Miao can also choose some alpine durian varieties with better cold tolerance.
Therefore, Jiang Miao plans to invest 50 million next year to build a genetically modified food breeding laboratory.
This laboratory requires a lot of professional equipment, such as PCR machines, electrophoresis machines, centrifuges, gel imaging systems, nucleic acid and protein analyzers, etc.
Jiang Miao originally did not need testing equipment such as gel imaging systems and nucleic acid protein analyzers, but in order to avoid attracting attention and allow scientific research results to appear more reasonably, these testing equipment are indispensable.
In addition, the laboratory also needs a clean workbench and the like.
These all cost a lot of money.
However, Jiang Miao only needs to pay, and the professional work will be left to a professional contracting company.
Fifty million is really nothing to the current Hailufeng Company, not to mention that this kind of investment can effectively and reasonably lower net profits and reduce tax expenditures.
Moreover, Lin Shuya’s edible fungi laboratory also needs to invite bids.
He plans to invite bids to build two laboratories together next year. Since they are both biological laboratories, the equipment of the two is relatively common.
However, there are certain uncontrollable factors in transgenics such as fungi. Jiang Miao will definitely not let Lin Shuya study them. If some super bacteria are developed, it will be over.
When conducting transgenic experiments on plants, you can also destroy the experimental products through physical means.
As for experimental products such as fungi and bacteria, even top biological laboratories cannot guarantee that the experimental products can be eliminated 100%.
If even a little bit remains, it may cause disaster.
Even with the identification panel, Jiang Miao is still full of awe in the field of microorganisms, because microorganisms reproduce so fast, are very adaptable, and have uncontrollable mutation characteristics. Once a problem occurs, it is very likely to cause catastrophe. consequences.
When Lin Shuya went to study for a Ph.D., he persuaded her not to choose the direction of medicinal fungi. In fact, it was because he subconsciously respected microorganisms.
(End of chapter)