Chapter 77 Protection Mechanism (Additional Update)
The first laboratory in the experimental area, this laboratory is one of Jiang Miao's own exclusive laboratories, and it is also a laboratory specially used for genetic modification.
He did not let others interfere with his research work. The main reason was that his research method was different from ordinary people, and it was easy to see problems when he studied with others.
Currently, Zhang Chengdong and others are doing tissue culture propagation of strawberry seedlings. The so-called tissue culture propagation is actually similar to cutting seedlings, except that tissue culture propagation cannot be carried out in greenhouses or open-air farmland, but must be carried out in professional sterile laboratories. .
Therefore, tissue culture seedlings are also called virus-free seedlings.
In fact, the jasmine strawberries, vanilla strawberries, and cheese strawberries carefully selected by Jiang Miao are all highly disease-resistant varieties. Even if tissue culture is not used for detoxification, they can be planted continuously in a farmland for about four or five years before they are fully grown. Targeted bacterial viruses may emerge.
At this stage, the production of group-cultured seedlings is started. In fact, detoxification is not the main purpose, but to quickly increase production capacity.
After all, the speed of stolon cutting and seed seedling cultivation is too slow, which is not conducive to large-scale expansion of production.
At present, the entire experimental area, including 15 acres of laboratories, is specially designed for group cultivation of seedlings.
Using group cultivation technology, as long as the first four generations of cultivation are completed, more than 200,000 strawberry seedlings can be produced per acre of laboratory every 45 days or so.
Normally, strawberry seedlings take about 45 days to grow into one generation, and each generation will increase in number 6 to 7 times more than the previous generation.
Taking the current 100 seedlings as the first generation, after 45 days, the second generation seedlings will be 700;
In another 45 days, there will be 4,900 third-generation seedlings...
In another 45 days, there will be 34,300 fourth-generation seedlings...
By analogy, the fifth generation seedlings can reach about 240,000.
If all the 15 acres of seedling breeding laboratories are put into use, 3.6 million strawberry seedlings can be produced every 45 days in about half a year.
In fact, 3.6 million seedlings are not too many for Hailufeng Company, because the greenhouses at Nanhu Farm use a combination of ground and overhead planting, requiring 12,000 seedlings per acre.
At present, 3.6 million plants are only planted in 300 acres.
Taking into account the current area of Nanhu Farm, the total area is only 600 acres, of which the area planned for planting strawberries is only 200 acres. The remaining 400 acres, in addition to 50 acres of experimental fields, 150 acres are ginseng fruit and 200 acres are tomatoes.
Therefore, the laboratory must not produce too many group-grown seedlings, otherwise the only option is to sell the seedlings externally.
Although Hailufeng Company has applied for a license for seed production and sales, and has registered relevant patents for three strawberry varieties, Jiang Miao has no idea of selling seedlings at this stage.
On the one hand, the three new strawberry varieties are not yet fully known by the market, and the effect of active promotion will not be very good.
On the other hand, as a high value-added product, it is still in the high-profit stage, so there is no need to sell seedlings and create competitors for yourself.
Moreover, Jiang Miao understands the mentality of some domestic growers very well.
Domestic growers who are scattered in the country often rush to that crop when they see which crop has a high market price, and then expand the scale without planning or risk management.
When a large amount of agricultural products are put on the market, they are choked by purchasers. Then the growers intrude on each other's prices. In the end, their own profits are getting lower and lower, but the market retail price has not decreased much.
From sugar oranges, to sunshine rose grapes, to kiwi fruit, each and every tragic case is there.
Therefore, even if Jiang Miao plans to sell seedlings in the future, he will not sell them all over the country without restraint. He will designate one or two counties at most as exclusive varieties for that place, and then prohibit planting in other places.
Otherwise, growers in various places can roll them up and dry the three strawberry varieties of Hailufeng Company for the price of cabbage.
At that time, for the sake of profit, growers will choose to lower quality control to reduce costs, leading to a vicious cycle.
Where do the Sunshine Rose grapes on the market, which cost six or seven yuan a pound, come from? It is the decline in quality control brought about by the crazy involution, which makes the purchasers unwilling to accept, and the growers can only sell them at low prices. The low-quality Sunshine Rose grapes sold at low prices further create the effect of bad money chasing good money, forcing those who Growers who maintain quality lower prices, which leads to a gradual decline in planting profits.
Therefore, to ensure reasonable profits for new varieties, appropriate control of planting area and planting scale is a very necessary means.
At the same time, we should not give too much freedom to the growers, otherwise they will soon be defeated by the purchasers one by one.
For example, last year's Cuixiang kiwi caused quite a stir. The reason was that some e-commerce sellers asked growers to pick and ship the fruit in advance. The fruits were originally suitable for picking at the end of September, but they started picking in August.
Kiwis picked in advance will not become soft no matter how long they are stored. Even if they are barely soft, the quality will be very poor.
In an environment where growers are fighting for their own business, some people will naturally compromise with e-commerce sellers for the sake of immediate benefits; at the same time, some e-commerce sellers who have no bottom line also rush to deliver goods for the sake of short-term interests and do not care about the quality of the products. .
This behavior leads to a bad reputation for the product.
Other e-commerce companies can change their appearance, but you, the grower, have no way to change your appearance unless you change to other fruits.
The question is what about the massive early investment costs?
Especially for non-herb fruits, it takes at least one or two years from planting to harvesting. With so much cost invested, they will be eliminated within a few years of planting, and the investment will definitely not be recouped.
Therefore, those growers who pick fruits in advance are either stupid or bad, while those e-commerce companies that induce growers to pick fruits in advance are simply bad.
To a certain extent, the existence of industry associations is actually a relatively necessary existence.
Although the Japanese Agricultural Cooperative and the South Korean Agricultural Cooperative have been dismissed as a piece of shit by experts and scholars from all sides on the Simplified Chinese Internet.
However, the existence of such agricultural associations can protect the interests of some farmers as long as the system design is relatively reasonable and official monitoring is stricter.
The key depends on how to manage it.
In fact, there are relatively simple local agricultural associations in China, such as the Kiwi Association in Xiqin Province and the Dandong Strawberry Association in Liao Province.
Therefore, Hailufeng Company will also gradually build some private regional agricultural product associations in the future. While promoting its own new varieties of agricultural products, it can also regulate the planting scale through the agricultural product associations to avoid stampede production.
In fact, agricultural product industry associations, this is the area that agricultural seed companies should focus on, focusing on research and development and cultivating excellent varieties without going deep into other basic aspects of the industry. This is basically a common problem among domestic agricultural breeding companies.
It is basically a fantasy to think that if your company launches excellent crop varieties, farmers can make a fortune, and then farmers will continue to buy their own seedlings.
Without in-depth control of seedlings, the consequence is that growers will fight on their own, and with the help of unscrupulous e-commerce, the reputation of the varieties will be ruined.
Many seed companies have an indifferent attitude towards those varieties that are not originally developed in China, which is understandable.
But this attitude is also true for the new varieties that I have worked so hard to develop, which is a typical lack of ambition.
Similar to domestic self-developed varieties such as Cuixiang kiwifruit and Dandong strawberry, local governments and breeding companies should take the initiative to protect the brand value of the varieties.
As a result, everyone is pretending to be dead, leaving the growers in a state of disarray, and causing the new varieties to dry out. This can only be said to be their own fault.
After all, as a seed research and development company, as long as it registers patented varieties, it can attack growers who plant illegally and steal seeds, and directly use the law to curb excessive planting.
Jiang Miao didn't understand the brain circuits of these nursery and breeding companies. They could clearly protect their own interests legally, but chose to stand by and watch.
This kind of experience and lesson is really tragic.
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