Chapter 87 The Emperor in Oil (Medium cup! More updates!)
Jiang Miao and his party have just returned to Magong Town.
Just received a piece of good news.
There is a trading company in Western Europe that specializes in high-end aquatic products. In the past few days, it came to seek cooperation.
Huang Jiahao, the head of the International Trade Office of the Sales Department, introduced the situation to Jiang Miao.
"Boss, Aiken Company ordered 100 kilograms of glass eels from us at a price of 23,000 yuan per kilogram, and also signed a one-year long-term supply contract with us, requiring us to supply at least 200 kilograms of glass eels every month."< br>
Jiang Miao was not too surprised by this amount.
Because Europe and the United States do not like to eat mature eels, but prefer to eat glass eel-level eel fry directly. They consume at least hundreds of tons of glass eels every year. However, the glass eels they consume belong to the Atlantic eel, and the main production area is in the Horsetail Sea in the North Atlantic.
In recent years, with global climate change, overfishing, and environmental pollution, not only the catch of wild Pacific eel fry has been greatly reduced, but Atlantic eels have also been unable to escape the poisonous hands of humans.
As the catch of wild eel fry continues to decline, prices naturally rise every year.
Under this circumstance, after hearing that some Asian companies have developed eel artificial breeding technology, it will naturally attract related companies to seek cooperation.
Jiang Miao estimated the company's current eel fry production scale.
The breeding base can produce about 60.8 million glass eels every month, which is equivalent to a weight of about 6 tons, and about 72 tons a year.
However, indoor breeding farms are being gradually renovated recently, and two layers of overhead breeding ponds will be added to increase the production capacity density per unit area.
Through this transformation, by around August this year, Hailufeng's glass eel production capacity will increase to about 18 tons per month.
This production capacity is just right, neither too much nor too little.
According to his understanding, the monthly production of glass eels planned by Kagoshima Eel Company is not high, only about 15 to 20 million per month.
The main reason why there are so few is that Kagoshima Unagi is worried that other companies' imitative technologies will lead to the inability to recoup their investment, so they dare not blindly expand the scale.
After all, land, materials, labor, water and electricity costs are relatively high in Japan, and blindly expanding investment is too risky.
In fact, the Kagoshima eel company has a monthly output of 15 million to 20 million fish, which can almost capture about 70% of the Japanese market. After more than three months of sales, they have sold at least tens of millions of dollars worth of eels. Eel fry.
Judging from the current situation, Kagoshima Eel Company estimates that it will most likely not choose to expand blindly before it earns back 30 million in technology licensing fees.
After all, Kagoshima Eel Company is very aware of its own production costs and has no way to compete with Kailufeng Company in the international market. Watanabe Junichi feels that taking 70% of Japan's eel fry market is the limit of their company.
As for why it is not a 100% market.
Of course, this is because there are also farms that catch wild glass eels themselves, or purchase eel fry from Hailufeng Company.
This is also the reason why Jiang Miao was willing to license technology to Kagoshima Eel Company in the first place, because the other party had no way of threatening the international market of Hailufeng Company.
As for Brown Company, they are still conducting technical verification recently, and it is estimated that they will not be put into large-scale production until the end of this year. The other party has also informed Hailufeng Company of its planned production capacity, which is to produce 5 to 10 tons of eel fry every month.
As for why production capacity is not increased, everyone is tacitly aware of it.
Because this production capacity is just right, plus some wild eel fry, it can just meet the demand for eel fry in various markets around the world.
If it is higher than this scale, it will inevitably lead to a collapse of market prices.
Why expand production capacity if we can maintain high prices with small quantities?
Are you asking for trouble?
Jiang Miao looked at the market research report in his hand and could clearly see the consumption of eel fry around the world.
Last year, a total of about 190 tons of eel fry were consumed in the world, including 33 tons (edible) in North America, 76 tons (edible) in the European Union, 8 tons (edible) in other regions, and 73 tons (cultured) in East Asia.
Among them, 7 tons were artificially bred and 183 tons were caught wild.
This year, this situation will inevitably be reversed. The production capacity of artificially bred eel fry will soon exceed the scale of wild fishing.
Hailufeng Company produces 18 tons of eel fry every month and 216 tons a year.
This production capacity needs to meet the mainland's annual demand for 50 to 60 tons of eel fry, and this market is still growing; Ryukyu also needs about 5 tons of eel fry; in addition, the Japanese market also needs to purchase 10 tons from Hailufeng Company Eel fry left and right.
The remaining more than 100 tons of eel fry will be sold to Europe and the United States, because they eat eel fry directly, and their consumption is even larger.
As for why European and American trading companies are willing to buy, the reason is naturally profitable.
In America, the retail price of glass eels can reach about 5,000 knives per kilogram, equivalent to 35,000 Chinese yuan.
The retail price of glass eels in Western Europe is around 3,500 euros per kilogram, equivalent to 27,000 Chinese yuan.
The continuous decline in wild eel catches and the increasing intensity of animal protection in Western Europe have caused a major headache for many companies operating high-end aquatic products.
Now some well-informed related companies have learned that Asia's Hailufeng Company has developed artificial eel breeding technology, so they are ready to take action.
In fact, Brown Company also placed an order with Hailufeng Company, purchasing 500 kilograms of glass eels every month and flying them directly back to Western Europe for sale.
However, the production expansion was not completed in the past few months, and orders were not fully executed until June.
Jiang Miao knew that related companies in Europe and the United States would come to place orders for eel fry one after another.
This made my brother-in-law, who was a little worried about overcapacity, feel relieved and continue to focus on expanding production.
Putting down the market research report in his hand, Jiang Miao knew that the domestic market was almost saturated. He raised his head and ordered: "Jiahao, your International Trade Office must take the initiative and focus on Europe and the United States. As for the Southeast Asian market, don't worry too much for the time being. .”
"Yes, boss, we have recruited a group of salespeople who can speak English, French, and Spanish, and are looking for ways to open up the European and American markets." Huang Jiahao agreed with Jiang Miao's judgment.
Although there are eel farms in Southeast Asia, they mainly buy wild eel fry or catch wild eel fry themselves, and the scale is less than one-tenth of that in China. This kind of market is really useless.
The Xiyuan Consortium in South Korea sent people to inquire about the price, but when they heard that Hailufeng Company was unwilling to lower the price and make profits, these sticks turned around and left. They would rather buy wild eel fry in the international market than buy Hailufeng. The company's eel fry.
It was as if Hailufeng Company had lost their market and was about to go bankrupt.
In fact, Jiang Miao doesn't like the market for sticks. After all, the scale of breeding in South Korea is limited, only about one percent of that in the country. He can't purchase one ton of eel fry a year. This is a far bigger market, and he is still dreaming about getting discounts. , I just want to eat shit.
When Jiang Miao thought of the Xiyuan Consortium, he remembered one more thing.
That is Anye Fishery Company, who came over to bribe his brother-in-law some time ago and secretly obtained the "confidential feed formula". It seems that he has a close relationship with the president of the Xiyuan Consortium.
He knew that the two parties were closely related, but he still found a secret hidden folder in Jiang Anye's mobile phone, and found the reason for the close relationship between the two parties.
Jiang Anye saved the life of the other party's son, and with so many years of cooperation, the relationship was maintained.
When he thought of this, Jiang Miao decided to take time out at night to investigate the Xiyuan Consortium. After all, the other party also had a high-end indoor breeding farm specializing in eel cultivation, and had a close relationship with Jiang Anye. Maybe the two parties had some connection.
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After chatting with Huang Jiahao for a while, his phone rang.
"Boss, you are busy, so I will go out first."
"Yeah."
Jiang Miao took the phone and looked at the phone number. She saw a familiar yet slightly unfamiliar number. Then long-lost memories came to her mind and she pressed answer:
"Hey, rat."
"Sanshui, didn't I disturb you?"
"No! But you kid hasn't contacted me for a long time. How have you been lately?" Jiang Miao asked with a smile.
The person on the other side of the phone replied with the same smile: "It's not the same as before. I'm working as an agricultural technician at the Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in my hometown."
"Did you suddenly come to me because you encountered difficulties? How much money do you need?" Jiang Miao asked very directly.
Because the relationship between the two is very good, they were close friends in college. During his sophomore year, he encountered an object falling from a height and was knocked unconscious. It was the other party who took him to the hospital, paid for the medical expenses in advance, and took care of him. Many weeks.
"Hahaha, you are rich now." The other person on the phone laughed, and after a while: "I came to you this time for something, but it's not about money."
"Oh? What is that? Are you married?"
"You are so unkind, you didn't even invite me over for a wedding banquet even after we got married."
"Shuya doesn't want to trouble you. After all, we are worlds apart."
"Okay, okay, let's get down to business."
"I'm listening..."
"That's right. Didn't you give me a few boxes of strawberries some time ago?" "That's what happened."
“I don’t want to work within the system recently and plan to start my own business.”
"Are you sure? Have you discussed it with your family?"
"Not yet."
"Then what are you going to do? It won't be agriculture, right?"
"What else can it be besides agriculture? After all, my major is agriculture!"
"What about the direction?"
"Growing strawberries, didn't you develop three new varieties of strawberries? You should sell seedlings, right?"
"Strawberries? Are you planning to grow strawberries in your hometown, Lianhua County?"
"Yeah? Is there any problem?"
"I don't really recommend it. My strawberries focus on high prices. The core consumer group is in the Pearl River Delta. Your hometown doesn't have such a large consumer group, so you can only use e-commerce platforms. This is difficult to develop in the early stage."
"Uh... let me think about it again!"
"Actually, I have a proposal. I wonder if you are interested."
"Sanshui, stop showing off."
“Grow Camellia oleifera!”
"What is it? Camellia oleifera? No dog breeds this thing!" Mouse's words were full of disgust.
In fact, it’s not surprising that mice bury the Camellia oleifera so much.
Mainly, Camellia oleifera does have a lot of shortcomings.
To be precise, the shortcomings and advantages should be very obvious.
The advantage is that tea seed oil pressed from camellia seeds is a top-grade vegetable oil that is better than olive oil. It is rich in nutrients, relatively storage-resistant, has a relatively high smoke point, and has a better oleic acid composition.
Long-term consumption of tea seed oil is beneficial to preventing or improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
The shortcomings are also obvious. The planting cycle of Camellia oleifera is relatively long, the yield per mu is very low, and the oil yield of tea seeds is also relatively low.
This may not be intuitive enough.
Taking a camellia oleifera garden also in Gan Province as an example, a company called Shengke Ecological Agriculture has a 1,000-acre camellia oleifera base in Huangsha Town, Xiushui County: the specific planting scale is 1,500 acres of camellia oleifera (with fruit), which can be picked every year There are 370,000 kilograms of fresh fruits and 18,000 kilograms of oil.
If calculated based on 1,500 acres, the yield of fresh camellia fruit per mu is about 250 kilograms, and only 12 kilograms of tea seed oil can be squeezed out of each mu of camellia produced.
Even if the wholesale price of a kilogram of tea seed oil can reach hundreds of dollars, the value of the yield per mu is only a pitiful little more than a thousand dollars.
In addition, Camellia oleifera is difficult to mechanize and must be harvested manually. After deducting fertilizers, pesticides, land rent, equipment depreciation and other expenses, the value of the output per mu is only more than 1,000 yuan, and the loss will definitely be lost to grandma's family.
If not managed, a semi-wild Camellia oleifera tree can produce up to more than 100 kilograms of fresh fruit per mu. In a bad year, the harvest may even fail.
No wonder no one cares about Camellia oleifera cultivation.
As for those posts and videos on the Internet that boast that the yield per mu can reach 300 to 400 kilograms and that the oil yield of camellia seeds can reach 50%, just take a look. If you really believe it, you will be in trouble.
For example, a post described a large camellia planter with an annual output of 300,000 tons of camellia seed oil.
You must know that the current domestic tea seed oil production capacity is only more than one million tons per year, but your household produces 300,000 tons? You really think everyone is a fool!
Naturally, the seed companies are behind the emergence of such exaggerated content.
Those large households who were deceived into growing camellia oleifera are better off. After all, they are all wealthy people and can afford to lose millions. In addition, some areas are subsidized for growing camellia oleifera.
But those farmers with small households are the ones who are really being screwed.
Of course, some Camellia oleifera gardens that use fine varieties, fertile soil, and adequate water and fertilizer management will indeed be able to achieve a yield of 300 to 400 kilograms of fresh fruit per mu after entering the fruiting period in the fifth year.
Jiang Miao, who was on the phone, continued to smile and said: "Mouse, I have a new variety of Camellia oleifera here. If you are interested, you can consider it."
"New variety? Real or fake?" Mouse was a little surprised.
"It's a wild camellia camellia with large fruit. I felt that the potential is still good, so I did some research and hybridization. If you are interested, you can plant it on more than ten acres first." Although Jiang Miao does not have a new variety of camellia oleifera on hand, But he said with confidence.
"Experimental variety?"
"Well, don't resign just yet. Growing Camellia oleifera doesn't require much management anyway, and there are local subsidies. It will be more convenient for you to work at the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau. You can work while planting, and name the plantation under your parents' name. It’s not too late to resign when there are benefits in the future.”
"Okay! I'll think about it."
"Well, if you think about it, call me directly."
"Okay, get busy first!"
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Miao picked up the landline and called Wang Feng from the purchasing department, asking him to purchase a batch of common varieties of Camellia oleifera fruits as soon as possible. Each variety must be purchased at least five tons.
In fact, the potential of Camellia oleifera is not small.
Especially Jiang Miao in the hands of such a cheating player.
The shortcomings of current Camellia oleifera varieties are mainly in terms of yield.
Regardless of the high-yielding varieties of Camellia oleifera, the yield of fresh fruits per mu can reach three to four hundred kilograms, and the oil content of tea seeds can reach 50%. In fact, they have no egg use.
Because for every kilogram of fresh Camellia oleifera fruit, only about one-tenth is tea seeds.
In other words, the yield of camellia seeds per mu is only 30 to 40 kilograms, and the oil yield is 50%. Only ten or twenty kilograms of camellia seed oil can be squeezed out.
Therefore, his direction in selecting Camellia oleifera varieties is also very clear, that is, to select mutant varieties with a relatively high seed content, and secondly, to select varieties with a relatively high fresh fruit yield.
As long as the tea seed yield per mu can reach more than 100 kilograms, Camellia oleifera cultivation will become profitable.
Of course, Jiang Miao will not just select high-yield and multiple seeds, but also need to take into account characteristics such as oil quality, growth cycle, cold and drought tolerance, disease resistance, and dwarfism.
This is an excellent Camellia oleifera variety.
As for the problem of inconvenient harvesting, it is because the yield of Camellia oleifera per mu is not large enough, and the relevant agricultural machinery companies have not invested in the development of related harvesting machines.
If a high-yielding Camellia oleifera variety emerges, relevant agricultural machinery companies can be commissioned to develop Camellia oleifera fruit harvesting machines.
Similar to the vibrating harvester of pistachios, it can be applied to the harvesting of Camellia oleifera fruits.
As long as there is profit and market, agricultural machinery companies will even take the initiative to develop related equipment.
The creation of new varieties of Camellia oleifera was not Jiang Miao's whim, but that he had always had related plans, but he had not spoken out before.
Although the current domestic supply of grain and edible oils is relatively sufficient, a large part of production capacity relies on raw materials from the international market to achieve sufficient supply.
And there is a problem that many people are not aware of.
That is, vegetable oils are also divided into three, six or nine grades, especially the type of oleic acid, the proportion of various oleic acids, trace elements, vitamins, etc. Each vegetable oil is different.
Among vegetable oils, tea seed oil is the king of oils, and olive oil is the queen of oils.
Pressed peanut oil, canola oil, avocado oil, and sunflower oil are basically in the middle, not too good, but not too bad either.
Soybean oil, coconut oil, palm oil, and flaxseed oil are relatively poor oils.
Why is flaxseed oil, which seems so healthy, listed among the worse?
The reason is that flaxseed oil goes rancid easily, and its low smoke point is not conducive to high-temperature cooking.
Therefore, Jiang Miao has long had relevant plans in mind to develop high-yielding varieties of camellia oleifera, so that domestic people can eat tea seed oil that is cheap, high-quality, and beneficial to health.
At present, the country needs 38 to 40 million tons of edible oil every year, but the annual output of tea seed oil is only 1 million tons, which cannot meet the national demand at all.
If tea seed oil production capacity can be increased by 10 times, a large part of the soybean oil market can basically be squeezed out.
(End of chapter)