Chapter 148 Unexpected Harvest (Medium Cup)
Returning to the old place, it is another year when the warblers are flying and the grass is growing.
Under the Lion Rock, the scenery is the same as before.
Looking at the young students, Jiang Miao held Shuya's hand and couldn't help but sigh: "It's great to be young. In the blink of an eye, we are almost 30 years old."
Shuya touched her belly with a warm smile on her face: "Yes, it's good to be young."
Teacher Li, who was accompanying the two of them, asked with a smile: "Amiao, I see that your company has expanded quite a lot this year! Will there be any pressure?"
The reason why the school knows this is mainly because Hailufeng Company has launched large-scale recruitment at Lion Mountain Agricultural University and other agricultural universities since October last year. After completing the autumn recruitment, the spring recruitment started, and then the spring recruitment.
Shizishan Agricultural University alone has recruited nearly 150 people.
With such a large recruitment scale, the school management naturally guessed that Hailufeng Company was expanding rapidly.
That's why Teacher Li asked with concern. He was mainly worried about the financial pressure of Hailufeng Company. After all, as a teacher, Teacher Li also hoped that Jiang Miao and Hailufeng Company could develop smoothly and not die halfway.
"Thank you, teacher, for your concern. Our company currently has no problem with funding. This year, we will receive more than 3 billion in technology licensing fees, which is enough to support the company's various projects."
"More than three billion in technology licensing fees?" Teacher Li was also shocked.
Jiang Miao explained with a smile: "It is the Egyptian pond lice fish meal technology. At present, other domestic feed manufacturers have fully followed up."
There is nothing secretive about this matter.
After all, the Feed Association has issued an internal announcement. As long as you investigate carefully, you can easily find out the technical licensing fee paid by Hailufeng Company to the Feed Association. For every ton of Egyptian pond lice fish meal produced, Hailufeng Company will pay a patent fee of 800 yuan. .
The reason why it was changed to be under the name of the Feed Association and then authorized to other feed manufacturers was mainly to cope with the WTO's anti-subsidy investigation.
Although these patent fees will not go through the feed association's account, but will be paid directly by the manufacturer to Hailufeng Company, there is a certain difference between the two in essence.
During the WTO's anti-dumping and countervailing investigations, if Hailufeng Company did not have this supplementary agreement with the Feed Association, then when the fishmeal price falls below 5,200 yuan per ton, the association's compensation to Hailufeng Company for the difference would constitute a subsidy.
The current situation is equivalent to the association purchasing a technology license from Hailufeng Company, and then licensing the technology to domestic feed manufacturers. This is commercial behavior. Anyway, the patent fee signed between Hailufeng Company and the Feed Association is a fixed amount. The price reduction during the second authorization of the association is the loss (subsidy) of the feed association.
Of course, the feed association also makes a profit. They will receive a technical service fee of 10 yuan per ton from the feed manufacturers, which can earn tens of millions every year.
Although Teacher Li was shocked by the technology licensing fee of Hailufeng Company, he was also happy for Jiang Miao: "It's good if there is no pressure. After all, college students are under great employment pressure now. You can absorb more college students and reduce the pressure on the school."
"Teacher, Shuya has to raise a baby this year, and I have to manage a business, so we will not recruit doctoral students for the time being this year. However, there was a doctoral student in the Wudaokou Medical Experimental Class before, and he will apply for Shuya's doctoral student through the school's relationship."
Teacher Li first expressed his understanding, and then looked a little surprised: "A doctoral student in the medical experimental class of PBC University? A Ph.D. transferred to Shuya? Although Shuya studied medicinal fungi before, but now he is not engaged in the field of edible fungi? That medical Do doctoral students want to study edible fungi instead?”
Jiang Miao explained the situation succinctly: "No, I am studying for a double doctoral degree. The student has almost reached the graduation standard at Union Medical College Hospital and can apply for graduation next year. She wants to study gene therapy technology. Shuya and I happen to be the same. She is familiar with her, so since she was introduced by my friend, I decided to take her in. ”
"I see. It's not a big problem. With your current influence, the school will respect your choice." Teacher Li felt that the school would most likely not object.
After all, the doctoral supervisor of their school recruited a doctoral student from Pudaokou University, which would be very flattering to the public.
afternoon.
Jiang Miao and Shuya accepted the honorary doctorate certificates, the letters of appointment as distinguished professors and doctoral supervisors issued by the school in the auditorium organized by the school, and then they went on stage to deliver a speech.
Fierce applause erupted from time to time in the assembly hall.
Bang bang bang…
On the terrace seats, several agriculture-related students were listening to Jiang Miao's speech and talking quietly.
"Nice! Xiao Zi, are you really not going to go to Hailufeng Company?" A chubby boy with a round face asked in a low voice.
The boy wearing glasses next to him smiled and shook his head: "My hometown is in Gansu Province, and I want to go back to my hometown to start a business."
Xiaopang felt sorry for the boy with glasses: "That's such a pity. I have already submitted my resume and am being notified of interviews, but I think it should be easy. As long as you perform well in school, Hailufeng Company will generally not refuse."
"Little Fatty, what position are you applying for?" Another boy wearing invisible braces asked curiously.
"Of course I am going to work as an agricultural technician in the Monan Branch. I am a fellow Khan." Xiaopang replied with a smile.
The man with braces joked: "I almost forgot, you are the fellow of that damn rat."
"But it's strange. Isn't Hailufeng Company's main business engaged in aquatic products and edible fungi? What does this Monan branch do?" The man with glasses looked curious.
“I heard it’s a desert agriculture project.”
"What?" The man with glasses raised his voice suddenly.
"Ahem!" A teacher in the front row turned around and reminded them to pay attention to the etiquette of the venue.
The man with glasses lowered his head with a sneer, then pulled the chubby boy and the man with braces, lowered his head and asked in a low voice.
"Little Fatty, is the Monan Branch of Hailufeng Company really engaged in a desert agriculture project?"
"Why are you lying to me? There is a project introduction on their official website, but I don't know the details."
Xiao Zi, the man with glasses, looked hesitant.
Seemingly sensing the bespectacled man's hesitation, Xiaopang advised: "It's too difficult for you to start a business back home. You might as well work at Hailufeng Company for a few years to accumulate experience. If you really want to start a business, then resign and go back. At least You can save a lot of money.”
The troubled bespectacled man was thinking about his future plans. Although his family had dozens of acres of land, it was still unknown whether his parents would support him. During his college years, he had only managed to save through work-study and summer jobs. 40,000 yuan, and the most the family can support him is 100,000 yuan, which adds up to only 140,000 yuan.
It is obviously not easy to start a business with this little money.
After thinking about it, he felt that Xiaopang's proposal was good. If he could work in Hailufeng Company for a few years to accumulate experience and save money at the same time, if his work in Hailufeng Company did not go well, it would not be too late to go back and start a business. .
"I decided to go back and write my resume later. Xiaopang, lend me your resume template for reference."
"No problem."
Unknowingly, Jiang Miao and Shuya had finished their speeches.
Amid the envious looks and enthusiastic applause of all the students, Jiang Miao ended his speech.
After this meeting is over.
Principal Yan and other school leaders invited Jiang Miao and his wife to the office, where they discussed the two projects for which Hailufeng Company applied for the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
"Professor Jiang, the internal review of your company's two projects has ended. They both won first prize. They will be officially announced in June. Congratulations."
"Oh? That's really flattering." Jiang Miao originally thought it would be the second prize.
Professor Zhang, dean of the School of Fisheries, smiled and gave Jiang Miao an insider tip: "Originally, the review committee planned to give the first prize for eel artificial propagation technology and the second prize for white truffle artificial cultivation technology, but later the Feed Association decided Academician Liu, coupled with the support of the Lingnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, promoted the white truffle cultivation technology to the first prize. ”
"That's it." Shuya suddenly realized that she knew that her project might not win the first prize, mainly because the artificial cultivation technology of white truffles was currently monopolized by Hailufeng Company, and there was no entire industry chain.
But the artificial eel breeding technology is different.
The continuous and stable supply of eel fry by Hailufeng Company has enabled the domestic eel breeding industry to no longer be limited by the amount of wild eel fry caught, while also reducing the breeding costs of farmers.
In addition, the supporting eel fast-growing feed formula and eel geosynthetic feed formula further reduce the breeding cost and further expand the eel market audience.
According to statistics from the Fisheries Association.
Since September last year, the market share of eels without earthy smell has skyrocketed, and the retail price is also higher than that of ordinary eels, averaging 10 to 15 yuan per kilogram higher.
As of early March this year, the proportion of eels without earthy smell has reached 57%. It is estimated that by the end of this year, ordinary eels with earthy smell will be completely eliminated.
Only industries related to the industrial chain and involving a large number of farmers are eligible to win the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. Jiang Miao looked at Professor Ke, Dean of the School of Botany: "Professor Ke, my wife wants to recruit a doctoral student from the medical experimental class of PBC University this year. I hope the school can provide support."
"Teacher Li told me and Principal Yan about this at noon. In principle, there is no problem." Professor Ke nodded.
"Thank you very much for the school's help."
"You're welcome." Professor Ke asked curiously: "Professor Jiang, I heard that your company has recently invested in desert agriculture in Monan? We should be more cautious in this regard. Professor Yi's team at Yuzhou Jiaotong University has rich experience in desert transformation. , but the cost remains high.”
This is related to Professor Ke’s research field. He mainly studies land use changes, farmland protection and utilization, and optimal allocation of land space.
However, his research area is mainly the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. As a professional, Professor Ke is very aware of the current status of domestic desert agriculture.
Although the desert soilization project of Yuzhou Jiaotong University is very impressive, Professor Ke, as an industry insider, knows that the problem with desert soilization technology is not that the technology is not good, but that the cost is too high. At the same time, it needs to be used in deserts with relatively abundant precipitation. , or where there is irrigation water nearby, it can be promoted.
At present, the team's desert soilization technology does not include the cost of land leveling, agricultural equipment, etc. It simply uses special soil adhesives. The cost of consumables per mu of desert is 2,000 to 3,000 yuan.
You should know that if the desert is leveled and valuable for transformation, plus land rent, agricultural equipment, agricultural irrigation water, harvesting and seedlings, the cost per acre is about 500 to 700 (not counting the individual labor input of farmers).
Obviously, the renovation cost of 2,000 to 3,000 yuan per mu is too high.
Taking planting soybeans in Monan as an example, the average yield of ordinary soybeans per mu is about 120 kilograms, and the purchasing price is 3.6 to 4.3 yuan per kilogram. Calculated at the highest price, the income from soybeans per mu is only 516 yuan; if it encounters the lowest price, One acre of soybeans is only 432 yuan.
Of course, some well-managed soybeans can reach more than 180 kilograms.
But this still doesn't make much money.
It can be seen that it is still very difficult to get farmers or agricultural companies to invest in desert soilization projects.
The main reason is that agriculture is not profitable, and the cost of investment is too high, which lengthens the payback cycle, and in the end you may lose everything.
Unless there are official subsidies or the cost of desert soil transformation technology drops to about one thousand yuan, it will be difficult for this technology to be promoted in the near future.
It was precisely because Professor Ke knew this that he specifically reminded Jiang Miao to control the scale of investment to avoid heavy losses.
"Thank you, Professor Ke, for the reminder. Our project does use desert land for planting, but our idea is different from the Yuzhou Jiaotong University team. We start from the seeds themselves and cultivate crops that can adapt to deserts and saline-alkali lands."< br>
Hearing Jiang Miao's explanation, Professor Ke's eyes were full of surprise: "It seems that Professor Jiang has achieved certain results, otherwise he would not invest so much."
"We have indeed achieved certain results. We have carried out small-scale planting in artificially simulated saline-alkali land and sandy land, and obtained good data."
Although he did not know the specific results of Hailufeng Company, Professor Ke still chose to give his blessing: "Then I also wish Professor Jiang and Hailufeng Company a successful start."
"Haha, thank you."
While chatting, Professor Zhang suddenly interrupted.
"Professor Jiang, there is a project here at the Fisheries College. I wonder if Hailufeng Company is interested."
Jiang Miao asked with a smile: "Professor Zhang just said it doesn't matter."
Professor Zhang quickly introduced to him: "This is how it is. Last year, a professor in our college led several students to conduct research on the breeding of Yangtze Chinese carp. They found that after using the Egyptian pond lice No. 4 feed produced by your company, the growth rate It has become much faster. After about four months of breeding, the body length has reached about 50 centimeters and the weight has reached about 2 kilograms. ”
"Oh? Yangtze River Catfish? It's the Yangtze River Catfish of the Catfish family, right?" Jiang Miao instantly searched for relevant information from his memory.
"That's right, it's the river catfish." Professor Zhang smiled and nodded.
Jiang Miao thought for a while: "Feed No. 4 is designed for Egyptian pond lice. River catfish are also members of the catfish family. Their genes are very similar. It is reasonable for the feed to produce effects."
"Although the professor and several students discovered this, they didn't know the specific mechanism. I heard that Professor Jiang was coming over today. He was entrusted to me and wanted to discuss cooperation with Hailufeng Company."
"Okay, let's do it tonight!"
"Okay, I'll inform him later."
In the evening, Jiang Miao had a meal with the school leaders.
I met the professor in the administrative building of the Fisheries College.
In addition to Professor Zhang, the dean who connected the two, Professor Li, who conducted the research project, and his three students.
Professor Li's three students looked at Jiang Miao with surprise and admiration in their eyes. If the dean and the teacher were not there, they would all want to ask Jiang Miao for an autograph and a photo.
After sitting down, one of the boys took the initiative to pour tea for several people.
Jiang Miao expressed her feelings directly: "Professor Li, I took the time to look at your project in the afternoon. It is indeed of great research value."
"Being favored by Professor Jiang, it seems that our research is not in vain." Professor Li's face suddenly lit up with joy.
The two parties exchanged views on the research status of river catfish.
Although there are still wild river catfishes at present, the large-sized river catfishes are basically extinct.
The characteristics of the river catfish are that it has two beards and its whole body is green in color. The body color of the river catfish that grows in some areas with muddy river water is grayish-yellow with gray spots. It is larger in size. The largest individual can grow up to one hundred pounds and nearly two meters. long.
You read that right, it can reach nearly two meters in length and weigh up to one hundred kilograms.
This also resulted in the large-sized catfish in the Yangtze River being basically wiped out when there was no fishing ban season.
At present, artificially cultured river catfish can grow to 40 to 50 centimeters long and 1.5 to 2 kilograms in a relatively good breeding environment and with reasonable feed in a breeding cycle of about two years.
It can be seen from here that the potential of river catfish is huge.
Although the Egyptian pond lice can be cultured in the Yangtze River Basin, the Egyptian pond lice is an invasive alien species after all. In addition, the Yangtze River basin may freeze, which will cause the Egyptian pond lice to die or stop growing.
The native river catfish can adapt to the climate of the Yangtze River Basin.
If the growth rate of river catfish can be made to reach the level of Egyptian pond lice, and the breeding cost can be similar to that of Egyptian pond lice, then this fish can become the foundation of the aquatic industry in the Yangtze River Basin.
And this is entirely possible.
Because there are genes for super-large size in the genes of river catfish, as long as we know the gene targets that stimulate growth and feed them with special feed, we can make them grow quickly.
Jiang Miao talked with Professor Li and others for more than two hours.
In the end, Jiang Miao made the decision that Hailufeng Company would invest 50 million yuan in their project team, investing in installments over five years to conduct research on the rapid growth of river catfish.
The research results are jointly held by Hailufeng Company, Shizishan Agricultural University, and Professor Li’s team. If the patent generates income, the three parties will account for 66% of the revenue distribution, 66% of the revenue will be distributed to Hailufeng Company, 15% of the school, and 19% of Professor Li’s team.
For this kind of research, Jiang Miao does not plan to do it himself.
After all, Hailufeng Company already has an Egyptian pond lice breeding technology, and there is duplication of technology in the river catfish project.
Therefore, this project can be invested, but Jiang Miao will not take action personally, lest he have to produce a low-priced and high-yield catfish all at once, which will have an impact on the Egyptian pond lice industry of Hailufeng Company, at least in the short term of this project. It is not suitable for promotion.
Professor Li's team did not think too much. They only thought that this time they would be prosperous. Even if the project was supervised by personnel from Hailufeng Company, they could obtain a lot of benefits through reasonable methods.
What's more, if the research yields results, there are still patent fees to be collected.
The next day, early in the morning, Jiang Miao said goodbye to Shuya, and five security personnel escorted Shuya back to Shanmei by high-speed rail.
And Jiang Miao took the high-speed train to the Monan branch.
(End of chapter)