Chapter 158 Drought (Medium Cup)
After the pandan strawberry powder tasting session, the sales department did not receive many orders at once.
However, many high-end Western pastry shops and high-end Western restaurants have said that if the effect of pandan strawberry powder can be comparable to that of pandan pods, then they will order from Hailufeng Company.
However, they also made a small request, that is, they hope that Hailufeng Company can produce small packages of pandan strawberry powder.
This is actually very normal.
5 kilograms of pandan strawberry powder is equivalent to 50 kilograms of vanilla paste. Even if you are pursuing a rich vanilla flavor, one kilogram of vanilla ice cream only needs 1 gram of pandan strawberry powder. 5 kilograms of pandan strawberry powder can make 5 tons. A very rich vanilla flavored ice cream.
It is difficult for high-end Western restaurants, high-end Western pastry shops or Western bakeries to consume 5 kilograms of pandan and strawberry powder in a short period of time.
So launching small packages is a must.
After receiving feedback from the sales department, Xie Guangsha, director of the strawberry processing plant, immediately started the small packaging production line.
This small packaging production line can produce small packages of 3 specifications, namely 50g, 200g and 500g.
Moreover, small packages of pandan and strawberry powder are not only available in powder form, but also in granular form.
Granular pandan strawberry beans, each one is a standard 1 gram, which is designed for convenient use.
After entering April, the production capacity of pandan strawberry greenhouses and strawberry processing plants has been arranged step by step, and an average of about 100 tons of pandan strawberry powder can be produced every month.
Even if it only produces 100 tons per month, with a wholesale price of 3.5 million per ton, it can earn 350 million yuan in revenue every month.
This is the power of luxury goods and monopoly industries.
The typical top luxury goods industry is low cost, small scale, high revenue and high profit.
At present, Hailufeng Company owns three similar industries, namely white truffle, eel fry, and pandan strawberry powder.
Similar to feed, fish and meat products, and fruits, they all need to be large-scale to achieve high revenue, and at the same time, the gross profit is not high.
at the same time.
Qin Xingzu, the network department manager of Hailufeng Company and the former head of the APP development office, is checking the internal testing of the Hailufeng franchise store APP.
Li Yu, the head of the APP testing office, took a sip of vanilla lemon tea: "Manager, during the current internal testing process, the 17 problems reported back have been initially rectified."
"The scale of internal testing will continue to expand." Qin Xingzu ordered after looking at the report.
Li Yu replied in embarrassment: "Still expanding? But all the company's employees have downloaded it. Do we need a small-scale public beta?"
However, Qin Xingzu did not think there was any difficulty in this matter: "Let the HR department help and mobilize employees to recommend our APP to their relatives."
"Is this so? It should be possible." Li Yu also thought this was a good idea.
Now, the number of employees of Hailufeng Company has expanded to a whole new level.
There are currently nearly 500 people in the more than a dozen departments of this department (including reserve management), plus more than 100 intern clerks, a total of 674 people.
Major business departments: 488 people in the aquatic products business department; 994 people in the planting business department; 275 people in the feed business department; 312 people in the physical business department; 124 people in the e-commerce business department; and 187 people in the science and technology business department.
Branch offices: 249 people in Qiongzhou Branch, 3281 people in Gannan Branch, and 755 people in Monan Branch.
Wholly-owned subsidiary: Hero Dairy has 857 employees.
Joint venture companies: Hailufeng Real Estate has 177 employees; Xinlekang Pharmaceutical Company has 206 employees; United Mining has 143 employees.
The total number of employees in the entire Hailufeng department is 8,722
In terms of labor expenses alone, Hailufeng Company spends hundreds of millions of yuan every month.
Among them, the reason why the Gannan branch has such a large number of employees is mainly because there are too many farm workers. There are more than 200,000 acres of Camellia oleifera plantation, plus supporting alfalfa planting industries, pasture processing industries, etc., with more than 3,000 employees, they have already adopted Only with the help of a large number of machines can normal operation be maintained.
Sometimes when there are urgent tasks to be completed within a short period of time, local farmers must be temporarily recruited as part-time workers.
This is the helplessness of arbor crops.
Therefore, Qin Xingzu asked the human resources department to help recommend the company's APP among employees' relatives. There was no problem at all.
The total number of relatives and friends of more than 8,000 employees is at least tens of thousands. Only with so many people participating in the internal testing can we discover as many system vulnerabilities as possible in the APP and provide reference for subsequent rectification and optimization. In addition, there are also users’ User experience is also very important.
The previously shelved fruit phone system version has also been developed, mainly because the network department currently has sufficient manpower.
As for Hailufeng Company’s specialty store APP, the shopping software referred to is Pinxixi.
The main feature is simple and clear, and it occupies very little system memory, even smaller than Pinxixi.
This is also very normal.
The APP of Hailufeng Specialty Store only sells Hailufeng's own products. The company currently sells eel fry, white truffles, morels, Egyptian pond lice meat products, eel products, tomatoes, ginseng fruits, strawberries, feed, fish oil, honey, and more. Serve a variety of prepared dishes.
Next, there are pineapples, mangoes, lychees, longans, and jackfruit produced by the Qiongzhou branch.
Gannan Branch produces tea seed oil, tea seed cake and various extracts; alfalfa hay and other pastures, etc.
Hero Dairy produces large packages of milk powder, cream, whey protein powder, butter, yogurt, pure milk, culled cow meat, cow dung fermented soil, etc.
Monan Branch produces soybeans, yellow beef, small-tailed Han sheep and mutton, cattle and sheep dung fermented soil, artificial nutritional soil, leguminous pasture, etc.
These are Hailufeng's own products.
Therefore, there is no need to consider connecting to other merchants’ accounts. You only need to consider the customer’s account, the company’s product interface, etc. This can naturally make the APP very small.
Jiang Miao has no plans to do any finance on the specialty store APP, just make it a pure shopping APP.
With the theme framed by the boss, the network department led by Qin Xingzu followed the attitude of working slowly and carefully, and it only took about four months to get the first version of the APP.
Of course, considering that it is our own APP, there are only dozens of products in the store, so the art office of the network department has designed many exquisite interfaces and product introductions.
Jiang Miao was also worried that people in the network department could not write product introductions well, so he specifically ordered the technology department, market research department, and legal department to strengthen cooperation with the network department and study every detail carefully.
After all, the company's product introduction must be legal and compliant, taking into account reasonable product testing data, product ingredient lists, and beautiful advertising slogans. These are not things that can be handled by the network department alone.
For example, those advertising words that expand the efficacy of products and promote the medical effects of products cannot be used in food advertising words.
These require the cooperation of professionals.
In addition to developing specialty store APPs, the Network Department is also advancing other APP projects.
Although Jiang Miao paid close attention, he did not immediately point out the various loopholes in the store APP. After a while, he sent the various loopholes in the store APP to the network department as "Jiang Miao's friend".
This can not only train the team, but also ensure that there will be no major loopholes in the APP.
However, Jiang Miao was not in the mood to care about the network department at this time, because the company encountered an unexpected trouble.
drought!
After the Qingming Festival, there was still no rain in various parts of Lingnan, or there were not even a few rains exceeding 10 millimeters in the entire southern region.
Jiang Miao looked at the data collected from meteorological departments of various countries and frowned: "It seems that this year is another El Niño year."
"El Niño?" Shuya, who was also helping Jiang Miao process documents in the office, raised her head: "Didn't it already happen last year?"
"Yes! This year's Peruvian cold current seawater temperature is still higher than in previous years. Although it is not as extreme as last year, it is still not conducive to sardine fishing in Peru's fisheries. The extreme weather in recent years has become increasingly weird and unpredictable." Jiang Miao rubbed his hands. Temple: “Originally I thought this year would be a La Nina year, but I didn’t expect it would be an El Nino year.”
"Will that have any impact on the company?" Shuya asked, while lowering his head to deal with the affairs of Xinlekang Pharmaceutical Company.
"It will definitely have an impact. The El Niño phenomenon will not only lead to a decrease in catches in Peruvian fisheries, but will also cause widespread heavy rains and floods in South America, while widespread droughts will occur in southern East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia."
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When Jiang Miao saw her brother-in-law at the door, she smiled and shouted: "Come in! Brother-in-law, sit down." "Ah Miao, it's a good thing you had the foresight, otherwise you would have been in trouble." There was a trace of fear on the brother-in-law's face.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Miao poured him a cup of tea.
As soon as the brother-in-law sat down, he talked about the current situation of the farm: "The water levels in the fish ponds in several surrounding villages have dropped drastically. Our farm is equipped with solar panels, part of it is an indoor farm, and the plan you arranged last year Water circulation equipment, our water consumption can barely be maintained at present.”
In this regard, Hailufeng Company encountered the impact of drought last year and had to apply to the local area to pump groundwater to maintain normal water levels in the farm.
Therefore, after he learned this lesson, he introduced solar panels to reduce the evaporation of the water surface in the open-air fish ponds. At the same time, he changed the water in the open-air fish ponds every half month and used filtration equipment to filter and process the clean water. Water is injected into the fish pond again.
Reduces overall water consumption.
At the same time, the breeding methods are improved. For example, of the 1,000 acres of open-air eel breeding ponds, currently only 200 acres are used for freshwater farming, and the remaining 800 acres are directly pumped into seawater for farming.
After all, eels can grow in seawater, as long as the feed formula is slightly adjusted.
In this way, the fresh water consumption of 800 acres of fish ponds is reduced.
The pond lice breeding farms in Egypt are all indoor farms. As long as the internal water purification work is done well, fresh water consumption can be reduced by 95%.
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But Jiang Miao knew very well that Hailufeng Company had no way to survive this large-scale drought.
This is because Hailufeng Company needs to purchase Egyptian pond lice, and Egyptian pond lice farmers breed them in open-air fish ponds. In addition, their open-air fish ponds do not have solar panels to reduce evaporation, nor do they install water recycling equipment. , which will be severely affected by drought.
Of course, many farmers have already reacted and quickly purchased black sunshade nets to cover the fish ponds and reduce part of the evaporation.
But this is not enough.
Jiang Miao called and informed Fang Yi, the head of the feed business department, to come over.
Half an hour later.
Fang Yi hurried over: "Boss."
While pouring him tea, Jiang Miao said: "Sit down, Manager Fang, the drought is serious in various parts of the south now. We have no way of predicting when the rain will come, so we must make some preparations."
"Boss, what does this have to do with our feed division?" Fang Yi was confused.
"It has something to do with it. On the one hand, we must be prepared to reduce production, and on the other hand, come up with No. 14 eel feed! This formula can allow eels to maintain a normal growth rate in a marine culture environment."
"No. 14 feed? It turns out that this feed formula has such a use." Fang Yi previously thought that the hundreds of eel feed and Egyptian pond lice feed formulas were just to block the way for other companies to imitate.
Jiang Miao continued: "In addition, come up with the No. 36 feed formula for Egyptian pond lice. This formula can ensure that Egyptian pond lice are cultured in salt water. As long as the salt content of the water body does not exceed 12‰, it can ensure that Egyptian pond lice are cultivated in salt water. Rapid growth of pond lice ”
Fang Yi quickly asked: "Xianshui? Do you need to authorize it to other companies?"
"Of course, our company does not produce ordinary feed. This formula is licensed to the Feed Association, allowing feed manufacturers to pay a patent fee of 100 yuan per ton. The same goes for the eel's seawater feed formula."
"I understand." Fang Yi, as the person in charge of the feed business department and the contact person of Hailufeng Company in the Feed Association, Jiang Miao does not have time to deal with this kind of thing all day long.
Haid Group, which was originally worried about this year's drought, received the notice from Hailufeng Company and the Feed Association. Its chairman Xue Hua felt relieved: "Jiang Miao is really a timely rain for Haid."
"Mr. Xue, are we going to fully produce new formula feed now?" the person in charge of the feed production department asked quickly.
Xue Hua, who came back to his senses, did not delay. Time waits for no one. He quickly assigned tasks: "The feed production department began to produce new feed, but the production volume must be controlled."
"Okay."
"The sales department immediately became familiar with the technical manual of the new formula feed, which facilitates communication with farmers."
"Yes, Mr. Xue."
"I personally took people to conduct testing at the breeding farm."
Xue Hua did not doubt Jiang Miao, but just in case. This was related to the production of billions of raw materials, so he could not afford to be careless.
Haid Group’s breeding farm near Nansha District.
Xue Hua and others who started the test looked at the fish pond in front of them. After switching to salt water with a salinity of 5‰, the Egyptian pond lice inside became less active. Apparently they were not used to the salt water, and their expressions were a little solemn.
However, he still chose to believe in Hailufeng Company and Jiang Miao.
He plans to stay at the breeding farm these days.
Because breeding Egyptian pond lice in salt water is not something that can be accomplished overnight, it must be carried out in stages. In the first week, use a salinity of 5‰, then transition to 8‰ in the second week, and then increase it to 11‰ in the third week.
As for why it is not the 12% limit, the main reason is that we are worried that the evaporation of the water will lead to an increase in salt content, so we must leave a margin.
In the technical manual given by Jiang Miao, it is recommended that large-scale breeding bases with technical conditions such as Haid Group can adopt a critical salinity of 11‰.
For ordinary farmers, it is recommended that farmers first purchase a salinity detector, use salt water with a salinity of 10‰ for breeding, and test the salinity of the breeding water every day. If the temperature exceeds 35 degrees Celsius, the salt is required to be tested twice a day. degree, ensure that the salinity of the water body does not exceed the standard, and be prepared to replenish fresh water at any time.
Of course, this is limited to farms near the sea. If it is an inland farm, you basically have to leave it to fate.
If you use salt water for farming, if you are close to the estuary of a river, take water directly from the estuary of the river. Under normal circumstances, the salinity of salt water at the estuary of a river is between 2.5 and 12‰.
If seawater with a salinity of 33‰ is used, at least nearly one-third of the fresh water can be saved; if salt water from the river estuary is used, fresh water may not even be needed.
For example, the farms of Haid Group in Nansha District are close to the estuary of the Pearl River, so they only need to pump salt water with a salinity of 10‰.
Several online stores that sell salinity meters have been very puzzled in the past half month, because they usually cannot sell one or two salinity meters a month, but suddenly they received hundreds or even thousands of orders.
There are also businesses selling sunshade nets that have also made a fortune.
Especially for the Leizhou Peninsula, which was originally very dry, everyone at Hengxing Group was very worried before, but now they are finally relieved.
Because their company's Egyptian pond lice breeding model is somewhat similar to that of Hailufeng Company, which is a combination of self-cultivation and free-range farming by farmers.
If something goes wrong, it will not only be a loss problem, but also cause farmers to suffer heavy losses.
Now, Hailufeng Company's timely rescue has given them a buffer time. Using seawater to reduce some fresh water, and temporarily pumping groundwater, can allow each farm to sustain itself for a few more months.
In fact, the Feed Association is more anxious than these companies.
Because with the large-scale production of pond lice and fish meal in Egypt, the cost of domestic fish, shrimp and crab breeding has dropped by nearly 20%, and the cost of poultry and pig breeding has dropped by 2.3%.
If the current large-scale production of pond lice meal in Egypt is reduced due to drought, it may cause the market prices of aquatic products, chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs to increase again. Originally, after the Chinese New Year, in addition to the meat of large herbivores such as cattle and sheep, other domestic meats Prices have shown a steady decline.
Among them, the retail price of white shrimp has dropped the most, with a drop of about 16%.
Pomfret fell by 12.7%, lemon fish fell by 11.3%, sea bream fell by 10%, and large yellow croaker fell by 5.7%. The prices of these marine aquatic products fell very obviously.
The decline of other freshwater fish is not obvious. The main reason is that this year's drought in various parts of the south has led to varying degrees of production reductions in freshwater fish farms in various places, making it difficult to keep prices down.
As for eels, although the price has dropped a lot, it has also been affected by the drought.
Fortunately, the eel marine aquaculture feed authorized by Hailufeng Company to other feed factories is already being rapidly produced and put on the market.
Eel farmers who receive new feed, and whose farms are close to the sea, directly pump seawater to replenish the water level in the fish ponds.
As for the eel farms in inland areas, they can only find their own solutions. After all, their farms are not close to the sea and there is no way to obtain almost free seawater.
Fortunately, there are not many eel farms in inland areas, so the impact is not too serious.
However, this incident will also cause new farmers and companies to be more inclined to set up eel and marine fish farms in coastal areas, so that they do not have to worry about water problems.
It is not impossible to breed in inland areas. For example, some indoor breeding farms have complete water circulation equipment inside, which can basically withstand the impact of drought.
(End of chapter)