Chapter 189 Deep Processing (Happy New Year)
After the opening ceremony of Xiandou soybeans was held at the Taminchagan base.
Jiang Miao stayed at the Taminchagan base for another three days. During this period, he had a series of exchanges with several academicians and various relevant postgraduate entrance examination institutions and colleges in China, and also reached a series of scientific research cooperation agreements. .
Among them, Northeast Agricultural University will cooperate with Hailufeng Company at the Taminchagan base to establish a comprehensive cold and temperate crop breeding research institute. At the same time, 60 fresh graduates related to agriculture and bioengineering will be recruited from the school.
In addition to Northeast Agricultural University, other agricultural universities in Northeast China and North China Agricultural University also have a large number of fresh graduates recruited.
Currently, the Monan Scientific Research Center has five research institutes, including the Biomining Research Institute, the Microbial Energy Research Institute, the Crop In-depth Development Research Institute, the Cold and Temperate Crop Breeding Research Institute, and the Cattle and Sheep Breeding Research Institute.
There are a total of 226 scientific researchers in the entire Monan Scientific Research Center.
Similar to the in-depth application and secondary improvement of Xiandou soybeans, Jiang Miao did not intend to do these tasks himself, but handed them over to the Monan Scientific Research Center.
If he is free, he will provide guidance. If not, he can only rely on these researchers to support himself.
In fact, these tasks are not difficult. After all, the most difficult part has been completed by Jiang Miao.
Once the foundation is laid, it will certainly not be too difficult for latecomers to carry out secondary research and development on the basis.
For example, the plant protein refining process of Sendu soybeans. Since the plant protein content of the three Sendu soybean varieties is different, the refining process must be different. The purpose of studying this refining process is to further reduce costs and increase efficiency.
For example, domestic native soybean varieties, genetically modified American soybeans, and Sendou Soybean No. 3 have huge differences in protein content.
The protein content of genetically modified American beans or croton is generally 34∽35%.
The protein content of domestic native soybeans is generally 40∽45%.
The protein content of Sendou Soybean No. 3 is about 52.7%.
Plant protein manufacturers must give priority to Sendou Soybean No. 3, or domestic native soybeans, Sendou No. 1, and Sendou No. 2, and finally choose GMO American soybeans and GMO Croton.
In the process of refining these soybeans with different protein contents, it is necessary to study the use of reasonable sodium hydroxide solution or plant protein decomposing enzymes for refining.
At present, the plant protein refining process used by Hailufeng Company is the enzymatic digestion process.
Jiang Miao did not choose the more mainstream alkali dissolution method, but chose the enzymatic dissolution method. The reason is that Hailufeng Company's specialty is biotechnology. At the same time, the enzymatic dissolution method does not require the use of too many chemical solvents and can reduce the difficulty of waste liquid treatment.
Close to the upper reaches of the livestock river, about ten kilometers west of the Taminchagan Breeding Base, Jiang Miao, led by Liu Zhiben, was inspecting the soybean deep processing base that was being constructed overtime.
This base is very large, covering an area of almost 5,000 acres, including a soybean oil refining plant, a soybean protein refining plant, a soybean meal feed plant, a waste liquid recycling plant, and a thermal power plant.
"The factory we are planning can process 15 million tons of soybeans every year, and can produce about 3 million tons of soybean oil, 4 million tons of soybean protein, and about 8 million tons of soybean meal annually."
Obviously, this base serves the entire 30 million acres of farms in Zherimu City.
After listening to Liu Zhiben's description, Jiang Miao shook his head slightly: "Pure raw material production will face increasingly huge industrial competition pressure in the future."
"Boss, I know this too, but the competition in the field of secondary deep processing of soybean products is also very fierce." Liu Zhiben looked helpless. He had done his homework before and also invited the market research department to conduct an industry survey.
Jiang Miao naturally knew everything about this situation.
Many domestic industries that are not technically difficult must have a very high degree of involution. Everyone can do it, so naturally a lot of people will enter the market.
No matter which industry it is, as long as there is a breakthrough in localized technology, prices will often plummet. This has also made many European and American companies hate our companies.
Of course, this kind of involution is a relatively good result for ordinary consumers, otherwise we would all have to face a variety of high-priced products.
Jiang Miao has already seen the potential crisis in the soybean deep processing industry in the future.
As domestic soybean production capacity skyrockets, soybean oil can also be used to refine biodiesel, but soybean protein, in addition to being used as feed, can only be used to make foods such as artificial meat, tofu, dried tofu, protein powder, and rayon. .
Hailufeng Company alone will produce 4 to 5 million tons of soy protein every year. Together with other companies, soy protein will soon have overcapacity.
This is true overcapacity.
After all, the domestic feed protein used in the breeding industry every year is about 80 to 90 million tons. The sources of these feed proteins include soybean meal, rapeseed cake, corn, wheat, sorghum and other plant proteins, as well as fish meal and the like. Animal protein.
Even if per capita consumption of meat, eggs, and milk doubles, annual feed protein consumption will only reach 160 to 180 million tons.
However, Jiang Miao is not optimistic about future expectations of doubling meat, eggs, and milk per capita.
On the one hand, since the per capita median income will not increase too quickly, the increase in meat, egg and milk consumption brought about by price cuts is unlikely to double within ten years.
On the other hand, it is due to eating habits, and the per capita consumption of meat, eggs, and milk among many domestic consumers is already relatively high. It will definitely be difficult to reach the peak again.
This almost foreseeable future forced Jiang Miao to think about how to avoid the highly competitive industry while making full use of the soy protein.
It is sometimes difficult to win a price war with domestic companies.
The main reason is that Jiang Miao still wants to be shameless, while some companies are completely shameless. There is an obvious difference in labor costs between the two sides.
For example, the branch of Hailufeng Company in Gan Province has been complained by many local companies due to its high wages, saying that Hailufeng Company is destroying the market and engaging in vicious competition.
Obviously, in terms of shamelessness, Jiang Miao cannot compare with many black-hearted businessmen in the country.
Sometimes, in labor-intensive industries, labor costs also account for a large proportion.
Taking the labor costs of Hailufeng Company, taking the Gannan branch as an example, the basic salary of ordinary farm workers is 3,500 yuan, with five insurances and one housing fund. There is basically no overtime, and holidays are taken off. Each person is guaranteed to earn at least 8 yuan per month. days off.
The average worker at Hero Dairy's farm also earns a basic salary of 3,500 yuan.
The monthly basic salary for a relatively high-level bee farm worker is 6,500 yuan.
However, the ratio of agricultural technicians in the Gannan branch is very high. Taking Camellia oleifera plantation as an example, the ratio of ordinary farm workers to agricultural technicians is about 6:4.
Those ordinary farm workers are all older migrant workers, generally in their forties, while agricultural technicians are mostly in their twenties and thirties.
There is no way. The farms of Hailufeng Company are all intensive, mechanized and technological farms, and the proportion of technical personnel will definitely be very high.
In addition to the various hidden benefits provided by Hailufeng Company, in places such as southern Jiangxi, Hailufeng Company has become an employment target second only to work units and state-owned enterprises.
Especially middle-aged people with low education in rural areas, they are in a relatively awkward position in the current tide. They could still work on construction sites, but with the decline in the scale of infrastructure construction in recent years, real estate no longer needs so many migrant workers. , and other industries cannot accommodate so many migrant workers at once.
Therefore, the farms of Hailufeng Company have become a place for re-employment of migrant workers.
Local young people will also apply for farm technical staff, especially those with college degrees. They learn technology quickly and many can operate computers and intelligent equipment.
In fact, basic salary is not the key point for other local companies to break through.
Mainly the various subsidies, performance, and dividends of Hailufeng Company. Although the virtual shares of Gannan Branch are not allocated currently, subsidies and performance are available every month.
Especially for the bee farm workers in the Gannan Branch, during the peak period of honey harvesting, the average bee farm worker’s monthly performance bonus is almost 3,000 yuan. Plus other miscellaneous subsidies, after deducting five insurances and one housing fund, they can get it in one month. It's around 9,000 yuan.
Ordinary workers in Camellia oleifera plantations also have a lot of performance, but their monthly income is only about 1,000 to 1,500 yuan. Their performance comes from the profits from forage and honey.
Once the camellia oleifera can be harvested, the performance of the camellia oleifera plantations will soar. At first, local companies thought that Hailufeng's wages were average and not much better than their own.
However, as Hailufeng's presence in the local area becomes more and more in-depth, and each industry is put into production one after another, the proportion of performance in employee income begins to increase.
And what makes ordinary private enterprises even more uncomfortable is that Hailufeng Company does not need to work overtime every three days. Unless there are special circumstances, factories and farms reduce labor intensity and working hours by increasing the number of employees.
In fact, Jiang Miao also considered at the beginning whether to reduce the number of employees through overtime and extra money.
However, after careful consideration, he gave up the idea of working overtime and paying more to reduce the number of employees.
Although working overtime and paying overtime can reduce the number of employees, the disadvantages are also very obvious, including physical and mental fatigue of employees, increased accident rates, increased incidence of occupational diseases, and reduced employee sense of belonging. Employment costs may not be reduced much.
Moreover, two employees’ salary is 3,500 yuan, and one employee’s salary is 7,000 yuan. The impact weighting and consumption incremental weighting brought by the two cannot be equal.
Of course, if it is a small business with dozens of employees, the overtime and overtime payment model will naturally be given priority.
But for companies like Hailufeng, priority should be given to influence and increased consumption.
Taking the Gannan branch as an example, if it adopts the model of overtime, overtime and temporary workers, it is estimated that there will not be 1,500 regular employees.
However, at this time, the Gannan branch had about 3,700 formal employees, which did not include the 1,800 employees of Hero Dairy and the 300 clerks in the physical business department.
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This is not the limit of the Gannan branch, because there are still camellia seed oil pressing plants, deep processing plants, and fruit bases that have not yet recruited employees on a large scale.
Hero Dairy’s dairy deep-processing plant has not yet been completed.
It is expected that the number of employees of Hailufeng Company in Gan Province will exceed 10,000 in the future.
Obviously, in this case, Hailufeng Company will have a great influence in Gan Province, and the increase in consumption it will bring will also become larger.
For example, in Shanmei City, the base camp of Hailufeng Company, due to the benefits brought by Egyptian pond lice and the increasing number of employees in the company, the consumption of local strawberries, ginseng fruits, tomatoes, white truffles, meat products, and dairy products has increased. Very obvious.
Jiang Miao can clearly see this through the company's physical store sales.
Therefore, for the future soybean deep processing industry, what Jiang Miao needs to consider is to ensure the income and welfare of employees while maintaining high corporate income.
As for ordinary products such as soy protein powder, ordinary feed, and soybean edible oil, apart from being partially self-sufficient, it is difficult to compete with other domestic companies.
In terms of plant protein, Hailufeng Company’s own farms and special feed mills certainly cannot fully digest it.
"Treating the root cause, how much open space is left in this soybean deep processing base?"
Regarding the boss's sudden question, Liu Zhiben was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "There are still about 2,000 acres reserved for the subsequent deep processing industry."
Jiang Miao directly ordered: "Well, you ask the engineering company contracted for the factory infrastructure to make a factory design plan for rayon, with an area of 500 acres and a designed annual output of 2 million tons of rayon."
Hearing this, Liu Zhiben quickly expressed his opinion: "Rayon? Boss, with all due respect, the technology for making rayon from soybean protein is very mature. Whether it is viscose fiber, cupro fiber, or acetate fiber, it is available in China." Many manufacturers are producing, and when we enter this market, it may be difficult to sell the 2 million tons of production capacity.”
"I know." Jiang Miao knows the domestic rayon situation better than Liu Zhiben because he has read relevant information before.
It was precisely because of this knowledge that he chose the rayon industry.
"I will ask the scientific research center to set up another research institute to study soy protein rayon, and try to use soy protein modification to simulate rayon with properties that are almost the same as natural silk."
"Is that so?" Liu Zhiben fell into deep thought. He knew that the company's technology research and development capabilities are very strong, but it does not mean that it can be invincible. Therefore, he still cautiously suggested: "Boss, I don't think it is necessary to be so anxious. You can wait for the technology." Once it’s developed, it’s not too late to build a factory.”
However, Jiang Miao shook his head: "You still don't know enough about biotechnology. The key point that restricts soy protein from becoming silk-like rayon. If we continue to improve from the traditional rayon technical route, the difficulty will naturally be extremely difficult. But if soy protein The characteristics of artificial silk have changed and become similar to silk protein, and the difficulty of artificial silk will plummet. ”
"..." Liu Zhiben then remembered that his boss was a top biologist.
As Jiang Miao said, it is very difficult to imitate natural silk through the traditional rayon route, and the cost will definitely be very high, especially in the early stages of production.
However, through gene editing technology, the protein composition and structure of soy protein are fundamentally modified to form a protein composition and structure that is highly similar to natural silk. The production difficulty will be simpler than that of ordinary rayon.
Moreover, rayon has several advantages. On the one hand, it has better biocompatibility and is less prone to allergies; on the other hand, it can be degraded by microorganisms and sunlight and will not form microplastic particles; finally, it is less toxic than chemical fiber. Durable, it can increase consumers’ purchasing frequency.
As long as soy protein rayon can achieve properties similar to natural silk, coupled with its environmental protection value, it will definitely be able to seize food from the tiger's mouth of chemical fiber and seize a large market.
We need to know that the total amount of chemical fibers used in textiles worldwide every year is about 50 million tons.
If soy protein rayon can capture one-fifth of the market, it can reach tens of millions of tons.
What's more, this thing is a sharp weapon against Europe, directly from the comfort of wearing and environmental protection, it hits the vital points of old Europe.
As long as a group of cyber trolls are hired to go to Europe and the United States to publicize the hazards of microplastics and environmental pollution of chemical fibers every day, the environmental protection weight of soy protein rayon can be increased.
However, after thinking about it, Jiang Miao felt that even if this genetically modified soybean variety was developed, it would not be suitable for selling seeds.
Because he knows the urinal nature of domestic enterprises too well.
Once soy protein rayon can imitate natural silk, related companies will definitely get involved crazily, and eventually the market will be wiped out until everyone has no money to make.
This is definitely not a result he can tolerate.
So he raised his head and told Liu Zhiben: "The rayon project is on hold for the time being. The Monan Branch is not responsible for this matter."
Liu Zhiben was confused about Jiang Miao's sudden change of heart, but he still nodded: "Okay."
The reason why Jiang Miao shelved this project was not because the technology was not possible, but because there was no way to keep it secret in Zhelimu City, where the Monan branch was located. It was connected in all directions and had tens of millions of acres of soybean fields. It was impossible for someone to secretly harvest a few beans. No.
Although the government will definitely be willing to cooperate with Hailufeng Company and strictly prohibit other domestic companies from producing at will, foreign companies will not be so obedient. They can secretly grow it in their own country.
For example, Australia, a vast and sparsely populated mainland, can establish dozens or twenty isolated planting areas in the interior, making it difficult for Jiang Miao's root rot fungus to paralyze all soybean fields in a short period of time.
So he had to pick an isolated growing area.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of such places in the country.
There were two places he chose, one was the hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert, and the other was the end of the Shiyang River between the Tengger Desert and the Badain Jaran Desert.
From a geographical point of view, the end of the Shiyang River is better, and there is the Xiandou soybean planting area planned by COFCO Group. Hailufeng Company can rent an area from COFCO Group to establish an isolated planting area and rayon industry base. Don't let a single bean or leaf escape.
Monopolizing high-quality rayon will not only allow Hailufeng to make a lot of money, but also preserve a large part of the domestic clothing industry.
Nowadays, the business of many domestic garment factories has been taken away by Southeast Asia and South Asia. Among them, many domestic garment companies have invested in Southeast Asia.
As a labor-intensive industry, the garment industry provided many jobs back then.
To achieve industrial upgrading, it is necessary to monopolize the source of high-quality rayon, lock the technology in the country, and prevent garment factory owners from migrating the rayon clothing industry to Southeast Asia.
The low-end clothing industry is irreversible, so the mid-to-high-end clothing industry must at least be rescued, whatever it can be saved.
Moreover, the gross profit margin of the mid-to-high-end clothing industry is relatively high, which can keep up with domestic wage increases.
(End of chapter)