Chapter 504 The building will collapse

Chapter 504 The building will collapse

Asan, in a cotton and sugarcane plantation in Mabang, looking from afar, it looks like a piece of white ground.

Occasionally, sugarcane and cotton grow sparsely, and the leaves are malnourished at a glance, and cracks can often be seen in dry land.

"Why don't you water and irrigate?"

"There's no water."

"Pump groundwater!"

"The groundwater was also drained. Women have to walk a few kilometers away every day to fetch water."

"I remember looking for it Water has always been a man's job? "

"In order to solve drinking water, a large number of women have become well diggers to make a living, and even elderly women have become well diggers. Age is no longer the same in the face of water crisis. It takes too much effort to care about issues."

"What a misfortune!"

"Compared with the urban civilians, they are already lucky. The groundwater in this city has dried up, and drinking water for millions of people has become a problem."

This is Ahmednagar , the highway transportation center in western Mabon, is also an agricultural city.

Professor Sutnan's miracle of sugar cane and cotton was first performed here.

It's a mess now.

The large area of ​​land consumes severe land capacity, and the soil has been fundamentally damaged, and crops in most areas do not emerge.

At the same time, there is also an equally serious problem: water shortage.

Agriculture is A San's largest "water user", and 90% of A San's water is used in agriculture and animal husbandry.

The proportion of groundwater use exceeded one-half as early as the 1980s.

85% of urban residents rely on groundwater for their drinking water.

However, in Ahmednagar, water-consuming crops such as sugar cane and cotton were originally the main crops.

Sutnam's sugarcane and cotton varieties caused a yield storm here, nearby farmers and farmers were the first to introduce them.

The huge demand for water has caused the pipe wells here to soar, and the consumption of groundwater has increased significantly.

The groundwater was exhausted in just two or three years.

The soil is insufficient and the irrigation water cannot keep up at all. In the end, Cheng Di saw it all in white.

Cheng Di suppressed the violent beating of his heart, and looked at the rare planter beside him: Rajesh Vikram Patel.

The family operates a total of 8,000 acres of cotton and sugarcane plantations in Mabang, all of which are irrigated farmland.

Patel's eyes could not see sadness, perhaps he was already desperate.

The farmland that the family operated for generations was destroyed.

After experts evaluated, even if the water source is found, the loss of ground capacity will require huge funds, manpower and a long time to repair it.

The gain is not worth the loss.

Cheng Di asked, "Is the Patel family the same in farmland in other cities in Mabang?"

Fearing Terl said, "The whole Mabang is like this. There is no big difference, but I'm afraid of Terl's The damage to the land should be the most serious. I heard that Tianhe’s parent company is a master of soil restoration, so we found you. "

Cheng Di squatted down and wanted to grab a handful of soil with his fingers, but It's too hard, so I can only change it to sting.

A finger inserted into the gap and broke it hard before breaking off a piece of soil. The soil looked lifeless, just like the soil dug deep from the ground when developing a real estate property, even better than this Not as good as it is.

The soil dug deep from the ground is called raw soil, but after two or three years of hard work, it can also become mature soil.

However, if the soil in Cheng Di's hand wants to become mature soil, the time for hard work to be at least doubled.

No help.

Cheng Di made a silent judgment in his heart. With the population of A San and the importance of agricultural production, this country is over.

He looked heartbroken on the surface and said, "It's difficult. Even if Jiahe comes, the management cost per acre will be $10,000!"

"And it takes time, It takes at least five or six years for a long time! ”

Patel was not surprised by this result.

In fact, last year, a professional manager discovered the problem on the farm, with water use soaring and ground abilities declining, but no one paid attention to it.

According to last year's output, after harvesting for one season, it is completely worth it even if it takes half a year to a year to recuperate.

But the situation quickly got worse, and water shortage and deterioration in land made things irreversible.

Even if we change to plant crops such as peanuts and beans, it will be useless, and the land will not produce seedlings at all... Since then, I was afraid that the Terr family has hired batches of experts.

It is said that this is a terminal illness.

Jiahe was able to restore the land within five or six years, which surprised Patel.

However, the $10,000 per acre is unacceptable to the Patel family, or the entire federal government.

Patel shook his head and scolded, "Damn Monsanto! I will definitely make him pay the price."

Cheng Di was stunned and said, "What's the matter with Monsanto? Relationship? ”

Patel said: "The seeds were brought by Monsanto."

Cheng Di was surprised: "Isn't Professor Sutnan?"

Fearing Tel said: "Satnan He is just a puppet. He doesn't even know when Monsanto implanted a genetically modified product! But the most seeds were sold through Ma Haike Monsanto! "

The brain was a little buzzing, Cheng Di really I can't figure out why I blamed Monsanto!

Improper!

Shouldn’t Monsanto’s BT cotton be the biggest obstacle to the promotion of new varieties of cotton?

Why did Monsanto get both?

But it's good, don't worry about personal safety anymore.

Cheng Di cooperated and cursed: "Monsanto is really hateful. He lies on the farmers and sucks blood. People all over the world hate them."

Patel said: "So all states are ready to go. Join together to boycott Monsanto and drive Monsanto out! ”

"This is a wise decision."

After echoing a few words, Cheng Di said again: "But it's a pity. The area of ​​cotton and sugarcane in South America has dropped significantly this year, and your country has suffered this disaster again. The supply and demand situation of cotton and sugar in the world has become tense again this year, and the prices of cotton and sugar will rise sharply again! "

Partel said: "It would be great if I could plant another season this year." "No, don't!" Cheng Di looked at you and said, "From the current level of destruction, your country should immediately stop the spread of the two varieties. The planted ones will stop immediately after this season.

Now is the season for sugarcane in autumn, so we must act immediately and not allow the area of ​​sugarcane in autumn to continue to expand. "

Patel looked at the sugar cane plantation on white ground and pondered: "If this continues, the price of sugar will rise above the sky this year, right? "

Cheng Di raised his eyebrows, what did he want to do?

It's not that he wanted to do the opposite!

He felt that he was a San's The national characteristics can do such things.

"It should be true. Your country was the world's largest sugar producer and exporter last year. This year, the planting area in South America and Australia was not as expected. They are all giving way to you..." Cheng Di did not continue to say anything , but it is enough, and the repeated hints are enough to make Patel make a choice.

The big farmer doesn't care about the life and death of the small farmers.

And this country is about to be in chaos, so you can make a fortune and then immigrate and run away, and you can also have a happy future. Cheng Di did not dare to stay in the countryside for a long time, and followed him to return to the city with fear of Ter. Then he returned to Mumbai with the help of Nuzwidu Company.

Nuzweidu is Tianhe's partner and the largest seed company in A San.

The cooperation between the two has also achieved some achievements, but it is mainly concentrated on rice and wheat. These two grain crops also account for 50% of the crop area of ​​A San.

However, the area has shrunk significantly in the past two years.

Because the income of growing rice and wheat is far inferior to that of cotton and sugarcane, farmers of all sizes are changing their planting, which has also reduced the income of Nuzvedu Seed Company year by year.

Nuzweidu's CEO is Rao. After Cheng Di returned to Mumbai, he came to Rao's office.

"Mr. Rao, the situation is worse than I thought!"

"Is there no way Jiahe?"

"No, as far as I know this time, some large farms are there The Lord did not give up on growing cotton and sugarcane. Now the government can only come forward and must stop people from changing the planting! "Cheng Di said with a righteous look on his face: "Otherwise, a food crisis is likely to occur, and the food prices soar, which will starve many people to death. ”

The words "Food prices soared" Cheng Di almost said it with gritted his teeth.

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Rao also heard it very clearly.

Several words also echoed in his heart repeatedly, impacting his mind.

Will grain prices soar?

Asan has relaxed grain imports, but he is a major grain exporter. Once it continues to evolve, grain prices will definitely soar.

This is a disaster for civilians.

But can the government control the situation?

The big farmer Cheng Di mentioned, Rao just needs to think about it briefly and know who he is talking about.

There are not many big farmers in the entire country, and he knows and understands them all.

Patel Family!

Their land was destroyed, but there were other lands that the government could control the farmers, but it was difficult to control the big farmers in various states.

This is a loose federal country!

The Prime Minister Singh, who was in power, was also the farmer of Ah San, and there were powerful families such as Sharma.

Crisis is both a danger and an opportunity.

Rao just thought about it and knew that these big families would definitely take this opportunity to make a big profit.

The mess belongs to the country, but the money earned is actually put into his own pocket, so he must prepare early.

In addition to being a seed company, Nuzvidu is also a grain merchant.

Rao said: "Yes, the short-term returns of sugarcane and cotton are too high, so we have to stop them."

August and September are the season for the autumn sowing of Asan sugarcane.

The A-san government led by Singh has long been trying hard to control farmers to change to new varieties of sugarcane and cotton.

A variety of crisis propaganda has never stopped, and it consumes water and causes fundamental damage to the land...

However, I am afraid that the big families such as Ter and are still planting new sugarcane varieties on a large scale in private.

Because everyone knows that this may be an opportunity that occurs once in a decade or even once in a few decades.

The planting area in South America and Australia has been greatly reduced, and the areas suitable for planting sugarcane in the northern hemisphere are mainly concentrated in A San. There are problems with land and water, and now farmers are strictly prohibited from growing high-quality products...

Among the elites, there is a rumor: the price of sugar this year may break through the sky, and cotton will also rise sharply!

If you plant high-quality products at this time, it is hard to imagine how high the benefits will be!

Many people are thinking about making a fuck.

Punjab and Gigirat in the western part of Asan are the main grain-producing areas of Asan and belong to the Indus River Basin.

Most of the Indus River Basin is located in Pakistan, but its upstream and some tributaries are within the territory of Ahsan.

Indus Plain is an extremely important grain-producing area on both sides.

Asan built a dam and divert water on the tributary, thereby blocking and diverting the water source on which Pakistan's agricultural irrigation relies.

Therefore, the water source conflict between the two sides has been very fierce.

In the past two years, this trend has become increasingly serious.

Terrek Lee, a reporter from the British Independent, walked at a village fair in Punjab and witnessed scenes of tragedy on earth.

A few days later, the Independent published a report, which attracted the attention of the whole world.

"Asan's agricultural ecology collapses, and the crisis is coming. Farmers sell their wives to pay off their debts, worth up to 150 pounds."

"In A San, there is an unwritten rule called "Marriage Deed": Once the husband is tired of his wife, he can sell his wife to another man.

This year, due to the inability to repay the loan, many Farmers are forced to sell their wives.

These women are worth only Rs 4,000 to Rs 12,000, which is about 50 to 150 pounds. The more beautiful women are, the higher the price they sell. "

"This year, Every 10 minutes, a San farmer committed suicide! "

"Due to the lack of drinking water, a large number of women became a army to find water and dig wells!" "

"The rich and powerful banned small farmers from planting high-yield sugarcane and cotton varieties, but they secretly planted them!"

"Grain merchants waited for an opportunity to stock up on grain!"

The Independent revealed the last of Ah San. The fig leaf of the country has nakedly demonstrated the current situation of water resource conflicts, land destruction, and wealthy people waiting for opportunities to collect wealth in front of the whole world.

The small peasants in various states of Ahsan felt back stabbed. The powerful not only did not think about spending money to manage the land, but instead wanted to make a fuck and then run away.

This deeply hurt them.

At the same time, they also let them know more information. The sugarcane market will recover and the benefits of growing sugarcane will exceed their imagination.

This has led some brave small and medium-sized farmers with shallow eyelids to start rushing to grow high-yield sugarcane seeds.

It's messy, it's completely messy!

First of the "vampire" drought leeches in the northeast, and now the agriculture that is highly anticipated has also made a big fuss.

Many middle-class families of A San do not know where this stormy country will go.

With the end of the rainy season, the water crisis in various states has emerged again.

There are more and more conflicts, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger every time.

The fighting between villages, the conflict between towns, the exchange of fire between states, and the war between India and Pakistan...

No one knows A San Future direction.

By October, the United Nations temporarily released a "Water Development Report".

The report shows that the South Asian subcontinent will face the impact of the water resources crisis, and Asano will become the center of this impact.

Asan's irrigation agricultural water and drinking water supply are highly dependent on underground water.

Long-term large-scale exploitation of groundwater for agricultural irrigation puts groundwater at risk of depletion, while high yields of sugar cane and cotton in recent years have rapidly exacerbated this risk.

According to the current progress, by 2020, almost all of Ah San will have no drinking water!

This may be a bit sensational.

However, some data mentioned in the report prove that the day is very close.

There are more than 50 cities with groundwater depleted in A San within a year!

(This chapter ends)