Chapter 528 The Evolving Rice Blast
In the empty conference room, the picture on the big screen has been put out, and Guo Yang is sitting on a chair in the middle, still savoring it.
After a long time, he let out a breath and arranged: "Start comprehensive publicity, let's release all the things you have done over the years, the Northwest has changed."
"Okay."
Qi Ziwen responded with emotion and asked again: "Then boss, do you need to check the business situation of the group?"
Guo Yang pondered, "Look at it. Because of the governance environment, the whole group has been delayed for three years. Now is the time to make more efforts."
"Okay, everything is ready."
"Okay, then let's go."
The two left the conference room and went to the top floor again. Guo Yang spent the rest of the day to get a rough idea of the business situation.
Overall, growth has stagnated.
Some sectors have also experienced business shrinkage.
This is because Jiahe has focused all its attention on environmental governance in the past three years.
After listening to Qi Ziwen's introduction, Guo Yang said, "Are you going to arrange for each company to convene a business meeting, I want to attend."
"Yes."
Guo Yang said, "In addition, publicity cannot be stopped, and the momentum must be huge."
"I understand."
After explaining the matter, Guo Yang returned to the manor.
The pavilions, lawns, gardens, water pavilions, and a small piece of vegetable field have been maintained for many years, making the artistic conception of the manor stronger.
Along with it, Lin Keqing's cooking skills are also growing. Guo Pengye is also in kindergarten. The family of three has had supper and took a walk together.
Guo Pengye was having fun in front, Guo Yang and Lin Keqing followed behind, "I may be busy with the company's affairs in the future."
Lin Keqing held Guo Yang's hand and said, "Is it going to take a long time?"
"At least a few years, I won't have time to spare." Guo Yang pondered, "These few years will be very important, and it should be easy after finishing the work."
"Okay." Lin Keqing smiled and said, "Now the northwest changes so much, you have to take the main contribution."
Guo Yang laughed, "I have only walked half of the Long March. Wait a few years, and when the Hongqi River is opened, the changes in the northwest will be great."
"It should be fast?"
"It will take some time." Guo Yang pondered: "But the southwest region is almost open. The subsequent difficulty is not in the project, but in the subsequent resettlement and energy forest development."
"Okay, come on, national entrepreneur."
After a while, Lin Keqing went to tutor Xiao Pengye's homework, while Guo Yang watched TV news on the sofa.
Many channels are introducing the achievements of environmental governance. The seven major water systems and air pollution are the key points because they are all in economically developed areas.
There are fewer reports in the northwest.
However, just the changes in the seven major water systems are enough to make the Chinese people excited.
Basically, in every report, local officials and many citizens appeared.
There are fewer national events like the big man from Haihe and Tianjin diving, but they also have their own hot topics.
Although the economy has slowed down a little, the living environment has been better.
At the same time, domestic manufacturing industry is also breaking through to high-end fields, such as automobiles, engineering machinery, precision instruments, mobile phones, etc., which replayed the trajectory of original time and space.
Even better.
For example, in new energy vehicles, in addition to electric vehicles, there are also biodiesel vehicles. Although they are still fuel engines, they are also squeezing the living space of European and American forces in the market.
In some areas that are sanctioned, such as chips, Guo Yang feels that he is doing better than the original time and space, and there are also contributions made by Jiahe's biological materials.
In addition, some subtle changes have also occurred in the military field that Guo Yang focuses on.
The upper layer is hiding its weakness!
However, even if the weapons appear, they are powerful enough.
As for those that did not appear, Guo Yang dared not imagine it.
After reading the news for a while, Guo Yang came to the study again, turned on the computer, and also read various news information.
Compared with traditional media, the Internet is much more lively, including environmental transformation, advanced weapons, international situation... all kinds of information.
Guo Yang also watched with relish.
He hasn't paid attention to these things for a while.
In the past three years, because of the high natural energy yields, in order to make the new breed work as soon as possible, he always wonders how to breed.
Even if you come home from get off work, you will read a variety of animal and plant popular sciences or science fiction novels.
Because among the varieties that can be cultivated in the seed shop, there are very few plants that exceed his cognition.
This forced him to make up for relevant knowledge, and his only entertainment time was spent on fitness and accompanying his family.
There are very few surfing the internet like tonight.
After a night, witnessing the fight between all parties on the Internet, Guo Yang is more looking forward to the upcoming attack.
The next day,
Jiahe fully launched the publicity of the results of the work in these three years.
A large number of videos were uploaded to major channels, and under the deliberate promotion of Jiahe and the country, it quickly swept the whole country.
Guo Yang also took the time to pay attention to the situation. The people are still very enthusiastic, hiding the economic crisis brought about by the upcoming decline in real estate.
Just after just taking a quick look, Guo Yang quickly devoted himself to the next work: dealing with agricultural enterprises in various countries and weakening the agricultural strength of various countries.
To this end, he participated in meetings of various companies and found out the situation of his main opponents.
Originally, Guo Yang wanted to start from his geographical location and solve the closest opponents: Marubeni, Ito Chu, and Xijie.
Represents island countries and South Korea respectively.
And these two opponents, Guo Yang has already laid the foreshadowing.
But after understanding the situation, I found that some things were affecting the whole body, which moved the island countries and South Korea, and other regions could not be without warning.
So, let's go together.
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Island country, Chiba Prefecture, Yisui City.
Zhu Mu Wude from the agricultural experiment station was standing anxiously on the edge of the rice fields, watching the drone spraying medicine in the rice fields.
If you look closer, you will find that the ear neck, cob, branch stem and grain of the rice have turned dark brown.
There was another person next to him, named Yu Yoshino, who was also a rice farmer. After squinting his eyes, he said contemptuously:
"Don't expect it. If the spraying of medicine is useful, my rice will not be affected by disaster."
Waterato Zhumu said: "You can't watch the harvest!"
Yu Yoshino sarcastically said, "The gain is not worth the loss, the disease is too fast, and the losses recovered are not enough to be invested!"
As a technician at the city's agricultural experimental station, Wu Tetsuki Zhumu still holds hope, "The pesticides are different this time." Yu Yoshino sarcastically said, "I have seen it all, what's different? Isn't it still the same thing."
Wooki Zhumu is also very nervous.
Not long after, the medicine was finished, but the owner of the rice field, Nobuka looked at him without any relaxation.
"If this is the case next year, it will be impossible to plant this place."
In the next one or two days, Kato Nobuki, Taketoto Toru, and Yu Yoshino were all paying attention to the situation of rice blast.
However, it cannot be controlled.
Kato Shin-kan looked at the dark brown lesions and felt a sense of despair.
Yoshino Yu is still finishing the fight,
"It's no help. At least one half of the yield will be reduced, and the rice quality will also become worse. Now that I grow rice, I can just grow one when I have nothing to do."
Compared with Yu Yoshino, who is already gray-haired, Kato Nobu is considered a young farmer among the island countries, only fifty-six years old.
Nobu Kato endured his grief and said, "If the government and the farmers' association do not find a way, I can't plant rice anymore. Even if insurance and subsidies are added, the income will be too low."
Wu Tetsu was already numb to this situation.
The farmers' association is the biggest reliance for farmers, but it may also be the evil hand that pushes the island country's agriculture into the abyss. The reason why the agricultural association has full voice is closely related to the island country's electoral system.
The election is a system in which a certain number of constituencies are divided across the country, and each constituency elects 2 to 5 congressmen.
The population is gathering in big cities. Large cities with more than half of the total population can only elect one-fifth of the members of parliament.
Relatively speaking, there are more favorable constituency divisions in rural areas.
This provides impetus for politicians to protect the agricultural population.
The Farmers Association made the farmers' strength more concentrated. The MPs who tended to agriculture got the votes of farmers under the organization of the Farmers Association.
In return, these members of parliament will influence national policies in terms of agricultural subsidies, resistance to agricultural product liberalization, etc.
This is the political basis for farmers to obtain a high political status and obtain policy returns.
Make the agricultural group, which is not economically strong, a politically strong group.
However, in the context of highly industrialized and urbanized, low-efficiency small-scale agriculture is difficult to produce.
In order to protect the interests of farmers, the ruling party can only continuously increase grain prices, subsidies, and tariffs.
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The same is true for farmers. Whenever there is a problem, they will think of putting pressure on the ruling people.
For example, Yoshino Yu now.
Zhumu Wude looked at him and wanted to say something, but his lips squirmed and he didn't say it after all.
Yisui City is located in Chiba Prefecture, close to the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, and has advantages in geographical conditions.
However, even if there are large-scale abandonment in Yiyu, you can imagine how serious the abandonment in other remote villages is.
If you don’t save it, it may be over, but how can you save it?
With doubt, Zhumu Wude returned home. As soon as he entered the door, his wife walked towards him with the bill.
"Rice prices have risen again."
Zhu Mu Wude thought of his experiences in the past few days and said with a wry smile: "It will increase later. Now try to stock up more."
"But..." His wife looked at him in embarrassment, "There is not much money."
"I have another point. Let's buy more rice first, and you may not even be able to buy rice later."
Zhu Mu Wude saw the scene on TV, and farmers in some areas broke out in a march, calling on the government to increase agricultural subsidies, increase tariffs, increase rice prices, and protect the interests of local farmers.
After giving the money to his wife, he sat on the sofa and switched the channel with the remote control.
I switched more than ten channels in a row, more than half of which were related to agriculture.
When he saw an authoritative agricultural professor appear on the screen, he stopped. The person on the screen was Asahi Noda, an agricultural professor at Nagoya University.
He is also a student at Nagoya University.
Three years ago, Professor Asa Noda announced on the online version of a famous journal that he had found a rice gene that could significantly increase rice yield.
And in the following year, this gene was applied to the 'Yueguang' rice.
In order to cope with the global food crisis, Asahi Noda distributed the new "Yueki" variety for free.
Since the end of the war, the 'Yueguang' rice has always been loved by the islanders and is the largest variety.
However, young islanders tend to choose harder rice, and Yueguang is relatively softer.
The new Yueguang variety not only has higher yields, but also has more outstanding edible quality.
This is an amazing achievement!
Unfortunately, the increase in yield caused by variety improvement cannot offset the reduced yield of rice blast.
On TV, Noda Asahi was still promoting the new Yokogami rice to his farm audience, while Zhumu Taketo switched to the next channel. "We islanders must have good relations with other countries, especially China.
Because many of the things on our dinner table are imported, most of them from China, such as vegetables, prawns and clothes we wear every day, etc.."
This is another island professor facing thousands of listeners at a speech.
After listening to a few words, Zhumu Wude knew that this person represented the Economic Union, an organization composed of various large enterprises in the island country.
Advocate actively participating in global and regional trade and exporting industrial products from island countries to the world.
The protection policies of agricultural products in island countries have prevented the Economic Union from receiving reciprocal trade treatment abroad.
Zhu Mu Wude sneered: "These guys attributed the failure to the agricultural product trade, which is ridiculous enough...
"The natural resources of the island countries are extremely poor, and many products rely on imports. If they do not establish good relations with other countries, the island people may not be able to survive. ”
The professor's last warning on TV stunned him.
He couldn't imagine that if the rice cultivation in this season was like this in Yiyu City, would you still be able to buy rice in the supermarket in the second half of the year?
"Xingyin, go to the supermarket."
"Ah, it's so late."
Zhu Mu Wude said firmly: "Go and buy the rice first. The situation is very difficult now."
When we arrived at the supermarket, Zhumu Wude's perception became stronger. The rice in the supermarket not only increased its price, but also limited purchases!
He could only buy a few bags of 5 kilograms of rice with a little regret.
Facts have proved that he was wise, and the supermarket raised the price of rice the next day.
The reason is that the impact of rice blast has begun to spread. In many areas, large areas of rice blast have occurred, and rice production has suffered a fatal blow.
In this way, the Farmers Association is still adhering to the counter-reduction policy that has been implemented since the 1970s, and maintaining rice prices by limiting the area of rice cultivation and insufficient artificial production supply.
More than half a month later, the island country's rice entered the harvest period one after another.
The people of the island are looking forward to eating new rice.
However, an expected report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has turned this expectation into a bubble.
The large-scale outbreak of rice blast has reduced the rice production of the entire island country by more than 40%!
As soon as the news came out, from the initial shortage of rice supply in some areas, to supermarkets in major cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, which were out of stock and limited purchases.
‘Rice waste’ quickly became the focus of social attention across the island countries, and even the world is paying attention.
The notice on supermarket shelves that "there is no stock for the time being, the purchase time is to be determined" proves the severity of the crisis.
"Release reserve rice!"
"Increase imports."
Similar slogans sounded from time to time in the island countries. In the early stages of the rice wasteland, governors from all over the country repeatedly called for the release of government reserve rice.
However, there are still voices from the farmers' associations in this society.
In the end, the government refused to release reserve rice on the grounds of concerns about affecting rice circulation and market prices.
In fact, it is also responding to the demands of farmers.
But the delay in releasing reserve rice has also collapsed market confidence, aggravated the inter rice famine on the island and caused panic.
Many people believe that as long as the reserve rice is released, the rice waste crisis can be solved.
Some people also realize the fragility of agriculture in island countries. Aging, fragmentation of arable land, monopoly circulation channels of agricultural cooperatives, etc. are all restricting the development of agriculture in island countries.
Behind this, many people have overlooked a common disease: rice blast.
Nianga Prefecture.
This is the birthplace of Yueguang rice varieties and is also the most famous production area of Yueguang rice.
There is another special place. Fukushima Prefecture is west of Niigata Prefecture. The nuclear radiation here once reached 2 to 4 times the normal standard.
Bi Qiang had a final exchange with the rice experts here for harmlessness.
"Is rice blast disease also present in Hokkaido?"
"Yes, more rice blast-resistant varieties need to be cultivated now. The parental resources brought by Tianhe are very useful to us. Thank you for your generosity!"
"It's just a little bit of power."
Since rice blast disease is present in Hokkaido, the main rice-producing areas in the island country have been wiped out.
He doesn't need to stay here either.
The continuous evolution of rice blast bacteria will bring unprecedented surprises to all rice growers in the island country.
(This chapter ends)