Chapter 31 Xiang Tianshan
Based on Yan Ting’s introduction, Guo Yang stared at the map for a long time before asking: “Which two districts and counties have the most severely saline-alkali cultivated land?”
Director Yan had a wry smile on his face, why is Mr. Guo still staring at the severely saline-alkali land.
But I still have to say: "Minqin County and Jinta County have the most severely saline-alkali cultivated land, and they are also the two counties with the most saline-alkali cultivated land in the province."
"But Guo Generally speaking, it is said to be saline-alkali cultivated land, but most of it has been abandoned. Now it is a barren land with white flowers that even livestock dislike, and it is even harder for seeds to germinate. ”
"Growing pasture in such a place will cost too much to improve the saline-alkali land."
High-ranking official Li Changlin also advised: "Yes, we obviously have a lot of lightly saline-alkali farmland. We can first improve the saline-alkali land." Why bother to gnaw at the hard nut when the difficulties come first?”
Li Changlin and others hope that Alfalfa Company can achieve success in Long Province, which will also be beneficial to their future investment promotion.
Once the project fails, it will not only leave a mess, but also deal a heavy blow to the already difficult investment attraction.
But Guo Yang still firmly chose Minqin County and Jinta County as the inspection points in their disbelieving eyes.
Minqin County is the original hometown. It is located in the northeast of the Hexi Corridor and the lower reaches of the Shiyang River Basin. It has a dry climate, scarce rainfall, and strong evaporation.
Surrounded by the two major deserts of Tengger and Badain Jaran in the east, west and north, it is one of the driest and most severely affected areas by desertification in my country.
In the past 20 years, as the amount of surface fresh water has plummeted, groundwater has been repeatedly pumped and concentrated, and high-salinity groundwater has been used for irrigation, resulting in the county's saline-alkali cultivated land area reaching 750,000 acres.
In addition, there are a large number of saline wastelands.
In recent years, although there have been no projects to support it, people who have been harmed by salt-alkali have continued to adopt measures such as planting salt-tolerant crops, mulching, returning straw to fields, and removing sand and alkali for transformation.
However, due to the lack of systematic planning as a guide, the lack of ideas for sustainable development and systematic governance, and the lack of certain financial guarantees, coupled with the unreasonable development and utilization of water resources, soil salinization continues to intensify.
The saline-alkali cultivated land in Jinta County also covers an area of 600,000 acres, which mainly includes two categories: salinized irrigation silt soil and salinized fluvoid soil.
All layers of soil generally contain soluble harmful salts. The impact of this kind of soil on crop growth varies greatly. In mild cases, crop growth is inhibited, in severe cases, seedlings have uneven emergence, making it difficult to maintain seedlings, or even dead seedlings or no seedlings.
These two districts and counties have always been a difficult problem in Long Province.
Many investors were afraid to avoid it, but the Alfalfa Agricultural Company headed by Guo Yang chose this area because of its strong will.
This caught various departments of the Long Provincial Government off guard. They had no plans for these two counties when preparing supporting policies.
This caused them to miss the opportunity in the subsequent supporting policy negotiations.
The saline-alkali land transformation project is a huge systematic project with large investment, long time span, strong policy implications and wide coverage.
At present, the country has not yet issued relevant laws, regulations and supporting policy support.
The contracting policy for saline-alkali cultivated land and saline-alkali wasteland is imperfect, in order to avoid becoming a wedding dress for others in the future.
Guo Yang actively fought for the ownership of saline-alkali land after treatment.
However, because the final project scope has not yet been determined, the nature of the saline-alkali land cannot be determined. There is a big difference between saline-alkali wasteland and saline-alkali cultivated land.
Saline-alkali wasteland can be contracted for a maximum of 70 years, while saline-alkali cultivated land can only be contracted for a maximum of 30 years.
After learning about this policy, Guo Yang immediately wanted to contract all the saline-alkali wasteland.
But at this time Dr. Zhou from the Planning and Design Institute stood up and asked him to conduct an on-site inspection first.
In the words of Dr. Zhou, the actual difficulty of severe saline-alkali wasteland will put great pressure on the capital chain of Alfalfa.
After determining the general direction of the project location and the contracted land framework, Guo Yang proposed supporting roads and water conservancy project support to the Long Provincial Government.
If you want to be rich, build roads first.
Whether it is Minqin County or Jinta County, the traffic conditions and canal system construction in the two counties are not optimistic. Most of the saline-alkali wastelands are located in sparsely populated and remote wilderness, and naturally there are no supporting engineering roads and water conservancy projects.
Whether it is the early stage of saline-alkali land management and development or the subsequent forage planting, production, processing and sales, they are all inseparable from convenient transportation conditions.
As for water conservancy projects.
The first is to reduce leakage in the canal system to avoid the formation of secondary saline-alkali in the soil;
The second is to ensure reasonable irrigation in the later period, and to rationally arrange the frequency and amount of irrigation, and implement Use thin and shallow irrigation, avoid flood irrigation and series irrigation, and try to use low-salt river water or deep well water for irrigation.
Production and construction of roads and water conservancy projects are the mandatory supporting policy conditions proposed by Guo Yang to the provincial government.
In the fierce confrontation, Guo Yang even proposed that if Long Province could not provide roads and water conservancy supporting facilities, he would look for another province that could.
He even proposed that the Long Provincial Government should provide certain drip irrigation facilities.
Reluctantly, the Long Provincial Government had no choice but to agree to Guo Yang’s request for roads and water conservancy facilities.
In addition, because no one cares about the saline-alkali wasteland, it is not known how much money will be invested in fully developing it.
So in terms of contract prices, the Long Provincial Government has also given great concessions. The price of saline-alkali wasteland is 50 yuan per mu, and the price of saline-alkali cultivated land ranges from 100-200 yuan per mu depending on the degree of salinization.
After a simple calculation, the Long Provincial Government needs to invest nearly 60 million yuan in the initial road construction alone, plus subsequent water conservancy facilities.
This infrastructure fund with extremely low return rate must be invested at least more than 100 million.
So, agriculture is difficult to do.
It feels like nothing has been done yet, but a lot of money has been spent.
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Long Province, Jiuquan.
Guo Yang met Xiang Tianshan for the first time, whom he had been curious about for a long time.
The temples are gray, the face is darkened by the sun, but the wrinkles on the face are still clearly visible.
How dark is it?
It is more appropriate to use a saying that has been circulating for a long time.
"From a distance, they look like beggars, and from up close, they look like people making charcoal. I asked if they were from the agricultural technology station."
There are all front-line workers in agriculture who are not evil.
Especially in the sun in June and July, you will get dark after one day.
"Mr. Xiang, I have to trouble you and me to conduct an on-site investigation this time." Guo Yang said sincerely.
The first time he saw Xiang Tianshan, he felt that he was a down-to-earth person.
"Mr. Guo, you can't default on the technical service fee you agreed upon."
"But I really don't recommend that you plant alfalfa in Jinta and Minqin. You should go to Jinchang or Qingyang and Longdong. Huining and other areas are suitable places for growing forage."
Guo Yang smiled, because Jinta County is close to Jiuquan, so he invited Xiang Tianshan to provide technical guidance for the purpose of technical services. .
But the actual purpose was tacitly understood by the two.
(End of this chapter)