Chapter 43 Project Status
With natural energy, Guo Yang naturally wants to spend it as soon as possible.
Especially the various kinds of seeds in the seed store, he has been coveting them for a long time.
But after looking over and over in the seed store several times, he hesitated and thought that he should not make such a hasty decision.
The first reason is that there is still relatively little natural energy, and every bit of it is extremely precious.
Regardless of the purchase of seeds, variety customization and after-sales services represented by agricultural machinery, natural energy is consumed.
Secondly, you have to wait a while before you can start seed production before you buy seeds. Alfalfa Company has not yet obtained the seed production qualifications.
According to China's latest "Seed Law", units operating seeds should have funds, production and operation facilities, equipment and professional and technical personnel suitable for seed production and operation.
Those engaged in seed production should also have isolation and cultivation conditions for breeding seeds, and a seed production location free of quarantine pests.
In addition, if you want to apply for a production license for hybrid rice and corn seeds, the requirements for funds, instruments, sites, personnel, etc. will be higher.
Guo Yang naturally wanted to achieve it in one step. Funds were not a problem for him, but other conditions had to be built step by step.
This is also the reason why he was obsessed with acquiring the brilliant seed industry. The acquisition was successful and at least half of the breeding and seed production qualifications were completed.
Guo Yang has initially decided to build the seed production base planned by Alfalfa Company in Jiuquan. But the land has not been taken yet, and there is no trace of various laboratories, equipment, venues, etc.
Seed bases are definitely needed. Future seed production can be left to professional farmers to implement order seed production. Some seeds can even be entrusted to other units for propagation.
But it is best for the company to have a seed base, especially seed fields for original seed expansion. The seeds produced by Guoyang Seed Store are all original seeds with the highest purity.
Moreover, with a seed base, value can be generated whether it is breeding research or seed production demonstration.
As for the expansion of seed production of ‘Alfalfa No. 1’ in Shuangqiao Village, because there is a 200,000 mu saline-alkali land treatment project ahead, the seeds are completely self-propagated and used.
And since it is not a major food crop, the relevant departments turned a blind eye and passed.
Guo Yang has not been working on the saline-alkali land project during this period. He has been promoting the seed base, but this matter is really not urgent.
Natural energy cannot buy seeds for the time being, so Guo Yang has his mind set on agricultural machinery.
He had previously collected and preserved a large amount of agricultural machinery information at the Hannover International Agricultural Machinery Show.
Just analyzing these agricultural machinery data also consumes natural energy, which made Guo Yang realize that 18 points of natural energy is really not much...
In addition to analyzing the data, it seems that natural energy can also directly Used for designated agricultural machinery upgrades.
After thinking about it, Guo Yang decided to visit the project site first.
I heard that the construction parties have encountered a lot of troubles, and many tractors have been scrapped.
...
An hour later, an off-road vehicle drove into the project area.
After half a month, he entered this place again. What impressed Guo Yang the most was not that the salt layer on the surface was scraped off and then flattened and subdivided into fields.
But in the vast land, the irrigation and drainage channels are densely packed with ravines, like blood vessels crawling on the earth.
In the middle of the project area, the main alkali drainage ditch with an interval of 20m and a width of 10m is the main artery of the earth. All longitudinal agricultural ditches and branch ditches are connected to it, forming an interconnected water area.
And this is the ditch built after Guo Yang changed the design. According to the original design of Dr. Zhou and others, the ditch was much denser than this. The main function of the drainage ditch is to transfer the salt of washing salt and pressure salt in the early stage of improvement. In the later stage, it can also control the seasonal rise of groundwater level and prevent secondary salinization.
The advantage of the dense trenches designed by Dr. Zhou and others is that it improves the salt transfer efficiency and effect of washing and pressing salt in the initial stage.
However, Guo Yang considered that the spacing between drainage ditches was too narrow, which would seriously affect the progress of the project. In addition, the ditch covers a large area, and the cost of dredging and maintenance during project investment and operation will also be much higher.
Considering the characteristics of ‘Alfalfa No. 1’, his main requirement for drainage ditches is long-term salt control, not drainage and salt discharge.
Therefore, taking into account the requirements for field alkali drainage, agricultural machinery operations, and irrigation in the project area, the alkali drainage ditch network he designed divided the project area into fields 240m long and 120m wide, each of which is approximately more than 40 acres.
In addition, in order to ensure the direction of water flow in the alkali drainage ditch, the 6m wide alkali drainage ditch is 2m deep, the 8m wide alkali drainage ditch is 2.2m deep, and the 10m wide main ditch is 2.4m deep.
The ditch slopes are also planned to be cared for using biotechnology measures such as tamarisk and reeds.
Now that he has seen the drainage ditches, Guo Yang also wants to know about the irrigation system in the entire project area.
Guo Yang said to the driver in the front row: "Old Song, drive north and see how the irrigation wells are being drilled."
Lao Song is the new driver recruited by Alfalfa Company. He is a taciturn middle-aged man.
According to the original plan, the water source for saline-alkali land irrigation mainly comes from the Beida River, but the government's construction of water diversion ditches is still in the planning, design and various processes.
In order to wash away the salt and drain it in time, Alfalfa could only use a backup plan: digging a group of irrigation wells.
Based on multiple surveys and a series of sampling inspections, the well group was finally selected in the area with the lightest water quality and saline-alkali content - the southern edge of the desert in the northern part of the project area, and the distance between wells was controlled to be more than 120m.
The car arrived at the location soon, and Guo Yang saw from a distance that the water pipe was continuously pumping water from the well and then inputting it into the ditch.
The distance between wells is probably controlled at more than 120m, and a team is continuing to drill wells further away.
Looking at the square fields, field roads and production roads are laid out at two levels, and the water conservancy and irrigation facilities are basically taking shape.
The flow of water from motorized wells also forms a thin layer of water in the long border, which flows along the length of the border by gravity and infiltrates the soil.
Plus natural energy is also available.
The depression in Guo Yang's heart during this period of time disappeared, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Lao Xiang is really a talent!"
Cao Cao was about to arrive, and Guo Yang saw Lao Xiang walking over with a few people wearing construction clothes.
Far away, he heard complaints.
"Boss Guo, you are finally here. The soil in this salt-alkali flat is too hard and there are so many rocks that the blades of the rotary tiller are all broken."
"Mr. Zhang, What are you talking about? The transmission shaft and beam of our tractor were broken, and we suffered heavy losses, Boss Guo!"
"Now Lao Xiang still requires us to pick up stones, even those larger than 5cm in the ground. Pick it up, I have hundreds of people picking up stones in the fields every day, it’s cost-effective!”
"The cost of stone picking must be signed into the supplementary agreement."
"The key is that the efficiency of manual stone picking is slow!"
Hear the complaints of these tanned construction foremen , Guo Yang immediately thought of the first use of natural energy.
Stone picker!
(End of this chapter)