Chapter 56 Introduction (continue to ask for recommended seed company names!!)
After ending the call with Wu Feng, Guo Yang thought about Yu Honghai who had only been away for two days.
The two have initially reached an intention to cooperate in investing in agricultural machinery and equipment.
Yu Honghai will participate in the investment with his Weifang Guwo Machinery Co., Ltd., but Guo Yang has not yet figured out what specific business model to adopt.
He just took a fancy to Yu Honghai's marketing channels and the contacts he accumulated, and didn't really want to form a joint venture with him.
It would be great if it could be acquired, Guo Yang thought.
With so many things to worry about, Guo Yang felt overwhelmed for the first time.
Yang Cheng, the general manager of Capital Investment Company, also called him every day in the past two days.
"Boss, do you want to close the position? The price has risen sharply in the past half month. It is recommended to make profits in time to understand."
Guo Yang has heard the same words countless times, and he will do it every time Don't bother to let him continue to add positions, as long as you maintain a safe margin ratio.
But Yang Cheng will still report once or twice a day.
Trouble is trouble, but fortunately it is a happy trouble.
And the external listing of futures and the registration of Hong Kong companies have also been gradually implemented.
After coming back to his senses, Guo Yang looked at the 62 points of natural energy in the seed store and thought about which varieties to cultivate.
Corn, wheat, cotton, soybeans, peppers or others?
These days, alfalfa farming and animal husbandry have begun to sow alfalfa, but the rate of natural energy acquisition has slowed down.
It seems that it will be difficult to quickly obtain natural energy until the alfalfa crop is cleared and returned to the fields next year.
Fortunately, the remaining land should still provide dozens of points. In total, there are still 120 or 30 points that can be used to cultivate seeds.
Guo Yang roughly calculated that the engineering improvement of 200,000 acres of saline-alkali land can probably provide him with more than 200 points of natural energy.
An average of 1000 acres earns 1 point.
Ordinary alfalfa can also improve the soil environment. Coupled with the return of biological organisms to the fields, perhaps some natural energy can be obtained in the next year or two.
But it is difficult to say, after all, the saline-alkali soil in the middle and lower layers has not been improved by engineering, and the salt is likely to rise again through groundwater.
Only when Alfalfa No. 1 is planted on a large scale, the improvement of 200,000 acres of saline-alkali land can be considered complete.
Generally speaking, Guo Yang can accept it, which is much less troublesome than building a scientific research and breeding system by himself.
Those multinational breeding companies invest more than one billion dollars in research and development every year, but they are far less efficient than his breeding efficiency.
However, domestic large, medium and small seed companies have invested millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions in R&D expenses every year for several years or even more than ten years, and many times it is difficult to cultivate valuable varieties.
More often, the transfer of new plant variety rights from scientific research institutions is obtained through auctions or other forms.
At the beginning of the opening of the domestic seed industry market, large orders worth tens of millions of yuan have already appeared.
In 2005, the highest transfer price for a single new rice variety in my country was 10 million yuan in Jinling.
In 2008, Liangyou 1128 was auctioned by Longping Hi-Tech for 11.8 million yuan for the exclusive right to use it, setting a record for the "best-selling" hybrid rice.
In 2010, at the capital's crop variety transfer rights auction, a private enterprise in the capital invested 5 million and 7 million respectively to win the exclusive production and management rights of two soybean varieties.
By 2023, the record for variety transfer price was pushed up to more than 16 million yuan by a certain wheat variety from Xinxiang, Henan Province.
But these are very few cases, and more varieties are collected in an inconspicuous corner of a certain germplasm resource bank, waiting for the day to be unsealed again.
In the agricultural field, there has always been a problem of disconnection between scientific research and industry: there are many scientific and technological achievements in agriculture, but the conversion rate is very low.
The conversion rate of agricultural scientific and technological achievements is less than 10% all year round.
Most of the results are just a file, locked in a drawer.
There seems to be an insurmountable gap between the laboratory and the field.
Take the transfer of variety rights as an example. Except for a few popular varieties that have achieved high returns of more than one million yuan, most of the varieties that have been selected and bred over many years have a transfer price of less than 100,000 yuan.
More and more, no one cares.
So, when people from seed companies waved banknotes and contacted various scientific research institutions in the northwest region, they received a warm welcome.
In the end, the seed company used buyout to obtain the variety rights of more than 100 varieties including corn, wheat, rapeseed, bell pepper, hot pepper, tomato, potato, cumin, etc.
In addition, seed companies also took the opportunity to harvest a large number of plant varieties that have expired from the resource banks of these colleges and universities.
As for the price, I paid a nominal fee for tea.
The transfer price of bought-out varieties mostly ranges from 50,000 to 200,000 yuan, and occasionally some are slightly more expensive. However, in the end, the seed company’s estimated 20 million yuan in variety rights transfer fees was not spent.
From the perspective of these scientific research institutions, many deposited varieties are difficult to be competitive in the market, or lack channels for promotion and transformation.
Its minimum requirement for variety transfer prices is to recover costs, that is, to compensate for the manpower and material resources consumed in the process of breeding varieties.
Under Guo Yang's will, the seed company is not very strict about the transfer price.
Although the price has been reduced, it is still within the acceptance range of scientific research institutions. From the collected germplasm resources, Guo Yang will select relatively excellent varieties for targeted breeding.
Others can also fill the seed company's resource library.
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With unspeakable emotions, Guo Yang made the call to his mentor Weng Lixin.
During this period, he was consciously avoiding school and home.
Now, it’s time to face it.
A familiar voice came, but Guo Yang didn't know how to speak.
On the valley floor at an altitude of nearly 3,000 meters, there is an alpine grassland ecosystem experimental station.
Weng Lixin stood on the vast grassland, holding his mobile phone while looking at the scenery that he would never tire of.
Taking advantage of the summer vacation, he took his students to the experimental station to conduct research on the mechanisms of grassland degradation in alpine pastoral areas.
The research was boring. The only thing that made him happy was that yesterday the school finally agreed to allocate funds for a comprehensive renovation of the Prairie Station.
A full 300,000!
When has the school ever been so wealthy?
This grassland experimental station was built in 1956. Successive scientific researchers, professors, and academicians have carried out various experiments on various grassland types, grassland dynamics, grassland improvement, etc., and have also given birth to various advanced theory.
Now it is finally time for his first restoration.
In addition to repairing the laboratory and exterior walls, some office furniture and teaching facilities can be purchased to give the experimental station a new look.
In the future, we will be able to receive more teachers and students here for teaching and research.
He and other professors asked the school for this repair money many times, but the principal used various reasons to prevaricate it.
I didn’t expect that yesterday the principal, who was usually busy with things, would offer to spend a sum of money to repair the grassland experimental station.
It’s not easy!
The bell rings.
"Hello, hello, who are you?"
"Hello? Hello?"
Weng Lixin looked confused after not hearing a reply for a long time.
"Did we touch it by accident?"
"Hello? Hello? If you don't speak, I will die!"
Only then did Weng Lixin hear the cell phone There was a sigh.
"Alas!"
The voice sounded familiar, and he always felt that this person was a little afraid of facing him.
I thought about it for a while.
Weng Lixin reacted immediately and asked hurriedly: "Guo Yang, is it you?"
"Well, it's me." Guo Yang said softly.
"You have the patience. I heard that you went to Jiuquan to build 200,000 acres of saline-alkali land. Is this what you said about planting alfalfa?" I want to disown my relatives when I have money..."
Listening to the instructor's crackling talk, he had almost vented all his grievances.
Guo Yangcai said: "Teacher, I heard that you have been busy doing research at the experimental station in Xiulong Township during this period. Did the principal tell you about the school's allocation of funds to repair the experimental station?"
Hearing this, Weng Lixin immediately figured it out.
"Good boy, it turns out that the problem is with you. Did you donate money to the school?"
"No, the school transferred some accumulated plant variety rights to my company, and now of course we have money. "Guo Yang smiled.
"How much money can you get?" Weng Lixin didn't believe it. The varieties with high value promoted by the school had already been transferred.
How much is the rest worth?
Just listen to Guo Yang continue: "The school has transferred more than thirty varieties to the company, and the transfer fee is still two to three million."
Weng Lixin's eyes widened.
More than thirty?
Are you collecting rags here?
(End of this chapter)