Chapter 57 Qaidam
my country is a large agricultural country, and agriculture and rural areas have always played a decisive role in the development of my country's economy and society.
But since the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to rapidly enhance national strength, our government has relied on administrative power to raise a large amount of funds from agriculture and rural areas and invest them in industry.
According to estimates, from 1952 to 1990, the state obtained 1,159.4 billion yuan from agriculture through taxation, industrial and agricultural products, etc.
Excluding the more than 100 billion yuan spent by the state on agriculture, there is still about 1 trillion yuan.
Accounting for 22.4% of all accumulated national income.
The average labor force provided free surplus to industrialization, reaching a maximum of 266 yuan in 1990, equivalent to 38.7% of the per capita net income of farmers that year.
Farmers have made huge contributions to industrialization, but they have squeezed agriculture and caused insufficient agricultural investment, leading to a serious lag in agricultural and rural development.
When industry has the strength to support agriculture, it turns out that the agricultural gap with developed countries is a bit out of reach.
Make a comparison.
The country's 71 higher agricultural and forestry colleges had only about 570 million teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment in 1990, which is roughly equivalent to one Tsinghua University.
The most memorable thing for Guo Yang was the 100th anniversary celebration of his alma mater in his previous life. He worked hard to raise donations and finally received a donation of more than 10 million yuan.
At the same time, a school next door celebrated its 60th anniversary, and an alumnus donated 1 billion!
The agricultural and forestry colleges and universities in the northwest region are even more miserable, but Guo Yang sincerely admires these people.
Take northwest agriculture and forestry science and technology as an example,
A lot of Professor Xinong can find a job in the capital, Magic City, but they have to stay in Yangling, farming and digging canals.
The school is also as stubborn as the old farmers in northern Shaanxi.
Everyone knows that it is better to build in Chang'an, but they just don't build in Chang'an.
Everyone knows that the northwest is poor and the environment is poor, but they just want to take root in the northwest!
Of course, many people may not take this seriously, but they are more interested in Jia Qianqian, the founder of the "Shit and Urine School" and "Cucumber School" poems at Northwestern University.
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Because he was poor, when Weng Lixin learned that Guo Yang, in addition to buying out the variety rights of more than thirty varieties in his school, had also transferred a number of plant varieties from other scientific research institutions, he was completely shocked. They were all a little confused.
“Why do you spend so much money to transfer so many varieties? Forget it has no promotion value, and many varieties can be used for scientific research without transfer fees!”
Guo Yangxiao He said: "Hey, I suddenly became rich, and I want to make some contributions to the northwest region. How about you transfer your old alfalfa varieties to me? This is the opportunity!"
Weng Lixin suddenly His expression changed, and he complained angrily:
"When I talk about this, I get angry. Su Guozhou said that you are so awesome! You want to completely improve 200,000 acres of saline-alkali land with your Naohe No. 1."
"And you are so awesome. The alfalfa variety, are you still thinking about me?"
Hearing this tone, Guo Yang knew that the teacher had given up on his previous decision to give up his study abroad place, "Longlu No. 1-5, five hundred thousand. "Teacher, do you want to transfer me?"
No sound was heard for a long time, and just when Guo Yang thought the signal was poor, Weng Lixin's voice came.
"Longluo No. 4 and Longluo No. 5 have not yet been approved. There are only three varieties. Please contact the school yourself."
"I will ask your Ph.D. brother to take a look at your project, come up with a technical plan, and provide some theoretical and technical training to the employees. I can continue to serve Boss Guo if necessary in the future."
Listen to this Guo Yang pretended to be unhappy and said, "I've spent so much money, why can't I ask you, teacher, to give me some advice in person?"
"Hey, don't be so weird, kid."
“My research focus next year will be on Haixi Prefecture, but I don’t have time to give you advice.”
Haixi Prefecture? Guo Yang was stunned for a while before he heard the sound.
"Qing Province? Why are you doing research so far away?" Weng Lixin sat down leisurely on the grass.
“The land desertification area in the Qaidam Basin has continued to expand in the past two years, vegetation has degraded, salinization has increased, and grassland productivity has decreased.”
“Leading to high-quality pasture There has been a decrease in the number of inedible pastures and poisonous grasses, and at the same time there has been a high-intensity outbreak of rodent and insect pests.”
“Aren’t I busy doing research on the mechanisms of grassland degradation in alpine pastoral areas?” I’ll go over there.”
Guo Yang was surprised when he heard this, "Qaidam Basin? Is there grassland there too?"
"Fortunately, you are still a graduate student, and you were taught in primary school geography that the Qaidam Basin is a cornucopia."
" Salinized meadows, desertified meadows, meadow grasslands, and alpine meadows.”
“In addition to grasslands, there are more than 600,000 acres of cultivated land in the Qaidam Basin, but currently 80% of the cultivated land is facing this problem. The risk of degradation is that they are also considering developing the alfalfa industry."
Guo Yang thought for a while and asked: "Is the environment bad?"
Weng Lixin laughed when asked, and said: "The western part of the basin is an uninhabited land, with drought, sandstorms, salt-alkali, and gravel. The winter is dry, cold, and windy. Do you think it's bad or not?"
"Teacher, Can you give me some relevant information there?”
“What do you want to do? Blind expansion is a taboo in agriculture!”
Guo Yang quickly explained: “No. Yes, no, I just understand. Didn’t you just say that there is gravel over there?”
“I happen to have a stone picker and two imported tractors that are about to be idle, and I am planning to build a farm machine. Social service team, go out and earn extra money”
"It would be nice if I can not lose money and make extra money..."
Hang up the call.
In the end, Weng Lixin agreed to help him find relevant departments to obtain information.
There is too little natural energy, so Guo Yang is also thinking about the possibility of setting up a ranch in Qing Province.
The seed company still saved 200 million, but Alfalfa No. 1 had to wait two years before any excess seeds could be released.
And the management is a bit behind now.
Fortunately, as long as alfalfa and seed companies can continue to provide the best products in the future, mediocre management levels should be enough.
Phew!
Retracting his mind, Guo Yang prepared to cultivate the seeds first.
When he arrived at the temporarily prepared germplasm resource bank, Guo Yang found the seed directional breeding function from the seed store and began to study it.
He has not used this function yet, and he still needs to study how to obtain better seeds.
As for which species to cultivate, Guo Yang already has a direction.
The current 62 points of natural energy, calculated based on all the white grade seeds worth 1-20 points of natural energy, can only cultivate 3 new varieties.
As for higher-level products, there is now the purple-level Alfalfa No. 1. Others can only be considered when there is more natural energy. The most important thing now is to build the basic product system.
First of all, there must be a variety of corn and wheat, and there must be a variety that can achieve greater economic benefits in the short term.
During this period, corn seed supply was severely oversupplied, with output twice the supply, exceeding 780 million kilograms.
The market for bulk seeds such as corn and wheat is extremely competitive!
Even if there are good varieties, it is difficult to gain the trust of growers and dealers when they are first introduced to the market.
So, if seed companies want to make quick profits, they must find another way.
Guo Yang’s idea fell on sweet peppers.
When net chamber seed production is used, the income from sweet pepper seed production can reach a maximum of more than 100,000 yuan per mu.
(End of this chapter)