Chapter 60 Seed Hunter
A revolutionary and epoch-making variety!
This sentence echoed repeatedly in Guo Yang's mind.
Isn’t this what he is pursuing?
After listening to Wei Qiang’s talk about the problems in the industry, Guo Yang also learned a lot.
The vegetable seed industry is not capital-intensive. Even if you have abundant funds, you may not be able to make the enterprise bigger and stronger.
There are indeed many problems, but Guo Yang knows that my country’s pepper seed industry will actually develop well in the future.
Although there is a lack of high-end vegetable seeds, our country can basically achieve self-sufficiency in whether it is fresh peppers, processed pepper products, or pepper seeds.
In years of economic downturn, a bad market for peppers is the norm, and pepper farmers are suffering terribly.
In 2022, the pepper market will be good. Seeing the profits, many farmers will expand their planting areas in 2023, resulting in the origin price of peppers in many areas being only two or three cents per pound.
There are still many farmers who cannot sell their pepper seedlings, so they can only pull out their pepper seedlings in advance and prepare to plant vegetables for the next season.
After the two chatted for a while, when the person in charge of the vegetable station arrived, Guo Yang went to get some bell pepper seeds.
This has been negotiated by Guo Yang for a long time.
But after hearing Bi Qiang talk about the difficulties faced by Longjiao No. 2 cultivated as a vegetable, Guo Yang suddenly wanted to ask for more seeds of the northwest local variety 'Pig Large Intestine' screw pepper.
Before leaving, Guo Yang invited Bi Qiang: "How about you, do you want to come to our company? You will be the head of the breeding department."
Bi Qiang really started thinking seriously.
Guo Yang was amused by this scene. This roommate was still as confident as ever.
But he is not kidding. The breeding team is dispensable to him now, but it would be great to build it up gradually.
"The salary is definitely higher than what you are in the institute."
Bi Qiang thought for a while, then chuckled and said: "Isn't it a good idea for us to talk about this topic in the institute? .”
Guo Yang was used to poaching people for a long time. To be honest, this feeling of throwing money at him was quite refreshing.
"Just say whether you will come or not."
"I'm definitely willing to come. I just want to be the person in charge of breeding. I just want a free research environment."
< br>Hearing what he said, Guo Yang suddenly thought of the urgently needed germplasm resource bank and had an idea in his mind.
“Then come over and help me collect germplasm resources. By then, the great rivers and mountains in China, and even the mountains and ravines abroad, may be your destination.”
Bi Qiang smiled and said: "That's just right. I want to be a seed hunter and travel to every corner of the world to collect all kinds of ancient, rare, unique and excellent plant seeds, especially those ancient ones in our country." Variety."
Guo Yang was a little dumbfounded. He agreed so simply, but he was still a seed hunter?
Hey! Do you want to be so free and easy?
Bi Qiang ignored all this and still said to himself:
"Do you know Zhangye Wujiang rice? From the time Li Hantong, the governor of Ganzhou, set up farming, it was recorded that it was planted, and now it has been planted More than 1,300 years of history.”
"However, in the past ten or twenty years, the original local old varieties of Wujiang rice, 'White Mango Rice' and 'Black Mango Rice', have been hard to find. If no rescue collection and preservation is carried out, these old varieties will soon become extinct. . ”
“In addition, there are local varieties of endangered crops in the province such as belly yellow highland barley, white sand valley, safflower buckwheat, monk head wheat, three white melons, small yellow millet, and even wild soybeans and wild watermelons. Wild related plant germplasm resources are all my goals!”
Listening to Bi Qiang’s impassioned words, Guo Yang felt something was wrong.
"Do your girlfriend and parents agree to you running away for a long time like this?"
Bi Qiang was immediately silenced.
Guo Yang suddenly had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, Bi Qiang sighed, "We broke up not long after graduation. She said I was pretentious, but I only knew how to live in farmland and greenhouses, willing to only take a few hundred yuan a month. "
Guo Yang didn't know how to comfort him. It was hard to tell who was right and who was wrong in emotional matters. The wages at the vegetable laboratory are indeed low. Not counting the year-end bonus of the social security and provident fund, the salary of Alfalfa's technical staff is two to three times that.
“Let’s not talk about this anymore. As agreed, I will come to your company and support an idle person like me with your current assets. Is it not a big problem?”
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Of course Guo Yang is fine.
The charm of old crop varieties lies in inheriting farming culture and continuing Sinochem civilization.
There are many people like Bi Qiang in China, and many of them work as individual breeders in various harsh and dangerous environments, just to find the elusive special germplasm resources.
At the same time, germplasm resources are the basic materials for the breeding of new varieties, and most of the germplasm resources in Long Province have high-quality special genes such as cold resistance and drought resistance.
In the future, Guo Yang will mainly work in cold and arid areas such as the Northwest.
Therefore, Bi Qiang's 'seed hunter' idea will be beneficial to him in cultivating new seeds, both now and in the future.
Very decisively, Bi Qiang left the vegetable farm.
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From the beginning of October, Jiuquan seems to have reserved winter in advance.
The first snow is quiet and mysterious, hiding dead branches and leaves in its arms, showing the beautiful scenery between heaven and earth.
The construction of greenhouses at the breeding base also stopped. Fortunately, with Guo Yang's instructions, two greenhouses were built in advance.
Otherwise Guo Yang would be caught blind.
During the long-term systematic development, sweet peppers have developed the characteristics of liking warmth, avoiding exposure to high temperatures and being afraid of cold.
Temperature is the most sensitive to the growth and development of sweet peppers. When it is below 5℃, it will cause freezing damage, while when it is above 35℃, it will cause heat damage.
Even in a greenhouse, given the climatic conditions in Jiuquan, we have to wait until mid-January next year before sowing.
As for other corn, wheat and other seeds, they are still far away from seed production.
Agriculture is really not in a hurry, but in the future we can build breeding bases in the tropics or the southern hemisphere, but the natural conditions have changed too much.
Guo Yang has not been idle during this period. In addition to vigorously searching for germplasm resources such as bell peppers and corns, he also began to use seed stores to match them one by one.
There are also many varieties that look good, but they are all white grade seeds.
It is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away.
As the sowing work of the 200,000 acres of saline-alkali land improvement project comes to an end, Guo Yang's natural energy point has reached 138 points.
The engineering improvements throughout the project provided him with a total of 220 points of natural energy.
But after the sowing, the natural energy has stopped growing, and it is expected that it will be difficult to change in the future.
When you are rich, you will naturally have more ideas.
I don’t dare to expect purple-level seeds, but I can still think about blue-level seeds with 20-100 points of natural energy.
Corn, wheat, and sweet peppers, the best three varieties all have between 20 and 40 points of natural energy. If you don’t have them, there’s nothing you can do.
This way he can also cultivate more seeds.
For example, when it comes to fresh peppers, Guo Yang discovered that the local breed "Pig Intestine" in the northwest is really a breed with high quality, but other traits are ridiculously poor.
When paired with most varieties, excellent quality can be retained, but the yield and resistance are always unsatisfactory.
But just a few days ago, when Bi Qiang was collecting local varieties in the township, he accidentally learned that an old farmer's peppers would be on the market a week or two earlier than others every year.
This attracted the attention of Bi Qiang and Guo Yang.
(End of this chapter)