Chapter 61 There are masters among the people
(PS: The name of the seed company is abbreviated as [Tianhe Seed Industry], thank the netizens for the recommendation!!!)
Bi Qiang has joined Tianhe Seed Industry.
The reason for being so determined, Bi Qiang also admitted frankly, was not only due to changes in his relationship, but also because he could only receive five or six hundred dollars a month.
Although there is performance at the end of the year, there are also other benefits.
But Han Chuang has been studying hard for nearly 20 years, and this treatment really makes him unwilling.
And if you can hug your classmate’s lap and do what you want to do at the same time, why not do it?
After joining the company, the treatment Tianhe gave him was really not low. Guo Yang still had this awareness.
The weather has turned cold recently, and Long Province has entered winter ahead of schedule. The risks in the Gobi, deserts, and mountains have increased sharply.
Bi Qiang could only go around the vast rural areas and go door to door, looking for news about old local varieties.
But he couldn't find the old local varieties, but he got an unexpected harvest.
While visiting a market and chatting with vendors, I learned that there was an old farmer who was very good at growing vegetables. In recent years, the spring peppers would go to market ten days earlier than others.
Because it comes on the market early and the price is often very expensive, old farmers make huge profits every year, making many people envious.
According to Bi Qiang's estimation, they cultivate peppers in plastic greenhouses in early spring, raise seedlings in mid-January, and plant them in late March or early April. Local fresh peppers will not be available until the end of May.
As for the peppers grown in the open air, they will not be available until late spring and early summer
But the old farmer’s peppers will be on the market in mid-to-early May.
Don’t blame others for making money. The market is so far in advance that you can pick several batches of peppers.
After some searching, Guo Yang and Bi Qiang found the old farmer's residence.
The house is an ordinary mud house, standing at the foot of a loess slope hidden by trees, and the mud skin has fallen off slightly.
Guo Yang and Bi Qiang stood outside the house and shouted: "Is there anyone in the house?"
As soon as he finished speaking, two dogs, one big and one small, came out of the house and barked loudly at the two of them.
Guo Yang was stunned for a moment. The two dogs had pure white hair, slender limbs, perfect arcs on their hind legs and back, and slender and curly tails.
Bi Qiang seems to know something about this dog, "This is a branch of the Chinese fine dog. It was a royal hound in ancient times. It has well-developed leg muscles, strong rear drive, and powerful explosive power. It is very suitable for high speeds. Run."
At this moment, an old man with half a hair and a beard emerged from the earthen house, wearing a velvet hat on his head and holding a long pipe pot in his hand. He looked at the two of them: "You guys What do you do?”
“Uncle, we are from a seed company. I heard that you are good at growing peppers, so I came here to take a look and want to buy some if possible.”
The uncle's expression softened and he said regretfully: "There is nothing special about my pepper seeds. In the past, I used to select some good plants myself, emasculate and pollinate them to save seeds. It is true that they can be put on the market in advance, but this year's pepper growth has also been weak."
Guo Yang and Bi Qiang looked at each other and understood each other's thoughts.
Variety degeneration?
Pepper is a frequently cross-pollinated plant, with a natural outcrossing rate of 20%-30%.
And the threshold for pepper breeding is low. It can be pollinated directly by artificial castration. The breeding of inbred lines and the purification and propagation of hybrid parents are relatively simple.
The pepper seeds in the uncle’s hands are kept and selected by himself all year round. If you do not pay attention to isolation during the production process, it is easy for natural hybridization with other local vegetable peppers and dried peppers to form biological hybrids, causing species changes and varieties to appear. Severely degraded.
"Uncle, where did you grow your peppers in the past years?"
The uncle stopped the big dog and led the two of them outside.
After a while, we came to a relatively flat area on the gentle slope, where two simple greenhouses were still standing in the ground. The uncle fiddled with his pipe and said, "No, that's the land where a crop of chili peppers are planted every spring, which will be put on the market in May. The land where the seedlings are harvested in mid-August is also planted with broccoli, which will be postponed until November. It’s ready for sale.”
It takes four months to pick? The two realized that the yield of the uncle's pepper variety would definitely not be low.
Sure enough, there are experts among the people!
Although peppers were introduced to China only over 400 years ago, large-scale cultivation across the country was less than 200 years ago.
However, through natural selection and artificial selection, a large number of excellent variety resources with different characteristics in various places have evolved, and the genetic resources are very rich.
I think this is also the case with Laodaye’s pepper varieties.
But he was not the only farmer growing peppers nearby, and it was likely that they were mixed with other varieties, causing the varieties to begin to deteriorate.
Guo Yang sighed sincerely: "Uncle, your cooking skills are good. You can make a lot of money every year just from one or two acres of vegetable land!"
The uncle raised his head, not to mention how proud he was, but he said humbly: "Oh, I can only earn a little money from one or two acres of gently sloping land, but I can't compare with you. After the broccoli is harvested, we have to clear it as soon as possible." They rush to grow a crop of spinach in the shed and put it on the market around the Spring Festival.”
Guo Yang couldn’t help but feel that he really made the best use of everything and refused to rest at all.
Looking at the land carefully again, Guo Yang found that it should be on the south side of the gentle slope. The temperature rose quickly, so it was no wonder that it could be launched so far in advance.
But judging from the known information, the varieties should also be excellent in terms of high yield, early maturity, and cold resistance.
As for the problem of variety degradation, it is not a big problem. If you screen it, there will always be seeds with excellent characteristics.
I chatted with the uncle for a while, because the uncle found out that Guo Yang and Bi Qiang were from the seed company. So in the end the lion opened his mouth, causing Guo Yang to spend hundreds of yuan to buy a small bag of seeds from the uncle.
On the way back, Guo Yang thought of Alfalfa No. 1. Its propagation base was still a little crude.
Although there is a green isolation belt, the potential risks of the surrounding 200,000 acres of ordinary alfalfa are too great.
If you are not careful, Alfalfa No. 1 may be contaminated.
I just hope that Lao Xiang can control the flow of personnel in the Alfalfa No. 1 expansion field.
But the seed stores provide original seeds like Alfalfa No. 1, which are 100% pure seeds.
In order to ensure the purity of the original stock, a special original stock propagation base is usually established.
But we couldn’t wait that long at that time. If we planted it late, it would be delayed by another year, and the time to completely improve the saline-alkali land would also be delayed by one year.
As a special and most basic means of agricultural production, seeds play an important role in agricultural production.
Research shows that among various measures to increase crop yields, improved varieties account for about 30% of the contribution rate, ranking first.
As for whether the seeds used for production can truly retain the excellent characteristics of the variety, the original seed and original seed play a decisive role.
Since 1989, the country has implemented a project to build original crop seed expansion bases, supporting about 50% of the national comprehensive agricultural development funds.
It’s just that Tianhe Seed Industry is a start-up private enterprise and does not meet the prerequisites for applying for national projects.
Therefore, Tianhe Seed Industry can only apply for full investment and construction on its own.
At present, in Tianhe's seed base, except for the ordinary seed production base, which is slightly behind schedule, the original seed expansion base for corn, wheat and sweet pepper has begun to take shape and will be put into normal use early next year. .
The investment in the original species expansion base for each species has reached more than one million yuan.
This allowed Guo Yang to temporarily adjust the future development direction of Tianhe Seed Industry.
It should be fine but not too much.
Let’s seize the market in the fields of corn, wheat, and pepper seeds first!
(End of this chapter)