Chapter 254: Making arrangements for the four major grain merchants
"That's more than 8 million acres. Isn't there another 3 million acres of soybeans?" Lin Bu's tone revealed a cheerful tone.
The great development of domestic industrialization and urbanization in the past two years has occupied a large amount of fertile land.
At the same time, the phenomenon of rural abandonment is becoming more and more serious.
As a result, the entire country’s cultivated land area and food security are under great pressure.
Nowadays, Alfalfa No. 1 seeds are used to improve coastal saline-alkali land, and Tiandou No. 1 is added. In just one year, 11 million acres of more cultivated land have been created along the coast.
And this is only one tenth, how could he not be happy.
Although the effect of soybeans on improving saline-alkali soil is somewhat worse, Guo Yang did not try to dissuade the Ministry of Forestry.
He did not forget the purpose of his trip.
Originally, this matter could be solved by contacting the department responsible for managing foreign investment, but it just happened that Lin Bu knew that he was coming, so he made an appointment to meet.
Soon, the topic shifted to investing in agriculture in Africa.
I saw Lin Bu frowning rarely, and it was obvious that he was not very optimistic about Jiahe's overseas investment in Africa.
“Except for agricultural machinery, Jiahe’s other businesses are not suitable for the African market.”
“It is not a wise move to engage in planting in Africa. Agricultural reclamation and other units are more out of the country’s overall Strategic needs. "
"On the contrary, Jiahe is not interested in the soybean and corn seed markets in South America. "
Brazil and Argentina in South America are both major growers of soybeans and corn, and are important seed and grain markets in the world.
The Ministry of Agriculture encourages agricultural enterprises to go overseas, and it is more targeted at the Asia-Pacific and South America. For example, a state-owned enterprise in Chongqing has united more than ten companies to go overseas to South America.
Guo Yang smiled and said: "Jiahe will also enter the South American market, but we are still waiting for an opportunity."
Lin Bu asked with interest: "What kind of opportunity are we waiting for?"
Guo Yang said: "International corn prices have risen sharply recently, and even wheat has a sharp upward trend."
"This may be a game."
Lin Bu's eyes narrowed.
Previously, he had communicated with Lao Nie from the State Grain Administration. First, he shared the joy of increasing corn production, and also talked about how to deal with this batch of corn.
There are nothing more than three ways: export, processing, and inventory.
Due to the recent rise in corn prices, the State Grain Administration has chosen to make exports and processing the main part, with inventory accounting for the rest.
Lin Bu asked calmly: "Oh? Let's take a look."
"Bioenergy technology has just made breakthroughs this year, and countries led by the United States have begun to introduce relevant subsidies on a large scale to encourage corn processing for energy. As a result, international food prices have been on an upward trend in the past two to three months."
"Unsurprisingly, international food prices will continue to rise rapidly in the next two to three years,"
said. At this point, Guo Yang smiled and said, "Bu Lin, don't you think this technique is familiar?"
Bu Lin laughed and said, "Good boy, why, Jiahe this time?" Want to play in the international futures market too? ”
Guo Yang raised his eyebrows. From the looks of it, Jiahe's operations in the futures market a few years ago were clearly known to the upper management.
"If given the chance, Jiahe will not give up harvesting wool. In the next few years, there may be a serious food crisis in the world."
Lin Bu looked at him in surprise and asked : "Another international food crisis?"
Guo Yang is very sure that the 2008 financial tsunami is just around the corner. Isn't food the best tool to transfer risks and harvest?
“By consuming grain stocks through bioenergy, and then raising agricultural inputs and planting costs, the fundamentals for rising grain prices are formed.”
"In the end, international capital will invest huge amounts of real money, just like soybeans two years ago."
Seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, the global agricultural input industry chain is mainly in the hands of Western countries inside.
Guo Yang's few words cleared up Lin Bu's doubts these days, but he wasn't too worried.
What China is most afraid of is low grain prices, which will harm farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain. Since 1990, a national special grain reserve system has been established.
In 2000, the State Grain Reserve was established to be responsible for the management of grain reserves.
Lin Bu smiled while thinking: "The domestic grain reserves are sufficient, and the output has also improved in recent years. If the international grain merchants still dare to come, they will definitely be left without food."
"I didn't think about it. Do you want to invite me to the urn?”
Lin Bu raised his eyebrows, “What do you mean?”
In Guo Yang’s memory, during the food crisis in his previous life, the four major grain merchants harvested money in Asia, Africa and Latin America. After that, he also turned his attention to the great eastern countries.
However, because domestic grain prices have been sluggish for more than ten years, the state grain reserves have been hoarding grain for more than ten years in order to protect farmers.
When international speculators were buying and selling, they found that the national grain reserves were bottomless, and ultimately failed.
However, in this life, due to the existence of Tianhe Seed Industry, the country's grain output in the past two years has greatly exceeded expectations.
In addition to corn, soybeans and wheat will also increase production significantly in the future. It is difficult to say whether international speculators will come.
After thinking for a while, Guo Yang said: "On the one hand, we should strengthen food storage, and on the other hand, we must pretend that we are weak to attract international speculators to come and cause trouble in the country."
"The mantis stalks the cicada. The oriole is behind, the four major grain merchants and international funds have harvested Asia, Africa and Latin America, we let them come to the country..."
Lin Bu narrowed his eyes.
He finally understood what opportunity Jiahe was waiting for, and reversed the trend of the four major grain merchants. When Jiahe entered South America, the resistance would be much smaller.
Guo Yang continued: "Can the State Grain Administration be less high-profile? The autumn harvest has not yet been completed, and it has urgently raised its production forecast for this year."
Lin Bu thought, if according to this The logic of the boy's reasoning seems to be true.
After pondering for a while, Lin Bu remembered that Jiahe had entered the field of grain and oil processing at this time. Had he already had such a plan?
However, Jiahe Processing's losses in purchasing domestic soybeans were real, and for a while, Lin Bu was also unsure.
But if you have food in your hands, it must be correct.
Lin Bu said: "I have written this down."
Guo Yang also smiled. In fact, in addition to processing Jiahe grain and oil, another purpose is to store grain. , Only when competing with the four major grain merchants can they be at ease.
“As for investment in Africa, can Ministry of Forestry help introduce it?”
Lin Bu thought for a while and asked the secretary to bring a piece of information.
"It just so happens that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become more stable in the past two years. Although many opposition parties are still active in the eastern Great Lakes region, the overall political situation has eased."
"The newly appointed Xiaoka President Billa once studied in China and is now engaged in infrastructure financing dialogue with China.”
“The initial tone is to exchange infrastructure for mineral resources.”
Guo Yang. After receiving the information, it was a scope of investment negotiations in China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
After a quick scroll, Congo's transportation, water and electricity, municipal administration, medical and other infrastructure are very backward.
The same is true for agriculture. Food basically relies on imports, and the effective demand for agricultural products is insufficient. Cereals and vegetables are luxuries for local residents.
Technological backwardness runs through all aspects of planting and animal husbandry, and there is a serious shortage of agricultural inputs.
The advantage is the abundance of various resources.
To put it simply, large-scale investment in grain cultivation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a very low cost-effectiveness between investment and income, and will also face various risks.
Guo Yang looked at the information provided by Lin Bu for a long time before finally pointing to one of the pages.
“Jiahe is interested in palm oil development and grain planting development.”
“Yes, I can introduce you to the Minister of Agriculture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the future. Tian just happened to be in the capital."
Lin Bu took a deep look at him and said: "If we go overseas, the country can't give us much support. In contrast, we still need to vigorously develop domestically."
“As long as Jiahe can make great efforts to transform the saline-alkali land, desert, and Gobi as it is now, no one in the country will touch Jiahe.”
There are countless arable lands in the country that are difficult to use. It is not that there have been attempts to improve them in the past, but the results have been unsatisfactory.
Over the past few decades, there is only one company that can develop wasteland on a large scale like Jiahe and achieve such results.
Guo Yang understood that Lin Bu was trying to point him out.
“The focus must still be on the country, especially the northwest. Transforming the northwest into a large granary is Jiahe’s ultimate goal.”
“As long as you have an idea.”
In fact, there is one thing that Lin Bu did not say. In two months’ time, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation will be held in Beijing.
However, he did not want Jiahe to participate.
The agricultural investment environment in the remaining African countries, Zambia, Kenya, and Nigeria, is better than that in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But he doesn’t want Jiahe to easily develop overseas. There is still a large area of land in China that needs Jiahe to develop!
Seeing that Lin Bu wanted to leave, Guo Yang stood up and shook hands with Lin Bu and said, "Thank you Lin Bu for your support. Jiahe will never forget where his roots are."
Lin Bu nodded, and when he was halfway there, he stopped again, turned around and said.
“Didn’t we arrest a group of people before? We have already made exchanges with Dayang.”
“Among them is your former classmate Chen Yunpeng, who is probably returning to China at this time. On the way."
"Huh?"
When Guo Yang looked confused and wanted to ask for details, Lin Bu had already left. Chen Yunpeng?
Guo Yang thought for a while and then remembered the slightly silly fat tiger.
It seems that he still owes Chen Yunpeng money, 100,000 yuan or 200,000 yuan?
But these are no longer relevant.
Two days later.
Guo Yang successfully met Francois Nzanga from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who is also the head of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The conversation between the two went smoothly.
Guo Yang immediately spoke to Yu Honghai on the phone and provided Yu Honghai with directions for investigation as he was confused and didn't know where to start.
The first is the palm oil comprehensive development project in Equateur Province, the second is the corn demonstration field project in the capital Kinshasa, and the third is the comprehensive agricultural development project in Bas-Congo Province.
The three regions are all located in the Midwest, far away from the unrest-prone eastern mining areas.
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After staying for a few more days, Guo Yang sat in the office of Weiguang Company, playing with the long and thick corn cobs freshly baked this year.
Not long after,
Luo Xiu, wearing a black outfit, walked in, took out a card from his pocket and put it on the table.
“Boss, I’m back.”
Guo Yang glanced at his bank card and asked, "Why have you been here for so long?"
Luo Xiu was silent for a moment, and seeing no one around, he said, "The other two have finished their business in Liao Province. There was a delay when leaving the country from the north."
"No trouble, right?"
Luo Xiu gritted his teeth and said, "No, I just happened to meet a few comrades and heard about Jiahe. They also want to go abroad.”
Guo Yang raised his eyebrows. The four people before him were special cases and they probably wouldn’t have a chance to return home in the short term.
If more people are added...
Guo Yang said: "Africa does not need so many capable fighters for the time being. We can arrange for them to go to the Middle East and be responsible for the security there. See if they are willing."
< br>"Okay, then I'll go ask."
"Take the card as well and put it there for later use." Seeing Luo Xiu's hesitation, Guo Yang said: "You can take it if you are told to take it."
After Luo Xiu left, Guo Yang thought it was time to leave the capital. He could also work remotely, and if it was urgent, he would do special things.
The harvest from this trip is still good.
Not only did we find a breakthrough in Africa, Huinong.com was also successfully launched.
In just one week, the number of registered users exceeded one million. Although the retention of active users dropped sharply, it was finally done.
The next step is to expand Denong Agricultural Supermarket across the country and improve the warehousing and logistics system.
Currently, agricultural supplies supermarkets are popping up all over the country, and provincial supply and marketing cooperatives are also expanding their presence, creating fierce competition.
According to Yuan Wenwu's previous plan, Denong Agricultural Products Supermarket had better stabilize the market in Shandong Province, expand appropriately in the four provinces of Shanhe, and wait until other companies can't stand it before making acquisitions.
But I can’t wait now.
Staring at the itinerary prepared by the headquarters office, I pondered for a while.
The schedule is very full.
The saline-alkali wasteland of Zepu and the grain and oil processing plants of Xinjiang Province;
The coastal saline-alkali land;
The seed production situation in the Hexi Corridor is mainly the proliferation of flower and vegetable seeds. I haven’t seen it this year;
The seed production base in Hainan;
< br>I haven’t been to Weifang’s agricultural machinery factory since its expansion;
Luo Potassium Project;
And overseas...
One by one, Guo Yang felt that he had only been in the laboratory for half a month, but his accumulated work schedule was full.
But there is no need to go to every place. After thinking about it, Guo Yang finally decided to go and see the situation in the coastal salt-alkali land.
Lao Mei personally complained about dumping. He was really curious about the situation of forage production along the coast.
Unlike the northwest, coastal saline-alkali lands have great advantages in reconstruction and irrigation due to sufficient water resources.
Therefore, the yield of Alfalfa No. 1 along the coast is higher than Guo Yang expected.
Originally, the first season was mainly about soil improvement, and a forage yield of 1 to 1.5 tons was considered to be up to standard. However, the yield in coastal areas generally reached 2 tons.
In Dongying, the comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land has been explored, but the barren saline-alkali land has made the abandonment phenomenon extremely serious.
The first batch of farmers who contracted saline-alkali land last year made money. Before this year’s autumn harvest was over, there was a trend of contracting saline-alkali land in the local area.
After Guo Yang came to Dongying, he saw a field of green alfalfa leaves on the 1,000 acres of saline-alkali wasteland contracted by Gao Ruixia.
The last crop of alfalfa has been harvested. These are the new leaves. Judging from the growth, there will be no problem in surviving the winter.
Gao Ruixia is a 48-year-old woman with a strong body. After learning that Guo Yang was the boss of Jiahe, she caught him and asked him.
"Brother, how do you sell alfalfa at such a high price abroad? Our export price is less than 1,500 yuan per ton, and some are sold for as little as 1,000 yuan."
"Based on your output, one thousand four hundred and five is a big profit this year!" Guo Yang smiled and said, "The processing standards of alfalfa are extremely strict."
Understanding the situation of Gao Ruixia and others Only then did Guo Yang know why the Ministry of Agriculture didn’t care about Lao America’s dumping complaint.
According to the saline-alkali land development policy, Dongying governments at all levels provided subsidies for improving one mu of saline-alkali land, reaching 500 yuan per year in the first three years.
At the same time, along the long north-south line, in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas in the south, due to the high temperature, some people tried to cut 5 crops this year and achieved success. There are even rumors that someone will try to cut six crops next year.
The investment cost for farmers in the first year is about 2,750~3,000 yuan.
The yield per mu is two tons, and selling for 1,200 yuan per ton is 2,400 yuan. With the government subsidy of 500 yuan, the cost can be recovered in the first year.
The higher the output, the greater the room for price reduction and the cheaper exports will be.
Guo Yang looked at the soil again out of habit.
The effect of soil desalination is very good, and the physical environment and fertility of the soil are also significantly increased.
If fertilization + rolling treatment is carried out, the desalination effect and nutrient changes will only be better.
No wonder the Ministry of Agriculture doesn’t care about the clamor of the United States.
This is to use the dumping complaint from the US Department of Agriculture to force farmers to turn over green manure next year and switch to grain and other crops.
The coast does not have the light conditions of the northwest, and it is easy to encounter rain when mowing, so the product quality is naturally low.
Processing standards are not as good as those of alfalfa.
Failed to meet the standards required by export island countries and South Korea.
But I can’t export to island countries and South Korea, so I can export to the other side of the ocean!
The other side of the ocean is the traditional producing area of alfalfa. The tariff is very low. Unprepared, part of the market was taken away by alfalfa along the coast.
At the same time, at least half of the overseas high-end export market has been taken away by Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.
Ultimately, this led to a boycott by dissatisfied alfalfa farmers on both sides of the ocean, and the other side also promptly increased subsidies for their country's alfalfa industry.
On the other side, public relations have also been greatly increased, prompting island countries and South Korea to introduce measures.
But unexpectedly, a series of combined punches hit the air. my country's dominant alfalfa producing area is in the northwest, and the coastal areas are already a chess piece.
The move from the other side played right into Rabbit's hands.
When it comes to tricks, you still get the rabbit!
The only impact may be on the export of alfalfa grass and the decline in the operations of grass industry companies facing the domestic market such as Huihuang Seed Industry.
However, Alfalfa No. 1 seeds have benefited. The newly harvested seeds have entered the production line for sorting and processing, and simultaneous sales work is also underway.
According to the current trend, this year’s 20 million kilograms of seeds will most likely be in short supply.
Estimated sales are 10 billion yuan!
This will be an important financial guarantee for Jiahe’s investment projects next year!
From Dongying to Yancheng,
Guo Yang learned everything about the situation along the way. The soybean seed production base in Jiaxiang and the organic soybean planting base in cooperation with Jiusan Cereals and Oils both had great harvests.
Through this cooperation, the differentiated edible soybean development route has been proven to be completely feasible.
Jiusan Grain and Oil has been encouraging the improvement of saline-alkali land in Northeast China and the development of organic soybean cultivation.
In addition, large-scale oil and fat factories acquired along the coast have also begun processing.
Every factory is losing huge amounts of money every day, and Guo Yang has no intention of looking at detailed data.
However, with the international community's hype on bioenergy, international soybean prices have also entered an upward trend.
Looking at the slowly rising soybean prices, Guo Yang had another evil thought.
Add a fire.
(End of this chapter)