The rise of nanometers

Next to Dongying Dairy Breeding Base.

More than half of the more than 5,000 acres of pasture have been initially renovated due to the desalination trucks that have been put into use one after another.

Fengmin Agriculture's agricultural machinery rental company has received eight desalination fleets. A standard desalination fleet consists of a desalination truck, a primary screening truck, a diesel power supply truck, a water supply truck, and a parts maintenance truck. It consists of one truck, two mixing trucks, eight earth-moving trucks, and three excavators.

One team can transform 12 acres of saline-alkali land.

Usually there are two shifts a day, and eight teams can transform about 192 acres of saline-alkali land in one day.

It took a lot of overtime work to complete the initial renovation of nearly 3,000 acres of Dongying Pasture.

However, with the formal mass production of construction machinery factories, the next desalination fleet will become more professional and larger in number.

The scale of transformation of saline-alkali land will continue to increase.

Another company under Fengmin Agriculture, Farmland Doctor Company, has poached a large number of people from the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences has almost been hollowed out, and it has to improve the treatment and carry out reforms for the remaining people. appease.

Many people from Farm Doctor Company and Northern Agricultural Research Institute work part-time for each other.

For example, Ma Changjiang is the director of the research institute and concurrently serves as the technical executive officer of the Agricultural Doctor Company.

A dozen college students who are about to graduate from their bachelor's degrees this year have been recruited as intern employees and are testing the soil on the pasture.

In the container room, Qin Wenbin, who was in charge of statistics, looked at the pages of data and exclaimed in a low voice: "Damn, this guy is awesome."

They are all students at the Agricultural University, so they naturally know the importance of soil nutrients. The land in Dongying, even ordinary farmland that can be cultivated normally, is basically slightly saline-alkali.

"The humus is quite good, and the pH is relatively balanced. The soil contains a certain amount of nitrogen ions, and the content of other trace elements is basically up to standard. The calcium, magnesium, and sodium that are still lacking can be supplemented in a targeted manner," said another young man. .

Qin Wenbin shook his head and smiled: "The company's desalination truck is so thorough that it basically removes all the sodium salt in the middle surface soil. Instead, it needs to replenish sodium salt to maintain a certain level of sodium ions."

Ma Changjiang pushed the door open and asked curiously: "What did you say?"

Qin Wenbin stood up in a hurry: "Teacher Ma, it's nothing. I just want to talk about the desalination of the desalination truck too thoroughly. Now the soil in the pasture lacks sodium and needs to be replenished."

"There is nothing we can do about this. The desalination trucks extract excess amounts, which is more convenient. Anyway, the company's sodium chloride cost is not high, so we just need to replenish it quantitatively."

"That's true." Qin Wenbin nodded.

Ma Changjiang ordered: "For your recent tasks, you can go to other areas of Dongying to test the specific composition of the soil, and then upload it to the company's database."

"Okay, Teacher Ma."

At this time, on the pasture, in addition to the desalination fleet at work, there was also a fleet of agricultural machinery that was leveling the land.

Lu Baojia, a former colleague of Ma Changjiang, is a technician engaged in forage research and is also in this pasture.

Based on the climate of the North China Plain, he planned the planting varieties of pastures, including 2,000 acres planted with alfalfa, 2,000 acres planted with ryegrass, and the last 1,000 acres planted with Green State No. 1.

For livestock, feeding a single pasture for a long time will cause malnutrition. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare several varieties of pasture, and add green storage, hay, and concentrated feed to ensure the health of the livestock.

Another benefit of planting alfalfa (Fabaceae) is that the roots of alfalfa contain rhizobia, which will promote nitrogen fixation in the soil and further improve the soil.

"Lao Ma, our arrangements here are pretty much the same."

Ma Changjiang came out: "Baojia, you have to make arrangements for the improvement of alfalfa."

"I will arrange it." Lu Baojia replied while washing his hands.

Although alfalfa varieties in the United States are not only rich in nutrients, but also have relatively high yields, more than half of the alfalfa varieties in the United States are genetically modified alfalfa.

The cultivation of genetically modified alfalfa is prohibited in China, not only because of biosafety considerations, but also strategic security considerations.

Because there is no way to reproduce genetically modified crops, it is not conducive to the security of the supply chain. No matter how good other people's things are, they are not as good as what you own.

at the same time.

As the weather gradually gets warmer, spring plowing in Shandong Province has also begun.

In a village near Dongying Dairy Breeding Base, many farmers drove tractors and plowed the fields.

Several salesmen from Fengmin Agriculture approached an old farmer.

"Uncle is plowing the fields?"

The old farmer, who was smoking a cigarette, turned around and took a closer look: "Isn't this Huzi? Aren't you in a dairy farm? Why are you here?"

It was Zhang Liehu who came from this village, and he hurriedly introduced him. Only then did several colleagues and old farmers get acquainted with each other.

Then Zhang Liehu began to introduce the forage cooperation.

"Your company wants to develop saline-alkali land? Huzi, don't lie to me." The old farmer looked suspicious and felt that this cooperation was unreliable.

"Uncle, what am I kidding you about? Your eight acres of saline-alkali fields are left uncultivated. After signing the contract, our company will renovate them for free. You only need to take out three layers of land to grow pasture." Zhang Liehu persuaded.

The old farmer blew out a puff of smoke and said, "I'll think about it."

"Uncle, don't hesitate. It costs nothing. If you can grow things in those 8 acres of saline-alkali fields, you can earn more than 10,000 yuan a year."

It’s just that the old farmers are still hesitating.

Seeing this, Zhang Liehu had no choice but to find other people. After a busy day, he signed contracts with 6 households. The contracted saline-alkali land totaled only 27 acres.

Faced with the farmers' disbelief and hesitation, Zhang Liehu could only go to his father at night, call some of his better relatives over, and give him some earnest persuasion.

The next day, he brought those salesmen over, and many people in the village were pointing fingers. Anyway, gossip is inevitable.

Including his own family, 14 more households signed contracts today. These are Zhang Liehu's relatives and friends, and they have acquired a total of 93 acres of saline-alkali land.

Including yesterday's 27 acres, Zhangjiacun could barely make up 120 acres.

A salesman shook his head helplessly: "Brother Zhang, let's go! Your village is probably at its limit."

Zhang Liehu certainly knows that the others are probably either calling liars or making sarcastic remarks. Only when they get results and slap these guys in the face will they change their attitude.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Zhang Liehu drove his pickup truck and returned to the headquarters of Fengmin Agriculture.

In the cafeteria of the headquarters, after eating, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him.

"Huzi, how are you doing there?"

Zhang Liehu turned around: "Brother Tao, it took me two days to sign the contract for 120 acres. What about you?"

Cai Haitao also had a wry smile on his face: "It's a little better than you, 174 acres."

"It seems they are all about the same. The third and fifth groups also have more than 100 acres."

The five business teams were complaining while eating. It was obvious that the situation in the past few days had made them a little depressed.

The emergence of something must be accepted by farmers. Unless someone makes a profit, they will not follow it easily.

When there are profitable projects, it is easy for swarms of swarms to blindly follow the trend. This is the case with sugar orange planting. Many farmers blindly follow the trend in planting, which eventually leads to overproduction and no one makes any money.