Chapter 22 Cat Winter Season and Snow Banana in Northeast China

Today's [Chaoqun Group] can be said to be a big family and a big business. Its major businesses are spread all over the country, and some of its businesses have even expanded overseas.

It is impossible for Wu Siyuan to do everything as he did a few years ago.

Even if artificial intelligence is secretly assisting.

Wu Siyuan is too busy even if he has three heads and six arms, and there is no need to do so.

What he is doing now is to grasp the strategic development direction, and leave the rest of the tactical execution to his subordinates.

Just like this pig price war.

After Wu Siyuan set the tone in January 2019, he handed over full power to Guan Xuelia and Su Shixian.

Then he himself, taking He Youman with him, flew to the Northeast.

The Northeast region, known as Youzhou in ancient times, is the collective name for the land in the northeast of China, with a land area of ​​1.45 million square kilometers and a total population of 120 million.

The Northeast region spans the mid-temperate zone and the cold temperate zone from south to north. It has a temperate monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, hot and rainy in summer and cold and dry in winter.

From the southeast to the northwest, the annual precipitation drops from 1000mm to less than 300mm, transitioning from humid and semi-humid areas to semi-arid areas.

The basic characteristics of the ground structure in the Northeast are that water surrounds mountains and fertile fields are thousands of miles away. The soil is mainly black soil. The black soil in the Northeast Plain is one of the three largest black soil belts in the world. Its fertility is astonishing. In the past, in the Great Northern Wilderness There is a saying that "oil flowers sprout when you grab a handful of black soil, and sprouts sprout when you insert chopsticks into it." Although it is a bit exaggerated, the fertility of Northeastern soil is indeed true.

Historically, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huguang used to be the largest granary in China. There is a saying that "the food from Suhu and Huzhou is enough for the world" and "the food from Huguang feeds the world". However, things have changed now, and Northeast China has become the largest granary in China.

The total grain output of the three northeastern provinces is 118.74 million tons, accounting for about 20% of the country's total grain output, far exceeding the 43.07 million tons and 55.83 million tons of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Of course, this is based on the fact that the [Chaoqun Group] and the country's cooperation in jointly developing the saline-alkali land have not yet succeeded.

Once the saline-alkali land is successfully developed and one to two hundred million acres of land suitable for cultivation is released, the honor of being the largest granary in the country may change.

But at present, the largest breadbasket in the country is undoubtedly the Northeast region.

Northeast rice grown in the Northeast is famous throughout the country.

Northeastern rice is Japonica rice, which is mainly grown in the vast plains of the three northeastern provinces. It is grown in extremely fertile black soil, absorbing enough nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other mineral elements, with abundant sunshine, rain and dew, and pure and pollution-free irrigation. Using water, the growth cycle is generally about five months.

Real Northeastern rice has a short and round grain shape, with an aspect ratio of about 1.6:1, less belly white, high gelatin content, and a clear and transparent beige color.

The unique geographical advantages ensure the unique high quality of Northeast rice.

However, Northeast China is also trapped by its unique climate and terrain.

The bitter cold weather in the Northeast causes Northeast rice to be harvested only once a year.

In the south, two crops a year are very common, and three crops a year are also common.

Rice in the Northeast is usually planted in May and harvested in October. However, from November to April of the following year, the fields in the Northeast are all bare and no crops can be planted.

Because it's too cold! No crops can survive!

In the fields in the south, after planting early rice, you can plant late rice. If things fail, you can plant something else. Anyway, you can always survive.

But in the Northeast, this is impossible.

If farmers in the Northeast do not have dozens or hundreds of acres of land, they will not be able to make any money just by farming.

Even though farming seems very simple, just drop the seeds, weed and fertilize, and that's it. The cost is not high.

But in fact, every aspect of farming requires money. The first is the land contract fee. The land contract fee for growing rice is generally around 600-700 per mu. Calculated at 650 yuan, one hundred acres is 65,000 yuan.

Seeds cost about 5.5-yuan per kilogram, and 1,200 kilograms of seeds are required for every 100 acres of land. This is another 7,200 yuan of seeds, not counting the expenses of the greenhouse.

There is also a lot of investment in chemical fertilizers. Each mu of land requires 30 kilograms of compound fertilizer and 26 kilograms of urea. If the soil is not fertile enough, 5 kilograms of chemical fertilizers must be added. Every 100 acres of land requires an investment of 9,000 yuan in chemical fertilizers.

The use of water resources also costs money. On average, one acre costs more than 20 yuan, and 100 acres costs more than 2,000 yuan.

Field road maintenance costs 500 yuan per 100 acres.

After the rice is harvested, it needs to be dried. If you don't have your own drying ground, you have to rent it, which also costs about 500 yuan.

The parking fee for machinery costs about 500 yuan.

There is a lot of land in the Northeast, and traditional fertilization methods are too backward, so civilian aircraft are commonly used to spray foliar fertilizers, fungicides, and insecticides on rice.

One hundred acres requires an investment of 6,000 yuan.

As for pesticides, it will cost 3,000 yuan for one hundred acres.

If drones are used to weed weeds, it will cost 2,500 yuan for 100 acres.

Farming and transplanting rice requires hiring workers. It takes two days to plant 100 acres of land. Nowadays, labor is expensive and it costs about 5,000 yuan.

There are also harvesting fees and diesel consumption, which add up to 11,000 yuan.

All kinds of expenses are added up, and planting 100 acres of land will cost 121,100 yuan.

If an mu produces 1,000 kilograms of grain, and based on the grain price of 1.3 yuan/jin, the income per mu is only 1,300 yuan. At the end of a year of hard work, he has not made much money.

Of course, these expenditures are calculated at a high level, and there are also fluctuations in per-acre yields and grain prices, and the government also provides subsidies.

The actual situation is not so bad.

On average, it is normal to earn three to four hundred per acre of land. If it is more, it is possible to earn five to six hundred, six or seven hundred.

But the premise is that there must be enough land for planting.

Because here in the Northeast, there is only one crop a year, and for at least half a year, there is no way to cultivate the land.

What Wu Siyuan is interested in is this half-year break.

To be fair, there is really no crop in the world that can grow in such bitter cold weather in the Northeast winter.

But there is another world.

Wu Siyuan got a seed called [Snow Banana] in the world of "Beast Blood Boiling".

This kind of [Snow Banana] only grows in the Taimurraya Snow Mountain. The colder the weather, the stronger it grows.

After it grows up, [Snow Banana] is cold when you hold it. The white skin with slightly sesame spots has a sweet aroma. When you put it in your mouth, a bone-chilling chill immediately fills your mouth. This coldness has passed. After that, an indescribable sweetness, sweetness and refreshingness appeared on the tip of the tongue. The flavor in it is unmatched by any fruit in the real world.

After Wu Siyuan obtained the seeds of [Snow Banana], he gave them to He Youman for research.

After research, it was found that although [Snow Banana] is an herbaceous plant like banana, its growth cycle is relatively long. From planting to maturity, it takes at least 20 months. However, the yield is more than three times that of bananas.

It is normal for the output to be so exaggerated. [Snow Banana] is supplied to the mammoth tribe in the world of "Beast Blood Boils". The mammoth tribe eats an amazing amount. If [Snow Banana] had not produced enough, it would have been eaten to extinction long ago!

However, the ripening time of [Snow Banana] is still a little too long.

This situation was left to He Youman to solve.