Chapter 151 May the barren land become undulating
"…In just a few years, Jiahe Group turned the vast Gobi Desert into 200,000 acres of artificial grassland."

"Farmland is the foundation for us to secure China's rice bowl and is necessary for the realization of sustainable development of the Chinese nation.

However, at present, the problems of "congenital deficiency" and "acquired deficit" in the quality of my country's arable land are still very prominent.

As an important strategic reserve resource for expanding, improving the quality and increasing the efficiency of cultivated land, how can saline-alkali land be transformed from barren land to fertile soil?
Faced with the problems of high cost of transforming saline-alkali land and difficult maintenance, Jiahe Group took the approach of "planting suitable plants for the land" and cultivated Alfalfa No. 1. Today, the name of "salt-eating plant" is resounding throughout China.

The wind is right and the sails are hoisted, and the drum of war is urging us to march.

Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture has taken the lead in organizing saline-alkali land improvement projects in Dongying, Shandong Province, Wuyuan, Inner Mongolia Province, Cixi, Zhejiang Province, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province and other places.

The degradation of cultivated land and the formation of saline-alkali land are the accumulation of time and space, and the mixture of natural and human factors.

Therefore, protecting and improving the quality of arable land is bound to be a tough and protracted battle, which requires the coordinated efforts of the government, enterprises, and scientific research institutions to open up greater production capacity in the future.

Farmland is like gold. We should cherish every inch of farmland as we would our eyes, so that every inch of farmland can become a treasure pot and every ridge of farmland can become fertile soil for a good harvest. "

The host's passionate voice spread to thousands of households in front of the TV, and the sonorous and powerful tone constantly stirred everyone's emotions.

Combined with the aerial footage constantly coming from TV, the uninhabited Gobi Desert and the vibrant grassland, the barren land and the ecological oasis, the strong contrast creates a huge visual impact.

The fields are square, the trees form forests, the canals are connected, the roads are linked, they can irrigate during droughts, drain water during floods, and reduce salt levels.

Cattle, sheep, farm machinery, factories, cars, and the most simple smiles of the native Northwestern farmers.

The sleeping earth was awakened by the power of plants, and the dry and barren soil was occupied by neat patches of grass.

Modern artificial grasslands have taken root in the desert Gobi and are gradually changing the inherent colors of the place.

No one was not moved.

CCTV News has been broadcasting since 1978, and has been with the Chinese people for many years, rain or shine.

The audience is extremely wide.

At this moment, people of all ages, regions and educational levels in front of the TV are all staring at the pictures on the screen.

Afraid of missing out on any detail.

Some elderly people who had experience in land reclamation and old employees of agricultural farms all had their heartbeats quickened and some were even moved to tears.

"There is a wind every year, from spring to winter. There are no birds in the sky and no grass on the ground..." The older generation recalled the scene of the northwest region being eroded by desertification.

The northwest on TV showed green plains and brocade-covered mountains, which made me cry.

"We fought on the frontier of our motherland, melting the ice and frost of a thousand years with our chests. Wherever we passed, the wasteland raised black waves..."

In Bingcheng, 71-year-old Luo Shuqing sang this song softly, recalling the power of youth.

50 years ago, Luo Shuqing came to the Gongqing Farm in northern Heilongjiang Province as a member of a youth volunteer reclamation team to reclaim wasteland. There were more than 2600 young people like her.

Times have changed and things have changed.

Time will not return to the origin of history, but retracing history and continuing history can make people feel the youthful passion of those years.

She recalled what her leader had said when he came to inspect the wilderness: "Next time I come, I want to hear chickens barking, dogs barking, and children crying."

Now she sees the new century's land reclamation and modern equipment, which are equally booming.

Agricultural science and technology workers in the Northwest are also greatly encouraged. The vast yellow-brown color unique to the Gobi Desert is an unmistakable mark left by the desertification and semi-desert climate since ancient times.

But they saw the possibility of success in the Golden Harvest Group.

There are hundreds of saline-alkali plants in the Northwest, and the indigenous peoples of these saline-alkali lands are gifts from nature.

They have long been accustomed to the arid and barren environment of the Gobi Desert. They are not picky about the soil and do not consume much water. Now, Jiahe Group has selected and bred Alfalfa No. 1 from them.

They may not be unable to do so!

However, leaders of government agencies, staff members, or astute entrepreneurs like Xu's father are more politically sensitive.

Grain production has been declining year after year in recent years, and the news has spent so much space to introduce it, which shows that the country is preparing to push forward.

Many people began to wonder how to participate in this feast!
Xu Xiaoxue revisited the aerial photos of the grassland and found them very enjoyable to watch, especially when watching them with her old father's wonderful micro-expressions.

She was also filled with passion.

Seeds are the chips of agriculture. For the first time, she felt the power of seeds so strongly.

A seed changes the world!
She looked at the young man on TV, with a plain face and thin body, but when facing the reporter's interview, his spirit and energy were as vibrant as his grassland.

Sharp and eye-catching!

Such a person seemed to exude charm and attract her at all times.

Xu's mother Ning Caijuan observed her daughter's every move and sighed in her heart. Minjun was right, there was indeed a problem.

She looked at the young man's profile that appeared at the bottom of the screen: the chairman of Jiahe, a graduate student at Agricultural University, majoring in genetic breeding, and the breeder of Alfalfa No. 1...

The array of titles was so numerous that she was dazzled and couldn't remember them all, but they all felt very powerful.

Can the light snow stop him?
In a house in Beijing, Su Guozhou looked at Guo Yang who was talking, and various complex emotions such as envy, jealousy, and resentment flashed across his eyes.

"I don't believe this is the kind of student that Weng Lixin could teach. It's really like a pupa snoring - picked up."

Weng Lixin from the Gannan grassland was very pleased, thinking that since Jiahe was going to set up a biological breeding laboratory, he would also be able to benefit from his students.

In the news, Guo Yang answered the reporter's questions in a steady voice. "The Northwest is heavily salinized, has strong sunshine, is dry and lacks water, and due to geological and geographical conditions and environmental factors, it is not easy to survive in the cracks."

"Water is the core issue in improving saline-alkali land. In the past, the 'soil washing method' was usually used, and it took about 2000 m of water to improve one mu of land."

“But now that Alfalfa No. 1 has been put into use, there is no need to wash the soil, and only 200m of irrigation water is needed each year, saving a lot of water resources.”

"At present, the Jiahe team is still conducting intensive research and will continue to introduce new plant varieties in the fields of desert ecological environment restoration and reconstruction, salinized soil improvement and utilization, and degraded grassland vegetation restoration in the future."

"Also, I often heard people complain that everything in the northwest is good except seafood."

"You don't have to complain now. Jiahe will artificially create a sea in the northwest, which is farthest from the ocean. I can't say there will be seafood, but there will be plenty of aquatic products."

With Guo Yang's final promise with a smile, this domestic news segment, which lasted more than 3 minutes, came to an end.

Follow-up news will continue.

But many people can't help but think of that picture with strong contrast over and over again, and begin to associate it with the transformation of all the saline-alkali land in the country into fertile fields.

Even deserts, Gobi, and tidal flats...

In Heilongjiang Province, Xinjiang Province, Shandong Province, Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province... countless experts and scholars dedicated to the research of saline-alkali land have also had clearer goals.

Tens of thousands of mu of vegetables are grown on the Gobi desert, melons and fruits grow in the saline-alkali depressions, and the saline-alkali beaches on the coast give birth to waves of rice and wheat...

Wake up the dormant land and turn the saline-alkali land into a rice-producing area!
The Chinese people’s love for the land is deeply rooted in their blood. May all the barren lands become undulating!

The storm of saline-alkali land improvement is far from over.

Media outlets such as Farmers’ Daily and Science and Technology Daily followed up with reports.

It then spread to the Internet.

For the first time, Jiahe Group appeared in the public eye.

Crowds of spectators from all over the country followed suit, continued to dig deeper, and expressed their opinions, but most of their words were praise.

But local netizens in the northwest were obviously more concerned about what Guo Yang said at the end.

They left messages on the Internet.

"Mr. Guo, when can we eat seafood? I want to eat abalone."

“The salmon is OK.”

"Mr. Guo, I don't have any requests, just one thing, what's available on the seaside must also be available in the northwest! What's available in the northwest is not available on the seaside!"

"There is no sea in the northwest, so where can we get seafood?"

"I read it several times and thought that Mr. Guo was talking about aquatic products, not seafood."

"Unwavering support for friends in the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea..."

"After waking up, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai have become remote areas?"

Far away in the sand pit of Minqin, farmers and herdsmen in the desert have been chasing the light and sun in the desert for two consecutive months, making the desert covered with green and blue.

Lu Hanbin and Zhang Jing looked at the newspapers brought by the employees.

In the photo, Alfalfa No. 1 is glowing in the morning light, and the two are smiling at each other.

Zhang Jing touched the camera in his hand and said, "We will have that day too."

"People living in the desert live a miserable and tired life. The sky is full of sand and there is no vegetation..." Lu Hanbin recited this long-standing folk song.

There was no grass growing and the wind blew up the sand. That was in the past.

Through continuous spreading of green from point to surface over the past few years, Shahai Agriculture and Animal Husbandry has formed a green sand-blocking protection belt hundreds of kilometers long on the edge of the desert.

Like a green scarf, it locks the Tengger Desert tightly.

……

Compared with the storm outside, the internal situation of Golden Harvest Group is too calm.

At first, the employees were also excited.

But as the boss Guo Yang dived into the breeding laboratory, the excitement immediately subsided.

The boss has worked so hard, do I really have to wait for him to support me?

Jiahe is on the rise now. If we don’t fight hard now, when will we fight?

What's more, each subsidiary has a lot of business.

The hot sales of Tianyu No. 1 are still continuing, Fengkai Agricultural Machinery is even busier, Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry is not far behind, and Quanwang Biological seems to be preparing for another big move.

The only company that is slightly relaxed and comfortable may be Beijing Weiguang Company.

But it was only relatively speaking. Yang Cheng received new instructions from Guo Yang.

Buying houses, buying stocks, and investing in companies all seem to be normal, and Weiguang has been doing it.

But can drones be used in agriculture?
(End of this chapter)