Chapter 175: Foreign Merchants Come Again
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Yuan Jianfan looked at Su Guozhou with a complicated expression.

Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry's high profits are just an isolated case.

The economic value of alfalfa itself is not high. To generate higher economic value, it is necessary to rely on the efficient conversion of herbivorous livestock and poultry, especially dairy cows.

Without the boost from animal husbandry, it would be difficult for the alfalfa industry to develop healthily.

In recent years, it’s not that there are no farmers growing alfalfa.

However, both state-owned dairy farms and ordinary dairy farmers generally believe that alfalfa is expensive and it is not cost-effective to feed alfalfa to dairy cows.

As a result, good quality alfalfa hay is not in demand.

Su Guozhou's article is very well written.

But there is also suspicion of promoting alfalfa cultivation.

It may not only harm the farmers.

At the same time, it will also offend dairy farmers and cattle farms. The profitability of dairy cattle farming is already poor, and raising them requires more expensive forage.
For these short-sighted people, they can only complain. Is there any way they can survive?

Yuan Jianfan had no choice but to let someone take the manuscript away and prepare for printing.

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The influence of alfalfa farming and animal husbandry spread layer by layer and quickly spread to local areas, animal husbandry and grassland industry.

In Inner Mongolia, Aqi is located on the edge of the sandy area, with drought, little rain, strong winds and lots of sand.

At the beginning of the year, in order to protect the grassland and increase income, the Shaogen Town Government began to experiment with growing alfalfa.

Town mayor Huang Qin encouraged an enterprise to plant 2000 acres of alfalfa and three family ranches to plant 3 acres of alfalfa each.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a disastrous failure. The company sowed alfalfa seeds before the wind blew, but the wind blew sand and directly killed the seedlings.

The three farmers did not get any seedlings to grow. Not only did they not earn a penny, but they also had to pay a lot of tuition fees.

The three farmers suffered a great blow and lost all their fighting spirit.

The town's plan to grow grass and raise livestock fell through.

At this time, he received a notice to go to the city for training. During the training, he was very excited.

"Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry has won many large foreign exchange orders, and alfalfa has earned hundreds of millions of yuan in foreign exchange."

"The hay yield per mu is 2.5 tons, and the export price per ton is more than 3000 yuan!"

Each piece of news irritated his nerves, but none was as exciting as the last one.

"The city leaders are inviting Alfalfa Farming and Animal Husbandry to Chifeng to build an alfalfa factory and vigorously develop the forage planting and processing industry!"

When we returned to the town, the sandy land was still covered with lush grass.

Huang Qin hummed a tune and organized the three growers and enterprises again.

He took out the training materials he brought back and gave a brief introduction. The rows of data made several people's eyes light up, but they soon dimmed again.

I lost all my underwear!

Where does the money come from to continue investing?

Huang Qin smiled and said, "The town has secured some funds to compensate for your direct economic losses."

The farmer looked delighted: "Really?"

"The compensation will be paid to you soon, but you still have to grow alfalfa next year."

“No need for next year, as long as I have money, I can replant it in August.”

The head of the company frowned and said, "August is too late to plant. Alfalfa will not survive the winter and will have to come back next year."

The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is a completely different scene.

More and more staff from the farm came to Zou Qing to buy seeds. Last year, the farm brought back 2 kilograms of seeds from alfalfa.

He personally purchased 5000 kilograms and planted more than acres of alfalfa.

Two crops of alfalfa have been harvested this year, with an average price of 1.1 yuan per kilogram. The estimated income per mu can reach more than 2000 yuan.

Excluding various costs such as rent, water fees, seeds, etc., the net income per mu is also thousands of yuan.

Taller than cotton!
This made him feel very good, and the employees who followed him to grow Alfalfa No. 1 often couldn't help but run to the cotton fields to show off.

"How is the cotton price this year?"

"About 11 yuan per kilogram."

"Oh, it has increased a bit. One acre can be sold for 2000 yuan."

"It's not as good as the grass you grow."

"Oh, it's not much different. It's said that the yield of hay per mu is 2.5 tons, but it's not that easy. I only harvested 1.2 tons in the first two crops, and the yield of this crop is obviously reduced. It's good enough if I can harvest 2 tons for the whole year."

The workers who grow cotton are so frustrated. They earn more than 2 yuan for 2000 tons of cotton.

If you want them to grow cotton, you have to pick the cotton flowers one by one by hand, and in the end you can only sell them for a little over 2000 yuan.

But cotton costs so much!

What a loss!
If you want to switch to growing alfalfa now, you will have to wait until next year.

I don't know if there are any seeds yet.

But not long after, the large foreign trade order from Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry reached the Agricultural Bureau of the Corps.

Alfalfa is exported to the island country at 3300 yuan per ton?
Signed a large foreign trade order of 26 tons with island merchants?

Tang Yongren from the Animal Husbandry Department was stunned, and then shared the information with Zou Qing. The two of them looked at each other in bewilderment.

Zou Qing thought for a moment and said to Tang Yong, "The Corps also has many feed processing plants. Why don't we consider introducing some processing equipment and exporting alfalfa abroad?"

Tang Yong shook his head and said, "Compared with the feed industry, the operation of the alfalfa processing industry is more difficult than you think. It is much more difficult to operate a 10,000-ton processing plant than a 100,000-ton feed plant."

“Why does Alfalfa work?”

“The raw material of alfalfa is extremely stable, and we basically do not need to deal with farmers, so the transaction cost is low.

The Corps needs to mobilize its employees to grow alfalfa and ensure good returns, which results in high transaction costs. The quality of the raw materials purchased also varies greatly, making it difficult to ensure stable product quality. "Amid the volatile market sentiment, there are many rational companies and organizations like Huihuang Seeds and the Corps.

Many companies have experienced the beatings of the market.

Dairy farms do not harvest alfalfa, farmers are unwilling to grow alfalfa, and the processed grass products do not meet export standards.

These pioneers in the alfalfa industry have been working in the industry for many years and have experienced underestimation, confusion and failure.

The appearance of alfalfa is like a bright light in the dark ocean.

But this light is so mysterious.

Many people only have a vague understanding of it.

Some believe that alfalfa is a great seed, some know that alfalfa’s mechanization and processing technology is first-rate, and some speculate that it has no raw material problems.

Alfalfa commercial grass companies are each trying to find out the news, hoping to find the secret to survival and development from alfalfa.

Jiuquan, Jiahe Group.

Guo Yang did not expect that just a financing would attract so much attention.

Even the National Grain and Agricultural Development Group could not withstand the pressure of public opinion and contacted Guo Yang many times.

Especially You Fuxian from the Agricultural Development Group, he has learned to make fun of people, "Little brother, do you want to go out to sea for fun?"

Huaxia Agricultural Reclamation has more than a dozen farms in Africa, or South America?

Guo Yang was left in a state of confusion.

But I still politely refused.

In the planting sector, it is not yet time for Jiahe to go overseas, as the large domestic resources have not yet been fully developed.

From top to bottom, the heat of public opinion showed signs of dissipating. Zhuang Ke of Guoliang and You Fuxian of Nongfa were just about to breathe a sigh of relief.

Guo Yang said with a chuckle,

"The third crop of forage grass is being harvested at Alfalfa Farm and Animal Husbandry, and fresh foreign trade orders are about to be released."

"This order will only be bigger than the last one!"

Zhuang Ke and You Fuxian have become numb and can only give in.

Let them talk about it, it won't cost them anything, the money raised by Guoliang and Nongfa is not small, and their founders are still chatting and joking with them with a smile.

The first batch of alfalfa exported to the island countries received a good response.

Just because the price of high-quality alfalfa was too high, some island merchants began to look for sources in other parts of the country.

Alfalfa No. 1, produced by several government projects in China, has been put into production one after another, attracting the attention of island merchants.

However, the quality of alfalfa grown locally is slightly lower and is easily affected by rain when drying.

This results in a small proportion of high-quality alfalfa, insufficient quantity, unstable supply, and processing companies that do not meet the requirements.

Eventually, these island merchants all flocked into the Hexi Corridor.

Looking at the vast grassland, the scorching sun and the dry earth, the island merchants who came to northwest China for the first time showed expressions of amazement, envy and jealousy.

"Suoga, this is the most ideal place to grow alfalfa. The land is vast, the sun is abundant, and there is no continuous rain."

"When I set foot on the land of the Hexi Corridor, I had no doubt that it could produce the best alfalfa in the world."

“The climate is perfect for haymaking!”

“Island countries lack such land.”

Most island merchants come here for the high-quality alfalfa, especially the superior and special grade alfalfa products that are above the first grade hay.

In addition to island merchants, people also came from South Korea, Taiwan Province and Southeast Asia.

Disputes broke out several times between merchants over competition for fodder.

Luo Xiu was driving the off-road vehicle quickly across the alfalfa meadow, and was surprised to see a flock of flying birds, which attracted the exclamation of Ning Xiaojing in the car.

Ning Xiaojing has a plump figure but not fat. She just looks a little tired due to the continuous high-intensity work.

She came for an interview, but the interview lasted several days.

Before she even had the chance to show off her talents and beauty, she was dragged into all kinds of busy work.

Endless meetings, endless investment documents, and various visiting guests.

Looking at the young boss who is resting with his eyes closed next to him, he is a straight man who does not know how to be gentle with women.

The car stopped in the small square in front of the Muhe office building, and Yu Xiaochuan came to greet it.

"Boss, the business representatives from South Korea, Taiwan Province and Southeast Asia are all in the conference room."

"Everyone wants to book some orders, the last crop of hay, the hay after seeding or even next year's hay."

Guo Yang said: "Well, wait a little longer. I have made an appointment with other people. If everything goes well, we should be able to solve the production capacity problem today."

Yu Xiaochuan was confused. Where was the grass?
A military green jeep drove into the small square.
Guo Yang smiled and said, "Someone is coming."

Wu Feng, who had a slicked-back hair, led the way down, with a rough-looking man beside him.

"Boss Guo, long time no see. Muhe is now very famous."

Guo Yang smiled and said, "Glorious these past two years haven't been bad either!"

"That's all thanks to Alfalfa buying a lot of grass seeds from Huihuang."

In recent years, in addition to the initial ordinary alfalfa seeds, the seeds for alfalfa grassland degradation control and reseeding of Urad grassland were all purchased from Huihuang and other companies.

Wu Feng introduced the man next to him: "This is He Yun, the general manager of Ning Province Oasis Grass Industry. He just happened to come to Jiuquan to visit."

They exchanged pleasantries for a while.

Guo Yang also said directly: "The processing equipment can be sold to Huihuang, but Fengkai's current production capacity is not enough. The earliest it can be sold is next year."

Wu Feng understood, "It's okay, Huihuang can wait, how about we visit Muhe's factory first? We have been curious about it for a long time."

Guo Yang smiled and said, "There's no rush for the visit. Are you interested in exporting the brilliant oat grass?"

(End of this chapter)