Chapter 226: Intern Returns to School

The natural energy is 303 points, which is naturally good news.

This means more seeds can be grown.

Tianhe’s varieties, categories, and reserves are still too small, which does not conform to the temperament of a large company.

Therefore, Guo Yang had already prepared to cultivate new seeds.

At present, the first breeding goal has been determined last time: to develop forage corn seeds that are adapted to the saline-alkali, barren and drought-prone environments in the northwest region.

The level requirement is not high, a blue seed above 20 points will do.

This still leaves a lot of natural energy.

The main focus will definitely be on seed storage, there is no doubt about that. As for the field, Guo Yang has also thought about it.

There must be vegetable seeds.

Damn, Guo Yang had to admit that Xu Xiaoxue's use of the word "weak voice" to describe Tianhe vegetable seeds in the Seed Industry Weekly irritated him a little.

The domestic vegetable seed market is currently around 120 billion yuan, accounting for about 12% of the global market.

In 2004, Tianhe’s vegetable seed sales reached 1 million yuan thanks to Chihong No. 1 and Tianjiao No. 7000.

In 2005, due to the opening of the market and price increases, the company completed the production of about 400 tons of hot pepper seeds and achieved sales of 3.5 million yuan.

In the same year, Guo Yang cultivated four more varieties: Super Red Core, Chinese Vegetable Heart, Cauliflower, and Tomato.

However, the official promotion only started in 05, and the sales volume was limited.

All in all, Tianhe’s vegetable seed business accounts for about 3% of the domestic market.

In the past two years, small domestic companies have copied foreign seeds and regained a lot of market share, but foreign capital still accounts for more than 80%.

Thinking about it this way, Guo Yang also felt that Tianhe’s voice in the vegetable field was indeed a little weak.

Therefore, vegetable seeds are a must. They cannot be less or indispensable.

Vegetables are a super large category.

There are hundreds of common types, plus uncommon ones and various branches. No one has probably yet fully counted the exact number of types.

The seed resources in this area are still limited.

In addition, flower seeds and vegetable seeds are the pillar industries of Jiuquan's seed production. There is a 25-acre seed production base in Jiuquan.

However, the seed business, which is almost entirely about breeding seeds for Europe and the United States, is also one of the core businesses of Shazhou Seed Industry.

There are just more types of flowers.

After thinking for a while, Guo Yang planned to cultivate a few white-grade seeds for convenience and ease.

0~20 points of natural energy, cultivated randomly, 1 point, 2 points, and 3 points are also acceptable.

This is to enrich the seed bank.

Apart from vegetables and flowers, the remaining two major staple food areas are wheat and rice.

Tianmai No. 1 is a high-gluten flour with moderate yield. The next breeding goal is high-yield and high-resistant wheat.

Tiandao No. 22 is a conventional rice variety, not a hybrid rice. It has average yield and high requirements for water and soil quality, but its taste and quality are excellent.

At present, after further propagation in the south, it has been promoted for cultivation in a small area.

This time, Guo Yang's breeding goal is salt-alkali tolerant rice, commonly known as 'sea rice'.

Cooperating with the ongoing improvement of saline-alkali land in Binhai and rotating with Alfalfa No. 1, it also has potential market value.

Regional corn + vegetables and flowers + high-yield and high-resistant wheat + sea rice.

This is the next breeding direction.

Got it. Guo Yang looked at the seed samples on the shelves of the seed store. This is only a part of it. Tianhe’s germplasm resource bank has more.

The seeds have been raised several times.

Guo Yang has also summed up a lot of experience. Combining the breeding ideas of genetically modified organisms, he can also screen out the characteristics of seeds, that is, genes, for future use.

Then, based on the breeding goals, choosing a suitable one for breeding may not necessarily improve the success rate and efficiency.

But in this way, a large number of matching combinations can be recorded and accumulated.

When the natural energy is enough,
Breeding?

No, I sell seeds wholesale.
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While Guo Yang was busy collecting high-quality genes, major universities also entered the spring recruitment season.

Compared with the tens of millions of college students graduating every year in later generations, the scale of college students at that time was much smaller.

The devaluation of academic qualifications is not that serious.

But it’s not that precious anymore.

Some teachers and scholars are also blaming the decline in the quality of university education today, just to give students a "better future".

"Craftsmen are specialized, but few can be called great."

"University education has lost its style. All students who graduate are the same, like standard parts produced on an assembly line."

The school has also repeatedly emphasized to students that the employment situation is severe.

When senior graduates are looking for jobs, faced with the complex society, they will be like people who have just walked out of a small room and feel unfamiliar with everything.

...

Northwest Agriculture and Forestry.

Inside a boys' dormitory building, the quiet corridor still exudes a chilly atmosphere.

A figure walked up from the stairs, breaking the silence, and the lights in the corridor came on.

The man walked into the dormitory.

After a while, there were inquiries.

"I heard you found a job?"

"How much do you earn a month?"

"About 500 or 600. It's hard to find a job nowadays, so it's good to have a job."

The sound was not small, and it was like a frightened bird in this empty fourth floor.

From the dormitories on both sides and opposite sides, several men wearing cotton slippers and with disheveled hair and faces came out.

Walked into the dormitory skillfully.

A man was sitting cross-legged on the bunk bed, wearing glasses, staring curiously at his roommate who had just returned and was changing his shoes.

"He Qi, are you still going to that damn Tianhe Seed Industry? Have you signed the letter of intent?"

Xiao He, whose real name is He Qi, is a senior student majoring in seed engineering. He has been interning at Tianhe for several months. His originally fair skin has now turned dark.

"Signed." He Qi put on cotton shoes and said casually. He thought Tianhe Seed Industry was not bad.

"How much do you earn a month?"

"It can't be five or six hundred!"

Xiao He was still busy with his own business. He rarely communicated with his roommates, otherwise he would not have gone out to look for a job alone. "That should be the case. The salary in these companies is not high. Five or six hundred is considered good when you just start working."

There was a burst of suppressed laughter in the dormitory, and the man sitting on the bed said:

"Five or six hundred isn't bad. Look, I work part-time as a tutor outside of school every day, and I only make a little over a thousand a month after working so hard."

"It's okay. Your job is easy and there's room for promotion. It's not as tiring as mine, but I'm quite content."

"If you can't make it any more, you can come to me."

He Qi shook his head, "No need."

"what?"

"It's already this late, why are you still trying so hard?"

The others echoed.

"Change your career, this line has no future."

"Do you know why agriculture is not one of the four major tiankeng majors? Because biochemistry, environmental science and materials science add up to agriculture."

"That's right. You still have student loans to pay off."

"So tanned."

"Dude, you signed for 500 yuan. Going to the factory to screw in screws for half a month will cost you more than 400 or 500 yuan."

"I'm going to a big city. My high school classmate, who is from Huaxia Agricultural University, is working as a college student village official there, and they get paid 2500 yuan a month."

"Salaries in coastal areas are high, too. I heard they start at 2,000 to 3,000 yuan."

"I'm so eager to take action. Look at me. I won't even look at a job worth less than 1000 yuan. Otherwise, I'll be wasting my hard work over the past ten years."

"What must young people have? Ah, a broad vision. Don't do that kind of work, He Qi!"

He Qi smiled and said, "I didn't say I make five or six hundred a month!"

"How much does it earn?"

"It's impossible that there are not even five or six hundred."

"Hurry up and look for another one. The job fair is about to start."

He Qi is a slow-tempered person, and due to family reasons, he is a little timid.

However, after spending a few months with that tough little senior sister, some changes did occur after all.

He muttered, "That's 1200 yuan a month."

"How many?"

"Twelve thousand?" The man sitting on the bed suddenly lost his composure. His part-time tutoring job was just talk.

"Double holiday."

"Still have two days off?"

He Qi nodded, "There will be a year-end bonus at the end of the year. If the seed production reaches the target, there will be a commission reward."

"You didn't lie to me, did you? 1200 yuan for two days off a week? And there's also a year-end bonus."

"Where did you find it? Don't be fooled. There are many scammers nowadays. They may tell you something very good, but they may not be able to sell it to you when the time comes."

"Young people need to be prudent and be more selective. You can't just go for it because the conditions are good, the salary is high and you get two days off a week, right?"

He Qi poured himself a glass of warm water and said, "I went to do an internship last year. It's been a few months. How could it be a fake?"

"I came back this time to pay off my student loans."

Several people looked at him in disbelief, "Have you saved enough money for your student loan?"

"Not yet. Pay back a few thousand dollars first."

"Thousands? How much have you saved?"

"Four thousand dollars."

"Damn, the intern salary is only 1200 yuan. Is this a seed company?"

"The intern salary is not that high, but there is a year-end bonus at the end of the year. I went there right after the Spring Festival, and I was given a bonus for starting work."

Several people stared with wide eyes. Is this still the seed company they know? Or the agricultural company?

But He Qi, an honest man, would not lie.

There was silence for a while.

One of the short boys asked, "Are you still hiring? Can you introduce someone to me?"

"Aren't you going to change your career?"

"I think selling seeds is a good idea. It's hard to find a job in a big city if your major is not suitable. What about you? Do you want to go with me?"

There was another moment of silence.

For most agricultural scientists, they cannot escape the fate of becoming salesmen.

Undergraduates sell pesticides, fertilizers and seeds, while masters sell reagents.

I often travel to the countryside on business trips to promote technology, and the better ones can do technology research and development and bioinformatics analysis.

Many people clearly do not like agriculture, but choose it because the admission scores are low, without considering future employment.

The man sitting cross-legged on the bed spoke first: "It's impossible for me to go to the countryside. It's so hard to escape from farming."

"I'm not going either."

"A kilogram of rice can only be sold for one or two yuan. The ceiling is so low."

"Don't go."

"Um, He Qi, can you introduce me to him when the time comes?"

He Qi nodded. The company had been planning to recruit more agricultural students, and he returned to school with the intention of exploring the way for the job fair.

"Row."

"Ji Gang, why don't you consider again, Tianhe's treatment is really quite good?"

Ji Gang is the student sitting on the bed. He is cheerful, lively and active.

But at this moment, it seems that his defense is a little broken.

In recent years, he has participated in various knowledge competitions and volunteer activities, and has also served as an assistant to the class tutor for two years and a class committee member for three years.

But I haven't found a proper job yet.

He Qi is timid and even a little cowardly. Sometimes he would tremble when talking to strange girls.

"No, I'll just continue my teaching and training."

Be it envy, jealousy, or anger.

Maybe God has other plans.

(End of this chapter)