Chapter 229 First Quarter
It is not without reason that Guo Yang complains about the nature of banks.

Since the national saline-alkali land management policy came out, various related provisions and supporting policies have been continuously improved.

Therefore, the transfer process of saline-alkali cultivated land and saline-alkali wasteland is very gratifying.

Years ago, there were only more than 200 projects and 150 million acres of land.

Today, the area has almost exceeded 500 million mu, and the order volume of alfalfa No. 1 seeds has reached more than 1200 million kilograms.

That is about 60 billion yuan in sales.

However, only about one-third of the funds were recovered.

The seed investment for improving each acre of saline-alkali land is about 1250 yuan. Taking into account land rent and other investments, farmers need to invest 2700 to 2800 yuan per acre.

Farmers' investment mainly consists of three parts.

Farmers + bank loans + government subsidies.

The funds currently received by Muhe are basically the farmers’ and enterprises’ own funds.

National subsidies are usually based on the model of building first and then subsidizing.

The rest is the loan portion.

However, the bank that was affected this time was the Agricultural Development Bank of China, which is also a subsidiary of the China Agricultural Development Group.

Guo Yang is not very worried about the subsequent safety of funds.

The Agricultural Development Group also holds a 5% stake in Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, so it gets a share of any profit Alfalfa makes.

Guo Yang also saw that the more than 30 million yuan worth of seeds purchased by the Agricultural Development Bank of China and the National Grain and Oils Corporation at 9000 yuan per catty last year had been paid off.

What he is worried about now is whether the progress of farmers in improving saline-alkali land will be affected.

If there are unfinished projects, it would go against the original intention.

In fact,
Agricultural enterprises often face the problem of capital shortage during production and operation.

Especially during the concentrated purchasing season for agricultural products, the funding gap is very large.

With little collateral, it is very difficult to get a loan.

The same problem also exists in the field of land transfer and management. There have always been differences in laws and policies on whether farmers' contracted land can be mortgaged.

Both the Property Law and the Guarantee Law stipulate that the land-use rights of collectively owned land, such as cultivated land, homesteads, and private plots, cannot be mortgaged.

It can be said that at the legal level, the fact that rural land contract management rights cannot be mortgaged is an almost rigid institutional norm.

This is an important resource for farmers to make a living.

If the land contract management rights are mortgaged, farmers will be unable to repay the loan on time.

As a result, farmers will lose their land, a landless and impoverished class will emerge in China, and feudal history will be repeated.

Land mortgage will also evolve from an economic issue to a social and political issue.

The risk taken by banks is high.

It is easier for small growers because the loans are not much and the risk borne by the bank is relatively low.

However, if large-scale growers want to use the land transferred from farmers as collateral for a mortgage loan for the operating rights, the bank will require a one-time payment of the land rent for the transfer period.

This approach is even less feasible.

Ultimately, this leads to a lack of enthusiasm among both farmers and banks.

The land transfer in coastal saline-alkali land is basically done by large households, with the starting amount being at least several hundred or thousands of acres.

Naturally, this problem occurred.

However, with the support of national documents, the Agricultural Development Bank will definitely carry out its policy.

Guo Yang estimates that the area of ​​saline-alkali land development this year will be six to seven million mu, with a total investment of 200 billion yuan. Banks will provide one-third of the loan, which is only six to seven billion yuan.

For the Agricultural Development Bank of China, it is just an ordinary large project.

But the procedure is still very cumbersome.

However, Tianhe and Fengkai have been collecting payments very quickly recently, so it is not difficult to support Hexi Dairy's high-intensity marketing and other project investments.

After looking at the information for a while, Guo Yang looked up and said to Ning Xiaojing, "Okay, leave the file here for now."

"You need to follow up on the spring recruitment and new employee onboarding and give them full instructions to ensure stable management and retention of employees."

Onboarding a large number of new employees at once will definitely have an impact, but it is also a necessary step.

Ning Xiaojing nodded, "Then I'll get busy first."

After coming to his senses, Guo Yang continued to look at the report.

The sales data of each subsidiary in the first quarter are undoubtedly very good.

Hexi Dairy had a revenue of 16.45 billion yuan. Although it entered the off-season after the Spring Festival, its daily sales figures remained at around 1800 million yuan.

Overall it is still pretty good. After all, last year's revenue was only a few hundred million.

The best data is from Tianhe Seeds, where last year's advance payments were also calculated in the first quarter. 2% of the 80 million jin of corn seeds were shipped, and the collection amount was 40 billion yuan.

About 20% of the seeds are in newly developed markets, except for a small number of legacy seeds.

Such as Tongliao, Chifeng, Xing'anmeng and other areas east of the Greater Khingan Range in Inner Mongolia Province, which is also an important chess piece in the country's layout in the field of food security.

The amount of arable land that can be added in the future will be equivalent to the size of Hubei.

In addition, vegetable seeds are also very popular, with revenue exceeding 1 million yuan in the first quarter.

The hot bell pepper seeds are very stable, and other seeds have also made breakthroughs, especially the super red-core carrots.

Although this also comes at the expense of the ecological environment, Tianhe has no reason not to make money.

The second is Fengkai Agricultural Machinery, with sales of around 5.5 million yuan in the first quarter.

In addition to the Cheetah tractor, the company's main product is the single-cylinder diesel engine, which has increased its market share in the northwest region to 40% and achieved a net profit of 1 million yuan in the first quarter.

Another is Quanwang Bio, which had revenue of approximately 1 million yuan in the first quarter.

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The overall situation is very good.

Tianhe and Muhe are still the main forces and have taken on the function of providing blood transfusion to the group.

After reading the report, Guo Yang remembered that the recruitment situation Ning Xiaojing mentioned had been sent to the work group.

I got up and made a cup of tea first.

The wind and sand were still blowing outside the window, blocking the scenery of the Qilian Mountains.

I don’t know what the situation is like at the Jinta.

There is sandstorm in the city, and Jinta is closer to the desert, so I don’t know how strong the sandstorm is.

But spring ploughing,

Even the wild sandstorms could not stop people from digging for food in the fields.

Through the dust, Guo Yang seemed to see the white mulch film swaying in the wind, and farmers wearing masks and hats squatting in the fields fiddling with seedlings. After drinking a sip of tea and taking a break, Guo Yang sat in front of the computer.

Each subsidiary of Jiahe has established a QQ group.

The main reason is that the regions are too far apart, and we can report the on-site situation at any time in the group.

Important documents should be communicated through other more secure means.

Guo Yang first looked at the human resources group. From the densely packed crowds in the photo, he could indeed feel the popularity of Jiahe's recruitment event.

However, the quality of the photos is a bit poor. After getting used to the high-definition photos of later generations, looking at the blurred pixels of this era is a bit like eating bran.

It's right to be popular.

Jiahe's salary level is far ahead in agriculture and forestry.

But when Guo Yang looked at the recruitment situation in other industries, Jiahe could only be ranked in the upper middle.

I have some new ideas in my mind.

At this time, in the group’s senior executives’ work group, group messages kept flashing and were clicked.

It was Xiang Tianshan who was posting work photos.

On the Asafoetida Gobi Desert, machines are roaring and people are bustling about. Construction workers are rushing to meet deadlines and pouring irrigation and drainage channels.

But the effects have been seen in most areas.

Land leveling and soil improvement, open channels and anti-seepage projects, field roads and related supporting infrastructure construction have been basically completed.

A pattern has been initially formed in which the fields are square, the roads are connected, the canals are interconnected, irrigation can be carried out during droughts, drainage can be carried out during floods, and farming is easy with machines.

Guo Yang sent a self-contained praise emoticon in the group, "Lao Xiang, good job, be careful."

The tone seemed like an official routine greeting, but the emoticons were not rich enough, and Guo Yang couldn't find a suitable one after searching for a long time.

Then he scrolled up to the chat history.

Except Xiang Tianshan, others also posted a lot of work photos.

Alfalfa in Wuyuan and Jinta has begun to turn green.

After growing and mowing, the alfalfa root system is stable and developed, and overwintering is basically not a problem, so there is rarely a shortage of seedlings and there is basically no need for replanting.

The main work at present is to remove weeds, grass seeds and stones, as well as water and fertilize.

Over the years, the rocks in Jinta's alfalfa pasture have been basically cleared away, and the soil seems to have changed a lot.

Unfortunately the photo is blurry and can't be seen clearly.

Guo Yang was thinking about going to the countryside for a walk one day.

At the same time, Wuyuan is also reporting water shortage issues, and the Hetao Irrigation District has water use restrictions every year.

Alfalfa is fine as there is drip irrigation, but local farmers are still accustomed to flooding.

The Hetao region is a major granary.

If there are really no restrictions, water use in the middle and upper reaches will cause the Yellow River to dry up. In the 90s, the lower reaches of the Yellow River experienced an 800-mile dry-up.

For this reason, the development of cultivated land in Inner Mongolia Province is also shifting to the east, namely Chifeng, Tongliao and Xin'an League, which belong to the Xiliaohe River Basin.

In a broad sense, it also belongs to the Northeast Plain area.

In fact, Meng Province is not willing to develop farmland.

Focusing on farming puts too much pressure on water resources.

At the same time, the benefits are small.

The cities with the highest GDP per capita in Meng Province all made their fortunes through mining and heavy chemical industries.

Counties with large grain production areas are actually very poor, and are basically all poverty-stricken counties.

But this is a strategic requirement of the country.

Alfalfa also has investments in the local alfalfa industry cluster. A number of forage companies have begun to acquire land locally, and Alfalfa is responsible for organizing and coordinating seeds, planting techniques, agricultural machinery, processing equipment, etc.

Not involved in specific planting.

At this time, Xiang Tianshan also replied to the message.

"The rapid progress is all due to the money spent."

“It’s all thanks to the boss’s support.”

The development prospects of the Ferula Gobi Desert are difficult to predict, and no normal person would make such an investment.

Without continuous blood transfusions, this would also turn into a mess. There are many such lessons in history.

Guo Yang asked: "Where is the water diversion tunnel?"

"It has been opened, and water will definitely flow before sowing."

"Okay, how are the seedlings of Hanhai kenaf and sea buckthorn @Xie Shijie?"

Xie Shijie: "The seeds have been moved outside the greenhouse for hardening and can be sent to Qinghe at any time. Jiahe Gobi has also designated an area for planting seedlings."

Guo Yang: "We must also keep up with the collection of Alfalfa's payments. If there are any policy issues, communicate them in a timely manner and don't drag them out."

"it is good."

Ji Zhuowen: "Hexi Dairy lagged behind in the first quarter and failed to meet its work targets, with revenue of only 1 billion yuan."

Guo Yang: "It's okay, just keep the current momentum and do a good job of quality control."

"I feel like you are implying something. Shahai has also been relying on the group for transfusions." Lu Hanbin also popped his head up and posted a few photos in the group.

The Haloxylon ammodendron trees have begun to turn green again.

"Boss, the ice and snow have melted in the spring, and the Cistanche absorbs water and grows very fast. The end of April is the best time to harvest it, and it is also the most delicious time. We are already contacting buyers."

Qu Yang: "Sure, I'll give some to the boss as well then."

"Hey, Mr. Qu, you are the one who needs to be replenished. You have eight wives."

"Eight isn't enough, right? Tianhe's first quarter revenue was 1 billion yuan. Shouldn't Mr. Qu find a few more wives?"

Qu Yang: "Even if you jump into the Yellow River, you can't wash it clean."

"Wuyuan has water restrictions every day, and the Yellow River is almost out of water. Of course you can't wash it clean."

Bao Xinyu: "Now I'm relying on you guys to support me. Once Falcon Town is built, you can come and play anytime."

"Can you train a falcon?"

“We are still applying for the certificate.”

As he spoke, Bao Xinyu also sent out some photos. Guo Yang wondered if these people were waiting for him.

At this moment, they all started to emerge.

However, the effect of this scaffolding was indeed achieved.

(End of this chapter)