Chapter 237: Determined to Eliminate Seed Industry Borers in One Stroke

Judging from the output value of the vegetable seed industry, cucumber has ranked highest in the overall data over the years, followed by pepper.

The seed output value of bell pepper, eggplant and cabbage is also higher than that of other vegetable varieties.

The crop with the smallest output value is radish.

The main reason is that the demand for radish seeds is relatively small, while the market demand for cabbage, tomatoes and cucumbers is large and the prices are not cheap.

In terms of unit price of seeds, tomato seeds are the most expensive, followed by sweet pepper seeds.

After thinking for a while.

Guo Yang still decided to cultivate another tomato variety.

The varieties cultivated previously were processing varieties, which were lacking in product appearance and flavor quality.

Tomatoes are also an area severely affected by the proliferation of foreign varieties.

In order to make the voice of domestic vegetable seeds no longer "weak", Guo Yang decided to cultivate a variety with comprehensive performance and resistance to impact.

Twenty points of natural energy are enough.

After some attempts, a new tomato variety was soon born.

【Category】: Tomato
[Variety]: Unnamed

【Characteristics】: Flavored tomato variety, rich flavor, sweet and sour, rich taste, suitable for fresh consumption... Lycopene**, Vc content**, sugar-acid ratio**.

Cultivation completed.

Guo Yang doesn’t quite understand some of the data indicators, but he thinks they’re okay.

Commercial varieties that are high-yielding, disease-resistant, and resistant to storage and transportation should not be too bad, because one of the parents is the processing variety previously bred by Guo Yang.

The natural energy has just been used up.

However, while Guo Yang was staring at the seed store, the natural energy jumped up a little bit.

This intuitive change seemed to inject energy into his body.

Work, work!
Achievement makes me happy.

However, he was not in a hurry to leave the breeding laboratory, but planned to use this mentality to study and recharge himself at Tianhe Seed Academy.

It will be easier to bring out the varieties later.

In the next few days, Guo Yang's daily routine was to screen and identify germplasm resources and conduct molecular experimental research with scientific researchers.
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In Wuyuan, located in the Hetao area, agricultural machinery is accelerating spring sowing and sowing machines are operating in an orderly manner.

Yang Xiaobing's body was covered with stains.

But while directing the farm machinery operators, he told the visiting reporter from XH News Agency.

"The variety we planted is the domestic variety Tianmai No. 1. It is estimated that the yield per mu can reach about 450 kilograms. Considering the income from planting subsidies, order sales, and post-wheat replanting, it is no problem for the net income per mu to reach more than 2000 yuan."

The reporter nodded with satisfaction, and the camera turned to the agricultural machinery.

More than 10 graders and seeders shuttled back and forth, completing land leveling, sowing and other operations in turn, and the sowing progress was very fast.

Reporter Li Yunping couldn't help but sigh: "What a modern agricultural park!"

Liu Jun, deputy secretary of Xinmin Town, followed beside him, crossed his hands in front of him, and said with a smile:

"When the county organized a major farmland campaign, this village alone had 3000 people working every day to clear silt, repair canals, and prepare the land. It took a month or two to finally get the project to take shape."

"After nearly two years of transformation, nearly 10 mu of low- and medium-yield farmland in the town have now become high-yield farmland."

Li Yunping asked curiously: "How much has the people's income increased? Are there any specific statistics?"

"Do you have 200 yuan?"

Liu Jun’s thoughts immediately went back to a year and a half ago.

At that time he was with Yang Xiaobing, who is now very arrogant in the village, but was just a trembling farmer at that time.

But there was a young man who kept encouraging him.

Liu Jun also predicted the increased income at that time, 100 to 200 yuan per mu, which was the increased income data he predicted for medium and low-yield fields.

Guo Yang opposed it at that time.

Jiahe’s confidence lies in increasing income by at least 500 yuan per mu.

But in fact it is far more than this data.

Liu Jun smiled at the camera and said, "Now the lowest increase in income per mu is close to a thousand yuan."

"This year, the town plans to plant 3.2 mu of wheat and 14.7 mu of corn. Encouraged by the increase in income and grain subsidy policies, farmers are very enthusiastic about planting."

"We will seize the farming season to plant wheat and corn, ensure that the grain planting task is completed as planned, strive to continue to produce high grain output, and contribute to ensuring national food security."

At a field sowing demonstration not far from here, the sales scene of Tianhe Seed Industry was still lively.

As a famous brand of seeds, Tianyu No. 1's seed sales had already ended by the time the seed season really arrived.

However, the hot sales of Jiahe Snowflake Flour have made Tianmai No. 1 variety popular in the market this year.

Especially in Wuyuan.

The sowing meeting was crowded with people. The farmers present were very excited. While learning the key points of sowing, they also did not forget to place orders for seeds.

In this emotional scene, there were two people who were incongruous in their calmness.

Qu Yang and Cheng Liming, the vice president of sales who was promoted by his strong recommendation.

Compared with Qu Yang's light and sparse hair, Cheng Liming looks much younger and behaves more elegantly.

Cheng Liming said: "The order price of Tianmai No. 1 this year is still 1.2 yuan per catty, and the per mu income of wheat reaches 1080 yuan, which is higher than the income of ordinary corn.

Many farmers who did not plant in previous years but want to plant Tianyu No. 1 this year did not buy seeds in the early stage, and now the technical service personnel are taking the opportunity to promote Tianmai No. 1. "

Qu Yang smiled and said, "The east is bright and the west is bright too. This is really an unexpected surprise."

“Hahaha…it will be even harder to sell corn seeds this year.”

There is a structural surplus of corn seeds this year, and the best seed, Tianyu No. 1, has ended sales and occupied the most lucrative market.

The rest are divided into several echelons to compete for the remaining stock market.

Denghai-Xianfeng's Xianyu 335 is allowing counterfeiting, which has put Zhengdan 958, which is struggling to fight counterfeiting, into a dilemma.

The cost of deck seeds is low, so the selling price is low.

Faced with competition from a large number of low-priced seeds, Denon's distributors could not bear it and began to reduce prices. The phenomenon of "increasing volume but not profits" was very common.

It can only be described as miserable.

I originally thought it had nothing to do with Tianhe and I just needed to watch the show, but I didn’t expect Tianmai No. 1 to show up halfway.

At this time, spring wheat is sown.

Spring wheat is grown in places with very cold winters. Because it is too cold in winter to sow, it is planted after the beginning of spring and is called spring wheat.

The main producing provinces and regions are Heilongjiang Province, Xinjiang Province, Gansu Province and Inner Mongolia Province.

In recent years, the national spring wheat planting area has been around 3000 million mu. Because its benefits are not as good as those of corn, cotton and other crops, the planting area has been decreasing year by year.

At this time, Tianmai No. 1 suddenly popped up.

This caught all corn seed companies off guard.

Qu Yang felt very happy when he thought about Tianmai No. 1 and corn competing for the seed market.

At the same time, it will also change farmers' original seed usage habits.

Unlike corn, which has a high commercialization rate, wheat can be saved for seeds, and farmers also have the habit of saving seeds for seeds.

Moreover, many provinces have government-guided prices for wheat seeds, so the price space for wheat seeds is limited.

Tianmai No. 1 is at the upper limit, and the price is only 2.5 yuan per catty.

The seed amount per mu is 26 to 28 kilograms, and the seed cost is 65 to 70 yuan. A simple calculation by farmers shows that the cost-effectiveness is not much worse than Tianyu No. 1.

In areas with conditions for growing spring wheat, farmers who were unable to purchase Tianyu No. 1 seeds switched to growing Tianmai No. 1.

Corn seeds, which were already facing fierce competition, are now in even worse shape.

Cheng Liming also feels that this year's sales work is particularly easy, and farmers come here just because they smell the scent.

This is the brand value of Tianhe.

As long as the product becomes famous among the majority of growers, the subsequent promotion work will be much easier.

However, there are still hidden dangers that have not been resolved.

Cheng Liming said: "The situation of corn seed counterfeiting is not optimistic. Wei Guan said a few days ago that there is a trend of counterfeiting in many places."

"The profits of Tianyu No. 1 are too lucrative, and there will always be people willing to take risks."

Qu Yang said: "These people may think that during the summer planting season, Tianhe may relax its vigilance against counterfeiting."

"What do you mean, boss?"

“We will fight against counterfeiting to the end.”

"It's not a solution to keep going like this. There's no point in guarding against thieves for a thousand days."

"The boss will find a way." Qu Yang said with a smile: "Trust the boss, Jiahe has a strong backing."

Cheng Liming was surprised. In fact, many people had discussed privately about the boss and who was behind Jiahe.

But the boss is a farm boy, and his educational background is just that of a student who is a potential academician.

Jiahe’s equity structure is also relatively simple. The only known cross-holdings among the subsidiaries are the three shareholders: Nongfa, China Development Bank, and China National Grain and Oils Corporation.

Qu Yang saw his puzzled expression and didn't say much.

He has communicated with his boss, who has never wavered in his determination to combat counterfeiting. It's just that Wei Guan's anti-counterfeiting team is still collecting evidence.

Qu Yang asked: "What about Tiandou No. 1?"

The 10 acres of organic soybeans planted in cooperation with Jiusan Grain and Oil Company are not yet ready for returning the green manure to the fields this season.

But in addition to these 10 acres, there are nearly 20 acres of seeds.

Cheng Liming smiled and said, "It's almost sold out. Crops that can grow in soil with a salt content of more than 0.5% are rare."

"Tiandou No. 1 seeds are much cheaper than Alfalfa No. 1, 5 yuan per kilogram, a price difference of 100 times."

“That’s twice the average price.”

Soybean is a crop with low yield, low land output rate and low comparative benefits.

In addition, the current soybean price is low, and farmers are not very motivated to grow soybeans. Even many farmers in Heilongjiang Province no longer grow soybeans.

The pressure of imported soybeans from abroad reminded Qu Yang of what his boss said.

"There is no need to haggle over soybean pricing; the primary goal is to quickly expand the area of ​​soybeans for sale."

Tianhe did indeed do so. Given the salt-alkali tolerance and yield of Tiandou No. 1, the price of 5 yuan per catty is indeed very low.

However, except on saline-alkali land, the profit of Tiandou No. 1 on ordinary land is still not as good as corn at to yuan per mu.

The decline of domestic soybeans can only be reversed by relying on saline-alkali land.

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"Boss, what good corn seeds are available now?"

In a seed market in Northeast China, Wei Guan, dressed as a farmer, followed several farmers into a seed sales store.

And set their sights on a corn seed called 'Tianyu No. 1'.

Seeing that several people were attracted, the boss stepped forward and led Wei Guan and others to another type of corn called "Dongdan 1311" nearby.

Wei Guan pretended to be slightly doubtful, "What is this?"

The boss tried his best to promote it, "This is a new corn variety that just came on the market this year. It is disease-resistant, lodging-resistant, and high-yielding."

Wei Guan asked, "How do you grow it?"

"Like Tianyu No. 1, it is also a high-yield variety that tolerates high density, and the key points for cultivation are also similar."

Compared with Tianyu No. 1, Dongdan 1311 is much cheaper, only 12 yuan per catty.

Wei Guan made the decision, "Okay, let's go with this Dongdan 1311, 400 kilograms."

This is just an ordinary scene for Wei Guan in the seed market during this period. Dongdan 1311, a new variety that has never been heard of, was suddenly promoted in the Northeast region.

He checked all the corn varieties approved by the state and the three northeastern provinces, but found no such person.

A word came to his mind.

Pushing before review!

Combined with some evidence collected previously, Wei Guan clenched his hands and thought he would be able to take down many big tigers this time.

Fengtian, East Asia Seed Industry.

Chief breeder Zhu Hong rushed into the office with an angry look on his face. Xu Fuchun looked up and asked in surprise, "What's wrong, Lao Zhu?"

“Why did Dongdan 1311 start selling?”

Zhu Hong's dissatisfaction was clearly revealed on his face. When he learned the news, his whole scalp went numb.

This was completely beyond his intention.

Xu Fuchun stood up, walked to Zhu Hong, and wanted to pat Zhu Hong on the shoulder, but Zhu Hong stepped back to avoid it.

Xu Fuchun smiled indifferently, "The province has already taken care of it. There just happens to be a shortage of high-quality seeds in the market. Farmers can harvest more food, and we can also make more money. Isn't it just right?"

Zhu Hong pointed at Xu Fuchun with trembling hands.

He never imagined that in just a few years, the comrade-in-arms whom he once treated as his own son would now be like this.

Zhu Hong said in a low voice: "It is against the law to push a case before trial!"

"What kind of law did you break?"

"Seed method!"

Xu Fuchun raised his eyebrows and said nonchalantly: "According to the Seed Law, if the seeds are released without review, they will be handled by the agricultural departments at the county level and above. There is nothing to worry about."

“And how can this be considered illegal? Even if the police come, they will say that this has not caused any harm to the farmers.”

Zhu Hong laughed and shook his head, regretting his decision.

He originally had his own breeding philosophy and also bred varieties such as Dongdan 90, which was once very popular.

Although Tianyu No. 1 brought a heavy blow, it also brought new research directions to the breeding industry.

Relying on the germplasm resources accumulated by East Asia Seed Industry over the years, he is confident that he can cultivate high-density, high-yield varieties with true Dongdan style within a few years.

But I didn't expect to end up on this path.

He sighed, "Sooner or later something bad will happen."
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Jiuquan, Guo Yang's study journey was interrupted by Wei Guan's call.

After carefully reading the information sent back by Wei Guan, Guo Yang thought for a while and contacted various breeders and victims through various channels.

Such as the breeder Du Lao of Zhengdan 958, Agricultural University 108, wheat variety Xinnong 979, sunflower variety SH303, Zhongjiao No. 5...

Afterwards, each of them sorted out the materials, described the current status of variety approval, loopholes in relevant regulations, and made suggestions.

The attachment includes anti-counterfeiting cases of seed companies such as Tianhe, as well as similar situations such as East Asia Seed Company, the harm of counterfeit seeds, and the extreme suppression of seed industry innovation.

Information was constantly being collected, and when it began to be summarized by Bi Qiang and his mentor Weng Lixin.

Guo Yang dialed a number.

A phone number he had saved for several years but never contacted.

After a period of anxious waiting, the call was connected.

"Hello, Director Lin, I'm Guo Yang."

In the capital, a look of surprise flashed across Lin Bu's face as he thought of the young man he had met four years ago.

The first thing you see is 200,000 acres of saline-alkali land!

In fact, others not only did it, but also did it unexpectedly well.

Lin Bu said, "I am, you tell me."

"Minister of Forestry, I would like to report to you in person about some of the domestic seed industry's situations. Can we make an appointment in advance?"

After a long silence, Lin Bu was also thinking, this young man must be saying something else!

But it’s okay to meet him, after all, the big boss has also communicated with him.

Jiahe has made brilliant achievements in saline-alkali land improvement, desert control, and the development of seeds and agricultural machinery.

They often claim that this is a project approved and guided by the Ministry of Agriculture. Why not meet them?

"I'll be in Beijing the day after tomorrow and can spare half an hour."

Two days later, Guo Yang met Minister Lin as he wished.

Without much greeting, Guo Yang handed over the prepared folder.

The title of the catalog at the beginning caught the attention of the forest department.

[On the drawbacks of the variety approval system, reform is imperative]--Signed: Du Xin, Northwest A&F University, Maize Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences...

[The seed industry FB is connected from top to bottom, and the national crop variety approval amount reaches hundreds of millions a year] - Signed by the director of a certain provincial seed station, Tianhe Seeds, Sanrui Agriculture.

【Case studies and pictures】

【Anti-counterfeiting scene】

【Chain of evidence】

...

For more than half an hour, the only sound in the office was the sound of Lin Bu flipping through paper documents.

Guo Yang observed carefully. Minister Lin's expression seemed to have not changed, but he was flipping through the pages faster and faster. It seemed that he was angry.

After a while, Lin Bu closed the folder and said with a half-smile, "You are really something. If you didn't come, it would be fine. But when you came, you gave me all the big news."

"I was forced to do nothing but to contact the parents."

(End of this chapter)