Chapter 57 Qaidam

my country is a big agricultural country, and agriculture and rural areas have always played a vital role in the development of my country's economy and society.

However, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to rapidly enhance national strength, our government has relied on administrative power to raise a large amount of funds from agriculture and rural areas and invested them in industry.

It is estimated that from 1952 to 1990, the state obtained 11594 billion yuan from agriculture through taxation, the scissors gap between industrial and agricultural products, etc.

After deducting more than 1 billion yuan from the national fiscal expenditure on agriculture, there is still about trillion yuan.

It accounts for 22.4% of the total accumulated national income.

On average, each worker provided a surplus to industrialization free of charge, which reached a peak of 1990 yuan in 266, equivalent to 38.7% of the average net income of farmers that year.

Farmers have made tremendous contributions to industrialization, but the squeezing of agriculture has led to insufficient agricultural investment, causing serious lags in agricultural and rural development.

When industry has the strength to feed back to agriculture, we find that the gap in agriculture with developed countries is a bit out of reach.

Make a comparison.

In 71, the teaching and scientific research equipment of the 1990 higher agricultural and forestry colleges in the country amounted to only about 5.7 million yuan, which was roughly equivalent to that of Tsinghua University.

What Guo Yang remembers most vividly is that when his alma mater in his previous life celebrated its 100th anniversary, he went through great pains to raise funds and finally received donations of more than million yuan.

At the same time, a school next door celebrated its 60th anniversary, and one alumnus donated 10 billion yuan!

The agricultural and forestry colleges and universities in the Northwest region have it even harder, but Guo Yang sincerely admires these people.

Taking Northwest Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technology as an example,

A lot of professors from Northwest A&F University can find jobs in the capital, Shanghai, but they insist on staying in Yangling to farm and dig canals.

The school is as stubborn as the old farmers in northern Shaanxi.

Everyone knows that it is better to build it in Chang'an, but it is not built in Chang'an.

Everyone knows that the Northwest is poor and the environment is bad, but we just want to take root in the Northwest!

Of course, many people may not take these seriously, and are more interested in Jia Qianqian, the founder of the "shit and urine school" and "cucumber school" of poetry at Northwestern University.

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Because they were poor, when Weng Lixin learned that Guo Yang not only bought out the variety rights of more than 30 varieties of his school, but also transferred a batch of plant varieties from other research institutes and universities, he was a little confused.

"Why do you spend so much money to transfer so many varieties? It's fine if they have no promotional value, and many varieties can be used for scientific research even if you don't pay the transfer fee!"

Guo Yang smiled and said, "Hehe, I suddenly became rich, so I want to make some contribution to the Northwest region. How about transferring your old alfalfa variety to me? This is the only chance!"

Weng Lixin's expression suddenly changed, and he complained unhappily:

"I get angry when I talk about this. Su Guozhou said you are boasting too much! You think you can completely improve 1 mu of saline-alkali land with your Alfalfa No. 20."

"And you already have such a great alfalfa variety, and you're still thinking about mine?"

Hearing the tone of voice, Guo Yang knew that the teacher had let go of his previous decision to give up his study abroad quota. "Longmu No. 1-5, each, do you want to transfer it?"

There was no sound for a long time. Just when Guo Yang thought the signal was bad, Weng Lixin's voice came.

"Longmu No. 4 and Longmu No. 5 have not yet been approved. There are only three varieties. Please contact the school yourself."

"I'll ask your PhD senior to take a look at your project, come up with a technical plan, and give some theoretical and technical training to employees. You can also continue to serve Boss Guo if needed in the future."

Hearing this, Guo Yang pretended to be unhappy and said, "I spent so much money, and I can't ask you to come out and give me some advice in person?"

"Hey, don't be so sarcastic, kid."

"My research focus next year will be on Haixi Prefecture, so I don't have time to give you advice."

Haixi Prefecture? Guo Yang was stunned for a long time before he remembered where it was.

"Qing Province? Why go so far to do research?" Weng Lixin sat down leisurely on the grass.

"In the past two years, the area of ​​desertification in the Qaidam Basin has continued to expand, vegetation degradation and salinization have worsened, and grassland productivity has decreased."

"This has resulted in a decrease in high-quality forage grass, an increase in inedible forage grass and poisonous grass, and a high-intensity outbreak of rodent and insect pests."

"Haven't I been busy studying the mechanism of grassland degradation in alpine pastures in the past two years? A friend asked me to go there."

Guo Yang was surprised when he heard this. "Qaidam Basin? Are there grasslands there?"

"You're a graduate student, but you learned in elementary school geography that the Qaidam Basin is a treasure trove."

“Salt meadow, desert meadow, meadow steppe, alpine meadow.”

"In addition to grassland, the Qaidam Basin has more than 60 mu of arable land, but 80% of the arable land is currently facing the risk of degradation. Currently, they are also considering developing the alfalfa industry."

Guo Yang thought for a moment and asked, "Is the environment bad?"

Weng Lixin laughed at the question and said, "The western part of the basin is an uninhabited area. It is dry, sandy, saline, and gravelly. The winter is dry, cold, and windy. Do you think it is terrible?"

"Teacher, can you give me some relevant information over there?"

"What do you want to do? Blind expansion is a taboo in agriculture!"

Guo Yang quickly explained: "No, no, I just want to understand. Didn't you just say there is gravel over there?"

"I happen to have a stone picker and two imported tractors that are about to be idle, so I plan to set up a socialized agricultural machinery service team to earn some extra money."

"It's good enough if we don't lose money, and we can also make extra money..."

Hang up the call.

In the end, Weng Lixin agreed to help him get information from the relevant departments.

There is too little natural energy, and Guo Yang is also considering the possibility of building a ranch in Qing Province.

The seed company still saved 1 million yuan, but it would take another two years before the excess seeds of Alfalfa No. could be released.

And the management is a bit behind now.

Fortunately, as long as alfalfa and seed companies can continue to provide the best products in the future, a moderate level of management should be enough.

call!
Recovering his mind, Guo Yang prepared to cultivate the seeds first.

Arriving at the temporary germplasm resource bank, Guo Yang found the seed targeted breeding function from the seed store and began to study it.

He has not used this function yet, and he still needs to study how to obtain better seeds.

As for which species to cultivate, Guo Yang already has a direction.

With the current 62 points of natural energy, only 1 new varieties can be cultivated based on the cultivation of all white-grade seeds with a value of 20-3 points of natural energy.

As for higher grades, we now have the purple grade Alfalfa No. 1, and the others can only be considered after we have more natural energy. The most important thing now is to build a basic product system.

First of all, there must be one variety of corn and one variety of wheat, and one of them must be able to achieve greater economic benefits in the short term.

During this period, there was a serious oversupply of corn seeds, with production being twice the supply, exceeding 7.8 million kilograms.

The competition in the market for bulk seeds such as corn and wheat is extremely fierce!
Even if there are good varieties, it is difficult to gain the trust of growers and distributors when they are first promoted on the market.

Therefore, if seed companies want to make profits quickly, they have to find other ways.

Guo Yang's idea fell on bell peppers.

When using greenhouse seed production, the maximum income from sweet pepper seed production can reach more than 10 yuan per mu.

(End of this chapter)