Chapter 16 New Directions (Ch 808032694)

Golden Week in October.
The company gave some employees leave.
However, Jiang Miao and his brother-in-law are still at the Yancheng Village farm, and they have been discussing renting a fish pond these days.
So far, we have negotiated with two parties, one with 40 acres and the other with 50 acres, for a total of 90 acres of fish ponds, plus 3 acres of vacant land.
No. 3, we negotiated with the last one. This one was right next to the breeding base. It had a total of 120 acres of shrimp ponds and 8 acres of paddy fields. It was a shrimp farm jointly run by several households and was also a more difficult one to deal with.
After all, doing business in partnership is the most prone to conflicts. In recent years, due to various conflicts, big and small, the relationship between the five cooperating villagers has become strained and the breeding farm is almost unable to operate.
In order to avoid trouble, Jiang Miao originally did not intend to take it. In the end, it was his brother-in-law who stepped forward and negotiated with the five villagers separately, and took over the 120 acres of shrimp ponds and 8 acres of paddy fields.
The average monthly rent is 1,430 yuan per mu, the lease term is 10 years, and the penalty for breach of contract is 50%.
These ponds and paddy fields add up to a total of 210 acres of ponds and 12 acres of open space.
Jiang Miao planned a new indoor breeding base next to the old indoor breeding base, covering an area of ​​20 acres.
Soon, my cousin’s engineering team entered the site to fill soil, reinforce the foundation, lay underground pipes, etc.
It is estimated that the construction will be completed by the end of the year.
Bulldozers, dump trucks and excavators are working in an orderly manner.
Jiang Miao watched the construction site for a while, chatted with his cousin for a while, and sent him the test report that had just been completed yesterday.
“Brother Yao, as expected, the powder contains two hormones, dexamethasone and dexamethasone acetate. Taking too much can easily cause femoral head necrosis. Don’t take those folk remedies casually in the future.”
“This bastard actually gave me hormones. I’m going to report him.” Jiang Yao started cursing.
Jiang Miao quickly reminded: “You can report it, but don’t be impulsive and hit others. Things are different now.”
“I know.” Jiang Yao would naturally not act impulsively. After all, he had made a lot of money from these projects. There was no need to take risks for such a person.
The two chatted for a while, and then Jiang Miao went back to the breeding base next door.
However, he did not go to see the eel breeding pond, but came to the back of the breeding base, where there was a container house consisting of four stacked containers.
On one side of the container house is a row of plastic greenhouses with an area of ​​about half an acre. This place was transformed from the remaining vegetable fields that had been renovated before.
Next to the greenhouse is the 8 acres of paddy field that we rented after signing the contract yesterday.
Jiang Miao does not plan to use these 8 acres of paddy fields as land for a new breeding base, but rather as a greenhouse area.
Open container house.
There are a large number of glass bottles and plastic bottles on display, with special labels on the bottles.
The labels read “ethyl methanesulfonate,” “diethyl sulfate,” “nitrosoethyl urea,” “ethyleneimine,” “5-bromouracil,” “2-aminopurine,” “maleic hydrazide,” “nitrous acid,” “sodium azide,” “colchicine,” and so on.
These things are compounds among chemical drugs that can induce genetic mutations in cells.
He took some chemical reagents in a special box and went to the container house next door.
Inside this room, there are two rows of iron shelves and an iron table, and on the shelves are glass culture dishes.
Inside the glass petri dish are seeds of various sizes.
Starting in July this year, Jiang Miao began conducting secret experiments here, the project was to cultivate seeds.
For Jiang Miao, who has an identification panel, the difficulty of seed breeding has dropped sharply. After all, many agricultural breeding companies or institutions have to breed a commercial variety from a large number of varieties, which takes a long time.
If it is a herbaceous plant, it will take at least 5 years to develop and cultivate a new variety with commercial value.
If it is a woody plant, this time will take at least 10 years.
Why is it so difficult and long?
The answer lies in the step of verifying the variety.
It is very simple to make seeds undergo genetic mutations. Whether it is physical means such as ultraviolet rays, X-rays, fast neutrons, ultra-low temperature freezing, etc., or chemical means, or even genetic modification technology, etc., genetic mutations can be caused in large quantities of seeds.
However, after the gene mutation is completed, experimenters have no way to find out the specific circumstances of the mutation in a short period of time.
This requires planting, observing, testing, selecting better individuals, producing seeds, sowing, observing, and testing, and repeating this cycle several times before we can have a preliminary understanding of the variation of these seeds.
Therefore, it takes a very long time.
But Jiang Miao was different at this time.
He can directly see the situation of each seed after gene mutation, including its survival rate, plant size, fruit size, fruit sweetness, cellulose content, various trace elements, various vitamins, etc., and the most important thing is the stability of genetic traits.
This saves Jiang Miao 99% of his time. He basically only needs to use chemical reagents to induce genetic mutations in the seeds, and then he uses the identification panel to select the valuable mutant seeds one by one.
The plants he selected for cultivation were strawberry, melon eggplant (ginseng fruit), soybean, and alfalfa.
Of course, he chose these four plants after careful consideration.
First of all, these four plants are herbaceous plants, and the speed of cultivating seeds is relatively fast.
Secondly, strawberries and melon tomatoes are cultivated for economic considerations, as these two fruits have relatively high market value.
The cultivation of soybeans and alfalfa is for future consideration. After all, these two things are related to the core interests of food security, edible oil safety, and feed safety.
Although Jiang Miao can’t stand some people, when the nest is overturned, all the eggs will remain intact.
Jiang Miao couldn’t predict where the future of this era would go, so he could only make more preparations.
After completing today’s work of inducing mutation, Jiang Miao came to the plastic greenhouse at the door of the container house.
After more than two months of seedling cultivation and planting, dozens of strawberry seedlings have grown lush and leafy. He took a sterilized knife and a cup of carbendazim solution and cut off some of the strawberry branches.
These cut branches will be used for runner seedling cultivation, which is a commonly used propagation method in the strawberry planting industry.
After all, it is difficult to produce enough seeds with just one mutant strain. Both the subsequent hybrid breeding and seed production require a relatively large quantity.
At present, there are a total of 35 mutant seedlings in this greenhouse, all of which were carefully selected by him. They are mutant varieties with genetic stability, high heat resistance, disease resistance, pest resistance, good fruit hardness, medium sweetness, high yield, and special flavor ingredients.
However, regarding the special flavor ingredients, the identification panel cannot give specific information. You have to taste it after it comes out to know the specific situation.
Of course, since he has purchased a variety of strawberries, he has also collected the specific flavor components of these strawberry varieties.
Therefore, we can roughly guess the flavor of some mutant varieties. However, among the 35 mutant seedlings, the flavor components of 15 mutant seedlings are not currently available on the market.
In other words, it’s not that it doesn’t exist, but the content is too low to be felt.
After all, flavor components are varied and their contents in fruits are also different. Ingredients with higher contents are naturally easier to feel, while those that are not obvious will be ignored.
This is where this batch of mutant seedlings may have value.