Chapter 176 Planning (Medium Cup) (Ch 821203645)

After watching He Jintang leave.
Jiang Miao returned to his office.
He opened his personal laptop and looked through the information while thinking about something quietly.
On the screen, various materials about the Korqin Desert were flipped through one by one, and in his important record book, more than a dozen pages of content had been recorded without him noticing.
The total area of ​​sandy land, saline-alkali land, and semi-desert grassland allocated to Hailufeng Company is 20,000 square kilometers, or about 30 million mu.
The core area is in Zhelimu City, and a small part is in Zhaowuda City.
The average annual heat here is average, the frost-free period is about 140 to 160 days, the average annual precipitation is 300 to 450 mm, and 70 to 80% of the precipitation is concentrated in July to September.
It can be seen from this that except for insufficient heat, other conditions in the Korqin Desert are relatively good, which is why Jiang Miao chose this place.
Of course, if the Horqin Desert is completely greened, it will definitely affect the local microclimate. One of the most significant changes is that the climate will become more humid, the temperature difference between day and night will become smaller, and the frost-free period throughout the year will increase by about 5 to 10 days.
Jiang Miao is thinking about how to plan the development of this piece of land.
Planting soybeans is only a short-term arrangement.
Moreover, even if the 30 million mu is developed over five years, it is 6 million mu per year. Considering the scale of the sand land reconstruction engineering team of the Mo Nan Branch, the limit is 100,000 mu per month. The maximum number of mu that can be reconstructed per year is 1.2 million, and there is still a gap of 4.8 million.
Considering that part of the area is degraded grassland, there are no large moving sand dunes, and the land is relatively flat, this part does not require much transformation.
After looking at the relevant data, Jiang Miao has estimated that the area of ​​flat land and slightly transformed flat land that can be directly used is about 19 million mu; there are also areas that are relatively easy to transform, which are about 8 million mu; the remaining 3 million mu are either moving sand dunes, semi-degraded grasslands with relatively large undulations, and gravel beaches with more stones.
Therefore, the engineering team does not need to be expanded too much.
The really difficult places are actually the Ulan Buh Desert, Tengger Desert, Badain Jaran Desert and other areas with large areas of moving sand dunes.
However, those areas have little to do with Hailufeng Company.
Now Jiang Miao has to start thinking about how to use these lands.
First of all, in the first year, only Senzu soybeans can be planted. This is an inevitable arrangement.
However, after the first year of planting, whether to continue planting Senzu soybeans is a question worth considering.
After all, the scale of domestic production increase in a short period of time is to increase soybean production by 50 to 60 million tons, which will be distributed to various companies. Together with some individual investors, it would be enough for each company to plant more than 10 million acres.
Therefore, the remaining more than 10 million acres of land must be used to develop other agricultural products.
Jiang Miao is not very interested in food crops such as corn, wheat, and sorghum because the country will soon adjust regional planting types.
Those farmlands that were previously used to grow soybeans will definitely be vacated to grow other food crops and cash crops, especially in the Northeast and Northwest regions. A large part of the area where winter wheat cannot be grown will most likely not grow soybeans.
The North China Plain will introduce Senzu soybeans. The reason is very simple. That is, winter wheat can be planted in the North China Plain, and then a crop of soybeans or corn can be planted.
Since food crops are not working, Jiang Miao has also thought about many cash crops.
First of all, beets can be ruled out because the vacant soybean fields in Northeast China will most likely be used to plant beets, and this category is definitely a red ocean.
There is no need to think about cotton, because the Northwest will definitely expand its cotton production in the future, which is another red ocean category.
Therefore, only peanuts are left. Peanuts can be mixed with soybeans, or after planting soybeans for two years, root rot fungi can be used to eliminate the soybean roots and tubers, quickly converting them into organic nutrients in the soil, which can then be used to plant peanuts.
He wrote in his notebook using symbols that only he could understand: 5 million acres of peanuts to be planted.
For the next category, he set his sights on rubber grass.
The so-called rubber grass is actually several species of Taraxacum plants of the Asteraceae family that grow in the Tianshan River Valley in the Western Regions. The Russians were the first country to study rubber grass planting and rubber extraction technology, while domestic research has been intermittent, and there are currently sporadic experimental plantings in the Western Regions.
The current improved rubber grass can be harvested in about three years, with an annual yield of about 250 kilograms of rubber roots per mu, which can be used to extract 50 kilograms of rubber.
Obviously the yield is too low and the growth cycle is a bit long.
But it doesn’t matter. Jiang Miao can improve the variety, shorten its growth cycle to about two years, and then cross-plant it with Senzu soybeans.
Since the height of the common soybean is generally 90 to 100 cm, and the main leaves of the rubber grass are generally less than 10 cm, when it blooms, the flower stalk can reach 24 cm.
This feature allows the two to not interfere with each other, especially forage soybeans, which need to be harvested about four times a year. As long as the harvesting height of the harvester is set at about 10 cm from the ground during harvesting, the rubber grass can be avoided.
Therefore, Jiang Miao plans to mix 5 million mu of forage soybeans and rubber grass.
The current plan is to build 10 million mu of pure soybean fields, 5 million mu of peanuts, 5 million mu of soybean-rubber grass mixed fields, and 5 million mu of mixed pastures.
There are still 5 million acres left. Jiang Miao fell into deep thought as to what to plant.
He found that after the variable of Senzu soybeans was added to the domestic agricultural system, there would be no obvious scarcity of staple foods such as grain, oil, feed, and sugar.
This situation also made it difficult for Hailufeng Company to find an agricultural product suitable for large-scale cultivation in the Horqin Desert.
As for agricultural products such as vegetables and fruits, it is obvious that they cannot be consumed on a scale of 5 million acres. Forcibly planting them will not only collapse the entire market, but will also be a thankless task and may even result in a total loss of money.
He now needs to find some suitable crops and has to consider all aspects.
As he was thinking, Jiang Miao suddenly saw a box of cherries that Shuya had just brought over. After opening the box, he picked up a cherry produced in Qilu Province, rinsed it with boiled water, and then took a bite. The sweet and sour taste filled his mouth.
He then researched various information about cherries.
After reading the relevant information, Jiang Miao felt that cherries could be grown in the Horqin sandy land, but it was necessary to choose cold-resistant varieties with Lucia and Maple Leaf bloodlines, and supplementary irrigation was needed. Because cherries prefer water, the growing environment requires an annual rainfall of 500 to 600 mm.
He has come up with solutions to some problems in growing cherries in the Horqin desert.
Directly improving varieties is the most direct, but also the slowest, solution.
Therefore, he chose to use transgenic grafting technology and use a close relative of cherry, European plum, also known as prune, as a transgenic rootstock.
Although European Li has the word “European” in its name, in fact, its origin is the river valley area west of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions.
There is another benefit to using European plum as the genetically modified rootstock. Since the fruits of European plum mature around September every year, it can avoid the time when cherries from China and South America are on the market.
Jiang Miao is confident that by adjusting the nutrient supply of the transgenic rootstock and the production time of special pheromones, the cherries grafted onto the transgenic European plums will mature between August and November in the northern hemisphere.
After including cherries in the development category, Jiang Miao referred to the planting scales at home and abroad, and wrote a scale of 2 million acres for cherry planting.
And the remaining 3 million acres.
He decided to develop genetically modified Rhus chinensis – pistachio following the cherry model and plant 2 million acres of pistachio.
Rhus chinensis and pistachio are both small trees of the Anacardiaceae family. Rhus chinensis can adapt to the climate of Northeast China and has good salt and alkali tolerance. Through genetic modification, it is perfect for carrying pistachios.
The last 1 million acres will be used for breeding, experiments, farming, processing plants and other supporting facilities.
When thinking about supporting facilities, Jiang Miao also needs to think carefully about the layout of deep processing of agricultural products in the entire Horqin agricultural base.
The tens of millions of acres of soybeans and five million acres of peanuts produce a considerable amount of soybean oil and peanut oil every year.
Among them, peanut oil is okay and can be sold as cheap cooking oil, but the quality of soybean oil is too poor. Jiang Miao does not plan to sell edible soybean oil, but plans to use the soybean oil to produce biodiesel.
The biodiesel industry will definitely be an emerging industry with great potential in the future in China.
Jiang Miao sees this point more distantly than anyone else.
Because Hailufeng Company’s Senzu soybean variety and new tea oil variety will change the domestic feed and edible oil landscape. In this case, the future of soybean oil will be blocked at both ends.
On the one hand, the domestic soybean production capacity has surged, leading to a surge in soybean oil production capacity. On the other hand, tea seed oil will take away a large part of the edible oil market from soybean oil.
Production capacity is soaring, but market demand is declining.
The consequences are predictable.
Soybean oil, which has been defeated in the edible oil market, can only turn to industrial oil. However, the demand for industrial oil for many uses is limited.
Currently, the industrial uses of soybean oil are mainly concentrated in biodiesel, paints, coatings, lubricants, greases, soaps, detergents, and inks.
Among these uses, only biodiesel has the potential to consume 20 to 30 million tons of soybean oil in the future.
The development of the biodiesel industry will also allow Hailufeng Company’s logistics system and various agricultural machinery to use its own biodiesel, thereby reducing some operating costs.
Of course, it is not impossible to develop the edible oil industry, such as the export business of soybean edible oil. The vast majority of third world countries need cheap edible oil.
The country can even use imported genetically modified soybean oil to produce biodiesel, and use soybean oil pressed from domestic soybeans to make edible oil for export.
The soybean meal produced by genetically modified soybeans can also be used to produce feed for export, or simply exported directly to Southeast Asian and South Asian countries.
After conceiving of the supporting industries related to soybeans, Jiang Miao began to think about the supporting industries for several other agricultural crops.
Among them, cherries and pistachios are relatively simple.
Pistachios generally only need to undergo simple processing before they can be wholesaled and retailed, and all you need is a pistachio processing plant.
Cherries are equipped with cold storage and packaging factories.
Peanuts require a peanut oil processing plant, and the peanut cakes after oil extraction can be used as feed, fertilizer, peanut butter, or to extract peanut protein.
Rubber grass requires a rubber processing plant. The remaining cake residue and leaves can be used to extract inulin, and the remaining cellulose and hemicellulose can also be used as consumables for microbial fuel cells.
Moreover, cherries, pistachios, peanuts, soybeans, rubber grass, alfalfa, etc. are all nectar plants that can provide a huge source of nectar for the bee breeding industry.
Such a huge industrial layout needs to be completed in the next five years.
Jiang Miao made a phone call and called Lu Weibin, who had just returned, and Jiang Haibo and others to the office.
Half an hour later.
Jiang Haibo was the first to knock on the door and come in.
Ten minutes later, Lu Weibin also arrived.
Jiang Miao had already talked about part of the topic with Jiang Haibo just now.
“Old Lu, sit down!”
Jiang Miao poured him a cup of tea: “The main reason I asked you to come here this time is to strengthen the management of the Mo Nan branch.”
“Strengthen management? Is there a problem over there?” Lu Weibin was shocked. He thought that something went wrong with the Mo’nan branch as soon as he left.
Jiang Haibo started to explain: “Weibin, you misunderstood. That’s not what the boss meant. There is no major problem with the Mo Nan branch.”
“Huh?” Lu Weibin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked curiously: “Boss, what’s the reason?”
“We have been granted 30 million mu of sandy land, right here in the Horqin Desert.”
“So much?” Lv Weibin’s hand, which had just picked up the teacup, began to tremble subconsciously. He quickly put the teacup back on the table. He swallowed and asked, “Boss, why did the higher-ups grant us so much land?”
Jiang Miao casually mentioned: “Of course it is the hidden benefits of Senzu soybeans.”
“Sensory beans? Have the higher-ups noticed it? So quickly?” Lu Weibin felt a little relieved.
Jiang Haibo had just heard part of what Jiang Miao said, and he answered some of Lu Weibin’s questions: “An academician who studies soybeans visited the Taminchagan Farm and reported the matter to Beijing. However, this matter involves confidential information, so only a few of us need to know about it, and it’s best not to mention it to our family members.”
“Confidential?” Although Lv Weibin’s abilities are mediocre, it does not mean that he is a frog in a well. Having worked in a large Internet company for a few years, he likes to browse various international current affairs, and soon his imagination runs wild.
Jiang Miao didn’t want to tell them the details: “I won’t go into details about the specifics, let’s discuss the matter of the Mo Nan branch first.”
Lu Weibin quickly took out the small notebook and ballpoint pen he carried with him.
“To develop 30 million mu of land, the human and material resources required are enormous, and the management of the Monan branch alone is obviously not enough.”
Jiang Haibo nodded: “That’s right.”
“How many additional people are needed?” Lu Weibin looked at Jiang Miao.
“We need to increase our manpower by at least a hundred times.”
“One hundred times?” Lu Weibin frowned: “This is a bit difficult!”
“No rush, our plan is to complete all development projects within five years, which means the manpower will also be gradually in place within five years.”
Lu Weibin felt relieved when he heard that it would be completed within five years.
Jiang Miao laid out the development plan in full: “We are going to develop 10 million mu of soybean fields, 5 million mu of soybean and rubber grass mixed forage fields, 5 million mu of peanut fields, 5 million mu of mixed forage fields, 2 million mu of cherry orchards, 2 million mu of pistachio orchards, and the remaining 1 million mu will be used as land for other supporting projects.”
While taking notes, Lv Weibin raised his own questions: “Boss, I can understand forage grass, peanuts, and soybeans, but can rubber grass, pistachios, and cherries be grown in the climate of the Horqin Sandy Land?”
Jiang Miao then explained why he chose these agricultural products and the related technical solutions.
After listening to it, Lu Weibin suddenly realized. He had no doubt at all about Jiang Miao’s technical research and development capabilities.
Jiang Miao then talked about the relevant supporting facilities that the Mo Nan Branch needed to prepare.
Lu Weibin recorded these things one by one and asked questions from time to time.
After finishing talking about these things, Jiang Miao brought up the question at the beginning: “So as the scale of the Mo Nan branch expands, it is not just a problem of lacking middle-level managers and grassroots employees there, but also a need to send a senior executive from the headquarters to be stationed there.”
Lu Weibin reacted instantly and realized that he was obviously the most suitable executive.
“Of course, considering the management issues, not only you will go there, Haibo and I will also go there regularly. We will each take turns to stay in the Mo Nan branch for 3 months.”
When he heard that the stationing period was only three months, Lu Weibin didn’t think it was a big problem.
Jiang Haibo suggested: “Boss, the company’s talent reserve plan needs to be further expanded. I suggest that the system of rotating senior executives on duty be improved and implemented as soon as possible within one or two years.”
Jiang Miao nodded: “Well, you arrange for the HR department to expand the recruitment scale. While I have nothing urgent to do in the next few months, I will have time to conduct interviews and recruit more talents, especially middle and senior management, to facilitate the subsequent expansion.”
However, Jiang Miao added: “Of course, if our internal employees find suitable management talents, they should also vigorously promote them.”
“I understand.” Jiang Haibo wrote this down, and then he remembered something: “Boss, on August 10, Shanghai will hold a food security summit forum. The organizer sent us an invitation letter yesterday, hoping that our company can attend.”
He Jintang told him some of the inside story. Jiang Miao naturally knew the tricks of this so-called Food Security Summit Forum. He instructed:
“Haibo, you can go there on behalf of the company. I only ask that you listen and watch more, and don’t express any opinions, especially about the content of Senzu beans. Don’t mention a single word.”
Hearing Jiang Miao’s arrangement, Jiang Haibo was also thoughtful, but he did not show it: “Okay, I will definitely follow the boss’s instructions.”
“There is also a feed industry conference held in Yangcheng. Our company is also among the invited participants, but the time of the conference is a bit tight, on August 15th.”
“You will lead the team there as well. You only need to talk about our plans for Egyptian catfish fish meal. Do not discuss anything else related to alfalfa, soybeans, etc.”
The reason why the two activities are arranged so closely.
The purpose is self-evident.
That is to prevent ABCD and related domestic private enterprises from having time to think, and to force their executives to travel back and forth between Shanghai and Guangzhou in a short period of time.
After He Jintang left today, he took the time to check the situation of international soybean futures and corn futures.
He found that short orders in the futures markets of bulk agricultural products such as soybeans had been slowly increasing since yesterday, and he knew that the short sellers were accumulating funds.