Chapter 265 Opportunity (Ch 827830220)

As the second airship was put into trial operation.
The enthusiasm for airship airports has further increased in various parts of the country.
This side of Gannan City.
Since this is a region where Hailufeng Company entered relatively early, there are many Hailufeng-related industries here.
In addition to oil tea planting, alfalfa planting, dairy cow breeding and honey breeding, a very special industry has been added this year.
That is “herb cultivation”.
But this herb is not that herb.
Gannan Branch can get this industry.
On the one hand, it is because Hailufeng Company’s layout in other places is either saturated or still in its infancy, leaving only the southern Jiangxi region with relatively abundant manpower and land.
On the other hand, the geographical location of southern Jiangxi is relatively good. It can radiate to South China to the south, enter East China to the northeast, and penetrate Central China to the northwest.
This herbal medicine industry does not grow traditional Chinese herbal medicines, but rather grows pesticide herbs that Hailufeng Company needs itself.
In other words, these herbs are the raw materials for extracting special pheromone ingredients.
Including the red fire ant repellent and red fire ant bait agents that have been used in large quantities recently, they are all produced by the Gannan Branch.
As the country pays more and more attention to food safety and pesticide residue issues, the scale of Hailufeng Company’s pheromone pesticides will become larger and larger.
Pheromone pesticides have only been officially put into use for more than seven months, and within Hailufeng Company alone, a total of 140 million yuan worth of pheromone pesticides have been consumed, plus the amount used by other cooperative enterprises and growers.
The pheromone pesticide factory of Gannan Branch achieved a turnover of 430 million yuan this year. Although it adopts the method of small profits but quick turnover, the gross profit margin is only about 34%. However, it is precisely because of this model of small profits but quick turnover that it has played a crucial role in promoting the development of the entire market.
Because of the small profits but quick turnover, many growers and planting companies are willing to purchase.
Nearly 39% of the raw materials of the pheromone pesticide factory come from “herbs” grown locally in southern Jiangxi. In order to grow these herbs, Hailufeng Company signed contracts with 1,736 growers to specialize in growing specific herbs, and paid 228 million yuan in procurement fees for this.
The scale of planting will be further expanded next year, with plans to expand to more than 5,000 households.
The main reason is that many farm operators have seen that Hailufeng’s own farms and cooperative farms have achieved cost reduction and efficiency improvement by using special pheromone pesticides, and that these pheromone pesticides basically do not leave pesticide residues.
However, in the future, the production area of ​​pheromone pesticides will definitely not be limited to southern Jiangxi, because in order to avoid the risk of concentration in a single production area, multiple production areas will definitely need to be built.
One should be planned in the southwest, one in north China, and one each in the northwest and northeast.
Each region arranges two or three counties to specialize in planting to avoid being wiped out by sudden natural disasters.
This is also a major drawback of current pheromone pesticides, which is that they are highly dependent on natural plant extracts.
After all, humans are still helpless with many natural macromolecular organic compounds, or the cost of artificial synthesis is high.
At this stage, Hailufeng Company’s plan is to take a two-pronged approach.
Plan the research and development project of artificial synthesis technology for the core ingredients of pheromone pesticides.
At the same time, artificial breeding technology is used to cultivate herbal varieties with higher special ingredients.
No matter which direction the breakthrough is achieved, Hailufeng Company will make a profit.
The Gannan Branch promotes the cultivation of medicinal herbs, new varieties of tea oil, alfalfa, and specialty vegetables and fruits in the local area, and local traffic restrictions are increasingly affecting the export of products.
Therefore, as the second airship was put into test flight, the Gannan Branch reached an agreement with the local authorities to build a large airport in Gannan. At the same time, it planned to purchase five Blue Whale 1 airships from the Blue Whale Airship Company to solve the problems of blocked roads in mountainous areas and high road transportation costs.
The location of Gannan Airport is in the northern part of Xihua Township, Nankang District, and is very close to the main channel of Ganjiang River.
As soon as the plan comes out.
The local authorities started negotiations with each household, hoping to complete the land expropriation as soon as possible.
In addition, each local county has received a planning plan for a small airport.
The design of these small airports is very simple. In order to avoid occupying low-lying arable land, small airports are planned to be built in the mountains close to roads. Several mountain ridges are flattened, then paved with reinforced concrete, and a navigation tower is added.
Since it is built on a mountainous site, in order to facilitate the transportation of containers to the mountaintop platform, it is necessary to build lifting facilities and tracks to facilitate the linkage between the mountaintop platform and the road at the foot of the mountain.
The platform on the top of the mountain does not need to be very large. A length of 500 meters and a width of 200 meters are enough to temporarily berth and load and unload an airship.
After all, a county sometimes cannot even gather dozens of containers in a day. The Blue Whale 1 airship can transport 6 to 10 containers in one trip, which probably only requires four or five trips.
This type of short-distance mountain transportation is mainly to make up for the insufficient density of mountain roads and the extremely low cost-effectiveness of mountain road transportation.
All the counties in southern Jiangxi are gearing up to cooperate with Hailufeng Company to select more suitable locations.
Especially in Dayu County.
Hailufeng Company not only plans to build an airship airport here, but also plans to build a special inland transport ship barge base.
This barge base must be located on the bank of the Ganjiang River and have a lake of sufficient size to allow 2,000-ton inland transport ships to dock and facilitate the airship to descend to the lake and lift the transport ship.
Of course, this project is not an independent project, but a supporting project.
Because at least two transport ship berths are needed to realize the docking of inland transport ships between the two places.
This project is intended to alleviate the problem of inefficient navigation through the Guangdong-Jiangxi Canal. After all, the ship has to pass through a series of locks, and each time it needs to stop and wait in line. Sometimes it takes several days to pass through a lock.
Although the goods transported by inland rivers are usually long-lasting storable coal, ore, building materials, etc., they can pass quickly at a cost similar to that of passing through a lock, and many ship owners are willing to adopt this approach.
Because in this case, it means that the transport ship can make more trips.
In addition, the Guangdong-Jiangxi Canal has not yet been fully opened to navigation. It is estimated that the entire engineering renovation will be completed around 2030, which is more than two years away, before the entire line can be opened to navigation.
As for why gondolas are used to cross the river, the answer is naturally that the cost of airship transportation is still slightly higher than that of river transport ships. For goods that do not require timeliness, inland river transportation is still the first choice.
In order to seize this great opportunity, the local people in southern Jiangxi have put in their best efforts and fully cooperated with Hailufeng Company’s various projects.
Xihua Township, which was chosen to become the airship hub airport, is also rapidly advancing land acquisition work. The local government has also approved the upgrading and renovation of three core highways in order to increase transportation capacity.
Hailufeng Company, which is not short of money, has also invested in many supporting facilities in the local area, including employee communities, photovoltaic power generation systems, water purification systems, and energy storage systems.
These investments were all made through loans.
However, all major domestic banks did not reject Hailufeng’s loan application, so they could basically get the money as soon as they applied.
After all, these projects have huge technical support. As long as Hailufeng Company does not commit suicide, it is basically a business that is sure to make money. This kind of loan is much safer than real estate loan. The bank is eager for Hailufeng Company to lend more.