Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 31 Seeds and Vegetables

On the 28th day of the tenth lunar month, it is the turn of the Shiliying market.

The snow on the street was melted by people walking on it, horses riding on it, and wheels. But then it froze into streaks of ice under the north wind, making it very slippery to walk on.

Yu Yang, wrapped in a military cotton coat and wearing a locomotive cap, followed his second brother cautiously with his hands in his sleeves, looking left and right.

There are a lot of people going to the market today, and there are also a lot of stalls selling vegetables.

But I don’t know who started this trend, the vegetable vendors’ calls are very different from before.

"Another car overturned on the West Side Expressway. These are fresh potatoes that are being sent to Beijing to eat chickens!"

"My celery was specially ordered by Quanjude Roast Duck. If it hadn't flipped over at high speed, could I have sold it at a low price?"

"What's wrong with the cabbage? If the car hadn't overturned at high speed, would you have been able to eat three pounds of cabbage for ten cents?!"

As he walked further in, Yu Yang discovered that it was not just the vegetable vendors who were shouting.

"Insoles, anti-odor insoles supplied to RT-Mart in Beijing... smell them, they smell delicious. Fortunately, the car overturned on the highway, otherwise we would not have seen this good stuff."

"Cashmere sweaters, the truck delivering goods to Ordos overturned..."

"Brother, I'm not afraid to tell you that this batch of velvet leather shoes is a new model sent by the Wenzhou Leather Factory to Broadway in Beijing. If the car hadn't overturned..."

Yu Yang listened to the shouting and walked halfway to the market when he felt his mind full of high-speed car overturning.

"If the leaders of the highway, transportation and road administration heard what you did, I wonder if they would be able to sleep well."

Of course, rumors stop at the wise.

The reason for this phenomenon may be that the leaders did it deliberately, using these fake failures to cover up the "real failure of Dou Miao".

Yu Yang thought about it and felt that this was indeed possible.

Then I followed my second brother, walked through the crowded crowd, and came to the seed station on the street.

In the past, seed stations, agricultural machinery stations, forestry stations, animal husbandry stations, water conservancy stations, power supply stations, etc. were all public institutions.

Later, many places underwent reforms, and seed stations became privately owned. The technicians in the stations resigned and became small bosses.

In another time and space, Yu Yang was soaking bean sprouts after asking the other party for advice, and only then did he make it.

Including the seeds we use to grow bean sprouts, they are also purchased from here.

As for the many soybeans that the vegetable vendors had accumulated by offering "ten kilograms of soybeans for one bean sprout"...

In fact, most of those soybeans cannot be used as seeds.

This involves issues such as varieties, germination rate, pests and diseases, hybrids, and annual yield.

quite complicated.

...

Enter the seed station.

The former agricultural technician, now the shop owner, stood up and greeted:
"Boss Yu, how come you have time to come here?"

"Come and look at the seeds."

"What's the matter? The soybean seeds I gave you are not good?"

"It's OK. There are no problems with the planting so far."

"That's good. The village told me a long time ago that your bean sprout industry is in its start-up phase, so we must ensure a good supply of seeds. If there is a problem, it will be a big deal for you, me, the village, and the people of Shiliying. So I go to the provincial capital to select soybean seeds in person and then bring them back in person."

“You put your heart into it!”

Yu Yang knew that what the other party said was true, so he took out a box of Huaxia cigarettes from his briefcase and placed it on the counter.

By the way, take a look at the pesticides on the shelves and the various seeds hanging on the wall.

"We are all family, so I won't be shy and tell you the truth."

"You tell me."

“That broken brick kiln was thrown back to the bank again.”

"I saw it on the news. They really did whatever they wanted. I was so scared that I took the money back overnight..."

"You are really worrying too much. Forget it, let's talk business. I plan to renovate the brick kiln and grow something."

"You are in our village, you really asked the right person."

"Nonsense, just tell me what suggestions you have. We are not strangers, how can I treat you unfairly?"

"There is no light in the brick kiln. If we stop burning in the future, it may become more and more humid. If we want to maximize our profits from vegetable farming, I suggest growing mushrooms, preferably mushrooms that can be harvested in batches."

“Is there any relevant technology?”

"There are several chicken farms in Hangai, you can buy the chicken manure; there are two lumber mills in our township, you can buy the sawdust, wood chips and so on;

Then I will bring pesticides and fertilizers and help you conduct experiments. Once we get the right ratio, we will package them into tubes and then build a batch of shelves in the brick kiln and arrange them in layers.

As long as the temperature and humidity are controlled well, the yield should not be low.

Or, you can hire a group of relevant technicians from outside, like those who grow bean sprouts, they are better than me. " "Everyone has his own expertise. It is not easy to recruit a group of bean sprout technicians. Where can I find mushroom growers?"

Yu Yang found a chair and sat down, "Any other suggestions?"

"Growing chives... Plant chives and let the seedlings see the light, they are called chives; if they are not exposed to the light, they are called chives; after they see the light and bloom, the flower stems are called chive moss; if you only grow chives, as long as you control them well, you can at least harvest 5 to 6 crops."

After the shop owner finished speaking, he continued, "The same is true for garlic sprouts."

Yu Yang nodded. "I just went to the market and saw people selling chives and garlic sprouts. They were all 50 or 60 cents a pound. They made some money, but it's still not as good as bean sprouts."

"That's for sure, leeks and garlic sprouts don't need to be exposed to the light.

If you want to do this kind of business, you can put in some effort, dig a cellar, or find a cave or a hole in the ground, or even an air-raid shelter left over from wars, and scatter seeds or plant seedlings. As long as there are no diseases, you can basically harvest a batch.

Of course, as far as I know, there are very few people who know this and dare to do it. At least in Pingdong County, no one does it, including in the capital, there are only three or four people."

Yu Yang must know about chives and garlic sprouts, and he eats a lot of them. "Any other suggestions?"

"My professional level is limited, otherwise I would not stay in the countryside and would have gone out to do business long ago."

"Think about it."

“Ginger?”

"It's profitable, keep going."

"We have caves in our brick kiln, so it's not like they are completely shielded from sunlight. Why don't we plant some yansui?"

"Two cents a bundle, you can't make much money."

"onion?"

"Get something rare, preferably out of season and no one is selling it, that way you can make a lot of money."

"You're making things difficult for me... Hey, lettuce!"

"Don't you need light?"

"Haven't you heard of 'bamboo shoots after rain'? You can grow a batch without strong light."

"That's true, but I don't know if it will make money."

"If we can grow celery lettuce, we should be able to grow romaine lettuce as well. There are some differences between the two, and the taste is also different. The problem is that we need to experiment."

Yu Yang is not afraid of experiments. When the time comes, he will build a piece of improved farmland and arrange his five brothers to let the growth rate reach the upper limit, and then he will keep tinkering with it.

Just as he was about to continue squeezing out all the talent from the shop owner, the mobile phone in his second brother's hand rang.

The second brother answered first, "This is Sanyuan Agricultural Office, who are you looking for?"

Uncle Liu's voice came from inside, "I'm Lao Liu. Is Sanyuan here? Tell him that the director of the county carton factory is here, and he has brought a lot of packaging."

"understood."

Some time ago, I went to the county town to clear snow, and by the way, I went to the biscuit factory and the carton factory to look for packaging.

In order to get orders, the director of the carton factory planned to design a large-sized packaging that was moisture-proof, fresh-keeping, and load-bearing for his own company, and agreed to trial-produce 100 sets and deliver them to the door.

I didn't expect the other party to come in person.

"How about this, think about it carefully, and make a list of what else you have. If it helps me, you will be the seed manager of Sanyuan Agricultural Company in the future, and you will get a salary, and you can continue to run this store."

"That's great. As long as you pay me, I don't care whether I open the shop or not." The shop owner knew how highly the people in Yujia Village were paid.

The technician’s salary is 1000 yuan per month (originally 1500 yuan, but Uncle Liu raised it to yuan).

A female worker can earn more than 30 beans after harvesting bean sprouts in a day.

Male workers can earn thirty or forty yuan a day by carrying and loading goods.

Everyone who does business makes money.

Yu Yang said no more, walked around the street market, came to the outskirts, found a tricycle parked on the side of the road, and then stopped a similar tricycle to borrow the handlebar.

Then he drove the tricycle on the side of the road and headed straight for the small Western-style building.

A little bit.

I drove the tricycle into the yard and looked down to see packaging boxes scattered all over the ground.

Some are big and some are small.

The big one resembles a freezer box, and the small one is like a suitcase.

Unfortunately, the big ones cannot bear the weight, and the small ones can hold too little, so it seems that none of them are suitable for holding bean sprouts.

When Yu Yang thought about this, he looked at the box that looked like a suitcase. He suddenly thought of the gift package.

In fact, there are many things that can be grown in brick kilns, but because they want to make more money, they can't find suitable vegetables.

If you plant a little bit of everything, and then take out a little bit of each, you can combine them into a 'hot pot gift pack', a 'health gift pack', a 'New Year family portrait'...

It would be better to come up with another gimmick: export to Russia!

How can it not be popular by the end of the year?
(End of this chapter)