Hand over the farm system

"There are locusts in Wanjiazhuang, they haven't gathered yet, and I don't know if they can be controlled this time..."

"Before the flight can be controlled, we can try to reduce the losses of farmers."

……

At [-]:[-] p.m. on August [-]th, Zhang Guohai went to the southern suburbs of Changshui County with several agricultural workers.

Zhang Guohai is the director of the Shan'an Agricultural Bureau. Now that the locust plague in Shan'an is getting more and more serious, the Agricultural Bureau decided to cooperate with the research team and carry out locust self-rescue operations.

Locusts belong to the bottom of the biological chain, and there are biological nemesis such as chickens, ducks, goose frogs, etc. These nemesis can be controlled to a certain extent before flying together.

"Oh, why is there a plague of locusts?" Zhang Guohai sighed.

Now that agricultural technology is advanced, locusts can be detected through technology before they fly together.The acid rain passed through the border, and a large number of animals and plants died of corrosion. According to the inspection of the agricultural department, the locusts do not have the conditions to cause disasters.The acid rain environment does not have the conditions for a disaster, so how can locusts mutate directly from acid rain...

The purpose of the Agricultural Bureau this time is to control the areas that have not yet occurred and minimize the losses of farmers.

"Director Zhang, is it here?"

Half an hour later, everyone came to an abandoned factory.This is an old factory covering an area of ​​more than [-] acres. The red brick concrete floor of the factory area has a white sign hanging on the gate: Xingyue Farm.

"It's here!" Zhang Guohai got out of the car decisively after seeing it.

His job this time is to visit the farms in Changshui County to see if he can gather [-] ducks to prevent the locust plague around Changshui County.

The others followed suit.

"Who is it?" As soon as the crowd arrived at the door, an elderly doorman poked his head out and asked.

"It's from the County Agricultural Bureau. I've contacted the factory manager before." The little assistant handed over his work certificate.

"Wait." The guard made an intercom call after reading it.

Half a minute later, a middle-aged man in his early forties came out of the factory. The man had dark skin. When he saw Zhang Guohai, he stretched out his hand enthusiastically: "Director Zhang!"

"Factory Director Zhao." The man is the factory director of Xingxing Farm, and Zhang Guohai met a few times when he went to the countryside for inspections.

"How's the arrangement going?" The two sides exchanged simple greetings, and Zhang Guohai got straight to the point.

The factory manager said: "There are [-] ducks, and the previous broiler chickens have been sold."

After the County Agricultural Bureau confirmed the locust self-rescue action, it called the farms in the whole county.The County Agricultural Bureau wanted to borrow a batch of chickens and ducks. Because of the sudden incident, it might involve credit issues... The County Agricultural Bureau carefully explained the reason, but when the factories heard it, they had to borrow it.

Now the locust plague is the headline news in Shaanxi Province, which is not so much a government job, but a home for their survival.

In this way, the Agricultural Bureau made a phone call all day and contacted [-] ducks and [-] chickens. Zhang Guohai was responsible for the transportation of chickens and ducks and the post-organization work.

Half an hour later, the county staff came to the breeding factory. The cages in the breeding farm were all empty, but there were some ducks quacking on the south side.After watching the duck, Zhang Guohai drove the duck to a special transport vehicle.Duck has a strong smell, but none of them feel that duck has a smell. On the contrary, it is the most simple and pure taste of life.

At [-]:[-], the ducks were driven to the car.This is a group of two-year-old adult ducks, the ducks are gray and brown, and each foot is tied with a red ribbon, which is the mark of Xingyue ducks.

"Oh." The middle-aged factory manager looked at his duck and sighed.

Xingyue Breeding is the largest farm in Changshui County. At its peak, there were [-] meat ducks and [-] laying ducks.

With the global crisis, the scale of the farm keeps shrinking. Because he can't buy feed, he can only buy some lettuce and wheat to feed the ducks. These feeds are not as good as professional feeds. In order to maintain costs, he can only sell chickens and ducks... …Now in less than half a year, there are only [-] laying ducks left in the breeding factory.

The middle-aged factory manager looked at the transport vehicle in a daze. Zhang Guohai thought he was worried about the number of ducks, and assured him: "This group of ducks will definitely be sent back one by one."

The middle-aged Changzi was a little embarrassed: "I'm not worried about the quantity...to support the country's disaster relief, use it as you like!"

Now time is food, and in the next ten hours, Zhang Guohai went to seven breeding factories overnight.After a night of gathering from east to west, on August 1th, the County Agriculture Bureau finally gathered 80 chickens, which is also [-]% of the chickens and ducks in Changshui County.

On the afternoon of August [-]th, Zhang Guohai directly brought an army of chickens and ducks to Changshui Wanjia Village.Wanjia Village is close to Wangjiazhuang, and locust plagues began to appear on the [-]rd.Now the locust plague is not as severe as in Wangjiazhuang, but many locust larvae have appeared in the fields and on the corn stalks.

"It's been tortured, so many locusts!"

"It's summer, it's too disgusting."

.........

At this time, the villagers of Wanjia Village, like Wangjiazhuang, were using fan pesticides to drive away the locusts.The locusts in Wanjia Village are not as severe as those in Wangjiazhuang, but there are fifty or sixty small insects crawling on a single corn stalk, and the dense swarm is very disgusting to look at.

Zhang Guohai got off the car.He has seen many locust disasters in the past two days, but every time he was shocked and very uncomfortable.

The staff parked the transport vehicle on the side of the road. After everything was ready, a staff member looked at Zhang Guohai: "Director Zhang?"

"Let the ducks go." Zhang Guohai ordered decisively.

The chickens and ducks got out of the car blindly. They first looked around in confusion, and then ran to the corn field in the mountains.A duck can eat two hundred locusts a day, and a chicken can eat seventy.The chickens and ducks fought bravely, and after a while, the locusts in the distance felt a little less.

"Looks less."

The villagers watched the army of chickens and ducks seriously.

They are out-and-out peasants from Shaanxi Province.Except for occasional purchases in the city, every household will raise some farm chickens and ducks. Everyone has raised chickens and ducks for a lifetime. Now, looking at the army of chickens and ducks, it is the first time that chickens and ducks are so cute.

"I have three chickens at home, I'll bring them here."

A man went home to hug a chicken.The current food crisis has reduced the number of chickens and ducks on the market, and these chickens and ducks all survive on some bran noodles and vegetable leaves.

"My family has three ducks."

"My family has five."

……

When the villagers saw the man going home to hold the chicken, they also went home one after another.

When the locust plague first occurred, they thought about using chickens and ducks to control the locust plague, but the locust plague was too great and the chickens and ducks at home were useless. Now that the government is taking the lead, they feel unprecedented encouragement.

After a while, the villagers collected more than 200 chickens and ducks. Most of these chickens and ducks were marked on their legs, which is also easy to find after the locust plague is resolved.

"Thank you." Zhang Guohai was a little stunned.

"What's the matter?"

The villagers waved their hands.The idea is the same as that of the breeding factory, if the locusts are allowed to wreak havoc, the year's hard work in Shaanxi Province will be in vain!

The villagers have rich experience. While watching the ducks, they also use nets to catch locusts, and help the Bureau of Agriculture to control the range of ducks. The whole cornfield is instantly lively.

In the next two days, Zhang Guohai and other staff guarded the cornfield.The locusts have been a constant scourge day and night, and now they are only swarming in small groups. If the scale increases...the corn field will not last for two days.

……

"News from Shaanxi Province: From August 23th to [-]th, [-] counties including Changyun, Linxia, ​​and Wanzhou in Shaanxi Province carried out chicken and duck locust control operations, and the work of locust control has made initial progress."

"Shaanxi Agricultural Bureau: The temperature in Shaanxi Province continues to rise, and local governments need to do a good job of prevention before the locust plague."

"Locusts: Top killers for plant survival."

……

While Zhang Guohai was controlling the locusts, Shaanxi News reported across the province.

"It seems to be under control."

"Chickens and ducks can control locusts before they fly together, and it seems to be quite effective."

"I have been following the news for the past two days, and I have never seen such a disgusting video."

"Hurry up and finish the treatment, don't cause disasters again."

……

Now the whole network is paying attention to the disaster situation in Shaanxi Province.At this time, everyone has only one hope: no more disasters!

……

"Under control."

While the entire network was paying attention to the disaster situation in Shaanxi Province, a village cadre in the Wangjiazhuang Village Brigade carefully watched the news.

Wangjiazhuang and Wanjia Village are [-] kilometers apart, and now the effectiveness of locust control in Wanjia Village is spreading.Although the locust plague in Wangjiazhuang is large-scale, the village still plans to rent a batch of chickens and ducks to control the locusts to try their luck...

"I went to see it yesterday, and those ducks are very skillful in eating."

The village cadre came to deliver lunch to the research group. Since there was no meal time, he chatted with the idle researchers, but no researcher responded after chatting for a long time.

The village cadres looked at Xiang Qingchuan, who was holding wolfberry water in a daze at this time.

The village cadres were thinking about what they said wrong, and when they saw Xiang Qingchuan, they seemed to be half a beat behind and said: "Duck... It seems that it can't be cured."

Biological control of locusts is generally done before gathering and flying.At the very first moment of the locust disaster in Shaanxi Province, Long Xia thought about implementing biological control of locusts in areas that had not yet formed, but the variability of locusts was unknown, and the national chicken and duck market had not yet recovered... All these combinations, Long Xia did not have an official nature of the decision.

On August [-]rd, after confirming that the locusts were not infected with the virus, Long Xia agreed to conduct small-scale biological locust control.

The purpose of biological locust control is disaster relief.

The purpose of the research team is also disaster relief.

In the past three days, chicken and duck disaster relief operations have started in various regions of Shaanxi Province. While doing research, the research team will also carefully observe the changes in chickens and ducks.

Everyone thought chickens and ducks would have good results in controlling locusts, but an hour ago, the biological analysis team reported that under the same growth environment, trace amounts of precious metals would increase in the bodies of disaster relief chickens and ducks.

The chickens and ducks ate locusts before they flew together. Although the Agriculture Bureau had hope, the chickens and ducks still mutated.

This mutation seems insignificant, but chickens and ducks are an important part of the biological chain.If chickens and ducks mutate and expand, they are not sure about the impact on the biological chain.

"Oh." Xiang Qingchuan sighed.He has already reported the analysis of the two experimental groups to his superiors, as for how to decide... Wait for the results of the superiors.

At this moment, the superior is facing two choices.

1. Continue to remediate chickens and ducks.

The control of chickens and ducks is only effective for locusts before they gather and fly. Now that the number of locusts has increased, the efficiency of chickens and ducks has gradually slowed down.If the rectification continues, the chickens and ducks will face the risk of excessive heavy metals and the destruction of the biological chain...

2. Stop chicken and duck regulation.

The consequences of stopping are obvious: locusts have no natural enemies.

Each of these two items was extremely difficult, and after a serious choice, Long Xia chose the second option.There is another important reason for this decision: from August [-]rd to [-]th, there was a new round of sharp increase in locusts in Shaanxi Province, and the speed of chicken and duck control could not keep up with the gathering of locusts.

After Long Xia made a final decision, he announced the news to the outside world.

In addition to the chicken and duck news this time, Long Xia also issued an important reminder: the whole country needs to do a good job in preventing locust disasters, and the areas close to Shaanxi Province should rush to harvest crops as much as possible.

"Fuck, the locust plague is not under control, why is it still there?"

"Why are you rushing to receive the news again! I'm so flustered watching it."

"Ahhhhhhh, it's not like I'm running out of food again!"

……

The first time they saw Long Xia's news, residents across the country panicked.We all came from the food crisis last year, and now we have rice and noodles, and grass seeds mature in October.Everyone is developing in a good direction. If there is a nationwide locust plague...it can't stand it at all!

"I'm crying, I'm going to the supermarket to stock up on rice."

"Upstairs, I've already arrived at the supermarket."

"Alas, these locusts can't be eaten or fried, it's uncomfortable..."

……

Netizens complained and complained, but they came to the supermarket very skillfully.

After a year of crisis, everyone is already a skilled worker who grabs rice, noodles and vegetables. Now everyone is standing in a long line, but the scene from two years ago is still in my mind.Two years ago, there were sausage, French fries and yogurt slices, but now it is a luxury to buy a piece of pork knuckle.

Longxia is facing a sudden locust plague, and other areas are not calm.

"On August 0.52, a large-scale locust plague broke out in the Central Sea region of Mali. The number of locust plagues was 3000 trillion. [-] million residents were affected by the locust plague and were unable to go out."

"On August [-], a plague of locusts occurred in the central and southern parts of Canberra, and the affected area was [-] square meters..."

"Global Weather: From August [-]th to October [-]th, the world will usher in a large-scale temperature increase."

……

Locust plagues are caused by various factors such as temperature rise, land drought, and locust mutation.

According to the joint survey of Water Blue, 52% of the countries in the world are facing locust plagues, and 37% of the countries are suffering from the continuous impact of Storm Harma.

Mali is the hardest-hit area for locust plagues. The number of locusts has reached an astonishing 0.52 trillion. It is also the largest locust plague in the world in the past 50 years.

Mali is close to the water-blue equator, the terrain is dry and rainless, and the green area of ​​the country has degraded by 87%.If it is said that Longxia has food to make locusts suffer, Mali is a typical example of locusts but no food.

Everyone turned on the Mali video.

Outside the city: Due to the lack of crops, patches of locusts landed on the branches of dead trees. The locusts gnawed on the bark, and there were layers of locust corpses under the trees...

In the city: Locusts have no crops to eat, and they rampage into suburban towns. The sky above the town and the main roads are full of locusts. This is a real doomsday scene.

The locusts in Mali may all starve to death within half a month, but Mali is terrifying now.

In the next week, locust plague news was all over the world.

Netizens in Longxia used to feel distressed about the chicken and duck rectification operation, but later on they didn’t feel distressed at all: Sirte is close to Mali, and because it is close to the equator, the locust plague happened in Sirte no less than that in Longxia.In order to effectively control the locust plague, Sirte imported [-] ducks at high prices from all over the world for locust control before flying in other areas.

These ducks started to work hard, but just after ten days, many ducks appeared to be sluggish and dull, which is a side effect of excessive heavy metals.If it is normal to say that heavy metals exceed the standard, but when a Surte netizen published a video on August [-]th, the whole world was shocked!

Video content: On the outskirts of Sirte, a young man is shooting a video with his mobile phone. The man is a farmer in Sirte. Behind him is a cornfield. A group of locusts are eating corn. In the cornfield are ducks who came to the rescue.

The young man recorded the video seriously, but only halfway through the recording, he found a duck staggering to the ground. He was about to check it when a group of locusts pounced on the duck.Locusts don't eat meat, but they use their sharp teeth to separate ducks...

The young man thought it was an accidental phenomenon, but after turning around, he encountered three incidents of locusts biting ducks.

The locusts were full of oppression, and the young man didn't dare to stay longer, so he hurried back to the house and locked the door, and then uploaded the video on the website.

"Have locusts evolved?"

"God! This is against biological science."

"This is a group of terrifying creatures."

……

Locusts are whole plant insects and do not eat meat.Even if animals are treated as plants in the locust plague, such a tragic targeting will not happen...

Netizens were completely panicked after watching the content of the video.They are afraid of locusts, and they are also worried that the world will really experience cataclysms like some science fiction movies.

As the panic intensified, some Weill biologists gave a professional explanation: the locusts were slow to act and had abnormal thinking due to excessive lead and mercury heavy metals. This mutation caused them to appear unconscious behaviors that violated their habits.

Excessive lead and mercury in humans can cause Alzheimer's disease. In short, some locusts have become crazy locusts due to excessive lead and mercury.

"Fortunately."

Netizens breathed a sigh of relief.It's just that everyone is relieved, the video of locusts biting ducks is too scary, and everyone has once again felt the impact of excessive heavy metals on the ecological circle.

……

"Still unsuccessful."

While netizens were discussing the locust plague, the atmosphere in the biological team in Wanjiazhuang Village was in a downturn.

Fifteen days have passed since the first day, and we still haven't found a way to eliminate the locusts.After half a month of control, the locusts broke through the blockade and began to expand to Shanhehe Province and other places.

The economic loss caused by this locust plague is 200 billion. If the locust plague cannot be controlled, all the hard work of Long Xia this year will be for naught.

"Everyone will have a rest." After the last research failed, he motioned to Qingchuan for the researchers to rest.

They have mainly found a medicinal method to eliminate locusts in the past half month. The locusts can be eliminated with super-strong chemicals such as super sulfuric acid, but when the locusts are eliminated, large areas of crops are also directly killed.It's a lose-lose approach, and the best of both worlds...temporarily not.

"Drink some water." Wang Xiangchuan looked at the experimental data irritably, when Qin Yun came over with a cup of hot water.

"Thank you." Wang Xiangchuan took it.

The two chatted for a while, and Wang Xiangchuan sighed, "I delayed your mission."

According to the plan, Qin Yun had [-] planting experience tasks, but due to the locust disaster, he stayed with the experimental group all the time except for going out for a week in the past half month.

"fine."

Qin Yun smiled. He went to Suzhou to farm and pick vegetables a few days ago. As before, the task bar did not make any progress.He went to other places to experiment... still zero.

In the past few days, while studying the locust plague with the experimental group, he may have some tentative explorations by planting land and vegetables.It's just that the rules of the system are strictly judged, and it doesn't matter where you go until you find the right method.

The two chatted for a while, Qin Yun looked at Xiang Qingchuan's white hair on his temples and said, "We will find a way."

Xiang Qingchuan is 47 years old this year. He was healthy and healthy when he came here. His current gray hair is caused by worrying about half a month ago.

"Oh, now only the experimental group is left..." Xiang Qingchuan drank half a glass of water.

Now there are six groups on the farm, and the biological group is the least visible among them. Although the other groups didn't say anything, the biological group kept holding their breath and wanted to research something that would contribute to Long Xia.

This time the locust plague was targeting the biology group, and everyone in the group was working hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

Wangjiazhuang’s research conditions are limited. Now the team has sent the latest data and analysis to the farm and asked the farm colleagues to help with testing. This is the team’s last data research. If there is no progress, the biology team will enter the bottleneck.

"Rest for a while." Qin Yun didn't care much about people, and Xiang Qingchuan didn't close his eyes all day and night, so he could only tell Xiang Qingchuan to pay more attention to his body.

"Thank you." Xiang Qingchuan could feel Qin Yun's concern.

"To the group leader!" During this chat, a researcher stumbled over.

"What's wrong?" Xiang Qingchuan asked.

"The experimental team has results!"

"What result?" Xiang Qingchuan held his water glass, afraid to listen any longer.

The researcher did not doubt that he was there, and said excitedly: "There has been a breakthrough!"

"What?" Xiang Qingchuan was taken aback.

"There is a breakthrough in locust control, a very important breakthrough!"

Xiang Qingchuan slumped directly on the chair, and he could finally relax after half a month of tension.