Super Dimension Technology Era

March 22nd.

As the Siamese rice blast spreads around the world, every rice-growing country has encountered an unprecedented food crisis.

The world's total grain output is about 2.5 billion tons. For the world's total population of nearly 8 billion, the per capita grain output is about 300 kilograms.

This number seems to be enough to meet the needs of all mankind. In fact, due to irrational production and distribution, there are still 2 billion people in the world who are hungry to varying degrees.

For example, the country of Samba in South America uses a large amount of grain to produce ethanol gasoline. In other countries such as Australia, Maple Leaf Country, and Lucia, which are major animal husbandry countries, it is normal to feed livestock with grain.

In addition, there is also the waste of the United States and the Western Continent Alliance. Their waste of food is unimaginable to many Chinese people.

This rice blast crisis is a catastrophic crisis for traditional rice-growing countries in Asia.

After all, the world's total rice production is about 500 million tons, accounting for about 20% of the world's total grain production.

Moreover, the main producing areas of rice are concentrated in Asia. This time, the G organization can be said to have carried out a precise attack and artificially created the Asian food crisis.

Affected by the rice blast crisis, international food prices have skyrocketed. Among them, rice has risen to 1,973 US dollars per ton, and is rushing towards the 2,000 US dollars mark.

Siam Bangkok.

At this time, Siam was really crying. Since it was the first to publish a paper on rice blast, countries around the world directly named it Siamese rice blast.

Huang Mingzhe had already anticipated this kind of thing, so he stopped the Agricultural Research Institute from publishing the paper first to avoid being stigmatized by people with ulterior motives.

What happened to Siam now, as well as the ugly faces of other Southeast Asian countries demanding compensation from Siam, made the Agricultural Research Institute break out in a cold sweat. It was lucky that it did not publish the paper in a hurry, otherwise the blame would fall from the sky.

Siam, which was taking the blame, is no longer just being blamed. It is also obvious that the rice harvest will fail in large areas.

Suburbs of Bangkok.

Huck, a farmer who owns thousands of acres of rice fields, looked at the browned rice and could only say that he wanted to cry without tears.

I replaced the new fungicide three times, but the effect was just a drop in the bucket.

"Nai Ha Ke, Nanyang, Tianzhu, and even China are now affected by the rice blast. It is estimated that we will not be able to grow rice this year." Another dark, skinny middle-aged man said helplessly.

Huck's heart was bleeding.

Suddenly three off-road vehicles drove over from a distance. Huck and Hei Ganshou took a look at the logo on the vehicles, which showed that they were vehicles from the Mount Mengdu Company.

The off-road vehicle stopped beside the two of them and the windows were lowered.

A local young man wearing sunglasses said to the two of them: "Naihao, we have rice that is very disease-resistant. If you are interested, you can call our company. This is my business card."

Huck hesitated for a moment and accepted the green business card.

These farmers all know what is going on with the rice produced by the Mangdu Mountain Company, but Siam is a country that prohibits the cultivation of genetically modified rice.

But now that the Mangdu Mountain Company dares to blatantly sell genetically modified rice, it seems that Siam's official attitude may have softened, and farmers like them can only wait and see what happens.

The SUV leaves Huck's farm.

"Naihak, what should we do now?"

"Now we can only plant other things." Huck said helplessly.

The thin, black man scratched his head and asked, "But what can we grow in these paddy fields?"

Southeast Asia is located in a tropical rain forest climate, with high temperatures and rain all year round. Although there are dry and wet seasons, the terrain of the paddy fields is very low and it is very easy for water to accumulate.

The stagnant water has no impact on rice, but it is a disaster for wheat, corn, and potatoes that cannot tolerate waterlogging.

Maybe you can consider sweet potatoes, but for large-scale cultivation of sweet potatoes, you can only choose to make sweet potato flour. Moreover, long-term consumption of sweet potatoes will cause edema, sallow complexion, thin skin, and stunted growth.

Huck looked at the situation on the farm and finally made up his mind and said: "Naihu Ge, let's change the farmland. The high-lying land should be planted with potatoes and corn, and the low-lying land should be planted with sweet potatoes!"

"That's all we can do now." Hu Ge nodded helplessly.

There are always more solutions than difficulties. Rice cannot be grown. Some farmers and ranchers in Southeast Asia have begun to think of ways to save themselves and have switched to other food crops.

However, paddy fields are not suitable for other food crops, which is actually a big problem. In addition, the rainy season in Southeast Asia is coming, and the rainy season will have a great impact on crops.

Once heavy rains cause disaster, not to mention potatoes and corn, even rice may be seriously affected.

Those farmers and farmers who have changed their crops are now even more uneasy. Many people are praying to God and praying that there will be no floods in this year's rainy season, otherwise they may not be able to withstand the continuous blows.

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Glass greenhouses have been spread over a large area in Lingnan, Qiongzhou and Guizhou.

Among them, eastern Guangdong has benefited from cheap electricity from the Lianhuashan Nuclear Power Plant, and these agricultural greenhouses have entered the production stage.

Qinglongtou Village in Meicheng District, Shantou.

Hundreds of acres of glass greenhouses have been initially completed, and staff from Huanong Group are teaching agricultural workers to operate the greenhouse equipment.

Most of the agricultural workers in charge of greenhouses are middle-aged people, with a few young people.

Yang Ye, who had just graduated from university, saw the development of his hometown and gave up the idea of ​​going to Pengcheng to work and decided to join a rural cooperative.

"I have taught you three times. Let's try the operation one by one." The technician of Huanong Group said, pointing to a ten-acre greenhouse.

Yang Ye, a college student, was naturally at home. He took notes and learned the relevant greenhouse operation procedures and precautions through the official website of Huanong Group.

Soon he became very skilled in operations, such as combined ultraviolet and ozone sterilization, drip irrigation of different crops, spraying pesticides and fertilizers, how to adjust indoor light intensity, humidity, temperature, and carbon dioxide concentration detection, etc.

Yang Ye, who got started very quickly, was appointed by the cooperative director as the leader of the agricultural technology group, responsible for guiding agricultural workers in technical production.

These greenhouses will be used as planting areas for vegetables and fruits, especially those leafy vegetables. The greenhouses are planted three-dimensionally.

For example, vegetables such as bok choy, cabbage, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and spinach are generally planted at about five levels.

Climbing cucumbers, loofahs, pumpkins, winter melons, bitter melons, gourds, watermelons, cantaloupes, and cantaloupes are generally planted in two to three layers.

By making full use of soilless cultivation and fluorescent lamp supplementary light, indoor three-dimensional planting can be realized to maximize the planting density in the limited space.

Of course, various rural cooperatives in Lingnan also obtained special planting lists.

Since glass greenhouses can artificially create a tropical environment, some fruits that can only be grown in the tropics will be grown domestically.

The special planting received by Qinglongtou Village is durian. Hundreds of durian saplings purchased from Qiongzhou have now been cultivated in the greenhouse.

For those fruits and vegetables that could not be grown domestically before, Huanong Group plans to complete the localization of these fruits and vegetables through the promotion of greenhouse agriculture.

Firstly, this can enrich people's food, and secondly, these foreign fruits have good economic benefits.

On the other hand, Huanong Group’s national cold chain logistics system is also under construction.

Perfect cold chain logistics can effectively reduce food losses during transportation and further curb food waste.

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