The so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first.

As soon as the pig farm entered the planning and construction stage, forage planting was already spreading.

The mountainous area of Pucheng County is nearly 4.4 million mu, of which about 1 million mu is suitable for planting pasture. Among them, Guanting Township occupies more than half, about 600,000 mu.

The mountainous area is not suitable for planting rice, and most of the people plant some agricultural and sideline products such as sweet potatoes and vegetables, and a small amount of fruit trees.

Of course, most of the remote mountainous and barren areas are unexplored.

The common people had never planted pasture, and they must have been suspicious of it for the first time. At this time, it reflects the prestige of Zhao Shugen, the township secretary, and Guiming, the township mayor, in Guanting Township.

Under their personal guidance, the professional farmer cooperative in Guanting Township was established as quickly as possible, and then prepared for the planting of nearly 100,000 mu of mountainous land before planting.

Professional farmer cooperatives are an independent and mutualistic economic organization and an important part of the development of the rural economy.

The focus of mutual aid is mainly reflected in the function of "unification".

Through the implementation of unified varieties, unified planting, unified fertilization, unified sales and unified management of members, the benefits of farmers joining the cooperative have been increased while reducing production costs and risks, changing the situation of poor information and fighting alone in the past, and improving the farmers' ability to resist market risks.

Specific to forage planting, Jiagu is responsible for providing seeds and seedlings of broad-leaved forage varieties such as chicory, string-leaved rosin, Russian forage vegetables, and bitter grass, and providing technical guidance, distributing fertilizers and other agricultural materials to cooperatives, and providing chicken seedlings for planting, breeding and biological control, and finally formulating unified forage quality standards and recycling all forage.

In other words, the farmers of the cooperative only need to carefully care for the grass in the field and concentrate on production.

All the difficult problems encountered in production and operation are connected and provided by relevant technical personnel of Jiagu.

For farmers, although the entire production chain is tied to Jiagu, the risk is mainly reflected in Jiagu's business conditions. But as long as Jiagu develops well, the risk they take is naturally very low.

For Jiagu, although it took most of the risks, the investment was huge.

However, in this way, the entire industrial chain can be controlled in one fell swoop, and the all-round investment and service development of all links in the industrial chain can be realized, and the cooperation between the industrial chain can be enhanced, and the goal of integrated upstream and downstream operation can be achieved.

This is a win-win relationship of cooperation, and it is also one of the fundamental ways for Jiagu to become bigger and stronger.

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Grass and pig farming must choose a suitable forage breed, and it is necessary to determine the way of pasture pig raising in combination with the season.

In summer and autumn, the main way to grow grass and raise pigs is to feed fresh grass directly, and in winter and spring, high-quality grass powder or pulp silage is used as mixed feed ingredients.

The nutritional composition of forage is relatively comprehensive, calculated according to dry matter, the crude protein content is higher, generally more than 12%, the highest can reach 30%, and the amino acid types are complete, the utilization rate is high, which can make up for the shortcomings of the incomplete types of grain feed protein and amino acids, and also contains relatively rich vitamins and inorganic salts, and the crude fiber content is low, easy to digest and palatability.

Of course, the most important thing is the high yield per unit area of land and the low production cost.

Pigs are monogastric animals and have a low capacity for crude fiber.

Therefore, it is suitable to choose broad-leaved forage grass varieties such as chicory, string-leaved rosin vanilla, Russian forage cabbage, and bitter horseweed—the first three are perennial forage grasses, and the utilization period of fresh grass is from March to November. Bitter grass is an annual forage grass, and the utilization period of fresh grass is from March to August.

In order to make up for the lack of green fodder in winter, it is also necessary to make rational use of agricultural and sideline products, which can be matched with sweet potatoes, carrots, and vegetables planted by farmers.

In order to make better use of resources more efficiently, the technicians of Jiagu Laboratory designed a planting model of intercropping perennial grass and green vegetables, and rotation of bitter weeds and sweet potatoes, and guided farmers to plant them hand in hand.

After the official operation, the value of Jiagu Laboratory was immediately reflected.

Although many of the young researchers do not have practical experience, they do have a wealth of theoretical knowledge. Under the guidance of Chen Jianzhang, he can also carry out his work in an orderly manner.

In the early stage, mainly on the basis of the information provided by the county agricultural bureau, further tests were carried out on the soil, water source, climate, and hydrothermal conditions in the northern part of Pucheng County, and the specific varieties of forage grass introduction were determined.

In the later stage, in accordance with the concept of ecological planting and breeding, many circular agriculture models were designed.

Although the specific effect needs to be verified, the enhancement of technical strength has undoubtedly liberated Qi Zheng's energy - in the future, he only needs to arrange the spirit array in a targeted manner, and there is no need to smash out several spirit arrays one by one without saying a word, which is time-consuming and laborious.

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The spring breeze and the south bank of the green river, weaving flowers for clothes, and embellishing leaves for clothes.

As farmers sow the seeds of pasture, the barren slopes gradually turn green.

Spring is the season of sowing dreams, and farmers with pious faith, hard work and sweat, dream of harvesting surprises, harvesting success, and harvesting fruits in the new year.

But God's face changes when he says it. You have worked hard, but it may not guarantee that the wind and rain will be smooth.

This year's weather has been a bit less favourable.

Du Weimin, who is responsible for docking with the county's cooperatives, reported to Qi Zheng with a heavy face that it is estimated that there will be a "spring drought" this year.

"Spring drought?" Qi Zheng was surprised.

"Yes, since February, the rainfall in this part of our county has been significantly scarce, and the number of consecutive days without rain has reached 25 days. Du Weimin's face was ugly.

Qi Zheng touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Du Weimin continued: "I am not too worried about the planting in the southern part of Pucheng County, because there is a reservoir and Nanpuxi to replenish. But the situation in the north, including our pasture plantation base, is not very good. Guanting Township was originally a few small river ditches, the water volume is unstable, and the size depends on the sky, no matter whether there is a drought or flood, it is not a strange thing. ”

"The reservoir we are building now is far away from quenching our thirst, and as for drilling wells, if the disaster is too severe, it will be a drop in the bucket. ”

Du Weimin is worried, and this is not only a problem of drought.

Think about it, if the company is unfavorable in the first year of cooperation with the county, no matter what the reason, it will cast a shadow on the subsequent cooperation.

The common people want to see the tangible benefits, and if they do not achieve good results, they are just empty words, and it is no less difficult to persuade them to cooperate.

Qi Zheng thought for a moment and said to Du Weimin: "Lao Du, you continue to pay attention to the disaster situation, and the reservoir that is being built now should not be stopped, as the global climate continues to warm, drought may be the norm, and we need to have a certain water conservancy project guarantee." ”

"As for the current disaster situation, let's look at the situation first, if there is no improvement, then whether you need to dig deep wells to buy pumping equipment or to replant crops, you also have to make a plan, and we will make preparations with both hands. ”

"There is no endless road, don't worry, it's a big deal that this year's harvest is a little bit close, and I think the county will understand our difficulties." ”

Du Weimin nodded silently, he could only do this for now, hoping that the situation would not develop in the worst direction.

Looking at the back of Du Weimin leaving, Qi Zheng couldn't help but sigh.

This verifies the old saying: it is not easy to make money in agriculture, but it is easy to lose money.

There may be a major snowstorm, and the crops and fruit trees will freeze to death overnight;

There may be an avian flu, and tens of thousands of poultry and livestock will be slaughtered;

It may be that a mud and stone flow floods the gold mountain, and the leisure farm will be completely ruined......

Natural disasters of all kinds remain the greatest natural enemies of agriculture.

Many times, weather forecasts are not useful at all, especially in mountainous areas, where the climate can change quickly and it is difficult to prevent it.

Even if we use modern agricultural production technology and use greenhouses and drainage and irrigation facilities to prevent natural disasters, the gains still outweigh the losses, and nine years of hard work in ten years are in vain.

Do your best and prepare for the worst before investing. It's about agriculture.

For example, at the moment, even if Jiagu invests hundreds of millions?

A spring drought will cause crops to not be sown in time, and the planted crops are also small plants, fragile roots, small leaf area, slow nutrient absorption, and the biological yield is greatly reduced, which directly affects the economic output;

If it is heavy, the particles will not be harvested.

In investing in agriculture, we must consider such factors as the sky, the land, and the market, and if we are not careful, we may lose all our achievements and annihilate the entire army.

Fortunately, Qi Zheng is not an ordinary person, and his risks in agriculture can sometimes be controlled.

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Sanshi Bay, Min Province, this is the shortest seaside in Pucheng County.

"Five Dou Cloud Rain Array (Second Order) trigger, main water system, range: 100 kilometers in radius. Effect: Gather clouds and dissolve rain. It can make the water airflow and turn wind and clouds into rain. Term: five years. ”

Unlike the second-order "Five Bucket Cloud and Rain Array" arranged by Qi Zheng in the old American California, the Spirit Array in California directly plunders the surrounding water vapor to moisten the array - the Spirit Array itself does not produce water vapor, it can only transfer water vapor through some mysterious principle.

But at home, Qi Zheng will not operate like this.

After all, to divert water vapor elsewhere means to simply divert the drought. They are all of the same clan and clan, and it would be too much to do so.

Therefore, Qi Zheng chose to transfer water vapor and rain from the sea, but in this way, the distance was not enough.

In the end, he could only choose Sanshiwan, which had the shortest straight-line distance in Pucheng County, although it still exceeded the maximum range (100 kilometers) covered by the second-order spirit array, but Qi Zheng could also achieve the effect of "turning sea water into rain" by arranging a two-way spirit array "Solitaire".

Of course, the efficiency is definitely not as good as a third-order spirit array, but Qi Zheng's current cultivation is insufficient, and he can't arrange a spirit array above the third order, so he can only make do with a short-term one, and then improve it after the cultivation is improved.

Under Qi Zheng's divine sense, the water vapor was continuously extracted from the sea by the spirit array, forming an invisible "water column", which was transported towards the spirit array in the direction of Pucheng County, and slowly turned into clouds, and then it rained heavily.

Qi Zheng retracted his senses, soothed his muscles and bones, and blurted out a familiar sentence: "I don't produce water, I'm just a porter of nature......"

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