Actually, we are willing to act as Jiagu's 'guinea pigs', but why are we in the desert?" Peng Fengfeng, a researcher at the Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, pinched his eyebrows and looked melancholy.

Zheng Quan, the former director of the Grain and Oil Division of the Planting Industry Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, and a distinguished expert of the Jiagu Grain and Oil Wheat Department, who has been dealing with wheat for half his life, said with a smile: "Okay, Lao Peng, don't be sad, when do you think I have cheated you?"

The two were in the car on the way to the Jiagu Desert Development Camp, looking at the desolate Gobi outside the car, Peng Fengtian did not feel comforted at all.

"By the way, Lao Zheng, Jiagu has never carried out wheat planting and related business before, why did you agree to join Jiagu?" Peng Fengtian suddenly remembered this stubble and turned his head and asked.

Zheng Quan did not answer directly, but sighed: "As a wheat person, I just hope that this land will produce first-class wheat, first-class flour, and first-class food. Are you used to the fact that we are a big wheat producer, but not a strong producer?"

"Hmph, if I'm used to it, why should I engage in research on high-quality wheat varieties?" said Peng Fengtian angrily.

"Yes, although our country has bumper wheat harvests year after year, it is an indisputable fact that there is a shortage of high-quality wheat. Compared with the yield results, the quality of wheat in China is lagging behind, and there is an unbalanced and insufficient contradiction with people's demand. Zheng Quan also said a little melancholy.

The south eats rice, and the north eats noodles. Wheat should be the most important food ration for the people of northern China, and it is extremely important for our food security.

Of course, our country can be self-sufficient in ordinary wheat, but high-quality wheat......

"China's demand for high-quality wheat is about 4.5 million tons to 6.5 million tons, but according to China's current level, the production capacity is only 2 million tons to 4 million tons, and the supply gap is still quite large, so many times have to rely on imports. Zheng Quan, a former government official, has detailed data at his fingertips.

What is high-quality wheat?

At present, the main indicators of wheat quality evaluation accepted by people in various industries are the capacity of grain protein, the content and quality of wet gluten, which can be divided into three types: strong gluten, medium gluten and weak gluten.

Strong gluten wheat has high gluten strength and long dough stability time, which is suitable for making bread and noodles; medium gluten wheat gluten has moderate strength and good ductility, which is suitable for making noodles and steamed bread; weak gluten wheat has low protein content and short dough stability time, so it is suitable for making biscuits, pastries and other crispy foods.

The problem of China's wheat industry is that the number of high-yield wheat varieties is too large, while the number of high-quality and strong-gluten wheat varieties is insufficient, and there are even fewer high-quality weak-gluten wheat varieties.

In a word, it is "what should be strong is not strong enough, and what should be weak is not weak enough".

It was not until the mid-80s that after several years of bumper harvests and surplus grain, the state officially included the wheat quality breeding project in the subject, resulting in a small number of high-quality varieties. Zheng Quan said.

"!" Peng Fengtian didn't raise his eyelids: "I admit that the breeding work started late, but over the years, there have been a lot of high-quality wheat varieties cultivated. ”

"But what's the use of just having varieties? Take the once famous '8901' high-quality wheat variety, which was the best in the country, but it only took four years from its brilliant start to the price falling to the level of ordinary wheat. ”

Anyone who works in agriculture knows that good varieties don't necessarily produce good products!

A good variety cannot achieve its excellent traits without a suitable planting environment and a set of cultivation and management techniques that are suitable for it.

"In the wheat growing powerhouse, most of the high-quality wheat is planted on large farms, which are standardized and mechanized. People pay attention to precise fertilization, accurate to what elements are missing per square meter. As for us, the peasants are scattered and planted in blocks, planting as they want on their own one-third of an acre of land, applying their own fertilizers and varieties of each other, and naturally getting worse from generation to generation!"

"Therefore, the cultivation management is not standardized, and no matter how good the variety is, it is nonsense!" Peng Fengtian said rather depressedly.

Zheng Quan was not angry when he was refuted, but smiled and said: "It seems that it is very touching, what else?"

Of course, Peng Fengtian was unceremoniously criticized: "There is also the irrational domestic wheat production, supply and marketing system - agricultural families grow wheat, are purchased by intermediaries, and then are purchased by reserve systems or processing enterprises. ”

"Because of the long-term market purchase, the price gap between high-quality wheat and ordinary wheat varieties cannot be widened, and the yield of high-quality wheat is generally low and unstable, and there may be unexpected risks and cannot be sold. In this way, farmers do not dare to plant easily. ”

Zheng Quan nodded in agreement, and then replied seriously: "Then what about the 'Xinmai 26' wheat variety you cultivated?"

"Xinmai 26" is a high-quality and strong gluten wheat variety cultivated by the Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, where Peng Fengtian is located, and its quality index exceeds the US wheat DNS, close to "Jiaxi Hongchun No. 2" and Hong Kong Island Golden Statue Powder, and should be able to pass the national examination this year.

As Peng Fengtian said, there are hundreds of so-called high-quality wheat varieties in the country, but very few have really formed industrialization. The breeding unit has invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and after years of painstaking efforts, it is not easy to cultivate a new variety, and once it is approved, no one cares.

The breeding units boasted about their own goodness, and the farmers were also dazzled. As a result, there are varieties of which varieties, but none of them can be developed, and even "8901", a variety that ranks first in the national strong gluten wheat competition, finally collapsed.

"What to do? Promote the connection of production and marketing, order acquisition, and realize one village, one product, one township, one product, and even one county and one product to establish a high-quality wheat production base. Peng Fengtian even said in a somewhat admiring tone: "The key is, looking at domestic agricultural enterprises, who can do this, who is Shejiagu?"

Zheng Quan smiled and returned to the first question asked: "Coincidentally, I think so too." So as soon as I received the invitation from Kaya, I joined Kagu. ”

If we want to say that there are many things that can be done in domestic agricultural enterprises to popularize the planting of high-quality wheat on a large farm, but among thousands of small farmers, to realize the centralized planting of circulating land, to promote special supporting production technology, and to achieve unified varieties, unified cultivation measures, and unified collection and storage, Jiagu said second, and no one dared to say first!

Just look at the cultivation of rice by Jiagu -- do you really think that the phenomenon of "high quality but not good price" only appears in wheat? If you think too much, the same is true of rice, and even in the grain industry.

However, only Jiagu has realized the industrialization of several high-quality rice varieties through intensive production and management, and then established its position as the king of the rice industry - the reason why the industry "presented its knees" when Jiagu's rice market share did not occupy an absolute advantage is mainly based on Jiagu's strong organizational strength in the upstream planting of rice. Otherwise, everyone is really blind!

Therefore, as soon as I heard that Jiagu was interested in entering the wheat planting industry, the "Xinmai 26" variety of course had to hold the thickest thighs!

Jiagu also agreed to promote the "Xinmai 26" variety. But...... What the hell is farming in the desert?

In Peng Toyota's impression, the desert is synonymous with the wind, the yellow sand, and the lack of grass. Of course, he had also heard that Jiagu was going to develop the desert, but was that an overnight effort?

And Zheng Quan looked like he was going crazy with his old friend, hehe-I just smiled, but I didn't explain.

Oh yes, I'm so angry!

Until a touch of green appeared in Zheng Quan's eyes, and he smiled: "We're almost there!"

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