Chapter 271: The Great Harvest (I)
By the time the fourth and fifth 10,000-head pastures were built in Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, it had entered the second half of September.
Golden autumn, harvest season.
With the strong support of sufficient funds, whether it is a 10,000-head ranch or a million-level pig breeding base, it has made rapid progress under the vigorous construction of a large number of workers and machinery.
The newly built 10,000-head ranch is accepting Holstein cows from the other three ranches in batches, and after a short period of environmental adaptation and breeding, raw milk can be produced.
As for the million-level pig breeding base, it has entered the stage of "retreat".
Since September, the outbreak of swine fever in many places has become more and more obvious, and pork prices have crossed the W-shaped bottom and begun to enter the rising range.
At the same time, the swine fever epidemic has led to a large number of free-range farmers withdrawing from the market, and the inventory of pigs and fertile sows has begun to enter a continuous downward channel.
The pig farm had previously filled nearly 800,000 piglets and 80,000 fertile sows at a low cost, and could calmly face the swine fever epidemic in the outside world.
Everyone who enters the breeding area must be "fully armed", wear isolation clothing, wear shoe covers, and undergo ultraviolet disinfection; the farm's water supply, feed, and temperature control are all strictly standardized, providing the best environment for pig growth.
There must be fluctuations in the aquaculture industry. With the family as a unit, the backyard is used as a pig house, and the swill is used as pig food, and it is difficult for retail investors to resist this risk during the Spring Festival, but large-scale breeding enterprises have a relative overall advantage because of technical support.
Even if the price of pigs falls sharply, as long as large enterprises or large-scale fields ensure that their capital chains are not broken, after surviving the price trough, they will usher in the peak and reap huge profits to make up for the losses of the previous wave and achieve a virtuous circle.
The pig farms of Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, which expanded aggressively at the time of the price trough, are now welcoming the arrival of the peak.
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If Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry are still waiting for a bumper harvest, Jiagu agriculture and Jiagu grain and oil are enjoying a bumper harvest.
In the Taihu Lake area of Ontario, a farm presents a quiet and fruitful state, with golden rice as far as the eye can see, the breeze blows, the fragrance of rice blows, the occasional shuttle of vehicles, and the sparse pedestrians on the shore.
Zhou Weisong, the farm director, sat leisurely in the house, watching the TV, a little careless. The water in the teacups in front of him was still a little hot, and Zhou Weisong had not yet recovered - from morning to noon, a group of uninvited guests came to the door and asked to sign an acquisition agreement with him in advance.
The person who came was a vice president of the Jiagu Grain and Oil Provincial Branch, and the conditions offered by the other party made Zhou Weisong excited, they all wanted this year's rice, at the same price, after harvesting, there was no need for farmers to dry rice, and the rice with higher water content was directly handed over to them.
Instead of drying rice, farmers do not need to dry rice, which actually saves labor wages, and now that the labor cost is rising, drying rice is still a waste of time. Zhou Weisong was moved.
At the same time, almost all the rice growers within a radius of dozens of miles received invitations from Jiagu Grain and Oil. In the middle of the year, the Taihu Lake rice processing base built by Jiagu Grain and Oil was put into operation quickly, and this processing base with an annual output of 300,000 tons needs to purchase more than 500,000 tons of rice, which can almost cover the districts and counties around Taihu Lake.
That night, Zhou Weisong, who was still a little excited, lay on the bed watching TV. There is a beautiful advertisement on TV, "Happy, affectionate, Jiagu rice's big family", thinking of the daytime encounter, Zhou Weisong feels that Jiagu grain and oil are very close.
There are not a few people who feel as friendly as Zhou Weisong, and they are quietly influenced and changed unconsciously. In a number of rice-producing areas in the south, Jiagu grain and oil quickly seized the local rice market by means of "opening the scale early and bidding high".
Since entering the rice industry, Jiagu Grain and Oil has undoubtedly created an amazing miracle.
On the one hand, the "Jiagu Rice" brand has become famous in the south of the Yangtze River, and its market share has been rising; on the other hand, under its rapid layout, it has created a rice industry chain integrating rice planting and acquisition, storage and transportation, processing and sales, and the rapid rise has been vividly and vividly manifested.
This area is not without risk.
Most grain merchants do not have their own arable land, and they rely on the form of contract agriculture to turn a large number of rice fields into their own exclusive raw grain planting bases. Because whoever has a fixed farmer to provide a stable supply will seize the opportunity.
But in fact, the implementation rate of contract farming is less than 20. On the one hand, farmers may give up halfway through planting or sell to higher-priced grain traders during the harvest season, and on the other hand, some grain producers will be reluctant to honour the agreed prices at the beginning of the year during the harvest season.
Jiagu Grains and Oils in Ontario adopts the method of contract farming, because Jiagu agriculture has not yet fully expanded in Ontario. In Jiangyou Province, which has been developed by Jiagu Group for two years, it is a different situation.
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Poyang Lake Plain.
In the paddy field, hung with heavy ears of rice, wafting bursts of rice fragrance, harvesters use harvesters to harvest mature rice, harvesters turn around the field, and the chassis is full of rice ears.
Seeing that more than 3,000 acres of rice were finally harvested, Dong Qijun, president of the rice planting cooperative, breathed a sigh of relief: "This summer has a lot of rain, the temperature is not high, and the rice filling is full, which can be said to be a bumper harvest!"
The 3,000 acres of rice field is planted with the Jiagu laboratory to cultivate the "Jiaindica No. 1" rice variety, the variety of large grains, dense grains, due to this year's weather is suitable, the wind and rain are smooth, coupled with the meticulous scientific guidance and management of Jiagu agricultural materials company, rice harvest, is expected to yield about 1400 catties per mu, an increase over the same period last year.
In Jiangyou Province, in addition to Jiagu Agriculture's own rice planting demonstration base, Jiagu Grain and Oil and Jiagu Agricultural Materials adopt the model of "company + cooperative + order".
Driven by Jiagu Grain and Oil, the local government has actively carried out agricultural production cooperatives, encouraged villages to contract land, encouraged individual households to join large-scale planting, promoted large-scale high-quality rice planting, expanded the coverage rate of high-quality rice, and at the same time reduced the planting risk of farmers, and guaranteed or even increased farmers' income.
At the same time, it actively carried out agricultural science and technology lecture hall activities to help improve the quality of cooperative members, and at the same time promoted the development and planting of "Jiaindica No. 1" high-quality rice, which led to the improvement of the overall rice output quality in Jiangyou Province.
Dong Qijun organized the establishment of a rice planting cooperative by a large local grain grower and served as its president.
All cooperatives are directly connected with Jiagu Grain and Oil, and guarantee the acquisition of "Jiaindica No. 1" in the form of an agreement, and encourage the expansion of the planting scale of "Jiaindica No. 1" high-quality rice.
As the vanguard of the rice industry in the province, the Poyang Lake Plain has developed hundreds of professional agricultural cooperatives.
"The momentum of development in the past two years has been very good, and every cooperative is making money. Dong Qijun calculated a few accounts - high-quality rice + high-standard farmland + circular comprehensive planting and breeding, the yield of rice per mu can increase by 100 catties to 200 catties, and due to the increase in the degree of mechanization brought about by large-scale planting, it is about 80 less labor than in the past.
This year's income per mu of rice is about 1,500 yuan, and the profit can reach about 700 yuan, "which was unimaginable in the past." "If you add the integrated planting and breeding of rice and fishery, the profit per mu can exceed 3,500 yuan," and farming has really become a money-making industry. ”
Of course, Dong Qijun clearly knows that there can be such benefits because Jiagu Agricultural Materials, Jiagu Grain and Oil and cooperatives have established a long-term benefit-sharing mechanism, the production capacity of cooperatives can be brought into play, and order production can be implemented as scheduled.
What he didn't know was that Jiagu Grain and Oil had also obtained a stable exclusive grain production base.
The survey of Jiagu Grain and Oil shows that the market demand for high-quality rice is large, and the efficiency is high, and the development potential is huge.
However, the planting area of high-quality rice in Jiangyou Province was only about 3 to 4 million mu, accounting for less than 10 percent. At the same time, there are dozens of high-quality rice varieties planted in the province, and the level of scale is lacking, and it is difficult to achieve "high quality and high price", and the ability to increase income with farmers is not strong.
Until Jiagu Agricultural Resources came with "Jiaindica No. 1" to carry out large-scale cooperation.
Although it is not as good as the quality of "Xianming Rice", "Jia Indica No. 1", which has been bred by Lingjin, has reached the standard of high-quality rice in the market in terms of quality and yield.
"Jia Indica No. 1" is Indica rice.
Southern rice is mostly indica, with low viscosity and poor transparency. After cooking, it is generally separated, and the taste of eating it is not as glutinous as the northeast japonica rice, but relatively crispy, so generally speaking, the taste of southern rice is not as good as that of northeast japonica rice.
This is mainly due to the small temperature difference between day and night in the south, and the relatively short growth cycle of rice. It is said that slow work produces fine work, but in fact, it is the same when it comes to plant growth. Most of the nutrient accumulation of crops comes from time, and the longer the time, the easier it is to accumulate more nutrients. As soon as there is more nutrition, the flavor will naturally come up.
However, the quality of "Jia Indica No. 1" is superior, which not only takes care of the taste of southerners, but also makes up for the shortcomings of indica rice's lack of flavor, and the taste is excellent, the key is that the price is not too high, so it is extremely popular in the southern market.
Jiagu Grain and Oil's "Jia Indica No. 1" is currently mainly in the southern market - if it is to be promoted to the northern market, it is difficult for indica rice in the southern region to take advantage of the local consumers' preference for the taste of japonica rice.
Since last year, Jiagu Grain and Oil has invested special funds to carry out the brand promotion of "Jiagu Rice", with the theme of "Delicious Indica Rice in Jiagu", which has set off a wave of "Jiagu Rice" brand promotion in the main sales area in the south, so that "newspapers have words, radio has sound, TV has films, road cards have cards, and the Internet is famous".
Today, "Jiagu Rice" has become a well-known rice brand in the south, and "Jiagu No. 1" is also widely welcomed by consumers.
Of course, in addition to the much-hyped "Jia Indica No. 1", Jia Gu Grain and Oil has also purchased many other varieties of rice in the south to meet the needs of consumers for different tastes and prices.
The high-end is "Xianming Rice", the middle end is "Jia Indica No. 1", and the low-end has ordinary rice, and the rice product line of Jiagu Grain and Oil covers the entire market.
From the beginning of the establishment of the "Xianming Rice" brand, Jiagu has carried out anti-counterfeiting actions. After the establishment of Jiagu Grain and Oil, it also inherited this "fine tradition" and invested considerable energy to crack down on counterfeiting, which also led to the fact that there were no fake and shoddy products of "Jiagu Rice" on the market, which is undoubtedly another good recipe for the rise of the "Jiagu Rice" brand.
After this autumn's bumper harvest, including Xianming rice, Jiagu Grain and Oil's rice storage scale is expected to reach 7 million tons, plus 4.5 million tons of annual rice processing capacity, Jiagu Grain and Oil is in fact the largest rice production enterprise in China.
In the second year of launching the staple food strategy, the group focused on the development of the rice industry among the three major staple foods, and finally achieved a certain leading edge.
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