In Shouguang City at the beginning of May, the sun was dazzling.

Shouguang City, with a vegetable sowing area of more than 800,000 mu and an annual output of 4 billion kilograms of vegetables, is known as "China's largest vegetable garden".

If you look down from the sky, you can see rows of vegetable greenhouses densely distributed, which is spectacular.

"Vegetables are grown here, and one variety is grown in one town. Du Weimin of Jiagu Agricultural Resources, with Qi Zheng's expression of visiting the vegetable field, is like a farmer.

Of course, to a certain extent, the vegetable greenhouse that the two are visiting can also be regarded as the "territory" of Jiagu agricultural materials - this is the main base for Jiagu to promote domestic vegetable seeds, and it is also one of the main bases for vegetable procurement in the Jiagu agricultural product supply chain.

"How is the acceptance of the domestic vegetable seeds we promote now by vegetable farmers?" Qi Zheng asked.

"The acceptance is quite high now. ”

"When I first started promoting it, it didn't go well. Du Weimin pointed to the eggplant in the field and said: "In the past, this vegetable greenhouse was planted with 'Brita' eggplant of the Dutch Rickswang Company, because the domestic varieties that could be selected in the past did not like fruit setting in winter, and the yield was low, and the yield per mu was about 1,000 catties lower than that of imported varieties......

The domestic vegetable and flower seed market was the first to open, which created the construction and prosperity of world-class vegetable production bases such as Shouguang and Qiong Province, and also caused the great enrichment and quality improvement of the national vegetable basket.

It is a good thing that high-quality seeds bring benefits to farmers, however, with the continuous expansion of market share, the impact of foreign capital on China's seed industry has also begun to appear.

"Shouguang alone has more than 30 seed companies in Switzerland, Israel and other countries. According to the latest statistics, 80% of the vegetable varieties in Shouguang City are surnamed 'Yang', and only 20% of vegetable farmers choose to plant domestic seeds. "The soldiers and horses have not moved, and intelligence first is the tradition of Jiagu, and Du Weimin has long been aware of the competitors he is going to face.

When Jiagu agricultural materials entered Shouguang, they were faced with such a situation: seed enterprises like to sell foreign seeds as agents, while domestic seeds are not welcomed by vegetable farmers; at the same time, the purchase of vegetables in the market is mainly based on foreign varieties, which induces some farmers to have to switch to foreign varieties......

-- After controlling more than 50% of the market share of vegetable seeds in China, foreign capital has greatly increased the price of seeds, and even the sky-high price of "1 gram of seeds and 1 gram of gold" has appeared. Taking bell peppers as an example, the cost of producing 1 seed by foreign seed companies is only about 1 cent, but it costs 1 yuan in the domestic market, which is more expensive than gold.

But even so, vegetable farmers who value yield still do not want to see domestic seeds.

After all, the seeds of domestic vegetables are very cheap, and the cost of seeds per mu of land may only be a few hundred yuan, but the output value is only an average of 6,000 yuan; and the cost of buying imported seeds per mu is 4,000 yuan, which is much more expensive, but the output value can reach more than 20,000 yuan.

"So when we select high-quality local seeds, yield is the first factor to consider. Even so, most of the carefully selected domestic vegetable varieties are inferior to imported seeds of the same category. Du Weimin also said a little helplessly.

Qi Zheng nodded slightly, he knew this situation.

The cultivation of a vegetable variety requires the selection of materials from all over the world, and the selection of its offspring through continuous crossbreeding, in addition to a lot of preparation and research, also needs to be tested in different regions for many years, after which it can be popularized on a large scale. Countless experiments, screening, and other experiments do not require huge financial support.

At first glance, the annual funding is not small, but after removing labor expenditures, it is difficult to see when it comes to a specific variety.

The investment in such a pick-and-search is compared with the large-scale self-funded research and development of foreign seed companies...... You can't expect the "millet plus rifle" to defeat the "plane plus artillery" every time, right?

Of course, this is not to say that there are no good things in domestic varieties. Some vegetable seeds in China are more than foreign in quality, such as tomatoes and long cucumbers, and even some foreign seeds on the market are also cross-improved on the basis of some traditional seeds in China. But, on the whole, it is backward.

"However, after joining our integration, the shortcomings of domestic seeds have been greatly strengthened, and the benefits of planting the domestic varieties we promote are not lower than those of planting foreign varieties, and more and more vegetable farmers have accepted the domestic varieties we promote from the bottom of their hearts. Du Weimin chuckled.

As far as farmers are concerned, they rarely think about the country from which the seeds are from, only about increasing production and income. Only by benefiting farmers can new varieties have room to survive.

The promotion of new varieties by Jiagu has never been stupidly shouting "sell our seeds", but hand and foot, and a whole industrial chain of "R&D-breeding-promotion-production-sales-service" has been smashed over, which simply makes the opponent desperate.

For example, in the promotion of domestic vegetable varieties in Shouguang, Jiagu agricultural materials have screened out excellent varieties from scientific research institutions, vegetable farmers only need to focus on planting, and the vegetables produced are underwritten by the Jiagu agricultural product supply chain, and they do not worry about selling, and sell better, vegetable farmers will continue to choose domestic seeds.

The average seed company will not consider such a complex matter, nor will it have the ability to build such a complete industrial chain. Therefore, even if it is better than the seeds promoted by Jiagu in a certain trait, the advantage is relatively single, and the overall competitiveness is still inferior to that of Jiagu.

Of course, if you compare the risk, this style of play is also several times higher than that of ordinary seed companies.

Very simply, if we can't guarantee the best-selling of one variety, Jiagu will lose the entire industrial chain, and if we choose the wrong varieties, it will delay the efforts of Jiagu's agricultural product supply chain for a year.

Only an open-minded person like Qi Zheng dares to stride forward.

During the conversation, the two came to Jiagu's seedling base in Shouguang.

In the past, every household bought seeds, but now all of them buy seedlings. Seed companies have also established seedling bases in Shouguang, which is not only convenient for vegetable farmers, but also transfers the risk of their own seedlings.

For Qi Zheng, it is even more convenient for him to build the unique advantages of Jiagu.

"Green Bamboo Hundred Soul Array (Fourth Order) trigger, main wood system, range: twenty kilometers in radius. Effect: Moisturizes, grows. The creature is in the array, as if it was newborn, raising purple flowers, and growing vigorously. ”

Du Weimin, who was unconscious, was simply confused and confident: "We are still quite skilled in seedling technology, almost 100% germination rate, and the seedlings are also cultivated better......

Qi Zheng smiled calmly.

That's for sure, don't look at it, maybe it's just a few percentage points of improvement, but on the whole, not to mention the qualitative change, but the next grade is visible to the naked eye.

The most important thing is that over time, the varieties will only get better and better.

Qi Zheng looked at the vegetable seedlings that were continuously cultivated in the seedling base, and were sent to more and more vegetable planting greenhouses, and secretly thought - this is the first answer sheet that Jiagu handed over to Wen Lao and all parties!

The so-called "those who have attained the Tao will be more helpful"!

What is "Tao"? In Qi Zheng's view, it is value.

In order to get the support of more scientific research institutions and high-level national leaders to implement the joint research plan for agricultural research, Jiagu must show that he is worthy of leading the plan.

The promotion of domestic vegetable varieties as the first answer sheet is because the growth cycle of vegetables is the shortest - as short as two or three weeks, as long as one or two months, and the vegetables can be harvested in one round. Whether the effect is good or not, whether the variety works or not, it is clear at a glance.

Qi Zheng is confident that one year is enough to make a huge change in the vegetable seed pattern of Shouguang.

The "Shouguang Vegetable Index" released last year not only affects the price trend of vegetables across the country, but also affects the output of Kimchi in South Korea.

Shouguang has changed, will it be too late to change elsewhere?

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