While walking around the farm, everyone listened to Gao Shize's introduction, and walked around the farm for more than two hours, and was very satisfied with the operation of the farm, because the purpose of the farm was mainly to explore the experience of intensive cultivation in this era, as well as to provide a base for agricultural scientific research, accumulate agricultural experience, and cultivate excellent crop seeds, and set up a model of agricultural cultivation.

Although the main goal of the Crossing Group is to realize the industrialization of China, after all, China has been a large agricultural country since ancient times, and agricultural cultivation is a major matter related to the life and death of the country, so agriculture must not be neglected. Since the farm has not been in operation for a long time, the first two goals have not been effective in a short period of time, but the goal of setting a model of agricultural cultivation has achieved good results.

After visiting the farm, Gao Shi led everyone to the farm's office, ready to introduce his plans for the future development of the farm. In fact, Gao Shize has only completed a first draft of this plan, and there are many contents that need to be further improved and revised, Gao Shize originally planned to consider all the details of the plan after the autumn harvest, and then make a formal report to the executive committee, but now that Xia Bohai and others came to the farm to inspect, they can also report to them first and listen to their suggestions.

As a result of the increase in the number of prisoners and their families serving on the farm, there is now a surplus of land on the farm, and in view of the fact that there is a high probability that more prisoners and their families will be added in the future, it is imperative to expand the scale of the farm. Gao Shi believes that if the farm is only expanded on a small scale, it will inevitably lead to the possibility of expansion every year in the future, and it is better to expand the farm to 4000-5000 acres at one time, which is more than 5 times the scale of the current farm, providing a relatively broad space for the expansion of production and development of the farm in the future, because when the farm was built, the problem of expansion has been taken into account, so the expanded area Gao Shi has been selected, just in the northwest direction of the farm, which happens to be a wilderness area.

After the expansion of the farm, the planting area of grain crops will reach 2,500-3,000 acres, and at the same time, the scale and varieties of vegetables, melons and beans, fruits and animal husbandry will be expanded, and on this basis, the development of non-staple food industry, to ensure that 70-80% of the staple food and non-staple food of the group are supplied by the farm, and will also rely on the farm to carry out agricultural research projects, cultivate excellent seeds, improve agricultural production technology, and provide technical guidance to villages in the surrounding areas, train farmers and other projects.

In addition, Gao Shi also plans to expand the production of fertilizer as an important part of the farm, forming an industrial scale, when the fertilizer produced can not only be used by the farm, but also sold to other farmers, and at the same time, it is also to explore and accumulate experience for the construction of fertilizer accumulation plants in other places.

Of course, this expansion plan is very huge, and it is difficult to complete it within a year, unless it is the crossing group that can invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the farm, but Gao Shi is also estimated to be unlikely, because the main energy of the crossing group is to develop industry, so Gao Shi plans that the expansion of the farm can be completed in stages, and it is expected that all the farm expansion work will be completed within three years.

After listening to Gao Shize's expansion plan, Xia Bohai said: "Director Gao, under the current technical conditions, how much can the grain output of our farm be increased?"

Gao Shi thought for a while before saying: "If it is the existing farm scale, after three years, I am sure that the grain output will be increased to about 1.5 times the average level of this era, but after the scale is expanded to the plan I proposed, it is estimated that it will only be able to increase to about 1.3 times, because this is the difference between precision cultivation and large-scale cultivation, that is, the yield of experimental fields will always be higher than that of large-scale planting." ”

Xia Bohai nodded and said, "If our agricultural technology is pushed down, how much can the overall level of grain production in our jurisdiction be improved?"

Gao Shi said: "It can be improved by about one percent." ”

Qin Zheng couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this, and said: "Our farm can be increased by three percent, how can we only get one percent after promotion?"

Gao Shi said: "Political commissar, in ancient China, if the yield of the field can be increased by one percent, it can already be regarded as a harvest year, we all learned a text when we were children, called [three or five buckets more harvested], telling the story of a harvest year, and that harvest year, it is just three or five buckets more than usual, and this only refers to grains, after the shelling can have two buckets is very good. ”

Qin Zheng was still puzzled, and said, "Then why can our farm increase the yield to 30%?"

Gao Shize said: "Commander, political commissar, in fact, there is nothing complicated about farming, it is just three things, water, fertilizer, and insect control. As long as these three things are solved, the field will not be bad there, and in this era, the problem of water can be solved by building water conservancy projects, insect control is that the people have accumulated some earthwork experience, the other is by manpower, the general insect plague is not a big problem, so the agricultural harvest is good, the actual depends on how much fertilizer is applied, the rural saying is called 'crops and flowers, all rely on manure to be in charge', more fertilizer, naturally more harvest. We built a fertilizer plant on the farm, just to solve the problem of fertilization, the increase of farm yield, that is, relying on this fertilizer plant, it is impossible to rely on individual farmers to accumulate fertilizer on a large scale. ”

Wang Yunpeng said: "This problem is easy to solve, of course, individual farmers can not accumulate fertilizer on a large scale, but our government can come forward to organize and solve it, one is to invest in the construction of several large fertilizer plants by the government, and the other is by the village as a unit, or several villages are united, to build a small fertilizer plant, we provide technical guidance, and even loans can be, so that the combination of large and small fertilizer plants, can not solve the problem of fertilization?"

Gao Shi shook his head and said, "What I just said is not finished, the problem of this era is not that the construction of a few fertilizer accumulation plants can be solved, but that the source of fertilizer is an unsolvable problem. Because there is no chemical fertilizer in this era, we use organic fertilizer, which determines that the source of fertilizer is very limited, and the growth of agricultural crops mainly needs three elements, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. We take nitrogen as an example, 100 kilograms of food crops need about 2.5 kilograms of pure nitrogen, and organic nitrogen fertilizer mainly comes from human and animal manure or green manure rotten fertilizer, and according to the old time and space has been calculated data, if it is manure, about 2 adults, or 0.2 pigs, or 0.2 cattle annual production, if it is green manure rotten fertilizer, it needs 2 acres of green manure production, that is, theoretically, if a household has 6 laborers, 30 acres of cultivation, in order to achieve a yield of 100 kilograms per mu, you need to raise 10 pigs and 2 cattle, in addition to 50-60 acres of firewood and grass mountain, to provide food for pigs and cattle. In this era, this is at least a rich peasant level family, and this is only a theoretical output, not counting the loss, loss, volatilization and other losses in the process of manure collection, decomposition, storage, transportation, and use, and other phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, under the premise that only organic fertilizers can be used, phosphate fertilizers mainly come from poultry manure, bones, Fish bones, etc., and potassium fertilizers are mainly obtained from plant ash, which are not abundant in nature, and cannot be supplied to agricultural production on a national scale, so in this era, the range of fertilizer sources is extremely limited. ”

"In the old time and space, due to the land reform at the time of the founding of our country, as well as the reform of the household contract responsibility system in the early 80s, the scope of influence is too large, and the result is often ignored, since 1949, the country has been vigorously developing the construction of fertilizer plants, which is the synthetic ammonia industry, because ammonia is the main element in the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizer, in 1949 there were only two small synthetic ammonia plants in the country, and the output of nitrogen fertilizer was only 6,000 tons, but in 1982 it reached 10,219,000 tons, becoming one of the countries with the highest nitrogen fertilizer output in the world. The same data provided in the old time and space, before 1949, China's average grain yield per mu was less than 100 kilograms, sometimes even below 50 kilograms, and in 1984, it increased to an average yield of 240 kilograms per mu, and by 2013, it reached an average yield of 350 kilograms per mu. ”

"I am sure that I will increase the mass production of the farm by 30%, because the farm can basically be regarded as a state-owned enterprise, so it can provide a lot of convenience in the issue of fertilizer sources, and the careful preparation of the fertilizer accumulation plant can also greatly reduce the loss of fertility, so as to achieve my goal." But if this farming model is extended to all areas under our control, then the source of fertilizer is certainly not enough, and all we can do is to use all available fertilizer as much as possible, and reduce the loss of fertility, plus the construction of water conservancy and scientific farming methods, to increase the yield by about 10%. And this also needs government agencies to unify the organization, according to my observation during this period of time, the waste of organic fertilizer raw materials in this era is very serious, one is that this era is still generally not the usual collection of organic fertilizer awareness, the other is not to develop the habit of collecting fertilizer, the situation in the countryside is slightly better, but generally only pay attention to manure and ignore other sources of organic fertilizer, such as fallen leaves, dead grass, silt, bones, even some slag ash, etc., and the phenomenon of waste in the city is even more serious, at least half of the manure in Jiaozhou County is wasted, and there are a large number of bones, fish bones, etc. ”

In addition, the idea of building a fertilizer accumulation plant by the government proposed by Director Wang just now is really good, because the source of collecting these fertilizers can only be done through the government agencies, such as the establishment of a unified sanitation system, public toilets, etc., in order to make good use of the fertilizer that can be used at present. Then by the fertilizer plant to accumulate fertilizer decomposed, and unified packaging, you can greatly reduce the loss of fertilizer in all links, and then sell these fertilizers to farmers, not only to increase an income, but also to improve our prestige, after all, to increase agricultural output into a percent, for farmers, is also a considerable result. ”