Chapter VI Diversification
Zhong Di left the village and walked towards the jujube orchard without hurry, the crunching sound of the electric car was enough to reflect the fact that it was very old.
Along the way, he met some people scattered, some familiar and some unfamiliar, Zhong Di did not say hello one by one, but went straight towards the jujube garden, he was a little excited now, and wanted to go and see it quickly.
Zhong Di drove a small electric donkey while observing the changes here, keeping up with the last time, the gap is not big, it is still the same as before.
The windbreak belt is a standard poplar and gaza date tree, with fruit trees planted in the middle, and asphalt roads between each district, which is quite convenient to travel, otherwise it is not easy to transport the fruits produced here to the outside.
There are many varieties of orchard planting, all kinds of fruit trees in the northwest are basically there, it is called a hundred fruit orchards by Shache County, melons and fruits are fragrant, and it is not clear whether there is Zhong Di in a hundred fruits, and there is nothing wrong with all orchards.
From the village to their family's jujube garden, there are six or seven kilometers of road, not close, of course, not far, riding a small electric donkey for more than ten minutes.
As soon as you arrive at the jujube garden, you can see a gate made of iron mesh, which is densely covered with brown-red rust and a lot of dust on it, obviously no one has been here for a long time.
Through the iron net, you can see the overall state of the orchard, and the whole jujube orchard can be seen at a glance.
Overgrown with weeds and dead branches, it is completely barren.
The leaves of the jujube tree are unhealthy yellow, and the tree itself is not lush, and because it has not been pruned for a long time, it is in a state of long-term growth, and there is not a decent place in the whole orchard.
In the past few years, the price of gray bezoars has been soaring, and some people have taken the lead in planting gray bezoars when they were developed here, and they wanted to make some money happily.
Who would have thought that when a large number of gray jujubes came down, they fell below the bottom price year after year, and the lowest time fell to more than three yuan and a kilogram, which is also the main reason for the barrenness of a large number of jujube orchards.
My family smashed all the money saved in the past few years, lost money and lost labor year after year, and no one was willing to give the land to others, so in desperation, I could only abandon this jujube orchard.
Zhong Di took out his mobile phone, took a photo of the iron door inside, opened the small letter, sent a circle, and typed on it: New beginning, four words, and put away the mobile phone after sending it.
Opening the iron gate, Zhong Di did not immediately start to do it, but inspected the entire jujube orchard.
The jujube orchard has a total of 60 acres, the standard size of 667 square meters per acre, excluding the forest belt, a dirt road in the middle and the homestead in front, there are about 43 acres of net planting area, all of which are jujube trees.
The overall state of the jujube tree is very poor, the lack of trees is very serious, the age of the tree is also very different, and the varieties are basically gray jujubes.
For the planning of the entire jujube orchard, Zhong Di already had the answer in his heart, even if he wants to live a warm life, at least he must ensure a basic life.
His idea is not so complicated, he wants to make a small farm similar to a picking garden, combining fruits and vegetables, planting and breeding, and diversification, of course, these are all later words.
The whole plot is divided into two parts, each of which is divided into four small pieces, mainly because of the topography.
The terrain of the jujube orchard is different, and the result is that the spring and winter water plots should be irrigated separately, otherwise there will be uneven watering.
Unlike the south, the land in the northwest does not depend on the sky, but on the groundwater, and the water from the ground is pumped up for irrigation.
The rest is the four acres of homestead in front, and the original idea here was to build a better house, making a small yard or something, but in the end, because of continuous losses, this matter was shelved.
On the homestead, there are no big houses, only three small houses of more than ten square meters, and a place with higher terrain and relatively flat land, which is usually used to stack gray dates and dry gray dates.
At this time, there was only an old-fashioned tractor covered with dust on it, and a rotary tiller with a partial pull, both of which were of that small model.
Three small houses are located side by side, with the doors facing south, one for storing miscellaneous items, and the other two, one for temporary living and one for cooking.
When I opened the door of the utility room, there were stacks of farm tools that I usually use, as well as some leftover pesticides and fertilizers, and I don't know what year it was.
After inspecting the entire jujube orchard, Zhong Di stopped, stood on the dirt road in the middle, and opened his eyes wide.
A feeling of dizziness appeared, and in Zhong Di's sight, Zaoyuan suddenly became different, and a lot of information began to enter Zhong Di's head, which was very messy, and after a while, Zhong Di felt that his head began to sting violently.
In a hurry, he quickly stopped this observation, then closed his eyes and began to digest the information just now.
To sum it up in one word: chaos, the problem is very big, Zhong Di quickly screened.
At present, the most important problem to be solved is the lack of water. I vaguely remember that my father didn't seem to have watered it again except for watering it once.
Thinking of it, Zhong Di found the wrench in the utility room, opened the water pipe of a piece of land, and went directly to the well room.
The moment the pump was turned on, Zhong Di heard the sound of rushing water.
"Old Clock... Old Zhong, are you opening a well to water?"
A middle-aged man's voice suddenly came from outside the well room, this voice was like Uncle Zhang in front, Zhang Youwei, this piece of gray jujube technology is the best.
Don't look at the price of jujubes falling year after year, but people have good technology, they can make money.
Due to the lack of water resources in the northwest, it is not possible to drill wells at will, but the size is regulated, and it is necessary to apply and review it.
For example, Zhong Di's house only drilled a six-inch small well, and he usually used foliar fertilizer or something, like a large area of watering. Still going to start this big guy.
"Uncle Zhang, it's me, Zhong Di. In response, he left the well room.
The well is opened, and then you just have to wait, and this process will take at least two to three days.
"Zhong Di, what, are your family going to continue to renovate this jujube orchard? Your parents are not at work, why are they coming back to plant jujube orchards? ”
Uncle Zhang recalled it carefully, and then remembered that this young man was Zhong Di of the old Zhong family, and asked curiously.
"Yes, uncle, I'm going to continue planting jujube orchards, but it's not my parents who plant it, I plant it. ”
As soon as Zhong Di finished speaking, Uncle Zhang put his hand on Zhong Di's forehead, and then put it on his own head, muttering, "I don't have a fever." ”
"Uncle Zhang, if you have any technical problems in the future, I will come over to trouble you. ”