If the water-saving irrigation project only makes the farmers in Longgu County excited, the news that Jiagu intends to develop the land for the Gobi tidal flats and build a complementary platform for labor and agriculture has completely made them want to stop. Look.Mao.Line.Chinese.Text.Net

Longgu County has an open terrain, due to drought and lack of rainfall, more than 90% of the cultivated land is dry land, in addition to a large amount of Gobi tidal flat land to be developed.

Five droughts in ten years, disasters, ecology, and poverty are intertwined and superimposed, and they are cause and effect of each other, which is the basic county situation of Longgu County.

Jiagu is willing to invest in the development of the Gobi tidal flats on the periphery, and from a large point of view, it is to improve the fragile ecological environment, put on a green "background" for the ecologically fragile areas, and build an ecological security barrier for Longgu County.

The Gobi tidal flats developed in the first phase covered 60,000 mu, and it was necessary to prepare the land, prevent wind and fix sand, plant drought-tolerant crops, and build a high-efficiency and water-saving irrigation system.

The principle set by Jiagu is to give priority to the employment of farmers who transfer land to cooperatives.

In the past, most farmers were worried that they would not need so much labor after the mechanized operation of the cooperative, and that after the land was transferred, even if there were dividends, once they did not become employees of the cooperative, the land would be gone, and people would not know what they could do.

It is not so easy to work outside the home, not to mention that sometimes it is difficult to get paid, and it is difficult to go out of the house with the elderly and children to take care of.

Now, even if you can't work in the cooperative, you can still work in Jiagu, so that you can work in the local area and never leave your hometown.

In this way, the peasants will not only receive a share of the dividends of their own land circulation and management, but also receive a salary every month, changing "one income" into "two or more incomes", which is simply beautiful.

Therefore, with the help of the double benefit, the process of the establishment of cooperatives has been rapidly promoted, and with the assistance of the government, the new business pattern of "small and large, scattered and concentrated, and fragmented and connected" has been vigorously promoted, and the construction of high-standard farmland construction of "fields into squares, forests into networks, canals and roads connected" has been vigorously implemented.

Through the model of "land transfer + enterprise + professional cooperative + farmer", under the coordination of the government, Jiagu contacted the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Suzhou Province to introduce the high-quality malting barley varieties "Ganbei No. 3" and "Ganbei No. 4" cultivated by it to implement standardized production.

Nearly 300,000 acres of high-quality special malting barley planting base, under the guidance of experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, while planting barley in accordance with the cultivation technology of excellent and high-yield, while building an efficient and water-saving sprinkler irrigation system in full swing.

In order to build a high-quality raw material supply base, Qingyuan Beer has also set up a malt processing plant in Longgu County to form a leading role in the production area, promote the connection between production and marketing, and stabilize high-quality barley malt raw materials for Qingyuan Brewery.

Malt processing plants also give priority to farmers who transfer their land to cooperatives.

Jiagu has made such a big contribution and solved the concerns of farmers about land transfer, and the Longgu County Government is not easy to watch. Look at 1 gross 2 lines 3 Chinese net

It coincides with the introduction of support policies for the malting barley planting industry in Suzhou Province, and preferential credit policies such as financial discount loans for leading malting barley enterprises. The Longgu County Government personally stepped forward to assist the bank in completing the loan qualification and credit rating for Jiagu and professional farmer cooperatives, and won a preferential loan.

In this way, the cooperative's agricultural machinery and equipment have been solved, although this loan can only be regarded as a small problem for the overall investment scale of Jiagu. But in the end, it made up for the "mouth cannon" of Secretary Tang of Longgu County, and it was a "small supplement" for the cooperative.

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On the other hand, the development of the Gobi desert is also in full swing.

The Gobi desert land to be developed in Jiagu is located in the western part of Longgu County, with an open desert area and a large land area, which is convenient for unified planning and continuous development.

But the first thing to solve is the practical dilemma of lack of infrastructure and fragile ecology.

It is not for nothing that large areas of the Gobi desert are left unused.

"Sow a few pockets in the spring, harvest a few grains in the autumn; go out with sand in your eyes, and walk with dirt and drown your feet and necks." This is the description of the local people of Longgu County as a true portrayal of the Gobi desert on the periphery.

It's not that no one has ever thought of cultivating it, but at first glance, the newly cultivated land is no different from the cultivated land in the surrounding old towns. However, after watering twice, either because the soil is compacted and impermeable, it becomes a "pool", or because the soil is alkaline, it "burns" a large area of crops, and barley and wheat are planted one after another, and they always fail to grow healthily and vigorously.

No one has done anything stupid since.

Therefore, even Secretary Tang felt incredible that Qi Zheng intended to develop this Gobi desert.

He also vaguely reminded Qi Zheng that if it was to solve the employment problem of members who could not work in the cooperative, it was likely that the gains would outweigh the losses.

Qi Zheng thanked him for his kindness, but still insisted on his opinion.

Because of this, the contract price is really the price of cabbage.

Jiagu intends to build Longgu County into a high-quality malting barley planting base, and the ultimate goal is, of course, to transform this barren beach into fertile land, as Jiagu's own planting base - as the saying goes, everything is not as good as what you own.

However, first of all, it is necessary to fix the quicksand, pull the soil to make fields, and improve the saline-alkali soil quality, so that the farmland can be moderately developed under the premise of protecting the ecological environment.

Qi Zheng has used the Spirit Array to explore the groundwater layer, and the groundwater in this barren beach contracted by Jiagu is relatively rich, and there is great potential to expand the space for agricultural production.

At present, hundreds of people are planting Salix on a large scale under the guidance of sand control technicians from the Provincial Forestry Bureau hired by Jiagu.

The front is ditched with a tractor, and the saplings are planted diagonally in the back, just enough to expose the small seedlings, all buried and compacted, and then slightly watered. In autumn, three or four stems of more than one meter will grow, and the survival rate is generally more than 90.

Salix is a desert plant and one of the very few plants that can grow in saline-alkali land. It has strong stress resistance, drought tolerance, water and humidity, sand resistance, strong sand fixation and soil retention, and is one of the largest tree species in the afforestation area of sandy barren areas in China.

The sand willow is shaped like a torch, and has the characteristics of "five immortals" that do not die in drought and drought, cattle and sheep do not die, knives and axes do not die, sand and soil burying do not die, and waterlogging does not die.

When spring comes, the wind and sand are raging, the sand dunes are shifting, no matter how deep the sand willow is buried, as long as it shows its head outside, it can thrive, although it is not afraid of drought, but it can also grow when the rain is sufficient. It is not afraid of cattle and sheep gnawing, even if it gnaws all the skins around it, as long as there is a branch of cattle and sheep in it that cannot reach, it will not take long to regain its vitality.

Salix also has a relatively high economic value - it can be used to make cardboard and paper. It contains about the same amount of heat as coal, and can be developed into a green sand coalfield that is cut every three to six years.

Of course, this is not what Qi Zheng values.

Turning sand into fields is the most important thing.

Salix can firmly hold the sand dunes, and the plant belt formed by clusters of sand willow conserves the water of the sandy land, flattens the sand bags, and forms patches of green space in a few years. Then, it can be further converted into cultivated land to grow crops.

Once it is carried out, the income will increase year by year, and the increase in the value of the land will be difficult to calculate. Think about how much room for value-added from barren sand to woodland or arable land.

However, it may take a few years to really see the benefits, which is the characteristic of ecological construction, with large investment, long cycle, and slow results, so the average farmer has no strength and no patience to engage in ecology.

In fact, there are different opinions within Jiagu on this.

Wang Yuye once asked Qi Zheng, there is too much arable land in the east can be contracted, and the income that can be obtained by investing funds in it is far more cost-effective than investing in the northwest, and he can understand that he can understand the barley planting base, after all, it has geographical and industrial advantages, and Qingyuan beer also needs high-quality raw materials, but why develop the Gobi desert separately?

In this regard, Qi Zheng only asked him rhetorically, Jiagu must have no problem contracting hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land, and it should not be a big problem to contract millions of acres, and contracting tens of millions of acres is estimated to be very prominent, and if you want to contract hundreds of millions of acres of cultivated land, are you sure the state can allow it?

You must know that even the largest agricultural state-owned enterprise in China, Beidahuang, has a total land area of hundreds of millions of acres.

Not to mention the issue of food security. There are still more than 600 million people in the rural areas of China, and the livelihood of farmers and farming are inseparable.

That is, our urbanization must be able to absorb these farmers. But these peasants are 50, 60, 70 years old, all of them are elderly, most of them are women, and 70 of them have a primary school education.

To a large extent, the problems of cultivated land and grain are the problems of peasants' employment and livelihood.

So it is conceivable that the one-sided pursuit of large-scale farms is not suitable for China's national conditions. The state encourages various forms of moderately large-scale operations with large professional households, family farms, and professional farmer cooperatives as the main body. However, for industrial and commercial capital leasing of agricultural land, it must have a strict regulatory and risk prevention attitude.

In fact, a certain degree of control over the circulation of agricultural land is a common practice even in countries with private ownership of land.

What do you want to do if you want to own more than 5 arable land in a country?

Qi Zheng has always had a clear mind about this.

Even if he had a spirit array, Jiagu's own land had an upper limit.

But this trip to the Great Northwest gave him new ideas.

In the vast northwest, how much no man's land!

Take the desert alone, there are 700,000 square kilometers of desert in the country, more than half of the cultivated area, and if all of them can be managed, theoretically, the problem of food and land shortage will disappear.

Of course, due to geographical and climatic factors, it is impossible to govern them all.

But even if one-tenth of the governance is good, there are hundreds of millions of acres.

The most important thing is that I will be difficult to use the land to govern, even if I have hundreds of millions of acres of land, it is a good thing for the country and the people, I have enough confidence to face the country - the forest law stipulates that "who plants, who owns, who benefits", 70 years unchanged, and has the right to inherit. I can't do a good deed for the country and the people, so I might as well plant trees. It is a cause that will benefit future generations for thousands of generations, and we can't favor one over the other.

Qi Zheng used this reason to convince the management of Jiagu.

The more you want, the more you give.

But if you want to manage the desert well, you have to have a lot of experience, right?

To put it bluntly, the Gobi desert in front of you is used for hand training.

Qi Zheng squinted at the farmers who were busy planting trees, and secretly said in his heart, this can be regarded as the beginning of Jiagu's conquest of the Gobi Desert......