In addition to these, there is another point that Cao Mo is sure to do now, that is, the volume is a bit small, the income is not large, and if you want to have a big development, it takes a long cycle, and it is not as immediate as taking over the gold mine.

That's vegetable farming.

It has been nearly two years since he arrived in Draculamo, and the only common vegetables in the local area are a limited number of varieties such as kale, nightshade, and tomatoes, but there are very few cucumbers, celery, greens, Chinese cabbage, and green peppers that Cao Mo is used to eating in China.

After arriving in Draculamo, adapting to the local diet was something that Cao Mo felt quite reluctant.

Of course, after living in Yibo Ancient Village, he was even more bitter in his heart.

Every Chinese in Draculamo feels this way.

After taking over the Yibogu gold mine, Cao Mo did not hesitate to open up a three-acre vegetable garden near his temporary residence, and asked Jiaying to mail some vegetable seeds from Xinhai City, and he tried to plant them according to the information he queried on the Internet.

Without these vegetables, how would he teach Sterna and them to cook Chinese food in the mine?

Kanem has a hot climate, and the new land reclaimed from the jungle in the upper reaches of the Antler River is also extremely fertile, and it is the rainy season, and most of the vegetables have a short growing season, and now they can almost be picked and eaten.

These two times when he went back to Draculamo, he brought some vegetables back and gave them Song Yuqing to try them, and when he entered the community, he was stopped by many Chinese compatriots and asked him where he bought and sold these vegetables, with a very greedy look.

Kanem has a large amount of arable land, which is used by local chiefs and large landowners who own the land, such as the descendants of the colonists, for the cultivation of palms, cocoa and other cash crops.

While Kanem has become the world's leading base for palm oil and cocoa cultivation, it has also caused an extreme shortage of staple food and vegetable cultivation throughout the country, and most civilians have difficulty making ends meet and have been malnourished for a long time.

As the largest seaport city in West Africa, Draculamo is more dependent on imports for food supplies.

Fresh supermarkets on the island of Salt Lake and Ikoi islands, which cater to the wealthy, also have tomatoes and other vegetables available in small quantities, but the price is unusually high, seven or eight times that of the country.

Cao Mo thought in his heart, no matter how high the price of Draculamo's vegetables is, if he only relies on the ten or twenty acres of vegetable gardens he opened up in the mining area at this time, there will not be much income in a year, and it is really not worth his attention now.

However, this is not the only vegetable plot that can be used to grow vegetables in Ibogu Village.

At the same time, he also considered that the employment in the mining area is limited after all, and it is impossible to benefit most of the villagers of the Ibogu tribe, but if he wants to gain a long-term foothold in the Ibogu tribe, it is not a favorable situation in front of him.

Vegetable cultivation, and even a larger range of staple food cultivation in the later stage, may not be as profitable as spending energy and limited funds on the potential of gold mines, but after all, it can benefit more villagers in Ibogu and even nearby tribes.

Of course, he used to open up a vegetable garden in the mining area, grow vegetables for his own consumption, occasionally add a meal to the workers, the fields are fattened and thin, and the vegetables grow a little denser, as long as there is a harvest, but if you want to plant a large area of vegetable fields in Yibo Ancient Village, you can't be so casual.

Fortunately, China has a number of aid projects in Kanem, and agriculture has been the mainstream of aid projects in Africa over the years.

Draculamo has a Chinese consulate in Qatar, as well as a Chinese business center dedicated to Chinese businessmen and Chinese enterprises investing in Kanem, Cao Mo directly told Lucy his thoughts:

"If you pack up here, in the name of the company, go to the consulate and the China Business Center to consult to see if there are any relevant agricultural technical experts in Draculamo or nearby areas, and the company wants to contract vegetable fields in Yibogu Village, and may be able to get technical guidance......"

"Do you really want to stay in Africa as a chieftain, and you are not satisfied with managing a gold mine, but you want to grow vegetables?" Song Yuqing asked strangely, "How can you make a fortune by growing vegetables, and it can compare to you digging gold mines?"

Cao Mo deliberately reduced the gold exchange with Xie Sipeng, but he still needed to exchange additional US dollars from Xie Sipeng every month for the next purchase of equipment reserves.

And even though Cao Mo has repeatedly emphasized that he is currently mainly providing equipment and technical services to the Felician family, since he borrowed 200,000 US dollars from Xie Sipeng and promised to pay it off within two years, Xie Sipeng and the others concluded that after he added new equipment, his annual income in Ibogu would have to be 6.7 million yuan.

How much money can you make growing vegetables?

"Although the new equipment is rented to the mine, there is an income of three and a half million yuan a year, but growing vegetables may not make less money......" Cao Mo scratched his forehead, opened his eyes and said nonsense to Song Yuqing, "You also know how expensive it is to eat a plate of spicy fried pork or other Chinese food in Draculamo, right?"

"The problem is, no matter how high the price of vegetables is, the planting scale is small, and it can't achieve the effect you want, but when the planting scale is large, who are you selling it to in Draculamo?"

"Didn't you notice that there are more and more Chinese in Draculamo?" Cao Mo asked.

"No matter how many Chinese there are, there will be more in the future, but most of them are still ordinary employees employed by Chinese businessmen and enterprises, who of them is willing to eat your tomatoes for eight or nine yuan a pound every day? At most, they can occasionally improve ......their appetite," Song Yuqing sighed.

She has been in Draculamo for more than half a year, and now Cao Mo can eat one or two Chinese meals every time she goes back to Draculamo and brings some vegetables back.

When she went to the West Africa branch, her income seemed to be much higher, but with a monthly salary of 123, it was also painful to see that a green vegetable in a high-end supermarket on Saltlake Island was equivalent to 10 yuan.

At present, the Chinese in Dracula Mo also have a certain scale, but whether it is a Chinese businessman or the management of a Chinese-funded enterprise, after all, a small number of them, more are hired by Chinese businessmen and Chinese-funded enterprises, and basically all Chinese businessmen or enterprises provide food and lodging, and the food supply is naturally based on local high-quality and low-cost crops.

Song Yuqing wondered if there would be enough market for Cao Mo to organize the villagers of the Ibogu tribe to develop farms on a large scale to grow vegetables.

"In the past two years, the situation in Kanem has become more and more stable, and more and more people have come out, and the demand for food has always increased. Another reason, Sister Yuqing, didn't you see that Chinese food attracts more than just Chinese people around the world? There are already several Chinese restaurants in the West Bank District, and there will be a few more, more than a dozen, and the scale will become bigger and bigger, and they will definitely still rely on Chinese food to attract locals...... Cao Mo said.

"That's right," Song Yuqing thought that what Cao Mo said made sense, and praised him, "You are still very smart, why didn't you find out before?"

"That's because we didn't communicate enough before. Cao Mo joked.

Probably because she had heard too many ambiguous and obscene jokes, Song Yuqing glanced at Cao Mo, and changed the topic and said: "Why don't I also invest in your vegetable garden?" I don't want any shares or dividends, as long as I can eat Chinese food often-these days, tapioca flour and bean rice really want to vomit!"

Seeing Lucy look embarrassed, Song Yuqing knew that she had worked harder to learn Chinese these days, and she must have thought that she was complaining about her cooking skills, and hurriedly said: "It's not that your cooking skills are not good." The Chinese dishes taught by Mr. Cao are so ordinary, if you have the opportunity to actually eat Chinese food, you will know what I mean. I can't say it, as soon as I say it, I think of the white chopped chicken and pickled fresh food that I like to eat, and my saliva is about to flow out......"

"That's okay, I don't need Sister Yuqing to invest any money, if you want to eat something, I can still collect money from Sister Yuqing," Cao Mo said, "By the way, that Zhou Jianmin from the consulate, you still have his contact information?"

Zhou Jianmin is a staff member of the Chinese Consulate in Draculamo.

On the first day of Song Yuqing's arrival in Draculamo, Cao Mo and Kabuja drove to the airport to pick her up, but the car broke down in the middle of the road.

Zhou Jianmin later came over to eat twice with great enthusiasm, and everyone knew each other, but after knowing the fact that Song Yuqing was married, Zhou Jianmin never appeared again, and Cao Mo did not have his contact information.

Cao Mo thought that if he wanted to contact the agricultural experts who aided Africa, Zhou Jianmin would definitely be able to help, he didn't have time to go to the consulate, but it might be better if he could call Zhou Jianmin first, and then ask Lucy to come to him to consult the agricultural experts.

"If you want me to help you contact Zhou Jianmin, you can just say it......" Song Yuqing glanced at Cao Mo angrily and said.

“......”

Seeing that Song Yuqing had misunderstood, thinking that he wanted to use Zhou Jianmin's good impression of her to facilitate this, Cao Mo was a little stunned.

Although he knew that beautiful women had a natural advantage in public relations, he was not old enough to take advantage of this calmly, and explained a little embarrassedly: "Sister Yuqing, it would be good if you told me Zhou Jianmin's phone number......

"Okay," Song Yuqing couldn't help but take the incident over, and said, "I'll help you with this, but if I can help, then I'll really eat your food with a shy face in the future!"

"Okay then......" Cao Mo thought in his heart that Song Yuqing contacted Zhou Jianmin, and contacting Zhou Jianmin with him was really not an effect, so he agreed hesitantly.

"Why are you up again?" asked Song Yuqing curiously.

"It's nothing, I'm afraid it's not good to trouble you......"

"What's not troublesome, it just so happens that the branch usually has nothing to do, and there is something to pass the time......"