1046. The third sister-in-law and the watermelon

In fact, if you want to make money, of course, it is not easy to do anything.

But there is also the issue of the ratio of pay and gain.

Although it will take a lot of effort to make mobile phones, games, and even movies, there is no doubt that it will be more profitable than farming and raising pigs. However, farming and raising pigs have another meaning in themselves. When the scale is small, it naturally doesn't matter, but once the scale is large, it can easily affect the lives of residents in a region.

A farm that produces 10,000 pigs a year is nothing, but what if it's 100,000 heads?

Isn't it easy to affect a city's grain market or pig market?

These things are closely related to the lives of ordinary people, and if one is not done well, it is necessary to take a big risk. But once it is done, there are many benefits, not to mention far away, let's just say that this time Zhou's father is sick and hospitalized, why do the first and second leaders of the city government come to visit? Is it just because of taxes? That's on the one hand, on the other hand, the distant agriculture is rooted in Beitong City, every move has a great impact on Beitong City, my father's main position is now the chairman of the distant agriculture, such a great god is sick, not to mention diabetes, even if it is a small hole in the hand, as long as people are hospitalized, people from all walks of life must come and walk around, express their concern.

This is the real meaning of farming and pig raising, making money?

In fact, it is not difficult to see from the division of Yuanfang agriculture into two that the reason why Yuanfang Group is involved in food production is, to put it bluntly, to improve the importance of self-improvement.

At the end of the day, it's about the importance of food to the country as a whole.

Food security, energy security, and financial security are known as the three major economic security in the world today.

For a country like ours, which has a population of more than one billion and is in the midst of accelerated industrialization and urbanization, ensuring food security is not only the basic condition for achieving sound and rapid development of the national economy, but also an important guarantee for promoting social stability and harmony, and also a strategic foundation for ensuring national security.

Food is a security issue, not an economic one.

Grain is not like other commodities, a little less will only increase in price, and a little less grain will starve people to death, which is a hard demand. And to be safe is to ensure the stability of grain transportation, sales and other links, and the fluctuations should not be too large, so that everyone can eat food. If food prices rise too fast, low-income people will quickly go hungry.

Fuso, Europe after World War II, and the United States after the Great Depression have all had painful lessons on this issue.

The United States, Europe, and Japan are now paying huge subsidies for food production every year.

It is not true that China must not be able to rely on grain imports. The former Soviet Union used to import grain for a long time. After all, the world has to talk about human rights, and if China falls into famine, the United States will not really embargo us, but there will be some conditions attached to the aid. Even if there are no conditions attached, what about the grain production in rice that year?

In the past, when grain prices rose in 2008, many grain-exporting countries immediately announced a ban on exports. If China is to rely on grain imports, it will inevitably have to build a strong navy and air force to ensure food security. By ensure, we can also send food back to the country when the production of food exporting countries is reduced, leaving the local people in a state of starvation. Of course, there is another way, and that is to accept the protection of a certain power. But there is also the premise that your food demand will not hit the international supply badly. Unfortunately, given the large population of our country, this premise does not exist.

You can't put your job in the hands of others.

China is a major grain producer and a big grain consumer. China's grain production, supply, and demand not only have a bearing on the feeding of more than 1 billion people, but also affect the international grain supply, demand, and price situation. If we import a large amount of grain from the world, it will cause a shortage of international grain sources and pull up grain prices. From the perspective of national security strategy, China's large population, agriculture is greatly affected by natural risks and market risks, and in the overall situation of national economic development, grain has always been regarded as a special commodity and strategic material; if domestic grain production is relaxed and excessive dependence on the international market is tantamount to putting one's own rice bowl in the hands of others, it is very easy to be controlled by others strategically, and it is in a passive position in the international competition that has a bearing on the country's survival and development.

Achieving food security is a long-term and arduous task. From the perspective of the global grain supply and demand pattern, China's annual grain production and consumption account for about one-quarter of the world's grain production and consumption. At present, the total annual grain trade in the world is nearly 250 million tons, which is only equivalent to more than 40 percent of China's annual grain consumption; because the grain supply and demand in the international market are on the tight side, a large amount of imported grain will not only trigger a sharp rise in grain prices in the international market, but also the international market will not be able to meet China's huge grain demand at all.

With the growth of population, the acceleration of urbanization, and the change in the structure of grain demand caused by the improvement of people's living standards, China's total grain demand will maintain a rigid growth trend, and the pressure on grain supply will become greater and greater in the future. Achieving food security is a long-term and arduous task, and it is a basic national policy for us to tighten the string of food security and make unremitting efforts to grasp it for a long time.

If you control the oil, you control all the countries, and if you control the food, you control all the people. This is what Kissinger said in an interview with the media in the 70s of the last century.

Food as a necessity of life has long been infiltrated into politics.

In the history of our country, there is a saying that "soldiers and horses do not move, grain and grass go first". Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, also showed that the grain issue has always been a very important political issue. Food has always influenced ancient Chinese politics in a subtle and invisible way. The food problem was the trigger for almost all peasant uprisings, and the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period is a typical representative. Food tells the real history in a unique metaphor, and it is difficult for any politician to escape the politics of food.

For humans, food is the basis of survival. We are also deeply aware that food security is an important foundation of national security, and food is related to the destiny of the country.

Historically, there have been many wars, many peasant uprisings caused by famine. For example, the "Yellow Turban Uprising" at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the "Li Zicheng Uprising" at the end of the Ming Dynasty were all due to famine and famine, which caused the people to have no livelihood, and the helpless peasants began to rebel in order to have enough to eat.

In recent years, the state has put forward the "Rural Revitalization Strategy", the primary goal of which is to ensure food supply.

Our country has a population of more than one billion people, and based on the per capita consumption of 400 grams of food per day, about 560,000 tons of food is consumed every day, and about 200 million tons of food is consumed every year. That's too big. That is to say, we produce more than 200 million tons of food every year, and we have just solved the problem of eating. If we add grain reserves, food loss and waste, the annual grain output will reach at least four or five hundred million tons. And not natural disasters and wars.

Therefore, for a country as populous as China, there are risks to food security, and food security is still a very important strategic issue.

And food shortages remain a serious problem in the world today. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about one-third of the world's food is wasted or wasted each year, equivalent to 1.3 billion tonnes lost each year. Today, 820 million people in the world face hunger, which means that 1 in 9 people are going hungry. What a staggering number!

This data continues to be a wake-up call for food security. Not only that, since the eighties and nineties of the last century, Western countries have continuously launched "grain wars" against China, which has posed threats to China's food security again and again. Therefore, saving grain, rationalizing diet, and eliminating waste have become issues that China must attach great importance to at present.

Therefore, Yuanfang Group's involvement in agricultural and grain production, in a sense, is to increase the hole cards in their hands, as long as there are no problems, this alone can make Yuanfang Group sit back and relax from a certain point of view.

After drinking, Zhou Fangyuan broke up with the third brother.

The third brother is also a family man now, and it is not easy to come out to drink once.

Don't look at the third brother, who used to play a little flowery, but after he got married, he was pinched to death by his daughter-in-law.

The third brother's daughter-in-law looks soft and not aggressive, but in fact she really has the means. In life, he almost ate the third brother to death, but the third brother himself also ate this set, needless to say about those flowery deeds in the past, and now when he comes out to drink, he is also restricted in various ways. In fact, if a man is busy with his career and wants to become bigger and stronger, it is basically impossible not to drink. After all, you have to negotiate with all parties, and Chinese people always like to talk about things and get closer to each other at the wine table, and not drinking alcohol will inevitably affect the development of your career.

The third brother has shares in the company, and it stands to reason that the company has a part of the third brother, but he is only a small shareholder, and the real major shareholder is Zhou Fangyuan. The third brother is responsible for the company and Zhou Fangyuan, you don't drink, your daughter-in-law doesn't let you drink, you have a lot of difficulties...... The other party doesn't care about this, you can't talk about things, and the company's work is delayed, and the third brother will apologize to the entire company at that time.

Fortunately, Yuanfang Technology is now the number one technology company in the world.

With full ownership of Android, the era of smartphones has begun, and now smartphones have beaten established companies such as Nokia and Motorola to the ground.

Even the fruit company of the United States was pressed to the ground by Yuanfang Technology.

The company that promotes our country's prestige in this way is also registered at the top level, not to mention that the Emperor of the Bear Country has been paying attention to here, and the high-level also knows about this matter, and there is no obstruction, anyway, as long as it does not endanger the interests of the country, as for the matter between the Bear Country and the United States, everyone is happy to watch the fire from the other side.

Taxes, fame, and international disputes involved have given Yuanfang Technology a very high status in China, so in large and small business negotiations, Yuanfang Technology has actually occupied a dominant position.

Because of this, the third brother can stop drinking when he wants not to drink, and basically he can sit at the table with him to negotiate, and no one can threaten him with this, or hold his head and force him to drink.

Fortunately, otherwise, the third brother, the general manager, would definitely not be able to sit for long.

After leaving the third brother, Zhou Fangyuan did not meet the company, nor did he go home, so he asked the driver to drive the car and drove him to the watermelon planting park under the Yuanfang Agricultural Company.

This is the most suitable area for growing watermelons in Beitong City, including the land of two counties, where the land is seriously desertified, but it is very suitable for growing watermelons, and the watermelons grown are large and sweet.

In fact, growing watermelon is indeed a good choice for some areas with loose soil.

First of all, the roots of watermelon have a particularly large demand for air, because of the existence of this prerequisite, so when choosing land, we must choose relatively loose soil for planting, because the air permeability of these loose soil is very good, and it can provide enough oxygen for plants to absorb. If you can choose the kind of sandy soil with deep soil layer and good drainage and irrigation conditions, it is the best. Choosing to grow watermelons in sandy soil can not only make watermelons ripen early, but also taste very sweet.

It is also worth noting that the sandy soil generally has no nutrients, and the fertilizer decomposes and loses water very quickly, which often causes the yield and quality of the watermelon to be grown due to the lack of nutrients. Therefore, when fertilizing and watering, you must choose a reasonable way.

Generally, watermelon can grow healthily and normally, and the necessary nutrients are mainly nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. When the nitrogen supply is just right, the whole plant will grow normally, and then the leaves will be green and the melon vines will grow very strongly. Of course, if this element is used too much, it is not good, which will cause the plant to overgrow, and the melon vines and leaves will grow, and at the same time, it will also cause the ripening period of the fruit to be delayed, and the quality will also decrease. If the supply of this element is insufficient, the entire plant will be malnourished, and then the yield will be reduced.

Phosphorus has a good effect on increasing the sugar content of the fruit, while it also promotes the growth of the roots and promotes the ripening of the fruit. If the soil lacks phosphorus, the roots will be stunted, which will easily affect the absorption of nutrients by plants, and it is easy to fall flowers and fruits.

Potassium can promote the healthy growth of plant stems and vines, and can also improve the toughness of stems and vines, which can effectively increase frost resistance and resistance to pests and diseases. Summary: If you choose the right land according to the above requirements, and have enough understanding of its nutritional characteristics, you will definitely save a lot of things when planting in the later stage.

These requirements are basically met in this watermelon plantation park around Beitong, plus modern planting technology, and proper fertilization and fertilization.

In the past few years, the watermelons produced in this land have long ceased to be supplied to Jinboluo as fruit plates, which is too much of a loss. The places where these watermelons should go are big hotels and high-end fruit shops, and only then can their true value be satisfied. As for the low-end market and restaurant fruit bowl needs, this is easy to solve. Whether it is shipped from other places, or the output of other local melon farmers in Beitong, it can be directly used, anyway, the quality of the fruit bowl is not too high, anyway, it is a gift, and the guests will not care about the low quality.