Chapter 485 Fantastic Rubber Plantation

"To be cautious, I have no debts or creditors on my forest land, but I may offer a little higher, 5,000 hectares of forest land, 15 million dollars. Mr. Feng, this is my business card, you think about it and call me. Then I'll take my leave. ”

Wu Baisheng nodded, stood up and took out a business card. Feng Tiance also quickly got up and took it with both hands, and watched his somewhat rickety body go farther and farther.

This meeting was undoubtedly arranged by Zheng Xiangtong. So when Feng Tiance saw him again, he didn't think to deny it at all.

After Zheng Xiangtong sent Lao Hu, Qi Zhiqiang and Jiang Shaobo away in a helicopter, he said to Feng Tiance: "Brother Feng, Brother Bai Sheng is a person who does not admit defeat easily. He originally kept the mountains and forests and wanted to make a comeback, but her wife was diagnosed with cancer at the beginning of the year, and he really had no power to think about selling the land. Hey, the price he offered is a little higher, Mr. Feng, you weigh it yourself. However, there is no problem with his mountain forest, which I can guarantee Lao Zheng. ”

Feng Tiance nodded, indicating that he would consider it seriously.

When Skeyang returned to Kojima again, Feng Tiance and Liu Yuzhu and his wife took a helicopter back to the Cardamom Mountains.

Two days later, Liu Yuzhu and his wife bid farewell to Feng Tiance and went to visit Angkor Wat. The two of them then went directly from Angkor Wat to Phnom Penh, and then returned to China directly.

For this trip to Cambodia, both husband and wife are very satisfied. I believe that if there is a chance in the future, Village Chief Liu will visit the old place again.

After Feng Tiance learned about the rubber plantation from various channels, he called Wu Baisheng to confirm that he was willing to buy his forest land.

Fifteen million dollars, Feng Tiance did not make a counteroffer in the end. The payment was made in a lump sum, and all the procedures for the transfer of property rights to the 5,000 hectares of forest land were completed within a single day.

At this point, he had a total of 10,000 hectares of woodland in the southeast mountain range.

"Congratulations Feng Dong, I have returned to China for a trip, and you have expanded the area of your forest kingdom again. However, the 5,000 hectares of woodland are more troublesome to clear, and all the roots have to be dug up and removed, which is a lot of work. ”

Qi Xiuyuan, who came back from China, came to congratulate Feng Tiance as soon as possible. His negotiations with Yishan County this time were very smooth, and the contract was signed, and the efficiency was not ordinarily high.

"Mr. Qi, it's a bit ashamed to say this, and being able to buy that rubber plantation is a bit of a danger to others. However, the other party sells land to save the emergency, and if I don't buy it, it will be cheaper As for the clearing of forest land, it is not as complicated as you think. I've ordered a large grinder and all the roots are dug up and treated in situ. ”

The grinding machine he refers to is a special woodland machine. The exterior is similar to that of a large forklift, except that the front of the truck has been replaced with a large roller device. This device has countless groups of alloy knives with the function of cutting and crushing.

In other words, the roots of the tree are dug up and left in place. When the machine is pushed all the way through, both the roots and the dead branches turn into powder.

The powder from the trees can be spread on the forest floor, which not only saves transportation costs, but also quickly decays into waste in the field, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"Then we don't have enough workers in the forest farm, what are you going to plant with the new 5,000 hectares of forest land? ”

Qi Xiuyuan's thinking was a little unable to keep up with Feng Tiance's development speed, he just returned to China, and Feng's Wood Industry had another 5,000 hectares of mountain forests.

"Let's use mixed forests, this time I total, the main tree species is planted with three-leaf rubber trees, supplemented by high-value trees such as sandalwood and small-leaved red sandalwood, and appropriately planted some phoenix trees, frangipani trees, palm trees, palm trees, kapok trees, etc. ”

Unlike the Southwest and Central Mountains, the southeast mountain range is heavily devastated in primeval forests. Therefore, it is not a good choice to establish a secondary ecological forest dominated by rubber trees.

However, the current international price of natural rubber is not very good, and rubber tapping requires a lot of labor, so the efficiency is relatively poor. ”

Qi Xiuyuan quickly calculated an account in his heart, and felt that the input-output ratio was not very ideal.

5,000 hectares of woodland, or 75,000 acres. Artificial rubber plantations are generally planted with rubber trees more intensively, such as the rubber plantation in Qiongdao, with an average of 40 rubber trees per acre of woodland, and other associated tree species are not counted.

Feng Tiance's forest farm has always simulated the primeval forest environment, and there are about 80 trees of all sizes per acre of natural forest, because there are many shrubs and herbaceous plants in between. Therefore, according to the calculation of planting 34 rubber trees per acre of forest land, 2.55 million rubber trees need to be planted on 5,000 hectares of forest land.

A rubber tapping worker can manage only 1,000 rubber trees, and basically rotate the tree position once every three days. Because most varieties of rubber trees can be tapped, once every two or three days.

In this way, rubber tappers plus some management and maintenance personnel need to recruit about 3,000 new workers for this new 5,000 hectares of forest land alone.

The initial investment in planting rubber trees is huge, and the price of a rubber sapling ranges from a few dollars to tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars depending on the variety and growth period. The minimum age of rubber trees that can be cut and harvested is six years, and rubber trees that are eight to twelve years old produce the largest amount of rubber.

Raising your own seedlings or buying rubber tree seedlings will increase the cost of time. The purchase of rubber trees that are three to six years old, plus the cost of planting, requires an investment of tens of millions of dollars at a time.

In the current market, the annual output of each rubber tree is about 10 kilograms, the output value of a single tree is 20 US dollars, 2.55 million trees, the total output of dry rubber is about 25,500 tons, and the total output value is 51 million US dollars.

Therefore, Qi Xiuyuan said that the current efficiency of planting rubber trees is not high.

"Haha, the benefits are not high, but there is still something to be earned, to put it bluntly, planting rubber trees is not mainly to make money, or to solve more local employment. This is also for the long-term development of the enterprise."

Feng Tiance feels that if his company wants to take root here, it is a good way to solve the employment of local people.

Qi Xiuyuan nodded, understood what Feng Tiance meant, and said no more.

Next, the two discussed the division of labor. Qi Xiuyuan is responsible for arranging the recruitment of new workers and the follow-up training of new workers, while Feng Tiance is responsible for cleaning up the rubber plantation, providing machinery and equipment, and rubber tree saplings.

The ordered large machinery and equipment will arrive within half a month. As for the recruitment of workers, Qi Xiuyuan is ready to entrust the forestry trade union to release the recruitment information, which is very simple.

Only rubber saplings need to be operated by Feng Tiance himself, which is relatively troublesome.

After urgently purchasing a large number of high-quality clover seeds, he began to work on seedlings in the space.

First of all, he opened up a seedling site of 1,000 acres of rubber trees in the plain area of space, and then he used a fully automatic seeding machine to sow seeds. This kind of machinery, from sowing to covering to watering, is completely controlled by the central computer on the car, and it is not too easy to work on an area of 30 acres in an hour.

In just over 30 hours, Feng Tiance completed the task of sowing this thousand acres of land.

The seeds are treated in advance with a dilution of space well water, and after sowing, a dilution of 2 percent concentration is watered. One day after planting, 300,000 rubber tree seedlings began to emerge.

These seedlings have grown to a height of 30 centimeters on average, which looks very gratifying.

The seedling cultivation on his side is progressing rapidly, and the recruitment of new workers on Qi Xiuyuan's side is also nearing completion.

After Muen received the news, he posted a recruitment information in the forestry union. The service hall of the trade union not only provides services such as membership registration and labor dispute mediation registration, but also releases some recruitment and job search information from time to time on the scrolling large screen.

Of course, the vast majority of the services are for the 300,000 full members of the union.

The jobs in Feng's Wood are undoubtedly very popular. In a short period of time, more than 10,000 members submitted application forms.

After careful selection, the three thousand people were quickly decided.

"Mr. Qi, new employees still need to be trained first. I mean, let them do the tree replanting work in Area A\\B now. ”

The harvesting of the primary forest is also about to be completed, but the subsequent clearing and replanting of trees has been carried out slowly.

In the past, there was a shortage of manpower, with 1,000 employees, including 250 workers in the No. 3 forest farm, and 50 workers leading temporary workers to carry out the daily maintenance and other work of the No. 1 and No. 2 forest farms. Zhang Youzhi recently had 100 employees start the work of extracting incense from the forest musk deer with him, but there are actually only 600 workers working in the primeval forest.

These 600 people have to cut down and transport timber, and the progress of clearing the forest land and replanting trees will inevitably be slow.

According to Feng Tiance's intentions, Qi Xiuyuan gathered all the six hundred old employees to carry out logging and transportation work. Some of the veteran employees who are responsible for the daily management of No. 1 and No. 2 Forest Farms were dispatched, and 3,000 newcomers were led to start a large-scale afforestation in the primeval forest.

Due to the replanting of trees, on average, only 60 trees need to be planted on one hectare of forest land. Of the 100,000 hectares of virgin forest, only 6 million trees need to be planted by hand.

If it weren't for the lack of transportation in the jungle now, and the number of all-terrain vehicles and wild elephants could not keep up, this work, which would have taken only 30 days, is expected to take a month and a half to two months to complete.

Of course, part of the reason is that Feng Tiance's seedlings can't be supplied so quickly.

On the side of the rubber plantation, large machinery and equipment have arrived one after another. However, there was a serious shortage of operators in the forest farm, so Feng Tiance simply outsourced the clean-up work. Anyway, the road of the rubber plantation is well built, and it is suitable for large-scale machinery work.

Several excavators dig out the roots of the rubber tree, and several grinders follow up to crush it. 5,000 hectares of woodland, cleared in less than a week.

So Feng Tiance personally went into battle, piloted a seeding helicopter, and carried out flying sowing operations in the rubber plantation. Of course, the seeds of forest trees such as rubber trees are treated in advance with a dilution of space well water.

It was densely sown three times, and a lot of seeds were wasted, but after a few days, all the seeds, including the rubber trees, had already sprouted.

The seeds sown include the seeds of the rubber tree, and there are also a few such as rosewood, sandalwood, golden silk nanmu, phoenix wood, kapok tree, etc. But the vast majority are rubber tree seeds, there is no doubt about that.

The rubber plantation is still a no-man's land, and after the evacuation of the clean-up professionals, Feng Tiance is the only one in the entire woodland.

Today, the rubber tree saplings on the spatial plain have been cultivated by the dilution of well water, and the trees are more than a year old.

Feng Tiance cultivated 10,000 rubber tree seedlings in the 100-acre seedling base on Huxin Island using the space well water stock solution, and then exchanged species with the 1,000-acre rubber tree seedlings in the space.

Every three hours, he would go to the island in the middle of the lake, and the 10,000 rubber trees on the island would be more than six years old. Then he exchanged these six-year-old rubber trees to the Great Plains of Space, and the seedlings exchanged back continued to ripen.

Cycle.

Ninety hours later, the 1,000 acres of land in the Great Plain of Space were densely packed with rubber trees that were more than six years old, and there were 300,000 of them.

That night, the rubber plantation was foggy. Silently, 300,000 rubber trees over six years old were exchanged with the newly sprouted saplings in the rubber plantations. On average, there are 60 of these rubber trees per hectare of woodland.

Other tropical trees, including high-value trees such as rosewood, goldenrod, sandalwood, and common trees such as kapok trees and nut trees, are abundant in the space, and most of them are between ten and twenty years old.

All these tree species have been exchanged, and there are 300 large trees of various tropical forests except rubber trees for every hectare of woodland in the rubber plantation.

In the morning, the fog cleared, and the rubber plantations were already lined with trees.

This is also in the no-man's land on the outskirts of the primeval forest, and the No. 3 forest farm is also some distance away from here, otherwise someone would have to shout that it is haunted.

Now that the big picture has been decided, the remaining rubber saplings can be exchanged in batches. Eventually, there will be more than 2 million rubber trees over six years old on the 5,000-hectare forest land, and more than 2 million other tropical trees.

Not only that, Feng Tiance also expanded the small seedling base on Huxin Island to 2,000 acres. At the same time, in the mountainous and plain areas of space, the newly purchased drones are used to carry out aerial seeding afforestation.

During this time, Assistant Wang's work was fruitful. Forest seeds from all over the world were procured and handed over to Feng Tiance.

For this reason, Feng Tiance specially rebuilt four Daxing warehouses at the foot of the stone castle. Two of the warehouses are used to store various seeds, and the other two warehouses are used to store all kinds of large equipment and construction machinery.

In the southeastern mountains, the use of helicopters for reforestation has not stopped, but now it has been replaced by other tropical tree species.