He had not only heard of it, but this multinational agricultural company called Monsanto was also very famous in the original time and space.

Monsanto started by making pesticides, and its famous products are:

During the Vietnam War, in order to make the Vietnamese travelogue team have nowhere to hide, the U.S. military purchased a defoliant called "Agent Orange" from Monsan.

Monsan's claim that "Agent Orange" only wilts the bush and is completely harmless to humans.

As a result, the U.S. military sprayed Agent Orange on 10% of the territory of southern Vietnam, using a total of 76 million liters.

After the war, tens of thousands of deformed children were born in Vietnam, and the Vietnam War veterans in the United States also suffered from the "Agent Orange", and the incidence of diabetes among veterans was 47% higher than that of normal people, and the incidence of heart disease was 26% higher.

The incidence of Hodgkin's lymphosarcoma is 50 percent higher than that of the average American, and the rate of spontaneous miscarriage and neonatal defects among wives is 30 percent higher than that of the general population.

Of course, Monsanto does not admit that these are their responsibilities.

They seemed to have just taken the accident as an experiment, and they found that Agent Orange was too toxic for commercial use, so they invented a herbicide called Roundup.

Roundup is glyphosate, and they claim that this herbicide is completely harmless to humans.

As a resultAfter more than 10 years of use, in early 2015, the World Health Organization published a study that determined that "Roundup" may cause cancer......

There is also the highly toxic pesticide DDT, which has been promoted by its main force, which was later banned internationally.

Monsanto was also involved in the land contamination disaster caused by the chlorinated biphenyl pesticides.

Later, because of its reputation, the company transformed into a business that mainly sells farm seeds.

These are all Internet rumors that Su Huai has heard, in fact, he doesn't think this company is so "evil".

After all, Monsanto also produces a lot of products that promote modern agriculture, but in Su Huai's view, one thing is certain, that is, Monsanto's pursuit of money makes their product policy very aggressive.

In order to grab the market, they are willing to take risks, and even after many years, they find that their product is faulty, and they want to take market share first and then improve it.

Whether this approach is correct or not, Su Huai is not an agricultural expert, and it is impossible to determine the pros and cons.

But he didn't like the company's arrogance in its approach to life.

At this time, the greetings are over, and the emergency carriage meeting officially begins.

Su Huai was undoubtedly the youngest of the people present, but because of his special status, he was able to sit next to Dean Ebo, and Professor Anxi and Tian could only stand aside.

Minister Sa and several officials sat across from them, and next to them were representatives of Quinn and Monsan.

After a brief and polite sentence, Minister Sa went straight to the point, and the staff took out the materials faxed from Ohio and began to analyze the pest from a technical point of view.

"Okay, let's start, let's start with this problem, Ohio and other three major corn bases have produced serious insect infestations, and it is preliminarily concluded that it is a scale ......insect plague."

Minister Sa said, pointing to the picture of the fluffy bug on the picture and asked:

"Can you tell what kind of breed this is?"

Dean Ebo and Quinn just wanted to speak, but Minister Sa waved his hand and turned his head to look at Su Huai.

"Mr. Su, what do you think?"

Su Huai knew that the other party was testing him, but he was indeed a layman, so he could only say frankly: "I can't tell the difference, I'm just here to help this time." ”

Minister Sa said: "Mr. Su, it doesn't matter if you can't see it, I just heard Dean Ebo say that you have a magical ancient Chinese agricultural encyclopedia in China, called "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", right? ”

Su Huai thought about it, he had been recalling the contents of the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" just now, analyzed a lot of information, and came to the conclusion that this scale insect plague should be a variety called cotton bead scale.

So he said his analysis: "According to the records in the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", the reason why corn can become a large-scale disaster is because it is a scale insect variety called cotton bead scale......"

Dean Ebo suddenly showed a disappointed expression, and Quinn smiled slightly:

"Mr. Su, in your Huaxia book "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", did you mention how to control cotton bead scales?"

Su Huai heard the ridicule in the other party's tone, but he said with a straight color:

The original text of the book is: "Those who are high in the field, can cotton and rice, plant cotton for two years, turn over rice for one year, that is, the grass roots are festering, the soil is fat, and the insects do not grow, and they must not be more than three years, and then they will have insects." ”

After speaking, he explained: "This is actually a rotation method, in cotton planting, add rice, and wait for the roots of the rice grass to fester, so that the soil can not grow cotton bead scales......

Hearing this, Quinn's contemptuous expression subsided slightly, but Minister Sa and his colleagues glanced at each other, showing disappointed expressions.

This method is tantamount to saying in vain, modern agriculture is a large-scale single-species planting, which is convenient for centralized transportation and sales, and it is impossible to use this kind of argument at all.

It seems that they can't expect this "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" to have any tricks.

So Minister Sa looked at Dean Ebo, Quinn, "Do you see what kind of scale insect it is?"

"It's blowing cotton scale~~" The two said in unison.

Quinn also glanced at Su Huai mockingly, which means that you, a layman, are not qualified to participate in this meeting at all.

Su Huai heard that it was "blowing cotton scales", but he unconsciously whispered:

"Isn't it usually born on fruit trees~~!?"

Not only has he heard it, but almost every Chinese in his original world has heard it! There is this story in middle school textbooks.

"In 1888, the Americans introduced a predatory ladybug from Australia, in order to imitate the blowing cotton scale in the citrus orchards in California, USA, which was called "the first amazing achievement of biological pest control" abroad. ”

But in the corn field, how can there be a cotton scale?

Quinn frowned and answered Su Huai's question in a contemptuous tone:

"Mr. Su's ancient Chinese books seem to record the agricultural knowledge before the catastrophe, after the catastrophe, many insects because of climate variation, habits have changed, this blowing cotton scale is the most harmful to corn, but also the most common scale insects. ”

Dean Ebo snorted: "The most common? I don't think it's common, Monsanto has more than a dozen pesticides, all of which have ingredients to kill cottonscales, and this time such a large-scale insect plague can be formed, it must be a mutant species with antibodies." ”

Director Ebo took the opportunity to say to Minister Sa.

"Minister Sa, with all due respect, the indiscriminate use of pesticides is the biggest cause of the infestation. ”

The audience was silent, and no one interjected, Quinn's face was cold, and he looked at Dean Ebo and sneered:

"Dean Ebo, you're speaking as if we at Monsanto created these cotton scales.

But why don't you imagine that if there is no pesticides of our Monsan, how can there be so many years of great increase in agricultural production in Xinou, and you have the ability to let the farmers of Xinou not use our pesticides, and see if they agree. ”