Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 140: High-priced cow dung

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tagawa did not return to the capital immediately, but stayed in the village for a few more days.

In the past few days, Tagawa has traveled all over the land in the village in order to get an intuitive impression of these lands. He lacked a clear idea in his mind about what to plant and how to plant these fields, and he hoped that through his direct observation, he could generate some inspiration.

After two days, Tian Chuan still did not have a very clear idea, but the autumn harvest and autumn sowing were imminent, how much wheat should be planted, and which land should be set aside for planting various miscellaneous grains, this matter must be decided before the National Day. But he didn't even know how much wheat he needed to plant now, so he couldn't help but be a little impatient.

On the evening of the seventeenth day, Tian Chuan invited his uncle Tian Jianyu, who had returned to the village, to his house to ask for his and his father's opinions. In response to Tian Chuan's question, Tian Jianyu said: "Xiaochuan, if you ask which land is suitable for planting something, your father and I can tell you clearly, but if you ask how much wheat we need to plant, we can't answer you." The things we grow this time are to be sold in your club to adjust the price, and the sales direction has been determined, so you only need to determine the demand. I suggest you do some research in the clubhouse and always come up with a reasonable number. ”

Tian Dad Tian Jianguang also echoed: "Yes, if you want to determine how many things you need to plant, in the end, it depends on the needs of your club, and we guess at home for a long time, which may not be reliable." ”

Tian Chuan patted his head and said, "I've been confused these days, in fact, when school just started, I had already started to do the investigation, let's see the results of the investigation." ”

When he turned on his computer, logged in to the forum, and opened the survey post he had pinned to the top at the time, he found that the building had been built hundreds of floors. The purchase intentions of various staple grains and miscellaneous grains have been clearly demonstrated. More than 600 members participated in the questionnaire survey, and the purchase intentions of various grains are as follows:

All-purpose flour: 67%

White flour: 42%

Corn products such as cornmeal and ballast: 78%

Mung beans: 86%

Soybeans and soybean products: 64%

Black beans and black bean products: 31%

Beans used in porridge such as red beans, climbing beans, cloud beans, etc.: 84%

Peanuts, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams and other root grains: 77%

Xiaomi: 65%

Rhubarb rice, sorghum rice, sesame, sunflower seeds and other uncommon grains: 39%

After reading these data, Tian Chuan probably had a bottom in his heart. The purchase amount of white flour is much larger than that of other cereals, as long as the members who decide * will be in accordance with the daily consumption amount *, and other cereals, even if *, are also used to adjust the taste, the total consumption will not be too much, so the purchase intention is only a reference value, and the specific eating method of coarse grains should be referred to determine the final planting area, but the reference significance of these data is large enough.

Based on wheat and referring to the members' intentions, Tagawa believes that about 400 to 500 acres of wheat will need to be planted next year, and the previous preliminary data of 600 acres seems to be unreliable. The planting area of other miscellaneous grains was also planned accordingly, and the final planting area of miscellaneous grains was about 220 acres. As for the remaining 100 acres of land, Tian Chuan has not yet decided what to plant, and his initial idea is to fallow or plant beans or alfalfa on the remaining 100 acres of land to achieve the purpose of maintaining the fertility of the land. Of course, the proportion of fallow of more than 100 acres per year is a bit small, and the restoration of land fertility is not of great significance, but as long as there is fallow land, these fallow land can be displayed to members as a benchmark for healthy planting. He wants to try planting for a year next year, see the actual harvest and feedback from members, and then decide whether it is necessary to find a way to expand the total planting area or increase the proportion of fallow fields.

He discussed with Tian Jianyu and his father for a night, and finally decided to put the land that had been fallow for the first year on a piece of land in the east of the village, the most barren village. The land is close to the village, but the already infertile land has been overcultivated for many years, and the sandy soil does not retain water, and after a heavy rain, the rain washes away the organic matter and phosphorus and potassium elements in the soil.

Tagawa hopes to plant a season of alfalfa on the land through a year of fallow to accumulate some organic nutrients for the land. At the same time, the land is connected to the North Depression that he is renovating, and next year, the transformed barren North Depression will also be planted with alfalfa, a leguminous plant whose bacteria in the nodules can synthesize nitrogen from the air into organic matter, which will be retained in the plant and soil, increasing the fertility of the land. In the fall, the harvested alfalfa rhizomes are ploughed into the soil, and after a winter of decay, they become nutrients for the land, which can add a lot of fertility to the land in the coming year. The harvested alfalfa is also a high-quality feed for chickens, geese, sheep and other food.

In the area adjacent to the neighboring village of Shilicheng Village, he has prepared to set up a quarantine zone up to 30 meters wide to isolate the impact of the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the neighboring village. In order to expand the effect of the quarantine, he also plans to dig a 4-meter-wide ditch in the outermost part of the quarantine area, which is relatively deep and at the same time plays a role in preventing people or animals from crossing the border. In a 25-meter-wide barrier on the inside of the ditch, Tagawa plans to plant trees, including a green fence of thorns, guarding the edge of the ditch. Whether to plant fruit trees or other trees in the fence was undecided, and he always felt that each had its own advantages and disadvantages, and it was a little difficult to choose for a while.

After much deliberation, he finally decided to plant a mix of fruit trees and ornamental trees on this land, and he had a special affection for fruit trees, on the one hand, because most of them are very beautiful when they bloom, on the other hand, because the fruit trees with fruit trees are also a landscape, and on the other hand, he likes the joy of fruit trees when they are harvested. Here, he plans to plant a mix of fruit trees, as he did in the base, rather than a single orchard. His idea was simple: when the trees were ripe in the fall, they could be used as a picking project for the village's picking team, and the mixed planting of multiple fruit trees would attract the attention of tourists to the greatest extent. If necessary, he could also raise some roosters in the woods, and now the members are eager to see the roosters at the base.

These more than 800 acres of land, in previous years are the use of chemical fertilizer, the villagers seem to have completely promoted the use of farm fertilizer interest, laborious and laborious, fertilizer efficiency is low, the use of farm fertilizer outweighs the loss, this is a discerning person to know at a glance. And this year, after Tagawa contracts these lands, he will definitely not use chemical fertilizers again, so the matter of fertilizers is a big deal. After Uncle Tian Jianyu came back, the first thing he did was also to prepare fertilizer. He contacted the pig farm opened by Zong Guangquan in the village and bought all the pig manure that Zong Guangquan had accumulated for nearly two years.

Zong Guangquan is one of the few two small surnames in the village, having only moved from his father's generation. He has a general relationship with others in the village, because everyone does not like to use farm fertilizer, his pig manure is seriously unsalable, and a large piece is piled up outside the pig farm, and everyone who passes by here hides their noses. After the heavy rain, the village cleaned up the environment, and his pig farm bore the brunt, and he had no choice, he had been worried for a long time. Wang Dayong has already given him an ultimatum, if the environment of the pig farm cannot be effectively improved before the National Day, the village will forcibly take back the pig farm. He has nothing to do about it, the people in the village are all bent on tourism, and he will definitely not be able to twist the meaning of the whole village alone, not to mention that even if there is only Wang Dayong alone, he can't afford to provoke him. This time, Tian Jianyu bought all his pig manure and transported it to the newly built biogas digester at the base for processing. At the same time, he also signed a long-term supply contract with the base, and the daily pig manure can be directly transported to the base using a sealed transport vehicle, and there is no need to worry about the pig manure polluting the environment.

Relying only on Zong Guangquan's pig manure and chicken manure from the chicken farm, it is still not enough to fully meet the needs of nearly 800 acres of land and base, Tian Chuan asked Professor Liu Fengying to help him find a way to solve this problem, and Professor Liu put forward the idea of a septic tank in the village. Now the construction of sewers and water toilets in the village is almost complete, because the south of the village is lower than the north of the village, and the septic tank in the village is said to be built in the southwest of the village. In order not to pollute the environment, this septic tank is built so advanced that it can thoroughly treat the village's sewage before discharging it into the irrigation canal in the west of the village. Professor Liu's idea is to separate the organic matter from the septic tank, treat it harmlessly, and use it as fertilizer. To this end, Professor Liu cooperated with the organic agriculture major of the Department of Chemistry of the university and proposed a set of solutions. The plan requires an investment of nearly 2 million yuan to build a state-of-the-art organic fertilizer plant to reuse the village's wastewater. However, this is not a mature solution and requires some small-scale experimentation before the design can be finalized. Tian Chuan invested another 200,000 yuan in this research area. According to several professors involved in the study, if things go well, the fertilizer plant could be built next spring.

In addition, Professor Liu also set up a green manure base in the middle of the field, which can ferment some field weeds and crop straw into green manure, which also makes up for the lack of fertilizer to a certain extent.

At the same time, Tian Chuan wrapped the sheep dung of Wang Cripple and the cow dung of a cattle farm in a neighboring village. Cow dung is an essential means of production for the Tagawa base, which is used to build earthworm culture medium and culture medium for planting out of soil, and then applied to the field as fertilizer after use.

Due to Tian Chuan's increasing demand for cow dung, the cow dung of the cattle farm with hundreds of cattle began to rise in price, and the price increase was even more severe, quadrupling to four times the original time, causing Qi Ligang to complain to Tian Chuan all the time. Tian Chuan had no better choice but to start from a cattle farm* nearly 40 kilometers away, where cow dung is not expensive, but with the freight, the price is not cheaper than the high-priced cow dung in the neighboring village. But the cattle farm in the neighboring village angered Tagawa, and he had instructed his employees to resolutely stop the cow dung of that family, even if he didn't want money, and no longer help them consume it, so that he could sell it to whomever he liked.