Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 185: Signing a New Base

Early the next morning, Tian Chuan drove Lin Wenlan, two lawyers from the legal department, and six experts, each with their own assistants and some equipment for test sampling, to Hongguang Farm in Langfang City.

On the way, Lin Wenlan once again briefed Tian Chuan on the situation of this collective farm with a total area of nearly one square kilometer. Hongguang Farm is a township-run farm, which was established when the rural joint production contract responsibility system was established, and it has been more than ten years now. At the beginning of its establishment, the farm took the lead in implementing mechanized operations, and its income was much higher than that of ordinary farmers, and it was an important source of income for the local township government.

In recent years, the situation of the land has deteriorated due to over-cultivation and the heavy use of chemical fertilizers, and most of the land has shown signs of desertification, and the output of the land has been severely reduced. In addition, a main canal, which is the source of irrigation water for the farm, is often cut off due to the reduced flow of the Sihuan River upstream, and it is inconvenient for the farm to compete with nearby farmers for water, resulting in a shortage of irrigation water for the farm, and the yield is even worse.

Last year, the farm's output was already beyond its means, and there were relatively serious losses, and this year's situation was not optimistic.

Now only the director of the farm is left to watch the stall, and everyone else has found another way. When the township decided to contract out the farm, due to the state's policy of protecting cultivated land, the land was not allowed to be used for other purposes, and could only be used as agricultural land, which seriously limited the enthusiasm for contracting. The locals are quite unoptimistic about the prospects of this farm, and no one wants to take over it at all. Now the township proposed a contract fee of 300,000 yuan a year, which should be able to be lowered.

As he spoke, the car quickly arrived at the farm. A deputy head of the local township government was already waiting at the field department, and the expertise of the farm was also there, and after a few polite words, Tian Chuan proposed to take a look at the land situation first.

When he came to the field, Tian Chuan found that the land looked quite barren, and after a year of abandonment, there were some weeds growing sparsely on the ground, which was not dense, and because it was already winter, the weeds had dried up, and it looked even more desolate. In the distance, sheep are grazing on these abandoned lands. Tian Chuan asked: "Are those sheep herders from the surrounding villages? After we contract this place, they can't come to herd sheep again, will there be conflicts with these people?"

The director said: "In previous years, when the farm planted crops, these sheep herders would not come, but this year because the farm was abandoned, they only occasionally came to graze, not every day, those sheep are mostly raised with feed, and they come out to graze mainly for the sheep to move, and they don't care too much about how much they eat." As long as you plant crops and build a fence around it, there will be no problem. ”

Tian Chuan was still a little uneasy, so he personally went over and chatted with the sheep herder for a while, confirmed the news, and then let go of the matter.

While Tagawa was looking at the land and chatting with people, several professors had already begun sampling soil and plants with their assistants, preparing to go back for some laboratory tests.

Tagawa is not too worried about the irrigation water for this land, but he is still prepared to use groundwater for water-saving drip irrigation like the cotton test field, so that he will not be overly dependent on external water sources and will not worry about the farm being polluted by external water sources. He wanted to sample and analyze the groundwater in the area, but there were no wells on the farm, so he had to give up the idea.

There is no fence around the farm, and it is separated from the nearby farmland by a narrow drainage ditch that is only about two meters wide, allowing people and livestock to easily pass through. He thought that if he really contracted this place in the future, the construction cost of the surrounding fence would still be quite high.

After more than an hour, the expert group came to a preliminary conclusion that there was no problem with the land being used to grow food crops, but that the yield would certainly not be satisfactory because the land was too barren. If green planting is to be carried out, the source of fertilizer is a big issue, and large-scale farm fertilizer preparation is required.

Another problem is that pesticide and fertilizer residues in this land are estimated to be serious, and it will take some time to reduce the impact of these residues. Fortunately, this year's land has been abandoned for a year, which is equivalent to fallow, which can shorten the time for land restoration. Overall, it's still usable here.

Tian Chuan also had a good impression of this place, and he immediately communicated with the deputy township chief and reached a preliminary contract intention. Whether or not to contract this land, he ultimately depends on the results of sampling and testing, as well as the final investment analysis report of the investment company, but first reached a verbal intention with the township.

Afterwards, they declined the township chief's invitation to lunch, and got in the car and rushed to Shuanghe in Jingdong to see another piece of land there.

The group had lunch in Shuanghe County, and arrived at their destination at a little after one o'clock in the afternoon. Here, too, a deputy township chief in charge of agriculture received them. In addition, Tian Jianyu, who is more familiar with the township government here, also rushed over.

As soon as the deputy township chief met, he greeted Tian Chuan and said: "Mr. Tian has the support of the National Agricultural University here, and a large group of experts around him for technical support, and has the ability to turn decay into magic, which can be seen from the last cotton test field." This large/piece of land is also a big problem, and it seems that it is difficult for you to renovate it. ”

Tian Chuan said: "Township Chief Sun doesn't have to send me to this high platform, the last time we dealt with that cotton field, we spent a lot of money, just in a hurry to find a test field, so we took that land at any cost." This year, so much cotton has been harvested, and the investment in this field has not yet returned, if all the land is such an input-output ratio, our company will not be far from closing. This contract is different from the last time, it is actually used as business land, and if we can't make money, we won't take it over. ”

Tian Jianyu also said beside him: "That's right, Township Chief Sun, the land we contracted this time is really used to grow crops and vegetables, if the situation is too bad, I'm afraid there is no way to take over." ”

Several people laughed in their mouths, got into the car and came to the edge of the field. The situation of the land surprised everyone, the whole piece of land was at the foot of the mountain, on the west side was a small hill pack, connected to the distant slope, and part of the land was on the side of this hill pack, which was bare and did not have many plants. At the foot of the mountain bag is a continuous depression, in which some dry reeds grow from time to time, other plants are also reddish, and there is a thin layer of white alkali flowers on the ground, which is obviously a saline-alkali land.

There is no trace of cultivation in the field at all, and it is clear that there is not much value in farming. From the map, there are no rivers nearby that can be used for irrigation, and the farming conditions are quite poor. After looking at the land situation, Tian Chuan first pulled down his face: How can such land be used to grow grain? Just to renovate it, it will cost a huge amount, and I don't know how to recover it.

The experts of the expert group did not say anything at first, and sent their assistants down to take samples, and Professor Liu, an expert in agriculture, and Professor Huang, a soil expert, were not optimistic about the prospects of this land, and Professor Huang said directly to Tian Chuan: " Mr. Tian, if the highland of this land wants to be used to grow large field crops, it is necessary to prevent soil erosion by means of building similar terraces and planting trees, and then use a large amount of farm fertilizer to transform the soil, and then lay irrigation pipelines and carry out drip irrigation treatment, so that there may be a harvest. If this depression is to be used to grow things, it needs to be irrigated to remove salinity, and then the land is prepared to remove waterlogging, and then after a few years of maintenance, you can barely start some harvests, and it will take at least nearly ten years of hard work to achieve the harvest of ordinary fields. Both require a huge investment. ”

Professor Lang, who has been in contact with Tagawa for the longest time, has a different opinion on this: "Tagawa, it is quite difficult to grow crops in this field, and the soil contains too little organic matter. I thought it would be possible to build a farm to raise chickens, pigs, cows, sheep, etc., and in order to renovate the depression, you could dig a fish pond in the depression and use the excavated soil to raise other places, and gradually renovate it. More land can be used to grow alfalfa and legumes, these legumes can improve the fertility of the land, and after harvesting these plants every year, the excess grass roots can be turned into the soil, increasing the fertility of the soil, building as it goes, and after a few years, it will be a good land. The hardest part to renovate, we can build functional houses, livestock sheds, or greenhouses for planting off the soil, etc., and it will not be wasted. As long as the contract is longer, it is still cost-effective. Grain planting may as well be placed in Langfang City. ”

Professor Lang's proposal made Tagawa a little moved, but he still did not make a direct decision, but also said that he would wait for the results of the test and the results of the investment evaluation to make a final decision.

After looking at the two plots of land, Tian Chuan asked Tian Jianyu and Lin Wenlan to invite the expert group who had worked hard all day to have a good dinner and treat everyone, and he explained to several experts the reason for going back to review and prepare for the final exam, and left alone. All the experts have nothing to say about Tian Chuan's reason, after all, Tian Chuan's rare academic performance for many years is the best reason, and no one can open his mouth to stop him from going back to review.

A few days later, the test report and investment appraisal report that Tagawa had been waiting for came out, and Tagawa finally accepted Professor Lang's suggestion and signed both plots of land.