Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 186: New Base Construction and Marathon

The final exam, which lasted for nearly two weeks, was coming, and Tagawa, as usual, stayed at home every day to review, taking an exam every day or two, and sometimes when the elective courses and the required courses rushed together, he would take two exams a day, and even once, two exams at the same time, he communicated with the teacher and the invigilator in advance, first spent half the time to complete the first exam, and then rushed to the examination room of another exam, and delayed a little time, to complete the exam of the elective course.

After two weeks, he finally completed all ten courses, and Tagawa's self-esteem was still as good as ever, and he estimated that his grades this semester would not be bad, so he was relieved.

During the examination, the asset management company made plans for the construction of the two new sites. This plan was completed under the guidance of the expert group, and Tagawa himself did not participate in it because he had to take the exam and basically did not have time to get it. It was only after the plan came out, it took two hours to read the report, and then the management company began to carry out the necessary infrastructure work on the two plots.

The current base has increased from one to three, and although there is no need for unified management for the time being, this matter will be put on the agenda sooner or later. At the same time, the construction of the club in Tianjin City will also be put on the agenda. The current management personnel are a little stretched, and Qi Ligang can manage the base in Tianjiacun with ease, but if he is allowed to manage it together with the two new bases, it is still a little difficult, and Tian Chuan arranged for the human resources department to start preparing the management personnel.

Tagawa plans to transfer some personnel from the existing base to the construction and management of the new base in advance, and then gradually recruit workers and managers from the local area in the future. Fortunately, the early infrastructure work did not require too many manpower, and it was still able to meet the needs for a while.

Since the establishment of two new bases, the original base in Tianjia Village has been named Base 1, the farm in Langfang City has been named Base 2, and the base in Shuanghe has been named Base 3. As Professor Lang suggested, Base 2 will be used primarily as a production base for food crops, that is, for planting field crops in the north, while Base 3 will be built as a breeding base and vegetable base first, and the transformed land will be used to grow fodder crops, and the land will be gradually improved in the cultivation of fodder crops until it can finally be used as ordinary land.

It's winter and not much construction work can be done. At the No. 2 base, the main work is the construction of the fence of the base and the construction of the internal separation zone. Around the site, a whole circle of iron fences has been built, and a 30-meter-wide separation zone has been set up inside the fence to separate it from the surrounding farmland and avoid the impact of pesticides and fertilizers on the green planting on the farm.

Between the isolation zone and the planting area in the middle, a circle of about eight meters wide was excavated, which was also built as an isolation measure, and inside the moat river, it was the planting base. Tagawa plans to plant a variety of fruit trees on the side of the moat river on one side of the barrier, and the barrier will be used to grow various pasture crops. Inside the river is the land used for grain cultivation. In the future, it will be possible to grow wheat and corn in two crops, as well as various cereals.

It's 1996, and in that year, he doesn't plan to plant any food crops on this barren land, but grows some alfalfa and soybeans to add fertility to the land. The only thing to be officially planted this year is the circle of fruit trees along the river in the moat, after all, the growth period of fruit trees is relatively long, and it will take a few years to plant before the official harvest can be formed.

The construction of the No. 2 farm also includes the construction of the farm. The houses in the original Hongguang Farm Department are ordinary brick houses, which can barely be used for office work, but some functional buildings do not, and those dilapidated agricultural machinery are not of much use, only a deep plough is rusty, but it can still be used, and other things, including the tractor, can already be used as scrap iron.

In the large empty courtyard of the farm, Tagawa demolished some of the surplus houses and built an agricultural machinery warehouse and a silage warehouse, which were not engaged in farming, but could produce fodder for the No. 3 farm. As for the granary and grain processing plants, as well as the distribution center, they are not needed for the time being, and can wait until next year's grain crops are harvested.

Another building to be built is a fertilizer warehouse, and the organic farm fertilizer is huge, and the warehouse area required is quite large. The large amount of organic fertilizer used here has to be processed and shipped from Farm No. 2, which is one of the reasons why he was hesitant in the first place.

Compared with the No. 2 base, the construction of the No. 3 base is much more complicated. The first thing that was done here was the field trimming on the dirt hill, which required a lot of earthwork, with multiple excavators, loaders and bulldozers working at the same time to create a terraced area of the dirt hill.

At the top of the mountain, a huge reservoir has been built, which can be pressurized to ensure the irrigation of nearly 1,100 acres of land in the entire soil mountain, taking advantage of the height of nearly 20 meters above the bottom. Because drip irrigation is a water-saving irrigation method, the reservoir can be filled with water at one time to ensure irrigation water for a long time.

After the construction of the terraces, a water supply pipe for irrigation will be laid on the dirt hill to ensure the water supply here. Next to the cistern of the dirt mountain, a deep well is being drilled to supply water to the entire farm.

At the foot of the slope of the dirt mountain, there is a piece of land with nearly 100 acres of serious desertification, where the farm of No. 3 Farm is built, and at the same time, greenhouses and some functional buildings for off-soil planting will also be built here. Although the Spring Festival is approaching, it is still a hot construction scene. Buildings are being erected.

On the hillside, cattle farms, pig farms, chicken farms, and other buildings are being built, and around these buildings are various fruit tree planting areas, which will be a beautiful scenery surrounded by greenery in the future.

In the depression, there is also a batch of machinery under construction, excavators in the depression to catch a number of fish ponds, but these fish ponds are much deeper than the general fish ponds, the excavated soil is transported to other parts of the depression, the depression is raised, in order to avoid the rainy season water and further salinization of the soil.

After the arrival of spring, all the built and unbuilt land here will be planted with alfalfa, which will be used as fodder for cattle and sheep, and at the same time play a role in sending soil.

A fence was also built around the farm, and a buffer barrier was created within the fence. It's just that the moat river inside the isolation zone is not a full circle, because the terrain difference is too great to build a whole circle.

After the exam, Tagawa finally relaxed and could have some time for himself. But before he had time to take a good rest, Coach Ma came to the door: "Tian Chuan, there are ten days before the Beijing Winter Marathon, I heard that there are two famous African long-distance runners who will participate in the competition this time, and the competition will be very fierce, you have to prepare well in advance." ”

Tagawa had never trained for a marathon before, especially in this kind of winter marathon, where the warm-up was slower and more physically demanding, so he had to practice in advance.

Tagawa checked the results of previous winter marathons and found that the results in winter were worse than in other seasons, but the results were not only affected by the season and temperature, but also by the road conditions at the venue. The best time in the winter marathon in Beijing is about 2 hours and 10 minutes.

In the early hours of the six days before the race, Tagawa did a field run along the race route, the temperature at night was relatively low, and when there was no competition, he did not perform well, and after completing the race, he saw that the timer showed a time of more than 2 hours and 24 minutes, and he felt very tired after the run, which made him a little doubtful that he would run well in the race. However, Coach Ma said that when the temperature is low at night, more calories are consumed when running, and in the actual competition, if there are masters competing with each other, it will also make the performance improve greatly. In the actual race, the results will definitely be much better than running at night.

In this pre-race training, he only ran the real full course once, and for the rest of the exercises, he just spent the strength and Tai Chi practice time in the morning exercise every day on long-distance running, that is, running for nearly two hours a day. He didn't keep a detailed record of the running distance, but the speed of the run was not very fast, and he ran at random speeds, and estimated that the actual distance he ran every day was about thirty or forty kilometers.

The members of the school's Taijiquan Association all knew that Tagawa was about to participate in the marathon and was training before the race, and many people would run with him for a while in the morning, or help him lead for a while, which made him a little moved. Most of these members are not professionals, but more and more people run with him every day, and in the end it almost forms a scenery on the sports field.

Driven by Tian Chuan, some students from the school signed up for the marathon, although most of them signed up for the half or 10km race, but it still greatly improved everyone's enthusiasm for this race. To Tagawa's surprise, Michelle and Cindy, who had just arrived in the capital, also signed up for the marathon.

It's been winter vacation, and their Tai Chi Tuishou Senior Instructor Training Course has been suspended, but some members who stayed at the school are even more enthusiastic about practicing boxing. Michelle and Cindy have become more serious in their boxing.

Since Michelle and the others came to the capital to learn boxing, Tian Chuan didn't have much time to personally instruct them in boxing, and most of the time the members of the association whose fighting skills were far inferior to their were to give them guidance, but the two of them were still very engaged in training. The four master coaches of Tian Chuan's training class take turns to come to the Agricultural University every day to guide the morning exercises, which is an opportunity that Michelle and his wife cherish very much, and they often chase after them to ask their doubts. It's just that among the four, only Tian Chuan and Liu Meiting's English can communicate smoothly, while Chen Mingyuan and Zhang Yunyi can only compare.