Chapter 20 Heavy rain and waterlogging
It rained all night, and early the next morning, when Lin Quan came out with Wangcai, there was already a country outside, and the water in the yard was more than a foot deep, and it was almost about to reach the house, but the house left by the British had a very high foundation, which shows that the British have long understood the rainy season here. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Wearing a pair of boots and wading through the stagnant water, Lin Quan walked out of the yard.
With such heavy rain, he was a little worried about the freshly planted seeds on the farm.
At this time, the seeds have just germinated, and the energy stored in the seeds will be consumed, and the young girls who have just begun to grow are not chlorophyll and cannot photosynthesize, which also means that this group of plants is the most vulnerable time, generally speaking, when they grow the second layer of leaves, it is time for them to photosynthesize and get rid of the nutrient dependence on the original seeds, and at this time, if you don't happen to encounter a heavy rain, it is really to eight lifetimes of blood mold, because after the rain floods the seedlings, the seedlings that cannot breathe will carry out anaerobic respiration, and the energy consumption of the plant will produce alcohol, which directly corrodes the root system of the plantIn this way, the survival rate of seedlings will drop very much, and in this case, the final yield of crops will be very worrying.
But fortunately, in the layout and planning of the farm, the unique environmental conditions of Africa have been considered, so a lot of drainage ditches have been dug in the farm, and the terrain of this farm is not in the low-lying area, so it is not very easy to be flooded, and there is a river next to the farm, therefore, Zhang Chuan has injected a large number of drainage channels into the river, the terrain of the river is much lower than the farm, so it is not afraid of the river irrigation, when it rains, the rainwater of the farm will flow into the river along the channel, so that the rainwater can be drained away as soon as possible。
However, this time the rain was very heavy, so Lin Quan's heart was more worried, he was worried that the farm would be flooded.
Sure enough, the situation outside is relatively bad, the east side of the farm is relatively high and there is no effect, at this time the water potential has dropped, leaving only a layer of flood traces, and the situation on the west side of the farm is not so good, the terrain here is relatively low, and this is also the convergence of drainage channels, so the water on this side has not completely subsided, so more than half of the crops have been submerged.
Lin Quan was a little anxious when he saw this, and immediately instructed the workers to turn on the pumping machine in the warehouse, and then turn on the full horsepower, use the pumping machine to pump water, and speed up the removal of stagnant water.
In order to prevent the intake of a large number of impurities to block the pipeline, it is necessary to dredge it later, dig a deeper water inlet, and then set a finer filter screen, so as to reduce the inhalation of stones, branches, plastics and other things.
This time is the time to test the ability of the workers, TSNY's rainy season is coming, so during this period of time, similar waterproof drills have been carried out several times, so it stands to reason that the workers should deal with it relatively smoothly, but at this time the situation is not very good, because these workers are not actually overnight in the farm, they are all going home, so it will take time for them to come over in the morning, and at this time there is actually a relatively deep water outside, so it will take a lot of time for them to rush over。
This led to the fact that the number of workers who came to the farm at this time was not large, if it weren't for the fact that the weather was too hot, so the time to go to work in the morning was advanced, it is estimated that few people would be able to arrive at this point, but at this time Lin Quan didn't have the heart to rejoice at all.
Only six of the sixteen workers came, and with the addition of the two wardens on the farm, and himself, there were only nine in total, and at this time he could only command the limited manpower to start saving himself.
Nivelle left the latest yesterday, but he came very early this morning, and he had arrived before seven o'clock, because he did not go home last night, but went to a relative's house for a night, which was not very far from the farm, so he came early in the morning, and at this time, Lin Quan commanded the workers to start saving themselves, so he immediately joined everyone's team.
I have to say that although Neville is not physically strong, he can use his brain, and after following Lin Quan for a while at the beginning, he completely grasped the key point of this work, and then his performance was much better than others.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, many rural areas in China used this type of machinery to pump water for irrigation of farmland, especially in hilly areas.
The water system in the south of the Yangtze River is all over, but there is no large area of plains, the plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are not very large, and there are many mountains in the area of JXHBHNFJZJ, so this kind of pumping machine plays a big role.
At that time, the national grid system was still unstable, and the voltage was relatively low, so some electric pumps with smaller size, more labor-saving, and greater power could not be used, because the actual power of this thing would drop very badly when the voltage dropped, and the diesel engine pump that did not use electricity and only used diesel did not have this problem, so it was very popular at that time.
However, with the gradual development of China's infrastructure, the stable operation of the power grid system, and the gradual improvement of water conservancy facilities in various places, there are fewer and fewer places that need to use diesel pumps, but in Africa, because the infrastructure here is very scarce, the power supply is not popularized at all, and the electricity cost is very high, so the general electric pumping machine is difficult to use, so in the farm, the main reserve is this diesel pump.
The diesel engine is not very troublesome to use, but this thing needs to be watched all the time, refueling, control, cooling, etc., are inseparable from people, these workers will not look at these things at all, all have to be done by Lin Quan, but he has to command, and take care of these three machines, how is it not an easy thing, and at this time Nivelle stood up and took the initiative to take on part of the task.
This surprised Lin Quan!