Chapter 863: Harvest Farms and Ranches
When Boss Zhong and his four brothers returned from Mozambique, they were already in their prime.
However, Boss Zhong stayed in Mozambique for nearly three months, and the results were still very large.
After several rounds of negotiations, President Armando of Mozambique finally signed the lease contract, and the newly established "Harvest Farm" finally settled in Mozambique.
The reason why this farm and ranch was given such a vulgar-sounding name was mainly because Boss Zhong and his four brothers really didn't have the talent to come up with a name, and they held back for more than a month before they finally came up with such a name.
But the name is also very good, harvest, if you don't ask for a good harvest, what else can you ask for?
The size of the harvest farms and pastures alone is enough to show how desperate the Mozambican authorities are in need of food.
The final demarcation of the harvest farm was in the province of Gaza, with an average east-west span of 110 kilometers from the Limpopo River in the west to the Shangane River in the east. The northern end of the ranch starts at the southern edge of the famous Banhan National Park and extends south to the area where the Limpopo and Shangane rivers meet. The length of the east and west also reached an average of 110 km.
The total area of harvest farms and pastures has reached a staggering 12,100 square kilometers, or 1.21 million hectares. This area occupies almost a quarter of the area of Gaza province and is the largest farm farm in Mozambique and the whole of Africa.
When Boss Zhong and President Armando were negotiating, they only proposed such an area with the idea of a lion's mouth, and even Boss Zhong himself was not confident that he would be able to obtain such a large area of land. Although this land is all wasteland, and there is nothing on it except grass and shrubs, the area of this land is too large, and Boss Zhong, who has come into contact with farming and pasture for the first time, really has no confidence that they will be able to take this land.
But Boss Zhong underestimated President Armando's thirst for food and land lease money, and when Boss Zhong proposed this area, President Armando almost didn't hesitate and agreed directly. And not only that, but the black president even plans to allocate the land between Shao Kui and Ma Kaiser to Harvest Ranch as well.
The Shangane River is the boundary river between Gaza Province and Inhambane Province, this river is very abundant, originally this river and the Limpopo River were parallel to the southeast, but in the downstream Makaize location, the Shangane River suddenly turned a big bend to the west, and finally converged with the Limpopo River in the south of Shaokui, and returned to the sea together.
The area where the Shangane River and the Limpopo River meet, from Shaokui in the west to Makaize in the east, is more than 70 kilometers long and more than 50 kilometers wide, forming a large swampy area, where the land moisture becomes very good during the dry season, but in the rainy season, let alone farming, even people cannot enter.
Of course, Boss Zhong can't ask for such an area, why are you here? Do you raise crocodiles to play?
The most important thing is that once this tasteless and abandoned land is to be brought down, it will have to pay the Mozambican authorities a land lease fee. Boss Zhong didn't want to be this kind of wrongdoer, so he politely rejected President Armando's proposal.
Although the area of harvest farms and pastures is also a key point in the negotiations, the most important thing is the land lease price of harvest farms.
In this regard, President Armando did not embarrass them too much, and finally negotiated a price of 14,000 meticais per square kilometer.
The metical is the currency of Mozambique, and the exchange ratio of this currency to the Chinese dollar is about 70:1, which means that the land lease price for the harvest farm is 200 Chinese yuan per square kilometer!
This price is too low for the grandmasters. You must know that in Dahua, even if it is wasteland and mountainous land, the annual rental price of one acre of land will not be less than 400 yuan, and if it is good land, one acre of land must at least need more than 700 yuan.
In Mozambique, it only costs 200 Chinese yuan to lease one square kilometer a year, which is converted into less than 0.14 Chinese yuan a year for one acre of land......
It's no wonder that the prices here are so low. No way, this land has been so barren since before Mozambique was founded, although this land is actually very fertile, but no one cultivates it, this is wasteland. If there is no one to develop it, Mozambique's financial resources may not be able to grow food in another 100 years.
Rather than being so deserted, it is better to attract foreign investment and development at a more attractive price.
After all, this more than 10,000 square kilometers of land, if there is no foreign capital to develop, it will still be a paradise for local indigenous animals such as wildebeest and bison.
And if this 12,000 square kilometers of wasteland is leased to harvest farms and pastures, it can at least earn 2.4 million yuan a year.
In Dahua or other developed countries, 2.4 million Chinese dollars is nothing, but in a country like Mozambique, where poor people can't even afford to wear pants, 2.4 million Chinese dollars is a huge amount of money.
Moreover, the tenure of the harvest farm and ranch to lease this land is as long as 70 years, not to mention, at least from this year, the government authorities can have an annual income of 2.4 million yuan, which is quite a happy thing.
In addition, once the harvest pasture is established, it will inevitably provide employment opportunities for at least 2,000 people. Although there is no agricultural tax, value-added tax or other taxes on the harvest farms and pastures, more than 2,000 jobs are a good thing for Mozambique.
In general, the Mozambican authorities want to turn wasteland into fertile land, which will not only solve the country's food crisis, but also increase employment opportunities. And Boss Zhong and the others want to get a piece of fertile land that is cheap enough, so that if you have affection and I have intentions, this lease contract will be signed very happily.
And on the day the contract was signed, Mr. Zhong transferred 24 million Chinese yuan to the Mozambican authorities on behalf of the harvest farm, which was the land lease for the first ten years.
With so much money, President Armando is also very happy. A piece of land that has been abandoned for millions of years can be exchanged for 24 million Chinese dollars in an instant, which is almost the equivalent of pie in the sky for poor Mozambique. Not to mention anything else, in next year's presidential election, President Armando can rely on this incident to add a very heavy weight to his campaign!
After the contract was signed, Boss Zhong and his four brothers flew back from Maputo to China. After spending the Spring Festival at home, it is necessary to work in Dagante in Gaza Province of Mozambique as soon as spring begins......
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