Volume 3 Chapter 6 There are more and more things to be concerned about
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But it can be calculated that the price of caviar from Silent Farm is 2,000 euros per kilogram. It was the selling price of the farm, and when it came to the diners, it was said to be 4,500 euros.
So don't underestimate that 5% of sales. The sturgeon produced on the farm weighed no less than 200 catties, and most of them weighed 250 catties. A fish has about 20% of its body weight in its eggs.
Each fish has at least twenty kilograms of eggs, and 5% of sales are at least two thousand euros. And Li Sheng's plan is to catch 200 fish a year. Over the course of the year, Chherpov will be able to get 400,000 euros. That's not a small number.
Chherpov was very satisfied with the cooperation and only had to work four to five days a week, and the rest of the time he could return to the city to spend the rest with his family.
So he still attaches great importance to building a good relationship with Li Sheng and them. He greeted Babur and Zhang Dingbian with a smile, and then answered Li Sheng's question with a smile: "I caught two today, one is 126 kilograms and is 72 years old, and the other is 163 kilograms and is 90 years old. A total of 31 boxes of finished products were made today. ”
This also means that he can get about 6,200 euros of pre-tax income. If he could catch such a big fish every time, he could earn 600,000 euros this year.
Li Sheng looked at him with a red face and knew why. Although that income is the highest on the entire farm except for him, that is the value of technology. Li Sheng had to hire a master producer, otherwise according to his level, those caviars could be sold for 500 euros per kilogram. And he signed a five-year cooperation agreement with Cherkov, and during these five years, Cherpov had to teach more than two caviar makers. So that money also has the meaning of training fees.
He smiled and said, "The results are good. These 31 boxes can bring him an income of nearly 120,000 euros, and he is very satisfied.
But Chherpov felt he should have been able to take more. It's not that he thinks Li Sheng's share is too small, but he thinks that the caviar from Silent Farm is sold too cheaply.
Two thousand euros a kilogram seems to be very expensive. But in fact, the most expensive caviar in the world is Iranian caviar, which costs more than $20,000 a pound, at least seven times the caviar produced by Silent Farm. Chherpov felt that the caviar of the sturgeon was no worse than the caviar. I think the price should be more than doubled.
However, Li Sheng is quite satisfied with the price. After all, this is a new variety, and it is all up to Fernando's publicity to gain a place in the market.
If the market opens up in the future, he can increase production.
He also calculated that although the number of sturgeon in the space is not large, the number of sturgeon in the tens of thousands of square kilometers of large lakes is not small because there are no natural enemies. Although it takes them at least sixty years to grow to more than 100 kilograms, the number of female sturgeon that reaches this age is definitely not less than 50,000. According to this number, it doesn't matter if you can get one or two thousand a year.
Because this large fish can spawn after the age of 20, it is not necessary to catch them over the age of 60.
Now the price of this caviar is not high, but maybe after the fame slowly spreads, it will slowly increase. He didn't think about how expensive it could be, and if it could reach 3,000 euros per kilogram, it would be okay. As for what price is sold in the market, it has nothing to do with him.
Now, the main market for caviar produced by Silent Farm is Europe and the United States, and in China, the caviar market is still being developed. The market in Jipan Country has opened up a little, but it is not very large. Selling 10 boxes a week is remarkable.
The Amazon region has high temperatures throughout the year, and it can be said that it is suitable for agriculture all year round. At the beginning, Li Sheng opened up a piece of cultivated land with an area of about ten acres near the villa area, and the main purpose was to grow some vegetables and fruits for himself. Grains such as cassava, sweet potatoes, taro, corn, potatoes and potatoes are also grown.
Infused sweet potatoes and corn were planted at about the same time, and the harvest time was about the same, and there were some beans.
It took him two days to harvest what he needed to harvest, and the rest was either eaten and picked at regular intervals.
When he has time, he will go to the unproductive planting areas in the hilly areas to see if he has been harmed by foreign animals. In particular, the other day when I was harvesting sweet potatoes, I found the catfish. It's not as destructive as a boar, though. But he is still concerned that their presence in the agricultural area of the farm will harm the crops that he values so much.
In particular, those shrubs that are specifically used to produce paclitaxel have one less when they die, and they need to be replanted. It's not possible to get cuttings. At the beginning, he experimented that no matter what kind of soil or water was used, that kind of shrub could not be vegetatively propagated at all.
In half a year, the shrub he had been calling the purple shirt fruit in his heart had grown to almost a meter tall. This height is probably also fruitful, not many, only a dozen of them. However, these purple shirt fruits have not yet bloomed, and Li Sheng is a little skeptical that the environment here is not suitable for growing such things.
Or is it that the land here is red and not fertile enough?
Li Sheng picked a few leaves and rubbed them, and found that the leaves still had enough moisture, which showed that the dry season had not affected them. It seems that when the wheat harvest is over, let the workers fertilize the shrubs, and the green manure is now enough anyway.
Speaking of which, the algae are also a bit overflowing, and if you don't harvest them with all your might, you will be able to fill the lakes in a few days. If we were to harvest at full capacity, we would not be able to double the size of the manure pond. Later, Zhang Feng and Li Sheng had to use the algae to make feed for pigs and chickens, so that they could use them up. Otherwise, it can only be piled on the ground and smell.
Also, there are so many weeds here that we have to get rid of them.
He had not sensed any trace of the cattin on the slopes of the hundreds of acres, nor had he found any trace of their visit. I guess it's because they don't have anything they like.
Not only the purple shirt fruit forest, but also the bamboo forest, coffee forest, cocoa forest and grape forest are not found. Eventually, he came to the Brazilian chestnut grove on the edge of the forest. This forest area is very large, covering more than 700 square kilometers. The Brazilian chestnut grows very quickly, and the tree is often the largest tree in the forest, and the competitive strategy of the forest allows it to develop a fast-growing habit.
With plenty of sunlight, they grow to five or six meters tall in less than a year. But if this thing wants to benefit, it will take a few years.
Here, too, there are all kinds of weeds, as well as quite a few shrubs. Although they are tall, they are not very dense trees, and the sunlight penetrates their canopy, allowing a lot of sunlight to the ground. There are not only shrubs, but also vines and weeds. And he did sense the presence of the sinister herd in this place. It was a group of thirty large cattle, and a dozen small cattlets.
However, since they mainly live in this place, Li Sheng did not think about what to do with them. This is also a forest, and it should always look like a forest. It is also normal to have several species of wildlife. As long as he doesn't destroy the crops in the growing area, his tolerance for wild animals is quite high.
This morning, he briefly looked at the situation of various crops in the hilly area, and found no widespread diseases. This is good. However, his previous idea of hiring a winemaker never materialized.
The vines were just built on a simple wooden shelf and left to grow, and they would have grown luxuriantly. But he looked at the winery of Fernando's winery, pruned to the point where only a few vines remained, and it stood on the shelf, like a small tree. It is said that a single grape usually has only a few bunches of grapes left. It seems that there is a real need to find someone who can grow grapes to manage. In the future, it is also necessary to recruit some workers to work in these cash crop areas.
However, the farm is still a little understaffed.
At noon, as usual, he picked up Tia back for lunch, and then took her to school in the afternoon. His habit had long been known to everyone on the farm. His plane had just landed that day, and Thomas, who had not been seen for a while, was already waiting for him on the ground.
Some time ago, Thomas was busy looking for a suitable jungle adventure route in the forest, and at the same time took a group of temporary workers to build roads and bridges in the forest. At this final destination, he chose the valley where the Gilloro had previously lived, and where he also offered to rebuild the treehouse. The plan is to turn it into a jungle resort.
I don't know what he wants to ask for when he comes out to find him this time.
When Tia saw Thomas, she knew that Li Sheng had something to do, so after getting off the plane, she said hello to Thomas and walked to school.
Li Sheng saw that Thomas's beard and stubble were not shaved, smiled and stepped forward to give him a hug, and said, "I thought you were planning to live a wild life in the forest." ”
"Haha, the savage life is actually not bad. The two hugged and parted, Thomas said with a smile. "Lee, we've already built the road, and the rest area on the road, and of course, a small clearing in that valley of the Gilolo tribe, and I'm going to use the wood to build some huts as a resort. What do you think?"
Speaking of which, Thomas has been very busy during this time, but his leisure travel program has never opened. However, Brother Cheng, who went to the farm with Chen Bo before the Chinese New Year, greeted Li Sheng two months ago, saying that he was applying for an international tourist route to Brazil, hoping to make his Silent Farm one of the attractions. He readily agreed, but there was no news until now.
It was only after listening to Li Sheng that Thomas worked so hard to create a jungle leisure adventure.
Li Sheng knew that Thomas was now concentrating on this aspect, and it was not good to dampen his enthusiasm: "Of course it's good. What more support do you need?"
"I need some building materials and I need a helicopter to support me. Otherwise, it will take a lot of people and time to send it from the ground. ”
Li Sheng did not refuse this, since there is wood in it, then there will not be too many other raw materials, and the helicopter does not have to fly into the forest every day: "No problem." I'll talk to Babur. Anything else?"
"We can take the rest from local sources. It's that the wood needs to be dried and it has to take some time. ”
Li Sheng thought for a moment and said, "In this case, you can rest on the farm for a few days." Someone over there is watching. ”
"Yes, Fang is a nice young man, and now he can control those workers. Thomas paused, smiling. "I'm kind of tempted to have him as my assistant on a permanent basis. ”