While the climate of the Amazon allows for three crops per year, the Silent Farm program grows only two crops per year. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

One crop is planted in the dry season with relatively drought-loving crops, such as corn, wheat, soybeans, etc., while in the rainy season, one crop of rice is planted.

Li Sheng felt that it was time to start preparing to start farming, so he went to Zhang Feng to see if there was anything he needed.

Zhang Feng was not in the office that day, and Li Sheng called to find out that he had gone to Tiantou.

The rainforest is hot and rainy, and humus loss is relatively fast, so the farm needs to fertilize the land before each crop of grain is planted. Zhang Feng went to see the application of green manure.

He also wanted to see the situation of the farmland, so he rushed over. He rushed to the field, where there was a large amount of green manure piled up on the edge of the field, and the smell of green manure could be smelled far away. It doesn't stink, but it certainly doesn't smell as good as fresh air.

He found Zhang Feng, who was in the field to check the condition of the soil.

Zhang Feng slapped the mud powder off his hand and said to him, "Boss, you came just in time." The fertility of the soil in this field is still very good. This time, maybe half of the green manure from last time will do.

Li Sheng also saw that the color of the soil on this cultivated land had changed from red to gray and white, which should be regarded as a cooked land. However, this is still a certain gap from what he needs. He said, "Let's do it according to the previous amount." It's not a fertilizer, so it doesn't matter if you put more of it. ”

Zhang Feng also wanted to reduce the consumption of man-hours, and now that he said so, he would stop there. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll let them do it." ”

Li Sheng thought about it, but still explained: "I heard that the black soil is the most fertile, and I will see if I can make these cultivated lands into black soil." ”

Zhang Feng thought about it and felt that it was not impossible. The farmland was only fertilized twice, and the color of the soil changed. It shows that the ability of green manure to transform soil is still very strong. In two years, it may really become black land. It's just that if you want to keep it, you need to put a little effort into it. After all, the climate is here, and if there is not enough humus to replenish it, the land here will soon become barren again.

He smiled and said, "I see." ”

"When is the next crop of rice planned to be planted?"

"Wait for the rainy season to start for about a month. If it is too early, more rain will affect the yield when the rice blooms, and if it is too late, it will affect the time of the next crop. ”

Li Sheng asked again: "Is there anything that needs to be improved this year?"

"Special improvements in the field are not needed. There were enough agricultural machines, and the truck Anthony also ordered some. If there is a need for food, it is more rice rolling machines. ”

Hearing his words, Li Sheng heard that he had unfinished intentions: "What about other aspects?"

"There are not enough workers. Now there are more than 200,000 cattle than before, but the herdsmen are still the same people. You plan to increase it to 600,000 heads next year, and the workers will definitely be too busy. In addition, Cheng Dong told me that the production of mushrooms and honey needs more manpower, and Lao Ding also said that snail farming needs more manpower. I'm adding more men with them. ”

Li Sheng also knows that there are too many industrial projects in Silent Farm, and it is okay to graze and farm. But snail farming and mushroom farming are both labor-intensive projects, as are bees and snails. It is true that there are more people.

In particular, snail and bee farming will continue to expand in the future, and there will definitely be a market for honey. The snails are being marketed by Fernando and Chen Bo, who believes that the snails raised on the farm will not go unsold. When the market opens, the number of people needed for these projects will continue to increase, and now it is time to bring in more people to slowly develop their experience.

"That's fine, but how many people are going to be recruited, and what kind of people are recruited. What are your thoughts?"

"The total number of new workers they have proposed is more than 200, but I think we can recruit some first. Recruit when you really need it urgently. But I haven't thought about what kind of people to recruit. ”

Li Sheng glanced at it and knew that he hadn't thought about it, he just didn't want to say it. He whispered: "Recruit more than half from the country." Part of it is recruited in Brazil, not necessarily Brazilians. As long as you have a work visa in Brazil, you will be fine. In addition to herding workers, women are mainly recruited, and unmarried young women are preferred. ”

Zhang Feng looked at him in astonishment, thought for a moment and said, "Boss, are you trying to pull the red rope for those young men who are not yet married?"

Li Sheng chuckled and said, "Always give them a chance." ”

Zhang Feng also smiled and nodded. At present, many of the Chinese workers on the farm have already married, but many of them are not married.

If you haven't gotten married yet, you may not come back when you get married. In particular, Li Sheng's salary is very high, and some people feel that they have earned enough to return to China to do some small business or something, although they earn less, but it is better than two husbands and wives living separately. But if both husband and wife are farm workers, the likelihood of that happening is much lower.

Of course, if someone is gone, it is not difficult to recruit people with the treatment of Silent Farm, but it is not easy to find experienced and trustworthy people.

However, Zhang Feng also has his opinion: "Boss, I think it is best to consider recruiting some people with high professional skills in this recruitment." For example, recruit some agricultural graduates from universities. For example, hire a veterinarian. Although it is not yet possible to obtain a license to practice in Brazil, it can be examined. He thinks that the beef on the farm is more special, and he thinks that his own people are more trustworthy. So he suggested that Li Sheng go to China to find someone instead of looking for a veterinarian who already has a license to practice in Brazil.

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "What you said makes sense. I'll go back to my country. "If you want to recruit professional people, let others recruit, he is not at ease. And he hasn't been back home for a long time.

As he spoke, a question suddenly came to mind: "By the way, how much grain did the farm transport to Chen Bo this year?"

Zhang Feng shook his head and said: "My side only counts the total sales volume of grain, and does not divide it into that customer." There are also a lot of them in Europe, and I can't count them when they go to China. ”

Li Sheng knew that he had asked the wrong person, so he nodded and said, "I forgot, I'll go back and ask Anthony." ”

Anthony is responsible for the external sales and transportation of farm products, and the sales statistics of each customer are the only ones he has.

As they spoke, Zhang Feng's phone rang. He glanced at Li Sheng.

Li Sheng motioned for him to answer the phone and said, "You listen to the phone first." ”

Zhang Feng connected the phone, listened for a while, and asked, "Strange fish?

The phone call Zhang Feng received made him a little baffled. The Amazon River is home to many species of animals, estimated to be at least 3,000 species of fish, of which only 2,500 have been found. What's so strange about the appearance of some strange-looking fish.

But then he was a little surprised: "Two-foot-long black arowana?"

Arowana can be found in many parts of the tropics, including Africa, Australia, Asia and South America. In South America, there are only three kinds, one is the silver dragon, which is silvery-white in color, the other is the black dragon, but it is black in the juvenile stage, and when it grows up, it is similar to the silver dragon, but the scales are darker, and the last one is the giant dragon, that is, the arapaima.

But the black arowana is really not seen before.

Li Sheng was also a little curious when he heard his words, could it be that the silver Arowana had mutated?

Zhang Feng said two more words and then hung up the phone. He said to Li Sheng: "The workers who harvested the giant algae caught a pure black arowana, which was said to look the same as a silver dragon, but the body was black. ”

Li Sheng said, "I'll go and see! In that lake?"

"At Lake Thirty-Three, I'll go and see it too. Zhang Feng didn't have anything to worry about here, but he was worried about the algae harvesting side. Strange things always make him feel a little uneasy.

Li Sheng didn't know that he was suspicious in his heart. This was the first time something strange had appeared on the farm, and it was most likely mutated. He wondered if it was a natural mutation, or if it had only mutated because he had come to the lake.

The water of those lakes is connected from the large lakes in the space, and if the water of those lakes is to mutate the creatures. Then he needs to pay attention.

But the cattle drank the water every day and ate the grass that had been cultivated by the water, and they did not find any variation in them. He thought that the arowana was naturally mutated.

Because of the distance, they first drove to the airport, and then flew to Lake No. 33 by plane.

Lakes 33 and 34 are dedicated to the cultivation of macroalgae. Li Sheng didn't put any fish in it. However, Lake No. 3 is located in the southwest corner of the ranch and is the closest lake to the Nyamonda River. There's a waterway that leads to that oxbow lake.

Each of the other thirty-five lakes had a drain, and at the driest of times each of them had a water outflow of 0.5 to 1 cubic meter, and these channels connected each of the lakes until they flowed through Lake No. 33 to the Oxbow Lake. The final outflow of water is also at least fifteen cubic meters per second.

Now it seems that Lake 33 should have been entered by fish from the Amazon basin. Fortunately, in order to protect the fish that Li Sheng stocked, a small dam was set up in the waterway before entering Lake No. 34, which was originally intended to prevent crocodiles from entering the small lake upstream and to prevent the sturgeon from escaping. It would seem that the dam got it right.

However, it also reminded Li Sheng that crocodiles should be avoided from entering lakes No. 33 and No. 34. The two lakes were overgrown with giant algae, and the water was not visible, and crocodiles were hiding in them, and it was not safe to work in them.

Maybe you can let the black-faced god guard the oxbow lake. But it's a crocodile, so it may not be able to keep it.

Li Sheng now misses the wife of the black-faced god a little, and if the two of them are here, maybe it will be much better.

Soon, the plane landed at Lake 33 where the kelp had been collected. He and Zhang Feng jumped off the plane, and a worker ran over: "Boss, are you here too?"

Li Sheng nodded to him and asked, "Where is the fish?" ”

"Raised by the lake. The worker pointed in the direction of the lake and said as he walked briskly. "This fish was brought up by the algae trapped, and it was still very vigorous when it came to the shore. We dug a little pit and raised it. ”

After a while, the three of them came to the small puddle that was more than a meter big, the water in the puddle had precipitated very clearly, and a black arowana with a metallic luster was quietly lying in the water.

Li Sheng could see that this was a silver dragon. Because it all have beards.

Arowana in South America is not the same as the species of the continents. The tail fin of the South American arowana is connected to the middle of the abdomen, and there is no anal fin and a second dorsal fin, and the caudal fin is thatched. It's pretty much the same in Africa. But the Asian and Australian ones are indeed fan-shaped, and have anal fins and a second dorsal fin.

When Zhang Feng saw this fish, he didn't have the worry before. The fish actually looked very beautiful, not a strange fish like he feared: "This fish is mutated?"

Li Sheng shook his head and said, "I don't know, but it should be." ”