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Fan Wuxian and Ziqi stayed in the planting base for a day, in fact, this time Shen Manhua called him over, mainly to ask for an increase in the budget for scientific research, and the 500 million invested before was basically sold out at this time.

"What a burn of money!" Ziqi said with a little amazement after hearing this.

"It's nothing-" Fan Wuxian said fairly, "The actual research practice is about two years, and the investment is less than 300 million yuan in a year, and the average cost is less than 1 million a day, which is really not much, you must know that the scientific research fund of Meng Sandu Company is two million US dollars a day, and we are not comparable to others." ”

"I can't say that-" Shen Manhua explained beside him, "Although the special allocation given by the boss is only 500 million, the actual income of our side, except for the necessary equipment upgrades, is basically invested in scientific research." Overall, the actual investment is about 1.5 billion yuan. ”

"Such a base has a lot of profits, more than some listed companies." Ziqi calculated, aside from the construction cost of the planting base, in three years, only 1.5 billion yuan was invested in scientific research, which is really a large amount, which is rare in other domestic companies, not to mention, this is just a farming company, not a high-tech company.

Fan Wuxian suddenly smiled when he heard this, "What is going on with domestic listed companies, you don't know?" There is no comparison with this. ”

Ziqi knows very well what Fan Wuxian said, the so-called listed companies of state-owned enterprises are excellent in one year, lose money in two years, hover on the edge of asset restructuring in three years, and be drowned out by countless new shares after three years, this historical law seems to have not been broken since the birth of the domestic stock market.

However, Ziqi also found a problem, that is, the research carried out in the base is all plant-based transgenic projects, and there are no animal genetic research projects.

"It's relatively easy to study plant genetics, and I don't want to create a bunch of freaks in the lab." Shen Manhua answered this question.

Fan Wuzhi didn't say anything about this, in fact, he was also a little disgusted with the issue of animal genetically modified organisms, Shen Manhua's move coincided with his thoughts, but for scientific experiments, it was indeed a pity to give up one aspect of research.

But if you think about it, if the plant GM project and the animal GM project were carried out at the same time, the investment in that funding would be even greater, at least more than three times the current investment, and such a large expenditure on cultivating freaks is indeed a bit hesitating.

Fan Wuxi's final meaning is also to sprint the research of the plant-based genetically modified project, concentrate on the superior forces to attack one point, and make breakthroughs in the shortest possible time, which is the best.

In the past few years, Shen Manhua has made some famous achievements here, especially in the research of cotton seed transgenic projects.

When it comes to genetically modified cotton, we can't fail to mention Guo Sandui, a researcher at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences who has made the greatest achievements in insect-resistant cotton in China, before he developed insect-resistant cotton, the domestic cotton seed market has been monopolized by the American Mengsandu company, and then his insect-resistant cotton seeds quickly changed this situation.

In addition to insect resistance, the development direction of genetically modified cotton seeds developed by Fan's Investment Group focuses on the generation of heterochromatic fibers.

"In fact, this means that after the cotton grows, it is no longer a trace of white that does not change, but a variety of different colors are generated according to our needs, and this color difference can be controlled within a small range." Shen Manhua explained to Ziqi, then glanced at Fan Wuxian and said, "This is also a problem that Mr. Fan personally explained to us to focus on." ”

"Colored cotton that grows automatically?" After hearing this, Ziqi suddenly asked with some excitement, "That doesn't mean that there is no need to dye it?" Can you directly produce colored cotton threads? ”

Shen Manhua nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, we thought it was a bit incredible at first, but experiments have proved that this idea is indeed feasible, and now we have obtained some satisfactory sample genes in the laboratory." ”

Seeing that Ziqi was very interested, Shen Manhua agreed to take her to the laboratory to see the sample cotton.

The security level of the laboratory is very high, not only to pass the identity verification, but also to pass several guards to check, the computer system to the identity of the person to backup, and then enter a room in the color cotton transgenic project research room, where there are thousands of colored cotton, can see red, blue, yellow and purple cotton, but in the chroma some colors can not meet the requirements of the researchers.

"There are really colored cotton!" Ziqi said with some excitement after seeing it.

"Naturally grown colored cotton is obviously more environmentally friendly than cotton dyed with pigments, but from the perspective of genetic modification, we have not yet come to a very clear opinion, whether it is good or bad?" Shen Manhua said on the side, "So now we are only strictly controlling their growth in the laboratory, but we are worried that it will affect other crops, and we will not consider officially launching this variety until the pathological or toxicity test is completely passed." ”

Fan Wuxi is quite interested in this color cotton variety, otherwise he would not have specifically asked for the research of this project before.

Some naturally grown cotton is dark brown when picked. In fact, Native American farmers were familiar with cotton, which was not born white, but all of these brown cottons native to the Americas had too short fibers to be spun into yarn for commercial use.

After the discovery of these cottons, the American botanist Sally Fox became so interested in colored cotton that she patiently cultivated darker and darker cotton varieties, selected those with fiber length and strength sufficient to be spun into fabrics for clothing, bed sheets, and towel gloves, and founded Natural Cotton Colors a decade ago to sell cotton in a variety of colors. At present, the company sells cotton fabrics in reddish-brown, yellow-brown and olive green.

Since colored cotton is not treated with any of the caustic dyes used in traditional cotton processing, colored cotton can eliminate almost all environmental hazards associated with textile production.

These colored cottons also have a unique but still unexplained property, that their color deepens after being initially machine washed twenty to thirty times, and then changes back to the color they had in the cotton field, but never becomes lighter than the original color.

In fact, the country began to research and develop color cotton breeding six years ago, and has now bred brown, green, yellow, red, purple and other colors of color cotton, in the leading position in the improvement of international color cotton varieties, two of which have been used in field production and product development since the beginning of the previous year, but at this time it is not very successful, and has not been widely used in actual commercial production.

However, considering that the color cotton varieties of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences are not yet mature, Fan Wuzhi is worried that their patent problems will affect the practical application and raise the production cost too high, so he still decided to go it alone, after all, it is easier to start with transgenic technology research in this regard, and the market prospect is relatively good.

In addition, he also has a large production base in Xinjiang, so Fan Wuxian will choose this project as a breakthrough in genetically modified technology, and now it seems that it is still relatively successful, at most two years later, I believe that the color cotton project can be introduced to the market in large quantities.

Xinjiang is sparsely populated and has a natural barrier, which can erect a wide isolation belt for different colors of colored cotton, which is very suitable for the development of colored cotton. With the help of this unique natural environment, Fan's Investment Group can easily enter the field of color cotton. In addition, a number of new varieties with good quality and bright colors have been cultivated, and it is easy to pass the recognition of color cotton seeds of the Ministry of Agriculture and obtain color cotton seed patents.

In addition, Fan's Investment Group itself has a planting base and the actual control of cotton mills and wool mills, so it is very convenient to produce and process color cotton products, and it is easy to establish a color cotton industry chain integrating scientific research, planting, processing and sales, which can not only recover all the investment in a short time, but also hope to obtain huge profits.

At present, the research center is carrying out stable genetic research on new varieties such as blue, red and duck egg blue, as well as research on the resistance of colored cotton to cotton aphids and cotton bollworms, and strives to make the color of colored cotton rich and of better quality.

Of course, among the various research projects, Fan Wuxian is most concerned about the soybean genetically modified project.

As the largest application in the future, a genetically modified project that has the greatest impact on people's daily life, Fan Wuxian asked Shen Manhua to have enough patience in the soybean genetically modified project, and to invest enough money, once the project can make substantial progress, then it is not so easy for foreign genetically modified soybeans to enter the Chinese market.

At least Fan Wuxi's idea is very clear, if the government relaxes the restrictions on genetically modified food, then it is better to cheapen yourself than to let foreigners make this money, anyway, it costs money, and the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, at least they will study very seriously, so as not to maliciously add any gene fragments that cannot determine the function of the seeds.

The genetic technology of the Americans, Fan Wuxian is not at ease, I heard that they are developing a genetic virus against the yellow race, this matter has to be prevented.

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