In Canada, farmers reclaim farmland, and generally turn the farm into a nine-square grid, which is square, a bit like the well fields of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Each area has a different purpose, some for farming, some for grazing, some for fruit trees, and so on.

Early this morning, the workers of the farm drove their tractors to turn up the ground in the planned nine-square grid, and the employees of Ambrera Integrated Processing Technology also came to the farm to start the preliminary planning work for the dropper system.

Cai Zhiyang took the farm map and asked, "Chairman, do all these seven farms grow potatoes?" ”

The third sister on the side said: "No, only this farm grows potatoes, and other farms have other uses. The largest farm was 37,000 acres, and I was going to turn it into ranch. ”

Cai Zhiyang took out the map of the largest farm, looked at it and said: "There is a natural lake there, the water resources are abundant, there is no need for sprinkler irrigation, just dig a ditch, flood irrigation is more convenient." ”

"You're an expert, you decide." The third sister said.

Seeing Ling Shizhe nodding, Cai Zhiyang wrote it down in the work diary he carried at any time, and he would send someone to the field to investigate, make an irrigation plan, and then start construction.

After Cai Zhiyang left, Ling Shizhe said: "Third sister, this land is 10,000 acres, all potatoes are planted, is it a little more?" ”

"It's not too much, it's too much." The third sister corrected: "Potatoes are nutritious, and in addition to being sold, a large part of them will be consumed as feed. ”

Potatoes grow quickly, have a large yield, and are highly nutritious. In Western countries, many ranchers cook potatoes and feed them to livestock and poultry.

Nutrient-rich potatoes will provide comprehensive nutrition for livestock and make them grow stronger. And it also has the effect of fertilization, which can save a lot of concentrate feed costs.

But after Ling Shizhe listened. But he frowned.

"What? You think it's too wasteful, don't you? ”

Ling Shizhe nodded and said, "Have you ever thought about the added value of potatoes in depth?" ”

"What added value can you have, what else can you do besides mashed potatoes and potato chips?" The two walked to the lake, and the third sister picked up a small pebble and threw it into the lake. The pebble bounced three times on the surface of the lake before sinking into the water.

"There are many uses, such as making rice noodles, noodles, rice, cake tarts, bread, tofu brains, and tofu skins." Ling Shizhe also picked up a pebble and threw it into the lake.

Tong! The pebbles didn't bounce up. Directly sank down......

The third sister stopped, looked at Ling Shizhe, and laughed, "Seventh, you are stupid, you use potatoes to make noodles, do you know that 70% of potatoes are water, and the starch is very large, how can you make noodles?" What's even more ridiculous is that potatoes are also used to make rice. Make bread and even tofu brain!! Haha, Lao Qi, you don't know anything about farming! ”

After speaking, the third sister covered her stomach. Haha laughed.

Ling Shizhe didn't speak, and waited until she was almost laughing before she spoke: "Although I don't understand Jiahe. But I know how to make noodles and rice from potatoes. ”

"Don't tease Lao Qi, how is this possible. Noodles made from potatoes and rice don't go well with noodles. ”

"Of course, it's not with people. It's with a machine! ”

The third sister looked at him in surprise, and said after a long time, "Have you made anything new?" ”

Ling Shizhe smiled: "There are no new things, but when I see you planting potatoes, I have new ideas." ”

"Seriously?"

"Uh-ha! It's true, I already have a rough plan, but the specific parameters need to be tested a few more times. Third sister, make room for me and make a laboratory. Ling Shizhe said undoubtedly.

"How sure are you?" Seeing Ling Shizhe so confident, the third sister was a little moved.

"Don't you know when the experiment is done?" Ling Shizhe stretched out his finger, "First of all!" It won't succeed the first time, and it may fail several times. ”

The room was quickly vacated, this is a warehouse of piles of grain, according to the list given by Ling Shizhe, the room was soon filled with large and small glass test tubes, measuring cylinders, beakers, as well as various test instruments and precision experimental equipment, among which the ten-ton press is the most eye-catching among the many test equipment.

After the equipment was ready, Ling Shizhe began the experiment. First of all, he peeled 200 catties of potatoes and grinded them into a "paste", which must be very fluffy to lay the foundation for the next step.

After grinding for more than three hours, Ling Shizhe picked up the spoon and scooped it out a little, pinched it with his hand, and felt that the potato particles in the "paste" were already very delicate, so he stopped the electric stone mill.

Then pick up the water scoop, scoop out the potato "paste" in the bucket one by one, put it into the large funnel of the dehydration dryer, and after the "paste" is all loaded, take out a clean bucket and put it under the discharge port, and then spread two layers of plastic wrap in the bucket.

Ling Shishi had been watching him operate from the side, and when she saw this, she already roughly understood what Ling Shizhe was going to do, so she also came over to help.

When all the work was ready, Ling Shizhe started the power supply of the dehydration dryer.

Airplanes! The machine is running! The water flowed out quickly, and in a short time the bucket was filled with a third

"How long will it take?" The third sister asked.

Ling Shizhe looked at the manual, "It is fully automatic, and the water will automatically come out of the discharge port when it is dried." ”

Using potatoes to make noodles and rice is not Ling Shizhe's nonsense, it has long been popularized in later republics.

After 30 years of reform and opening up, China's economy has achieved tremendous development, but it has also brought many negative problems. Starting from He/Bei/Bao/Ding, passing through Shi/Jia/Zhuang, He/Jian, along the junction of Hebei/Shandong/Henan provinces, the irregular elongated area in the area of Nanzhihe/Nan/An/Yang, Xin/Xiang, due to years of groundwater overexploitation, resulting in an extreme shortage of water resources in this area.

Water resources, especially groundwater resources, are already severely insufficient, but wheat is grown in this area, which requires a lot of water.

The growing season of winter wheat in this region is from September and October to May and June of the following year, which lasts for more than eight months.

During such a long growing season, the water demand of wheat is about 600 cubic meters per mu. This makes the already scarce groundwater resources even worse if there is a dry season. More water is needed to irrigate.

However, the water resources themselves are insufficient, and it is easy to do when the rain is abundant. In the dry season, townspeople, factories and enterprises need water everywhere, where is there such water to supply the wheat fields? As a result, drought every year and crops fail every year, which has become a common occurrence in the local area.

In view of this, the state realized that the area had to optimize the planting structure in order to have a way out.

So how do you optimize the planting structure? Potatoes are a good choice.

In areas where potatoes receive three or four hundred millimeters of rainfall, they can grow naturally without irrigation, and the yield is not low, and the yield is not low, and the potato growth cycle is very short. Over the course of a year, the yield per acre of potatoes is a very impressive figure.

After detailed data comparison, agricultural experts found that the water consumption of potatoes in their lifetime is only one-tenth of that of rice, one-eighth of corn, and one-sixth of wheat.

However, in the process of promoting the staple food of potatoes, the country has encountered great obstacles. And this obstacle is caused by China's unique eating habits and food culture, Chinese will only treat potatoes as vegetables, not potatoes as food.

We all know that there is a big difference in the eating habits of the East and the West, and this difference has led to the easy promotion of potatoes as a staple food in Western countries. But in China, it is not possible, due to the eating habits of the southern rice and the north formed for thousands of years, the unique properties of potatoes are very unsuitable for the dining habits of Chinese.

So the scientists thought about it. I thought of making potatoes into noodles and rice into rice. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the national potato staple food project.

How to make noodles and rice? Simple. There are two steps, and the first step is to make potatoes into dried potato flour first.

The second step is to add a certain proportion of flour to the dry potato flour, then add water to mix and squeeze it into potato dough.

Note that the molecular structure of potatoes is very different from flour, and there is no gluten tissue in potatoes, so it is difficult to poke into noodles, in fact, it is impossible to rub at all.

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About half an hour later, the dried potato powder was unloaded from the discharge port and filled two buckets.

Ling Shizhe touched it with his hand and nodded, the potato flour was very dry, and it fully met his requirements.

Scoop out a few large scoops of dried potato flour and pour it onto the cook's kneading board and divide into two piles.

A certain percentage of flour is added to one of the piles, and when the water is almost hydrated, it is put into a kneader to soften.

Ling Shizhe turned on the kneading machine to the maximum, and in more than half an hour, the potato dough was kneaded.

The dough was taken out and placed on the board, and Ling Shizhe gestured to the third sister, "Third sister, try it, see if you can knead it?" ”

"What? Want to test your third sister's kneading skills? Knead it! Tell you the seventh child, your third sister and me, kneading dough is a must! Ling Shizhe rolled up his sleeves and rubbed them.

The movement here has already alarmed the entire ranch. The farm workers who had nothing to do all came over to see the excitement, and the third sister's husband and three children, including Zhao Xiaoyun and Yan Xiaoyun, also came over, and they wanted to see Ling Shizhe make potatoes into noodles and rice.

Ling Shishi just rubbed it, but she couldn't rub it anymore, "Why is it so hard?" ”

Knead again, this will only be half kneaded, how do you knead the dough, but the knead can't move, and the dough is still cracked.

"Is the dough too dry, why don't you add some water and knead it?" A female farm worker saw that Ling Shishi had eaten so much, so she suggested that she add some water.

Ling Shishi looked at the dough carefully, shook her head and said, "You can't add water, it will turn into paste." ”

"Why don't I come, I have a lot of strength, I'll try?" A strong man stepped forward and said.

Ling Shizhe turned his head to look, and his eyes almost didn't fall out. This person is also too tall and strong, the two pectoral muscles bulge high in his chest, his arms are as thick as his two thighs, his bronzed skin radiates a healthy glow in the sun, and his body is also big, Ling Shizhe probably calculated, it is estimated that his height is about two meters.

This is a big brown bear! It is estimated that Schwarzenegger and Stallone are not as strong as him.

It's a pity that if it weren't for the broken face, he would definitely become a tough guy star in Hollywood.

"Kobo, come on." Ling Shishi gave up her place.

Cobb stepped forward, and everyone was looking forward to seeing if he could knead the dough.

The third sister's husband actually opened a handicap, and everyone bet three yuan, five yuan, and ten yuan, all betting that Kebo could get the potato dough.

When it was Ling Shizhe's turn to be in front of him, he took out a stack of banknotes, counted five of them, put them in a glass jar, and said, "Five hundred dollars, I bet on Kebo to lose." (To be continued......)