Chapter 031: The Great Peach is Ripe
After negotiating the matter of subcontracting Taoyuan, Sang Zhiheng immediately organized people to sort out Taoyuan.
First, the weeds in the peach orchard were removed, and then experts in fruit tree management were invited to prune the peach trees with excessive branches.
Almost all of the oblique side branches are pruned, leaving only the main branch, and a few large branches.
Sang Zhiheng re-measured the entire Taoyuan and found that the total area of the Taoyuan was 32.7 acres. The terrain of this peach orchard is much flatter and lower than that of the vineyard.
The expert told Sang Zhiheng that the reasonable planting density of peach trees is about 56 trees per acre, and the planting density of the peach orchard contracted by him has almost reached more than 130 trees per acre. As a result, the branches of the trees are crisscrossed from tree to tree, the canopy is not large, and the yield is certainly not high.
Therefore, Sang Zhiheng immediately invited workers to reduce the planting density of the peach orchard to 56 plants per acre.
Under normal circumstances, the yield of peach trees per mu is about 3000 to 4000 catties, the yield of early-maturing varieties is lower, and the yield of medium-late maturing varieties is higher.
However, if you use the miraculous effect of the space well water, the grapes you grow will become three times a year, and the yield will double each time. It is conservatively estimated that the annual yield per mu of his peach orchard should reach more than 18,000 catties.
According to the current price of about 2 yuan per catty, the income of one mu of land can reach 36,000 yuan, and the price of 32.7 mu of land will reach 1.17 million.
Of course, if the quality of peaches is particularly good, it is not impossible to enter the high-end fruit market and sell for twenty or thirty yuan a catty.
In that case, the annual output value of this peach orchard will suddenly reach the level of 10 million.
In other words, the output value of peach orchards can even reach twice that of vineyards!
Of course, there are two prerequisites for achieving this goal: first, your peaches must be delicious; Second, you need to build your own brand.
Standing on the top of Xuangu Mountain, looking around, Sang Zhiheng felt a little emotional.
Over the years, due to the agricultural recession, no matter whether it is planting fruit trees or crops, it has not been able to catch up with going out to work and make money quickly. So those peach orchards, cherry orchards, apple orchards, etc., are all abandoned and unmanaged.
Suddenly, Sang Zhiheng had a bold idea, if all the barren mountains in Taizi Village were contracted, he should be able to make a difference by using the space well water.
However, what restricts me now may be the amount of well water that I can carry outside every day.
Now he can only carry 60 catties of well water a day, which greatly restricts the scale of Sang Zhiheng's agricultural development.
Moreover, the water from the well that is taken out every day is used directly to water the vines. Because of its own well water, it is diluted in a ratio of 1 to 100 times, and it still has the original effect.
Now, the well water that Sang Zhiheng took out of the space was diluted by about 1:5 at most, and he began to water the grapes, which was really wasteful.
Moreover, the vines do not need to be watered every day, sometimes for days on end, without having to take water from the well in the space. This kind of waste made Sang Zhiheng feel even more anxious.
Suddenly, Sang Zhiheng saw the Taizi Reservoir at the foot of Xuangu Mountain, and a bold idea came to his mind.
If you build a large reservoir and pour the collected well water into the reservoir every day, won't you be able to make full use of the well water in the space?
With this in mind, he began to observe where to build the reservoir.
The construction of this reservoir should be in a shady place, because if it is sunny, the stored water will be evaporated by the sun, and it will not make much sense.
Therefore, Sang Zhiheng looked into the ravine.
Around Xuangu Mountain, there are many ravines and ravines. When the rain comes, flash floods occur, and after years of accumulation, ravines and ravines are formed.
It is not difficult to build a barrage in a suitable location, and then build a dam with the help of the mountains on both sides. However, Sang Zhiheng plans that the built reservoir should be fully enclosed, because he plans to pour space well water into it, dilute it, and then use it to water his orchard in the next step. And if the reservoir is not completely closed, in the summer, when the flash flood comes, all the well water in your space will be washed away, and you will be busy in vain.
He can take out 60 catties of water from the space a day, that is, 30L of water, 365 days a year, he can take out 10,950 liters of water, dilute it according to the ratio of 1:100, and the annual water storage scale of his reservoir should reach 1,095 cubic meters.
Considering using water while storing water, the scale of its own water storage should also reach about 500 cubic meters.
What is the concept of a 500 cubic meter reservoir, the length and width of the reservoir is 10 meters, and the depth is 5 meters.
In this way, Sang Zhihengxin said that the amount of well water that he can take out of the space is too small now, and when the level of space is raised in the future, he will build a larger reservoir, and now he will only build a cement pond with a length and width of ten meters and a depth of five meters.
After making a plan, Sang Zhiheng immediately went down the mountain and discussed it with his father.
However, the next day, the two of them found a construction team and began to build a reservoir on the mountain.
The reservoir was built in the middle of the vineyard and the peach orchard, about 50 meters away from the deep well he had dug himself.
A month later, when the reservoir was completed, Sang began pumping water from the well and injecting it into the reservoir.
In this way, every day, I will secretly pour the well water taken out of the space into my own reservoir, so that it will not be wasted.
By the end of May, Sang Zhiheng's peach tree in the jade pendant space had grown into an adult tree, and the first season of peaches had been harvested.
This is a large peach, sweet and sour.
Sang Zhiheng is very confident in his peaches, and there is no problem in selling them for twenty yuan a catty.
After more than 30 days of preparation, Sang Zhiheng poured out a large number of large peach branches from the space, and found many fruit tree experts, and spent a week grafting all his peach orchards into large peach varieties.
On the night after Sang Zhiheng grafted 32.7 acres of peach orchards into large peach varieties, Sang Zhiheng entered the space again, and the amiable old man appeared again.
Sang Zhiheng sat cross-legged in the middle of the room, surrounded by golden light.
"I am in vain Sang Zhiheng, I have worked diligently and successfully upgraded the jade pendant space, and now the space level has reached the first order and the third level, and the materials transported outward have reached 60 kilograms, and the materials transported inward have reached 0.2 kilograms."
Sang Zhiheng was stunned, and the old man disappeared.
The amount of goods transported outward has doubled, while the amount of goods transported inward has not changed. That is, the space encourages itself to transport things outwards and not to the inside.
As long as there is well water, you can expand your own planting.
Planting, talking about economies of scale, the scale is large, the income will naturally be high.
The space has improved, but Sang Zhiheng has new troubles.
Now the well water that I can take out of the space every time is 60 kilograms, that is, 120 catties. A plastic bag can hold 5 catties of well water, that is, if you want to take out all the well water every day, you need 24 plastic bags. A plastic bag is 50, and I have to use a plastic bag for two days.
However, Sang Zhiheng didn't know any good way to make himself less troublesome.
Anyway, now, Sang Zhiheng has to pour water for more than half an hour every day.
If the next upgrade and the amount of materials that I can transport out reaches 120 kilograms, won't I have to work for 1 hour? And then wait for the level of space to upgrade higher and higher, wouldn't you end up spending all your time on transporting supplies?
No, you have to think of a solution to the problem.
Before he could come up with a solution, Sang Zhiheng's peach was ripe.
Prior to this, his Taizi grapes had already opened up the market in the high-end fruit sector of Spring City and Hong Kong Island City.
This time, when Sang Zhiheng took his peach to promote it to Zhang Hai, the manager of Ginza Supermarket, the other party seemed very excited.
He took two bites, nodded and praised: "Yes, very good, and, it can be seen that this peach should also be addictive in the next step, right?" ”
Sang Zhiheng scratched his head and said with a smile: "This...... I don't know very well, Brother Zhang, let's launch a little bit in your supermarket first and see how the market reacts. My production of this one is a bit high, so I need to go to market a little faster. ”
"No problem, we'll help you do the promotion this time. You can rest assured that there are many people who like to eat peaches, and the promotion must be good to promote. Zhiheng, how much can you produce peaches annually? ”
"More than 580,000 catties."
When Zhang Hai heard this, he hurriedly gave a thumbs up and said: "With an annual output of 160,000 catties of grapes and 580,000 catties of peaches, it is amazing, amazing." ”
Sang Zhiheng said with some embarrassment: "It's nothing, if it weren't for Brother Zhang helping me sell the goods, I wouldn't know where to put these fruits." ”
"Hey, Zhiheng, I have an idea, I don't know if you want to listen to me?"
Sang Zhiheng hurriedly asked, "What is Brother Zhang's idea?" ”
"The quality of your grapes and peaches is so good, if it is made into canned fruit and juice, I think the effect will be good, if you like, we can lean into this idea." Simply selling fruits, one is that storage and transportation are inconvenient, once a backlog of goods is formed, it is too late to deal with it in time, but it will be troublesome; Again, the profit of simply selling fruit is certainly not comparable to selling fruit juice and canned food. ”
Sang Zhiheng nodded and said: "That's for sure, the deep-processed fruit must be more profitable than selling the fruit naked, however, I don't know anything about fruit processing, and opening a fruit processing factory requires a lot of money, I'm afraid I can't meet these two conditions." ”
"Don't worry, I know an engineer from a juice company, and if you really want to do this, I'm confident to pull him over." As for the funds, we can find a bank to borrow a part of it, and then raise a part, which should be difficult. ”
Sang Zhiheng nodded and said, "Brother Zhang, I can't give you an answer to this matter so quickly, I have to go home and discuss it with my family." ”
"That's fine!"