Chapter 347 Loess Plateau Greening Project
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At the same time as the opening of Taoyuan woodware store, Taoyuan Group was also formally established, and the future headquarters will also be located in Viet An City, adjacent to the Oriental Group, in addition to the original agricultural development company and pharmaceutical company, in addition to the establishment of five subsidiaries such as biotechnology, environmental protection technology, seeds, fruits and aquatic products.
In addition, in terms of scientific research, it has also successively established a pharmaceutical research center, a biological cloning room, a plant research center, a biological material research room, a seed breeding center and an animal breed improvement center.
Ye Quan did not hold a position in Taoyuan Group, but Ye Zhong, a biochemical person, came forward to serve as the chairman.
Taoyuan Group has just been established to do a sensation in the country, Taoyuan Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. announced the launch of the Loess Plateau greening transformation project, at a symbolic price of one yuan per mu, respectively, to the local government contracted three pieces of land with a total area of 70,000 acres, the location of these lands are very remote, almost no people, some places are far away from the water source, soil erosion is strict, fertility is poor, everywhere bare, only to see the loess does not see a trace of green, no one wants to give it away.
Taoyuan Group promised the local government to plant all pasture grass within three years, so that the greening rate is more than 9o%, on the condition that the lease period is 7o years, ready to build a pasture and tourist attractions, and in the future, it will also plant some drought-tolerant cash crops such as sea buckthorn, cherries, walnuts, etc.
As soon as this plan was announced, it caused a rush of reports from the national media, and most people thought that Taoyuan Group was "whimsical" or a "big wrong" with so much money that there was nowhere to spend it.
The Loess Plateau spans six provinces and regions, covering an area of more than 500,000 square kilometers, and is the most severe soil erosion and the most fragile ecological environment in Xinhua and even in the world.
People who come to the Loess Plateau find it hard to believe that this land is actually one of the cradles and auspicious places of Chinese civilization.
It used to be a forest and a steppe, but because for thousands of years. The destruction of vegetation caused by human reproduction, coupled with various natural factors, has gradually turned the once fertile land of the Loess Plateau into a barren land with thousands of ravines and fragments.
Among them, the area of soil erosion reached 454,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to a Heilongjiang Province. An average of 1.6 billion tons of sediment is imported into the Yellow River every year, equivalent to one-seventh of the annual construction sand.
After decades of vigorous management by the state, many places on the Loess Plateau have been restored to greening, but due to drought and lack of water, the results are very slow, and the plants planted in many places are either dead or grow poorly. Become a "little old man tree".
For example, at the end of the last century, a county spent 150,000 yuan to plant more than 4o million Pinus tabuliformis, and finally only survived more than 1oo plants; Of the 22,000 hectares of caragana planted in the Wuding River Basin, only 2,667 hectares remain, with a preservation rate of only 12%.
There is also a city's "North and South Mountains Greening Plan", with an investment of 660 million yuan. In the end, water from the Yellow River must be brought to irrigate to survive, and the area without irrigation is still bare.
With the country's huge manpower and material resources, they all feel powerless for the greening project on the Loess Plateau, and a private enterprise alone dares to contract more than 70,000 mu, and boasts that the greening will be completed within three years.
Isn't this a pipe dream?
To complete a greening project of this scale, even if hundreds of millions of funds are invested in it, it will not necessarily bubble.
Taoyuan Group dared to do this. Naturally, after a variety of climate, soil and other planting experiments, Evergreen Grass No. 1 has a strong adaptability, in addition to animal husbandry, it has also made great achievements in greening projects.
Moreover, on the basis of the original Evergreen Forage No. 1, the plant has begun to develop more drought-tolerant forage, and the most successful is Evergreen Forage No. 7, which is extremely vigorous, not only can grow in saline-alkali land and desert land lacking fertility. It can even grow in desert areas with abundant precipitation or groundwater.
The root system of Evergreen Grass No. 7 is several meters or even more than ten meters deep, and in addition to the early planting needs to be watered, once it is formed, it can use the root system to absorb and preserve water when it rains, and maintain life in arid environments. After absorbing enough water at one time, it can survive in desert areas for more than half a year.
The results of the study on the Loess Plateau show that large-scale tree planting is not advisable to restore the ecology of the Loess Plateau, which not only has a low survival rate of trees, but also is easy to increase the steaming of soil moisture and aggravate soil erosion.
According to the actual situation, most areas of the Loess Plateau are more suitable for planting grasses, especially herbaceous plants of Poaceae and Asteraceae. In a few riverside areas and valleys with high groundwater levels, some woody plants can be planted appropriately; In the southeast of the Loess Plateau, economic plants such as hazel, sea buckthorn, and walnut can be planted in moderation.
The world's most advanced animal husbandry is the country of Lijian, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Argentina, although Xinhua has four major pastoral areas, but it is not the arid grassland, or the mountain pasture and the alpine pasture, are not the best pasture.
In recent years, the average annual growth of domestic beef and mutton imports has been more than 4o%, especially the annual growth of beef is as high as 115%, and the price has risen rapidly.
With these two kinds of pasture, it means that there is a lot of barren or even useless land that can be used to grow pasture, and the breeding industry will be vigorously developed, and in the future, there will be no need to import meat in the country, and it may be able to export it.
Similarly, if the greening demonstration project of Taoyuan Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. is successful and drives the surrounding areas to follow up, then the Loess Plateau does not need to spend a lot of national environmental management funds every year to complete the greening, and will become the fifth largest pastoral area in Xinhua in the future, no longer a scar of Xinhua Kingdom, but a treasure land of feng shui.
In addition to the two types of forage, Taoyuan Group also has two improved crops officially named "Grade Upland Rice 41" and "Taoyuan Regenerative Rice 19", which are planted on a small scale in Taoyuan Village.
Advances in various hybridization, improvement and even transgenic technologies have led to the emergence of new types of seeds, which are dizzying.
It is a pity that because of the lack of research strength, the domestic seed market is almost occupied by the country, such as more than 5o% of high-end vegetable seeds are "foreign seeds", involving all vegetable varieties.
In addition to vegetables, "foreign seeds" have fully entered the fields of soybeans, corn, wheat, and flowers, and have formed a monopoly trend.
The price of these foreign seeds is staggeringly high, and the price is generally more than 6 times that of domestic varieties, accounting for more than 8o% of the market's profits.
For example, there is a sweet pepper variety called "Mandi" in the Netherlands, which has a sky-high price of 18o yuan per gram of seeds, and 1 gram of seeds is equivalent to 1 gram of platinum.
For Ye Quan, it is not difficult to use the optimization ability of space to develop some new seeds, not only corn, wheat, soybeans, rice and other major crops, but also fruits, vegetables and other cash crops.
Seeds cultivated in space have higher yield, better quality and taste, lower seed dosage and fertilizer application, and no GMO side effects, which is an all-round improvement.
The advent of "Grade Upland Rice 41" and "Taoyuan Regenerative Rice 19" will inevitably cause a major earthquake in the world agricultural market.
Just like the reason why Xinhua was able to feed more than one billion people with limited arable land, the emergence of hybrid rice is a credit, which can be said to have benefited countless people.
Although the economic weight of agriculture is not the highest in all countries, it is the most important.
Even with the power that Ye Quan has now, like the new seeds of the main crops, he does not dare to launch too many at one time, because the increase in output is too much, which is enough to have an impact on some large agricultural countries and affect the world pattern, so he can only take his time.