Chapter 987: New Potato Harvest Season

It's normal for Yang Mingzhi's brain to be a little messy, Rigushkov is the most efficient this time, he doesn't know how to be restrained?

There is a rocket artillery experiment, who would have thought that the day of the experiment would be on May 10?! That man has already boasted about Haikou, and he can only bite the bullet.

Yang Mingzhi didn't think about the rocket artillery experiment for the time being, and his eyes returned to Salinchkin, who was standing on the stage.

At this moment, Salinchkin was shocked by the rocket artillery, and he remained calm and steadily announced important things: "Comrades! Let's put the weapons aside for a while, and we'll look at the land again! After three months of waiting, now, with the unanimous consent of the Novgomel City Committee, potatoes can be dug on a large scale! ”

The people in the audience fell into a small commotion.

Everyone was looking forward to a bumper harvest of potatoes, and in fact, if it weren't for the blocking of this Salinchkin standing on the stage at that time, he would have planned to organize the digging of potatoes in April. At that time, the roots sown in February, when the weather was still cold, struggled to survive, and when the temperature gradually rose, the potato seedlings thrived.

By April, experimental digging had the bad result that the potatoes were too small. In fact, the potatoes were already edible, and the self-proclaimed agricultural expert Salinchkin denied it at the time, saying that the potatoes would have to wait another month.

From mid-April to mid-May now, too many big things have happened in just one month.

When the fertilizer plant was completed and put into operation, a large amount of ammonia could not be purified, and the turbid liquid was further diluted and dumped into the farmland, and the villagers poured nitrogen fertilizer into the farmland, and the roots of the potatoes swelled rapidly in the final stage of production. One thing Yang Mingzhi didn't realize was that the black substance dissolved in ammonia was not an impurity. As a raw material for chemical fertilizer, peat is mixed with a large amount of humus, and insufficient combustion causes a large number of impurities to be mixed with ammonia, including plant ash, i.e. potassium nitrate, which contributes to the expansion of potatoes.

The so-called partisan republic is now almost just another name for Novgomel, a collection of three collective farms and barracks, around which a large amount of farmland has been cultivated!

"Originally, there were more than 700 acres of farmland around Novgomel, but after the subsequent development and large-scale production campaign, the total area of our farmland of all kinds has exceeded 1,500 hectares, and the total area of our farmland has increased by 130 times. Since a large amount of newly reclaimed land is reclaimed in stages, and when it is registered as farmland, the production teams in each village immediately put it into potato sowing, so the characteristics of our current farmland, that is, the height of crop growth, are not uniform!

The large-scale excavation of potatoes decided by the municipal party committee will mainly target the farmland planted earlier, with a total of 100 hectares ......"

Yang Mingzhi vaguely remembers that last year, the three collective farms relied on the potatoes produced on these lands to help the soldiers and civilians survive the cold winter.

At that time, the weight of the military and civilians was not much, only a little more than 10,000 people. At that time, the farmland was limited in terms of soil fertility and the total amount of potatoes produced. Yang Mingzhi estimated that since chemical fertilizers are used, the fertility of the land has skyrocketed, and the potatoes should also be harvested! Maybe you can get a Russian acre and two tons?!

Salinchikin continued to speak on a document in which he roughly described the location of farmland that needed to be excavated on a large scale. This was mainly addressed to the three collective farm chiefs who were present, urging them not to dig in the wrong place.

He said above, and the audience inevitably muttered. Yang Mingzhi put his arms on his thighs, and the whole person sat quietly, but his ears were listening.

The topic that others talked about the most was the discussion about potato yield, some people said that it was at least one ton per acre, and some people half-jokingly said that it was five tons per acre.

Five tons per acre, this is the same as putting satellites, Yang Mingzhi deduced from last year's inference, how to say that there must be 40 tons of potatoes per hectare. A harvest of 100 hectares is 4,000 tons, to say the least.

What is this concept?

Yang Mingzhi estimates that the starch content of local farmland is a minimum of 10%, and an adult man needs to eat five kilograms a day, which can fully meet the body's consumption. The woman's body consumption is lower, and she must also eat three kilograms.

This is a simple arithmetic, Yang Mingzhi opened the notebook, and the pen in his right hand began to write.

Yevlov beside him was a little curious, he glanced sideways, and found that his old buddy was doing Salinchkin's notes there? It's clear what you're doing with the math problem.

Through calculations, Yang Mingzhi came to the general conclusion that assuming that the military and civilians of the entire guerrilla republic calculated their food consumption according to the energy demand standard of "adult men". So, 60,000 people have to eat 300,000 kilograms of potatoes a day, that is, 300 tons.

In this way, the next large-scale excavation is conservatively estimated to harvest 4,000 tons. If the soldiers and civilians only eat potatoes, the food supply will only be enough for the entire personnel for only two weeks.

This calculation is very imrigorous, Yang Mingzhi knows that the yield of one hectare must be more than 40 tons due to the presence of chemical fertilizer, and the supply of two weeks is also a conservative estimate. Moreover, counting on the current "Supreme Soviet of the Guerrilla Republics" would never agree to give ordinary people five kilograms of grain a day!

Yang Mingzhi closed the pen and couldn't help but sigh.

There was some chaos in the audience, and Salinchkin stomped his feet to stabilize the order.

He knew that what he had read out had aroused the attention of everyone present, and after the atmosphere had stabilized, he explained such a thing loudly.

"Comrades! According to the statistical report on the digging of potatoes in the canteen of the blacksmith village for its own use, the output of potatoes on two acres of land is as high as 1,300 kilograms! ”

As soon as these words came out, the pen that Yang Mingzhi had just closed the cap of the pen fell directly to the ground.

What's going on? One Russian acre is one hundredth of a hectare, and the data given by Salinchkin can be calculated to yield per hectare. What kind of number is this, is it not sixty-five tons per hectare?

Salinchin glanced at Yang Mingzhi, whose expression was obviously shocked, and he continued: "Comrades, this is our statistical data, which I personally checked and did not add any water. The self-use fields of the large canteen have enjoyed chemical fertilizers in the first realization, and in terms of current production, chemical fertilizers play a key role, and we cannot ignore the role of human and animal manure!

In short, we use this data as a reference, and after the analysis of the municipal party committee, in the next excavation, our final output is estimated to be between 5,000 tons and 7,000 tons! Please note that this is our 100 hectares of yield, and after this harvest, the rest of the farmland will be harvested in the order in which it was sown, and finally after all the fields have been harvested, we may be able to plant 200,000 tons of potatoes before the winter of this year! ”

The more Salinchkin spoke, the more excited he became, he simply raised his right fist and shouted: "Comrades! The biggest obstacle to our survival is about to be completely conquered by us! Let's celebrate the grain harvest, Ulla! ”

The high mood spread throughout the venue, 200,000 tons of grain compared to 60,000 people population pressure, an average of 3 tons of grain per person?! What does this mean? In times of peace, the villagers did not enjoy such food rations.

Salinchkin's data is so flawed that its calculations are full of variables and an estimate of the final yield. Yang Mingzhi knows that the so-called 200,000 tons of grain is not a satellite, and the final result may be higher than this number, because the reclamation has never stopped.

The cheerful atmosphere lasted for several minutes, until Salinchkin danced and shouted passionately into the energized microphone, and all eyes returned to him.

"Comrades! It seems that everyone is very happy! I'm glad too!

Now I announce that the large-scale potato excavation operation will officially begin in the early morning of May 9th! The representatives of the collective farms should be ready, and the representatives of the Communist Youth League should immediately organize the members of the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers to participate in voluntary labor.

If you have any doubts or opinions about my arrangement, please stand up and ask,"