Chapter 81 Agricultural Development and Towns

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In addition to looking for oil, another important task of this expedition is to find suitable places for agricultural development, most of Australia's land is about 70% of the land is arid or semi-arid, and most of the central part is unsuitable for people to live. Australia has 11 large deserts, which make up about 20% of the entire continent's area.

So in terms of data, in fact, Australia is a country with a very lack of water resources, take the location of Chang'an Town now, it is also a very serious water shortage area in later generations, and even later the Australian government developed a world's longest canal in order to solve the problem of drinking water for the city's 1.3 million people.

Western Australia is really suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry to the northeast, that is, the Kimberley Plateau, where there are two major rivers, the Fitzroy River and the Ode, which can be said to be quite rich in water resources, suitable for the development of agricultural planting and animal husbandry.

It is necessary to develop here on the basis of the existing one, Australia's grain and vegetables rely on a large number of imports, and the local grain cultivation is quite small, which is quite dangerous for a country, once the external environment changes, or the transport ship is attacked, then Australia's domestic prices are bound to rise in a short period of time, causing market turmoil.

This problem is related to the basic living problems of the people, and if it is not solved, it is very likely to leave a major hidden danger to itself in the future, just like the former Soviet Union, focusing on the development of military and heavy industry, and the development of light industry for people's livelihood is indeed very backward.

It is very necessary to establish a farming and animal husbandry town, and several leaders of the executive committee have expressed their views emphatically: Since ancient times, the people have taken food as their heaven, and if there is no food, there will be chaos, and the uprisings in history have mainly been based on the people having no food.

Therefore, if this problem is not solved, it is equivalent to burying the hidden danger, and I don't know when it will appear.

The ideal location was in the Fitzroy River Basin, which was developed on the basis that it was a famous agricultural and mining province in later generations, and it was also quite rich in tourism.

But the problem is that it is far away from Chang'an Town, a distance of hundreds of miles, and such a large distance, without the help of trains and cars, it can be said that the resources of the two towns can be very difficult to complement each other, and it is also not conducive to development.

This is a paradoxical problem, if the area is not developed, Australia's agricultural development will be limited, and if it is developed, it may be a development that is not of much use.

After all, the distance to gather is too far, the roads are not well built, and the means of transportation are mainly horsepower and manpower, so even if it can become a large supply base for vegetables and fruits, it is difficult to transport it.

"Let's talk about it, it's not far from the arrival time of the second batch of immigrants on the Perfect, and how to arrange everyone will have to come up with a charter at that time."

In fact, the arrival of new immigrants, how to arrange, basically very easy to arrange, each group is short of people, as long as it is a young and strong person, even if it is nothing, at least the army can recruit it.

Therefore, the problem of resettlement is very easy to solve, and the main reason why Xu Renguo asked how to arrange it is that the issue of establishing a second town should be discussed.

Everyone has reservations about this issue, especially Yang Yi is not very interested in this issue these days, and he doesn't know what he is doing.

"Yang Yi, tell me, what do you think?" Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Xu Renguo had no choice but to name him, so you can't run away.

"Chairman, in fact, the benefits of building a new agricultural town are well known, and the key is that the transportation problem is more difficult to solve."

Transportation is difficult to solve, this everyone knows, if it is solved, not to mention any town, even a few can be fine.

However, Yang Yi frowned for a while, and decided to say his thoughts, "We can learn the way of post stations, set up multiple post stations on this road, each post station is fully equipped with horses, if we can do this, we can still solve the transportation problem." ”

This is a good way to do this, but it requires the introduction of a large number of horses, and the problem is that it will cost more money to build multiple stations.

"Well, this is a good idea, although the investment in building a post station is relatively high, it can link the two towns together, and the transportation team only needs to bring a small amount of supplies to the road."

It seems that Xu Renguo is very in favor of this method, and the light revealed in his eyes can prove everything, Yang Yi doesn't know if he is good or bad to say this method, but he will definitely let the executive committee invest in infrastructure construction and increase funds.

If construction really starts, then the lack of labor in Australia is still very large, but in terms of basic labor, Xu Renguo is not worried at all, and the uncivilized indigenous people in Australia are free labor from the government.

"Xiao Li is responsible for calculating the amount of money that needs to be invested in a document, and we can gradually invest in the construction according to the budget, saying that we have no food crisis at present." Perhaps because he was afraid that everyone would worry about the large amount of capital investment, Xu Renguo couldn't help but say such a reassuring sentence in the end.

"I think the way the post station is feasible, and the development can't be taken care of, so it can't be developed," Huang Qiaolan, a female committee member, rarely expresses her views and opinions at the executive committee, and it is rare for her to open her mouth this time.

But the sentence he said is very correct, development can not be taken into account, always think that everything is done perfectly, that is impossible, so this sentence is more meaning to consider from the actual situation.

After the opinions of several committee members, the leaders of other groups and the heads of the main factories also expressed their opinions, and finally came to the conclusion that the plan for the establishment of a second town was approved, and the formation of the new town is expected to be formally completed by February next year.

After all, there are many problems that need to be solved for hundreds of kilometers along the way, which cannot be solved in a moment and a half, but more importantly, step by step, especially the introduction of horses and cattle.