Chapter 68: Agricultural Investment (2)
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For Fujian's 130 million acres of forest land, Xia Jun also has a plan, some of these woodlands have not been developed, and those undeveloped self-grown forests will be retained, at least 50 million mu of self-grown forests will be left.
Another 70 million acres of forest land, one-third of which is used to plant fruit trees, another 20 million acres of bamboo, and 20 million acres of fast-growing cedar trees.
Nanzhu is one of the most economically valuable bamboos and the tallest of the bamboo species.
Xia Jun found the improved Nanzhu on the exchange platform, which can generally grow to 20 meters high, the waist circumference can generally exceed one foot, the density is generally more than 300 roots/mu, and the highest yield of winter bamboo shoots is 300kg.
If it is an ordinary bamboo, only the best can grow to 20 meters high, and the waist circumference of more than a foot is also a lot, but less than a foot is also a lot, as for the density per mu can reach 300, it is very strong, such a density of ordinary bamboo can also be reached, but does not have a common surname.
Nanzhu can be cut in two years from bamboo shoots to growth, and the individual uses are dragged to three years, and four years is already the top of the sky, and the individual who will not manage it may be delayed until five or six years to cut, but the economic benefits are missed.
This is a kind of thing that can be quickly regenerated, and it can also be dug winter bamboo shoots and spring bamboo shoots, but there are not many winter bamboo shoots of this improved type of Nanzhu, and generally speaking, the bamboo shoots that grow in winter are useless, because they grow too early and cannot be left as bamboo, so they have to be dug up.
Obviously, this is a kind of bamboo shoot yield in exchange for high-density and vigorous growth, which is much more cost-effective than planting other tree species, but it needs to be cared for every year.
Fir is a fast-growing tree species, straight texture, resistant to corrosion and insects, widely used in buildings, bridges, telephone poles, shipbuilding, furniture and craft products, etc., about 1/4 of the building materials in later generations are fir wood. Fir trees grow fast and generally take only 10 years to reach maturity. It is one of the most important specialty timber species in the south.
The fast-growing fir trees that can be cultivated in the Xia Jun system can be cut down in just 3 years, mature in 5 years, and grow to a height of 30 meters in 15 years, which is nearly twice the growth rate of the original cedar trees.
The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, Fujian lacks arable land, but can eat the mountains and seas, this mountain naturally can not be let go, Xia Jun spent two million points, each built an improved Nanzhu cultivation base and fast-growing fir tree cultivation base.
Although Nanzhu grows faster than fir trees, Nanzhu can barely be regarded as having some uses of wood, and there are many uses that wood does not have, but it needs to be cared for every year, such as fertilizer, digging bamboo shoots, cutting bamboo, but Nanzhu does not completely have the use of wood, so it is still necessary to plant fast-growing fir trees, and at the same time, fir trees do not need to be cared for, and they can be planted regardless of whether they want to make fir trees grow better, it is also okay to take care of them, such as hoeing the weeds on the mountain.
Xia Jun wants to take a diversified agricultural route, and it is not enough to invest so much, but he only has 11 million points left after exchanging the cultivation base of forage corn, high-yield sugarcane, and fast-growing fir trees.
But Xia Jun's investment in agriculture is far from over, after all, there is feed corn, and there is also a breeding industry! Naturally, cattle are raised in the breeding industry.
Beef cattle, dairy cows, the reason why China can't raise cattle on a large scale is because there is not enough land to grow enough feed, after all, the future generation of 1.3 billion people, arable land resources are tight to death, cattle feed conversion ratio is 10:1, naturally can not become the main force of meat.
After all, pigs are easier to raise than cattle, farmers can raise pigs, and cattle need to build farms.
Fishery breeding is also needed, but Xia Jun thinks about it, forget it for the time being, anyway, Fujian is close to the sea, just get a few fishing boats to the sea to fish, this year's fishery resources are very rich.
Beef cattle Xia Jun selected 4 beef cattle, this kind of beef cattle resistant to rough feeding, disease resistance in general, cortex in general, 1 year old up to 530kg, slaughter rate of 68%, ** lean meat rate of 80%, feed to meat ratio of 10:1, cultivation base: 1 million.
This kind of cattle has a fast growth rate, and the slaughter rate and lean meat rate are higher than that of ordinary beef cattle.
Then Xia Jun selected 4-level high-yielding dairy cows, which are resistant to rough feeding, disease resistance in general, cortex in general, 2 years old to reach the milk production period, the average annual milk yield is 8000 liters, the milk feed conversion rate is 1.2:1, and the milk quality is excellent. The bull is 480kg at the age of 1, the slaughter rate is 61%, the lean meat rate is 78%, the cortex is average, the feed to meat ratio is 10:1, and the breeding base: 1 million.
The milk yield of this kind of cow is very high, but the disadvantage is that it consumes feed, and the milk, feed conversion ratio of ordinary cows is 1:1, while this cow is 1:1.2.
In this era, the Chinese are generally short, and only people in Shandong and other places are tall, the main reason is that nutrition cannot keep up.
The people's standard of living must keep up, which requires production in order to have enough material, not only beef cattle, dairy cows, but also pigs.
Xia Jun then exchanged for 4 fast-growing lean pigs: resistant to rough feeding, average disease resistance, 150kg in 160 days, slaughter rate of 65%, ** lean meat rate of 58%, feed meat ratio of 2.5:1, cultivation base: 1 million.
Together, these three cultivation methods will be able to greatly solve the problems of people's livelihood.
Xia Jun has only 9 million points left in his hand, and the cultivation base of beef cattle, dairy cows, and pigs is different from the cultivation base of crops and poultry.
After all, this is a mammal, it is viviparous, there must be breeding cattle, breeding pigs, cows, sows, and the breeding base is responsible for cultivating breeding cattle and breeding pigs.
Farms must be built themselves, while breeding cattle, breeding pigs, cows, and sows must be purchased from the exchange platform.
The cultivation method is as follows, that is, after the breeding cattle, breeding pigs, cows, and sows are purchased by themselves, the small bulls and small boars are sent to the breeding base for cultivation, and the breeding base is pure breeding cattle and breeding pigs, and those who are not sent to the breeding base have no fertility, and the sows and cows must mate with the breeding cattle and breeding pigs produced by the breeding base to give birth.
In this way, Xia Jun does not have to worry about being stolen by other countries, because these excellent varieties can only breed one generation without going through the cultivation base, and they cannot be crossed with other varieties.
Xia Jun immediately selected people from the faculty and students of the College of Agriculture of Jianzhou University to form three teams, which were specially responsible for the construction of beef cattle, dairy cows, and pig farms.
Among them, the pig is the simplest, and the reproductive ability of the pig is the strongest, a litter can give birth to a dozen or twenty piglets, and a cow can only give birth to one, and the management needs to be more precise.
Due to the small number of staff in the Agricultural College, Xia Jun only purchased 3,000 cows (half for dairy cows and half for beef cattle) and 5,000 sows.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, now no one can only temporarily raise so much, and when the management personnel are trained in the future, Xia Jun can buy more, increase the scale of breeding, and then give birth to more calves.
In terms of popularizing dairy cows and beef cattle, it will take at least 3~5 years, after all, the breeding rate of cattle is not fast.
This can improve people's livelihood, Xia Jun naturally has to exchange it as soon as possible, in order to promote it as soon as possible, but the purchase of these cows, sows, breeding cattle and breeding pigs cost Xia Jun 500,000 points, and it costs more money to buy some than the breeding base.
After the large-scale investment in agriculture, Xia Jun only has 8.5 million points left, Xia Jun will no longer exchange anything, fertilizer and other things are not necessary for the time being, they are almost winter, where can I use chemical fertilizer, wait for the spring to see how many gaps there are in agriculture, after all, I can also produce chemical fertilizer now.
At this time, the Ministry of Agriculture can be said to be the busiest, in order to complete the indicators issued by Xia Jun, the Ministry of Agriculture surveys, statistics, and planning everywhere, what land is used to grow rice, what land is used to grow sugarcane, what mountains are used to grow fruits, what mountains are used to plant bamboo, and what mountains are used to grow cedar trees, all of which have to be planned clearly.
The Taxation Bureau was also set up and began to collect taxes on foreign traders and commodities transported on the Minjiang waterway, and for a time the prices of foreign goods in various parts of Fujian skyrocketed.
On the export side, there is no tax revenue, and although imports are affected, exports are not affected at all.
Fujian has brought the prelude to tariff protection, which is an illegal tax, just like farmers set up cards to collect tolls, with Xia Jun's current status, he has no power to collect tariffs, but this can't stop Xia Jun's pace of collecting tariffs.
In less than half a month, the checkpoints set up by the security regiment spread all over Fujian's entire transportation routes, and they began to check and embargo opium imported into Fujian.