February 1641

Located three kilometers northwest of the Manchester City base, the Ministry of Agriculture's residence, a summary meeting convened by the Minister of Agriculture Ye Yu to expand the planting of agricultural products is underway, and among the more than 20 men and women sitting below, there are immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, these people are the main leaders of the subordinate groups of the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Our existing planting area of all kinds of vegetables has reached 20 acres, which can basically provide daily supply in the base, the planting of melons and fruits and trees is mainly in 10 acres, and the planting area of wheat and potatoes is 25 acres, which is generally good from the current harvest, but the planting of rice is quite unsuccessful."

Ye Yu, the otaku before the crossing, had finally asked his goddess to go to sea for a romantic time, but he didn't expect to be crossed in a daze, as the only two agricultural science professionals in the crossing, it was an honor to be authorized by the Executive Committee to manage the agricultural group, and now because of the expansion of the scale, the agricultural group has also been officially renamed the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Minister, I think we should stop growing rice, and we can see from this harvest data report that Fremantle is not a good place for rice cultivation, not only for future generations, but also now, so we should focus on drought-tolerant crops such as potatoes and wheat."

Towards his college classmate and girlfriend who had just finished speaking, Ye Yu cast an appreciative look, he had always felt good about the performance of this class flower in the class before the crossing, and he did not sit in the office to give orders because he was a girl, but often went down to various farmlands to observe the growth of crops.

This also strengthened Ye Yu's confidence in pursuing her, she is a girl worthy of her own cherishment. And he has preliminarily decided to nominate her as a deputy minister like the executive committee, but this kind of recommendation seems to have a bit of a fake public and private taste, everyone knows that Ye Yu is pursuing Tenghui, if he gets married in the future, it is very taboo for the family to be in charge of the same department.

"Teng Hui said exactly what I want to say, from the five acres of rice field harvest grain statistics, each mu yield is about 80 catties, this harvest is far lower than the same period of Daming farmers planted per mu of harvest, and we invested a lot of manpower, an acre of rice basically to three indigenous laborers, and the yield of wheat per mu is as high as about 600 catties, if with the future fertilizer planting technology, per mu up to 900 catties is not impossible."

According to the labor distribution law of the Executive Committee, it is mainly divided into three categories, the first category belongs to the internal personnel who cross the public, and only those who really don't know anything will be finally assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture, and the second category is those immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, who have crafts or young men and women are basically absorbed into the factories and groups for training, and in the distribution of the third category of indigenous people, although the indigenous labor is currently the most allocable labor, but there are not many assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture, and generally the factories and groups are given priority.

The entire Ministry of Agriculture is the department in charge of the most land in the Manchester City base, but the actual available labor is less than 300 people, which is a drop in the bucket for Ye Yu, who wants to build a large farm and plant, a large number of indigenous labor is basically divided up by minerals, because of grain reserves and external imported grain, so that everyone attaches great importance to the Ministry of Agriculture.

The general public does not pay attention to it, does not mean that there is no one in the executive committee who does not pay attention to it, Australia will be known as a country on the back of a sheep in the future, you can see that the development of animal husbandry is the way that the Ministry of Agriculture must take, because of the geographical environment, Australia is suitable for the development of agricultural planting zone is mainly distributed in New South Wales, with an annual rainfall of 400-600 mm, mainly dry farming, most farms operate wheat, cattle and beef cattle.

The main development of western Australia is mainly animal husbandry, in addition to the pastoral belt also includes most of South Australia, western New South Wales, southern Queensland, these are the main pasture concentration in Australia in the future.

Therefore, according to the above information obtained from later generations, Ye Yu has formulated a complete set of agricultural and animal husbandry development plans, with the analysis of the crop harvest planted by the Ministry of Agriculture for more than half a year, the most suitable for planting around Manchester City is potatoes and wheat, as for rice, a food crop that consumes a lot of labor and has a low yield, I am afraid that it can only wait until the strength of the crossing is expanded to the vicinity of New South Wales to be planted, or after the chemical group fertilizer is made.

After Ye Yu's words were finished, Ma Hang, who was in charge of rice planting, immediately stood up and spoke, if this plan is implemented, then the rice team he manages will not mean that it will be canceled, so he will not face the danger of being unemployed and doing nothing again. Before the crossing, Malaysia Airlines was a fourth-year graduate majoring in environmental protection, and if you want to talk about the past, you can talk about the past. So it was natural to be assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Minister, isn't it very inappropriate to cancel rice planting, our daily staple food is rice, if it is changed to wheat and potato planting, it means that our staple food will also change, although some northerners in the base can accept pasta-based, but southerners may be difficult to accept."

Regarding Ma Hang's questioning, Ye Yu patiently explained: "Old Ma, you are studying environmental protection, and you should also have an understanding of the environment in which Manchester City is located, which is not suitable for planting rice, and according to last year's harvest data and reports, the yield is extremely low, if you want to change and continue planting, you can only wait until the fertilizer comes out." ”

"Yes, I admit that the climate around Manchester City is not very suitable for rice cultivation, but let's solve the problem instead of giving up when we encounter a problem, and the most important thing to do now is how to achieve high rice yields."

After Ma Hang's words were finished, it seemed that a large part of the group leaders who were in charge of the group agreed with them, although they did not directly agree, but from their expressions, it can be seen that they nodded their heads one by one to express their affirmation, and the person in charge of the Ming immigrants neither nodded nor spoke, just sat stupidly, but they understood in their hearts that this was the business of the owner, and they still participated less, so as not to provoke any owner to be unhappy to wear their own shoes.

"Well, it seems that everyone is not very in favor of canceling rice planting, so the existing planting will continue to be retained, and Malaysia Airlines will set up a rice yield increase research team with Malaysia Airlines as the team leader, and everyone has no opinion." Seeing that everyone didn't approve of it, Ye Yu compromised his policy a little.

After the appointment was announced, the 20 ploughing cattle and horses, chickens, ducks, and alpacas transported back by the Sea Blue were assigned, and a special person was assigned to be responsible for the daily situation of the farm and livestock, so as to prepare for the future local breeding work, which is also one of the key projects of the Ministry of Agriculture's large-scale farm construction.