Chapter 21: The Birth of the Cultivation Base
After two months of hard work, the construction of the base has gradually achieved results, the first batch of vegetables on the market is imminent, everything is developing in an orderly and gradual manner, but now there is a more important thing waiting for Hong Yan.
On October 1st, the base was noisy with gongs and drums, firecrackers and colorful flags fluttering, and the completion and listing ceremony of the base was underway.
Those who came to attend the ceremony included people from the village, Xu Xuewen and his secretary, Nalan Muhan and her assistant, Ge Erjin and his sister, Xiong Yanxi, and Yun Shiqin from the TV station who didn't know where to get the news, and they also came to join in the fun.
The village chief spoke first, he first praised Hong Yan's contribution to the economic construction of the village, and then called on all the villagers to learn from Hong Yan the spirit of taking root in the countryside to build their hometowns, and called on young people to return to their hometowns and contribute their own strength to the construction of new rural areas. He talked for half an hour, and it wasn't until Zhou Tingxin spit out next to him that the village chief stopped speaking with a smile.
"Now I would like to invite Hong Yan to speak." Today, Zhou Tingxin is the host.
In the warm applause, Hong Yan took a few steps forward, faced everyone, puffed up his confidence, and said: "Thank you for your support, now start the ribbon cutting." ”
Everyone was stunned, this speech is short enough, just such a sentence? However, everyone still gave Hong Yan the warmest applause.
After the ceremony, Hong Yan took everyone to visit the entire base.
First of all, enter through the base gate, which connects to the road leading to the outside of the village, although the road is not wide yet, but the potholes have been repaired by Hong Yan. The gate was temporarily built by Ge Erjin with wood, and the words "Lingxiao Agricultural Products Cultivation Base" were already hung on it, which was the license and trademark entrusted by Hong Yan to Xiong Yanxi.
Entering the gate is a wide square, in the middle of which there is a flower garden, and a boulder in the flower garden is carved with the word Ling Xiao.
On the left side of the square is a warehouse, which is about six meters high and has a total floor area of 5,000 square meters.
The current role of this warehouse is to transport the fresh vegetables picked every day to the place, sort and clean them, and then transport them to their destination by truck, so this warehouse also integrates some of the functions of primary packaging.
Next to the warehouse is a garage with two brand-new white trucks with the words "Lingxiao Agricultural Products Express" printed on them. There are also five electric cars similar to golf carts, these cars only have two seats in the front, and the back is towed a four-wheeled mobile platform, the mobile platform is installed on the seat kit is a sightseeing car, and the seat kit is removed is a cargo car, these cars are nicknamed "porter Tony" by Hong Yan, and it is an important means of transportation to link various regions.
On the right side of the square is a row of staff dormitories, which are equipped with toilets, water heaters, air conditioners, TVs, and the Internet, and there is a room next to them with several washing machines.
Walking forward from the square, on the left is the hydroponic area, which currently has only 30 units and covers an area of about 100 acres. With Hong Yan's current strength, he can only build thirty, which is still the result of advancing Xu Xuewen and Nalan Muhan's 20 million in advance. However, land has been reserved next to the hydroponic area, and as long as the funds allow, the hydroponic area will be expanded, because Hong Yan was deeply impressed by this cultivation method after actually touching the hydroponic area.
Now everyone came to the entrance of one of the hydroponic units, and there was a sign hanging at the entrance with the words "Hydroponic Lettuce No. 1 Warehouse" on it.
Inside, everyone was immediately swept by a chill, at this time the temperature outside reached 32 degrees Celsius, and the temperature inside was estimated to be only 22 degrees Celsius.
"Are there air conditioners installed in these greenhouses? Extravagant enough. Xu Xuewen asked Hong Yan beside him.
"How is it possible, am I such a tyrant? See you don't ......" Hong Yan pointed to the shutter-like things around the greenhouse and continued: "Those are one of the parts of the environmental control system to control the temperature, if the temperature is too high, the blades will automatically turn on, and the air flow will enter the greenhouse through the blades on one side, and then go out from the blades on the other side, forming an air convection system. The environmental monitoring system selects the direction in which the blades are opened according to the direction of the airflow, and the overhead mist sprayer adjusts accordingly to the temperature or humidity demand. And the lights on each shelf, we use a simulated solar lamp that simulates sunlight, which is characterized by the fact that it can achieve the same effect as sunlight in nature, so as to achieve a constant temperature in the greenhouse. However, it can provide 24-hour uninterrupted sunshine for plants, and with our nutrient circulation system, it can achieve 24-hour uninterrupted growth of crops, and the combination of these two functions is not just 1+1=2. ”
After listening to Hong Yan's explanation, everyone was about to exclaim, but they didn't expect to be interrupted by a mechanical sound.
I saw a mechanical arm appear on the bottom shelf, the mechanical arm swept over the surface of the lettuce, and the lettuce was disconnected from the base, and then it was neatly placed next to a frame with a width and height of one meter and a length of two meters.
Once the box is filled with lettuce, another empty box is sent by the conveyor belt, and the box filled with lettuce is transported to the storage area next to the side along with the conveyor belt.
When all the lettuce at the bottom is picked, the shelves at the bottom are scattered into dozens of pieces, each of which rises along the edge of the shelf to the top, the seventh layer, and then merges. The shelves on the other floors descend one level in order, and when the latest shelves arrive, the robotic arm begins a new round of picking.
At this time, there was a stiff mechanical female voice in the greenhouse: "The No. 1 hydroponic rack is ready, sowing will start in one minute, the estimated completion time is thirty minutes, and the countdown is ......"
It wasn't until half an hour later that the two layers of lettuce were picked, and the bottom shelves were scattered to the top layer. There was a stiff mechanical female voice in the greenhouse: "The lettuce task is finished, with a total weight of 14,752 catties, and it takes 28 minutes and 49 seconds, and the transport vehicle has been notified, and it will arrive in about three minutes." The No. 1 hydroponic rack has been sown, moved to the designated position, turned on the pseudo-solar lamp, irradiated 20%, injected nutrient solution, and the nutrient solution injection was completed. The No. 2 hydroponic rack is ready and will start planting in one minute, with an estimated completion time of 30 minutes and a countdown of ......"
As soon as the mechanical female voice fell, Zhou Tingxin drove a cargo version of Tony and stopped in the storage area, only to see a mechanical arm stretched out above the storage area, moving a basket of vegetables to Tony, a total of three layers of twelve baskets of vegetables were stacked, and Zhou Tingxin left in the surprised eyes of everyone.
This set of smooth automatic operations made everyone stunned and indescribable.
"Damn, this is too strong!"
At this time, even Nalan Muhan, who was quite well-informed, couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.
Seeing that everyone had never seen the world, Hong Yan couldn't help laughing proudly.
"Laughing fart." Nalan Muhan gave him a blank look.
"Little Brother Hong Yan, your degree of automation is high enough, the cost is not low." Xu Xuewen couldn't help but sigh.
"Okay, I'm going to automate it all, but with limited funds, I can only do it this way." Hong Yan shook his head helplessly.
"It's already like this, how else can it be automated?" Yun Shiqin, who was watching quietly on the side, couldn't help but open her mouth.
Hong Yan looked at Yun Shiqin, who was short and capable, petite and beautiful, and said: "So far, only the automation of the hydroponic area can be realized, the soil cultivation area can only realize automatic irrigation and fertilization, the transport vehicle cannot be unmanned, and the sorting and packaging of the warehouse area have not yet been built, these are the next things that need to be focused on." ”
I met Yun Shiqin in Wuyi Square before, and Yun Shiqin wanted to interview him at that time, but he was too busy to do the interview, and in the end, he cheapened Director Liu.
Yun Shiqin listened and nodded constantly, it seems that there is an article to write here.
"What are the yields of these hydroponic greenhouses?" Nalan Muhan asked
"Taking this lettuce as an example, according to our calculations, the yield of a hydroponic area is about equal to the yield of 22 acres of land." Hong Yan replied lightly.
The crowd was shocked by this astonishing message.
After seeing the hydroponic area, everyone came to the soil culture area. Compared with the hydroponic area, the soil culture area is not so impressive. At this time, a group of people are cultivating the land, sowing all kinds of vegetables, compared with the hydroponic area, this side is even more like that, after thousands of years of inheritance, everyone is still used to digging in the ground.
After watching the Tupei area, everyone walked towards the house on the high ground, which was not only a monitoring and control center, but also a temporary reception room, because the whole base was more like this house.
On the way there, Xu Xuewen and Nalan Muhan were also full of joy when they learned that they could provide them with the first batch of vegetables tomorrow.
At noon, everyone had lunch in the courtyard of Hong Yan's house, except for meat, all kinds of vegetables were produced by the base. Looking at the table full of dishes, everyone's saliva was about to flow out.
"No, I can't eat anymore, but I want to take another bite of eggplant!" Nalan Muhan shouted depressedly
"Me too, and I'd love to have another bite of tomatoes." Xiong Yanxi followed
"I can't lose weight if I say it's good." Yun Shiqin complained.
"Your little girl's family is in trouble, you can eat it if you want, it's all vegetables anyway, and you're afraid of growing meat." Xu Xuewen said with a smile
Several girls present couldn't help but roll their eyes at Xu Xuewen.
"Auntie, the food you cook is so delicious, you can just open a farmhouse, I will definitely come to visit often." Nalan Muhan said with a smile to Liang Xiu
"That's it, the scenery here is good, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, if you can still eat the food you cook, it's really a great enjoyment." Xu Xuewen followed the wind.
The lunch meal was all handled by Liang Xiu and Zhou Rin'er, although Liang Xiu's cooking skills were good, but today it was definitely because of the addition of these vegetables planted by Hong Yan that it was so delicious, otherwise how could an ordinary vegetable make people so praised.
However, Hong Yan thought about it, this is indeed a way, but before you want to achieve this, you have to improve various facilities first.