It's not a short time, but it doesn't take long, after all, the village is not big, including the time spent on the road, which is only three hours. Since half of the people who came today were private and half were official, Division Commander Zhang proposed that they all go to the military reclamation farm today.

In fact, this is also Master Zhang taking care of Li Zhao and his family, today there are more than a dozen people, including the driver and guards, Li Zhao's father must have a treat, and now the situation in the countryside, they also understand that although Lijia Village is doing well, if this is to let Li's father invite a meal, it will at least eat half a month's rations of the Li family.

So everyone who came agreed, only Li Zhao's father was unwilling, today is different, Su Ya's family came over, it is a big deal for the Li family, how can it be possible to eat at someone else's. However, in the end, Li Zhao's father did not resist Master Zhang, not only Master Zhang, but also Father Su also asked him to go to the farm. So the group all went to the military reclamation farm, including Li Zhao's family, but fortunately, there were a lot of people who came today, and six military vehicles were driven.

In fact, today's biggest gain is Li Zhao, which is equivalent to the two parties meeting their parents directly, and both parties are very satisfied. Li Zhao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it's still a good era, there is no bride price, and the house is not asked.

Everyone assigned the vehicle, and Li Zhao pulled Su Ya to sit in the guard's car, he didn't want to be teased anymore, and the good date was also ruined, saying that it was a coincidence, but Li Zhao was really a little bad.

Li Zhao's mother and Su's mother took Li Zhao's sister-in-law and nephews to squeeze a car, Li Zhao's father, Master Zhang, Li Yu, and Su's father squeezed a car, and the two chiefs took a car, and the group went to the military reclamation farm.

After eating at noon and resting, Division Commander Zhang took everyone to visit the military reclamation farm. This military reclamation farm is northeast of Li Zhao, and the distance to his house is estimated to be about the same as the distance from his house to the rolling mill. It is also at the foot of the mountain, but the difference is that they have more springs here, and this place was originally considered a tidal flat.

The peripheral fields have long been reclaimed, and only the middle of the area near the mountain has nearly 10,000 acres that have not been cultivated. Of course, there is also a reason, in the past, as long as it rained heavily, this piece of land would basically be flooded, and when it was dry, it was basically a swamp, all of which were reeds, and the villagers basically had no strength to reclaim.

When the military reclamation began, it was to clean up the silt in the central area and fill in some low-lying places, that is, they could use machinery, otherwise ordinary people really couldn't clean up this place. In the end, this lake was formed, because the lake surface is dredged, so the water is not deep, the deepest place is only five or six meters deep, and the general place is only about three meters deep.

The lake area is not small, it is estimated that there are more than 200 acres, this is a good place to raise fish, they dug for several years in Lijia Village, only dug a few acres of land size, others this is 200 acres of water surface, can not be compared. In order to solve the problem of flooding, a canal was built here, and a sluice gate was built, and if the water level was high, the gate was opened to release water, and if the water level was low, the gate was closed. There is also a special place for flooding next to the gate, and the water level is usually not high, so the water will flow directly from there, so that the water level can be kept basically unchanged.

The main facilities of the farm are at the foot of the mountain, by the lake, of course, the drinking water is directly from the spring, of course, others use pipes, and Li Zhao's bamboo is two different things, of course, this is electrified, this is also incomparable.

There are about four or five thousand acres of land here for cultivation, which is basically mechanized, and Li Zhao's father is also hot when he sees this, and some land is used as forest land and construction land. This farm has only more than 1,000 employees, not only planting four or five thousand acres of land, but also raising hundreds of pigs, plus one or two hundred cattle, hundreds of sheep, not to mention chickens.

At this time, Master Zhang also introduced the situation while walking: "We have about 250 acres of water surface here, and we can catch about 10,000 catties of fish every year. The outlet is similar to that of Lijia Village, and the sluice gate has also been repaired, and the current water depth is generally maintained. ”

Li Zhao was also shocked when he heard what he said, not surprised that the yield was high, but that the yield was too low. It is said that these two hundred and fifty acres of water surface must produce 350,000 catties to be considered average, if you start fine management and feeding, then you can also produce 200,000 or 300,000 catties to be normal, this 10,000 catties is too little.

Then he said: "We have more than 100 cows, more than 100 beef cattle, more than 500 pigs, more than 800 sheep, and at least 20,000 or 30,000 chickens, which are mainly supplied to our army. At present, it is also a similar problem as Lijia Village, there is not enough food, and we dare not continue to expand. There are about 4,700 acres of arable land here, half of which is consumed on farms. ”

"In terms of meat supply, the farm can be of some use, but the grain output is really insufficient, and the military region has to allocate a lot of grain from the state every year. That's where we chose to breed earthworms, and now we've started to build straw and manure treatment tanks, and we're going to build sheds with color steel tiles. ”

When Li Zhao heard this, he felt that something was wrong, so he said: "The color steel tile may be a little inappropriate, in the summer, the color steel tile is exposed to the sun, and the bottom is not the same as the steamer, and it is not warm in winter, unless you build a thermal insulation layer, otherwise it is estimated that it will not work with color steel tiles, and the temperature is too high and too low to raise earthworms." Li Zhao then explained the insulation layer and let them figure it out by themselves.

Looking at the treatment pool built here, Li Zhaona was extremely envious, all made of bricks, and the interior was plastered with fine cement, even the drainage outlets were reserved neatly. There are a lot of repairs here, it is estimated that there are hundreds, and Li Zhao and his village will put up two or three tons of materials at most, and they are basically three or four times the size of Li Zhao and theirs. Li Zhao had to sigh, the army is still wealthy, and at this time, according to the scale of raising dozens of tons of earthworms, it is too big.

Li Zhao was also puzzled, so he asked, but Master Zhang replied: "It's not big, if the experiment is very successful, we are ready to sell earthworms as products, if the variety is good enough, then the number of earthworms we breed may not be enough to sell, and it is estimated that the supply will exceed demand in ten years." "Good guy, it's longer than Li Zhao thought.

Further on is the livestock area, which is also under construction. Master Zhang continued: "The construction is the manure treatment tank, we are now also learning from Lijia Village, flies have been our biggest headache, after adopting the practice of Lijia Village, we have greatly reduced the number of flies here, especially the pigs, cattle and sheep in these sheds have taken cold water, livestock have recently been raised a lot, and the site is cleaned and then rinsed, the smell here is not as big as before." ”

After a general look, everyone returned to the office of the farm, found a conference room and sat down, ready to talk about the future development of the farm, which will not be so serious today. Division Commander Zhang also began to ask Li Zhao about his thoughts on the military reclamation farm, if it were not for Li Zhao, their development would have fallen into a bottleneck, and there were already too many people who had been arranged, and he planned to arrange people to come in later.

In fact, everyone can understand that there are only four or five thousand acres of land here, but here is mechanized farming, and the manpower demand is actually relatively low, so it is said that there is no problem for this farm to reduce the number of people by half. But no one in the military region wants to do this, which is why they are now making such a big deal of earthworm farming.

Originally, their straw was pulled to the paper mill, but now it is ready to be used to raise earthworms, if it is not enough, they can also go around to harvest it, and even as Li Zhao said, it is possible to plant pasture. But I can't afford not to have enough work, and I'm going to continue to arrange people here in the future.

Li Zhao also groaned, it is actually unrealistic to increase grain production in a short period of time, the conditions here can be said to be the best, the water source is sufficient, mechanized production, there are not as many pesticides and fertilizers as in the previous life after 60 years, the seeds are not as good as then, and the others have passed. And they also have other advantages, such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and they will use them first, so the conditions are really good.

Now if you want to develop, you can only think of ways from other aspects, all the arrangements for ecological agriculture in Lijia Village, here have begun to learn, maybe it will be better than the development of Lijia Village in the future, except for another way, there is no way at all.