Su Yinshi Branch.

Lake Qattara Agricultural Area.

Li Qingye was in the lakeside city of Lake Getara at this time, Port Syrat.

As a result of the Homo sapiens company digging the northern canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Getara Depression, two huge canals with a width of 550 meters and a depth of 35 meters will feed the vast Mediterranean sea water into the Gattara Depression.

After nearly two years of continuous injection, the entire Getara depression was completely submerged, forming a saltwater lake with an area of up to 18,000 square kilometers, that is, the Getara Lake in front of Li Qingye's eyes.

With an area of 18,000 square kilometres and an average depth of 62 metres, the lake has 1 trillion cubic metres of seawater and is virtually inexhaustible thanks to its direct connection to the Mediterranean Sea.

Li Qingye stood on the 500-meter-high Sirat Broadcasting Tower, looking down at the surroundings, and the scenery that greeted him was an endless green field in addition to the blue sea and blue sky.

"Mr. Chairman, the Numidian Desert will be turned into the granary of North Africa with our efforts." As the general manager of the Numidia branch, Hu Mingliang was beside Li Qingye at this time.

"The terrain here is very flat, so there should be a lot of usable area for agriculture, right?"

"Yes, the province of Matlu in Suyinz and the northeastern part of Numidia are 600,000 square kilometers of flat desert land, both below 200 meters above sea level, all of which can be converted into seawater farms."

"Do you all grow rice?" Li Qingye has not learned much about the agricultural industry of each branch recently.

Hu Mingliang shook his head: "No, the climate here is suitable for wheat, we use transgenic technology to insert the root genes of seawater rice into the wheat genes, and there are also perennial genes." ”

"In other words, these 600,000 square kilometers of plain, you plan to plant genetically modified wheat?"

"Yes, but not all, about 300,000 square kilometers are planted."

"That's a lot, after all, it's 450 million mu, by the way, is this genetically modified wheat harvested once a year?"

Hu Mingliang hurriedly replied: "It's two harvests a year, chairman, because of perennial genes, genetically modified wheat can be seamlessly connected, so one season of winter wheat and one season of spring wheat can be realized." ”

"How's the yield?" Li Qingye picked up the binoculars and looked at the lush wheat fields in the distance.

"The annual yield per mu is about 850 kilograms, and if all the desert transformation is completed, 300,000 square kilometers are expected to achieve an annual output of 382.5 million tons of wheat."

Li Qingye is quite satisfied with this production capacity.

After all, Homo sapiens now has 2.6 billion employees, and this number is still rising year by year, starting with 500 kilograms of grain per capita per year, at least 1.3 billion tons of grain is needed.

The agricultural potential of the Southeast Asian and South Asian regional companies has been almost squeezed, and if the reclamation continues, it will be necessary to build terraces and cut down a lot of forests.

Therefore, the current agricultural development direction of Homo sapiens is to focus on genetically modified seawater crops on the one hand, and indoor lightless farms on the other hand.

The Sahara Desert in North Africa is a major agricultural area that Homo sapiens focuses on, after all, the low-altitude desert here is very suitable for large-scale mechanized production.

The genetically modified technology gives crops the ability to tolerate salinity and alkali, and can be planted directly in seawater, which solves the congenital shortcomings of the lack of water resources in North Africa.

Under the circumstance that seawater can replace water as agricultural water, the agricultural potential of North Africa has been increased dozens of times at once.

Right now.

Woowoo......

A rapid whistle came from the direction of the port.

Li Qingye turned the direction of the telescope and found that a cruise ship was docking.

"Is there a shortage of manpower on the side of Matroux Province?"

"Yes, at the moment, there are only 3.52 million employees on the side of the second branch of Matrouh, and we are working with the Ministry of Personnel to transfer personnel from the Nile Delta and Cairo."

Li Qingye nodded slightly: "More than three million is indeed less, and ten million is more reasonable." ”

"The manpower here is good, but the Numidia branch is even more lacking." Hu Mingliang was a little helpless.

"Where is the northern canal between Numidia and Suyinshi?"

Hu Mingliang took out the tablet and projected a map of the construction progress.

"At present, the northern plains of Numidia have been opened, and the westernmost point is the port of Hassan Pond."

Li Qingye looked at the road map and found that the northern route of the Northern Canal was almost complete.

If you continue to dig the canal to the west, you will encounter the Nafuse Mountains and the Hamra Rocky Desert with an average altitude of more than 500 meters. The Republic of Wade, so the northern line of the Northern Canal does not need to be excavated further west at this stage.

】

Judging from the progress map of the canal provided by Hu Mingming, it can also be seen that the Numidian branch does not intend to continue to the west, but is digging the middle and southern lines of the northern canal.

The middle line of the northern canal runs from Lake Getara to the west, passing through the southern part of the Numidian Desert, the Tazir Oasis, the Sabha Oasis, and the Al Obari Desert, and finally arriving at the border city of Atshan.

The southern route of the northern canal is in the Tazir Oasis to the south, passing through the Raibyanai Desert and the Kufra Oasis, entering the business area of the Chade branch, successively passing through the Ounianga Lake Relics Area, the Bodhlai Depression, the El Ghazalkan River District, and finally arriving at the city of N'Djamena.

This kind of large-scale construction is a huge boost for the entire northeastern region of the Sahara Desert.

Why is the Chad branch and Meroe branch the slowest in development?

The reason for this is the extreme backwardness of transportation and infrastructure.

The Chad branch, in particular, was really poor, with no railways, no canals, and even decent roads, and it was located inland, surrounded by either a large desert or an equally poor place.

Therefore, the southern route of the Northern Canal is a vital lifeline for the Chad branch.

Fortunately, the Ceylon Ocean Transport Group, a subsidiary of Homo Sapiens, has recently commissioned hundreds of large transport airships, and 50% of these transport airships have basically been invested in the Chad branch and the Meroe branch.

It was with the use of such large transport airships that the economy of the Chad branch barely improved somewhat, without the need for long-term blood transfusions from the head office.

"Mingming, over there in the Chad branch, you Numidia branch need more support."

Hu Mingliang hurriedly nodded: "I will strengthen cooperation with them." ”

The reason why Li Qingye ordered this was because he planned to arrange some important industrial and scientific research bases in the hinterland of the Sahara region.

And the location he chose was the northern part of the Darfur Plateau, in the middle of the four places of Suyinshi, Meroe, Chad and Numidia.

This place is surrounded by desert and is a plateau itself, and the locals are sparsely populated, which is very suitable for setting up secret bases and conducting some dangerous special experiments.

A special project he had always wanted to carry out before, but there was no suitable place, and this time there was finally a large enough experimental area.

Therefore, he had to let several surrounding branches develop in order to support the material consumption of that project.

He traveled all the way to North Africa, not just to inspect the industry, but to do something more important.

After inspecting the vicinity of Gaitarahu for more than a week, Li Qingye went west to the operation area of the Numidia branch under the escort of the Aerospace Fleet.

At the same time, the project that Li Qingye secretly prepared in the Darfur Plateau is also undergoing preliminary preparations.