Chapter 263: Seed War

When Zhao Ye mentioned that Yinhe Agricultural Company could focus on the development of small agricultural machinery, Zhou Yue also immediately expressed his support.

China's national conditions are like this, and it takes a long time to develop large-scale agricultural machinery.

And small agricultural machinery is also promising in China.

Zhou Yue immediately introduced some small agricultural machinery to Zhao Ye, such as small excavators, pastoral management machines, walk-behind tractors, scarifiers, small rice harvesters, small grass mowers and so on......

In foreign countries, small agricultural machinery is also quite developed, basically rural families in developed countries in Europe and the United States are using agricultural machinery, and the domestic is still in its infancy.

After listening to Zhou Yue's introduction, Zhao Ye couldn't help but sigh softly, and felt more and more the major challenges facing China's agricultural mechanization.

In addition, industries such as seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides are also far behind foreign countries.

China must fight to catch up!!

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On September 10th, Yinhe Agricultural Company officially recruited talents.

Major headhunters around the world have received orders to recruit talents for Galaxy Agriculture.

Under the guidance of the government, Academician Yuan Nongping decided to join Yinhe Agricultural Company, and also brought a team that has been working with him for a long time to make super hybrid rice.

In addition, the government also recommended to Zhao Ye academician Li Zhensheng, who is the founder of China's wheat distant cross breeding, and is known as the "contemporary Houji" and "the father of China's wheat distant hybridization".

The state obviously wants to use the resources of the Yinhe Agricultural Company to speed up the research of hybrid rice and hybrid wheat in China.

This is undoubtedly a recognition of Galaxy Agriculture.

Academician Yuan Nongping and Academician Li Zhensheng are more important than national treasures, and it is not an exaggeration to call them "unparalleled national warriors" and "national backbones"!

In the previous life, without them and the many scientific researchers behind them who were silently dedicated, Chinese people would probably not even have enough to eat.

Zhao Ye was very happy and excited to know that they had joined Galaxy Agricultural Company, and he was full of hope for the future of Galaxy Agricultural Company.

Soon, Academician Yuan Nongping and Academician Li Zhensheng came to Shanghai with their respective teams to meet with Zhao Ye and Zhou Yue, CEO of Galaxy Agricultural Company, and then each introduced the details of their research fields and put forward some requirements.

Inside the conference room.

Zhao Ye and Zhou Yue listened carefully to the reports of Academician Yuan Nongping and Academician Li Zhensheng.

"Cultivating hybrid rice is a very difficult task. Hybrid rice is the purpose of increasing rice yield and improving rice quality by mating two different varieties of rice through sexual propagation, discovering excellent varieties and making them reproduce. In order to successfully breed a good hybrid rice, it takes many steps, many complex details, and countless experimental ......"

"There are more than 10,000 varieties of rice in China, and different regions will choose to plant different varieties according to the characteristics of the terrain and environment......"

"At present, the yield of rice per mu is 400kg, and I think there is still a lot of room for improvement in the yield of hybrid rice......

Is the current yield of rice only 400kg per mu?

Zhao Ye remembers that when he used to watch the news, as early as 2014, the yield of rice per mu exceeded 1000kg.

After Academician Yuan Nongping finished speaking, Academician Li Zhensheng began to introduce hybrid wheat.

"In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the yield of wheat per mu was only 150-200 catties."

"Today, the yield of wheat per mu is more than 500 catties, if the use of improved seeds, scientific management, can effectively improve the yield of wheat."

"My biggest wish now is to increase the average yield of wheat per mu in China to more than 1,000 catties, so that more people can have enough to eat! The villagers eat white flour buns every day, which is the happiest thing in the world~"

Yes, rural China is still very poor, and it is common not to be able to eat white flour buns.

China's GDP is not very high, but it is largely concentrated in large cities.

Moreover, the gap between the rich and the poor in China is extremely huge.

Not to mention anything else, Zhao Ye's wealth is hundreds of billions of dollars, and what about the peasant family, maybe the family's savings add up to less than 10,000 yuan?

Zhao Ye is in this era and is very aware of the situation in the rural areas of China.

When I heard Academician Li Zhensheng say that "the villagers eat white flour buns every day, which is the happiest thing in the world", I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in my heart.

If you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world.

As a super-rich man, Zhao Ye naturally has this idea.

But anyone who has a good heart will be compassionate.

"Two academicians, you can rest assured, after joining the Galaxy Agricultural Company, we will give you a large amount of scientific research funds to accelerate the cultivation of super hybrid rice and super hybrid wheat......

After a pause, Zhao Ye groaned slightly, and said, "The scientific research fund is at least 1 billion yuan!" In fact, I can give you more money, no upper limit at all, as long as you run out! As long as we can solve the problem of Chinese people having enough to eat, I don't think it matters how much money you spend. ”

Hearing this, Academician Yuan Nongping and Academician Li Zhensheng were shocked.

Zhao Ye is really wealthy, and he has given so much scientific research funds.

They used to be engaged in the research of super hybrid seeds, and the research funds were relatively small.

For example, Academician Yuan Nongping once applied to the state for scientific research funds, and he could apply for up to 30 million yuan, but Zhao Ye here started with 1 billion yuan, no wonder the country let him join Yinhe Agricultural Company.

The big boss Zhao Ye really doesn't treat money as money, and with so much funding for these scientific researchers, they can completely speed up the cultivation of super seeds.

With sufficient funds, many experimental fields can be established and many groups of experiments can be done at the same time.

Many great scientific inventions are actually based on countless experiments.

The main reason why scientific research is very expensive is because of the high cost of trial and error.

Not long after, Academician Yuan Nongping and Academician Li Zhensheng went to the hotel to rest, but their faces could not hide their excitement.

From time to time, he sighed, saying that "there is hope for a breakthrough in China's grain output" and "Chinese can finally eat enough......

On the morning of the next day, the two academicians couldn't wait to leave Shanghai with the team and continue to engage in scientific research.

This time, they have a lot of research funding, and they can recruit more talent, and they can go big and do a lot of things.

Foreign headhunters have also recruited a large number of agricultural talents for Galaxy Agricultural Company, and even many world-renowned agricultural scientists, which just solved the problem of talent shortage in super seed cultivation, but the problems that can be solved with money are not a problem.

The headhunter also poached a large number of "genetically modified" technical talents from Monsanto, Cargill, BASF, Bayer, Pioneer, Dow Agro, ADM, Bunge and other companies for Galaxy Agriculture.

Poaching competitors' talents into their own companies not only strengthens themselves, but also weakens the other party, slowing down the development of "genetically modified" technology in Europe and the United States to a certain extent.

Moreover, Zhao Ye does not believe that these companies will be more willing to spend money on the field of "genetically modified" than him.

In the previous life, in 2022, the global seed market was $47.2 billion, and in 1996 it certainly did not reach more than $40 billion.

The seed market is still relatively small, but it has a lot of potential for growth. Moreover, seeds are related to food security, and in any case, Zhao Ye will not allow other companies to control the seed market.

Many people have heard of oil wars, chip wars, and currency wars, but they may not have heard of seed wars.

But many people should have heard Kissinger's words: if you control oil, you control all countries; If you control the food, you control the whole of humanity.

Controlling oil and controlling the food of all mankind is Kissinger's national strategy for country M.

By 2014, Monsanto had mastered 90% of the world's genetically modified seed technology and occupied 70~100% of the market for a variety of crop seeds.

Galaxy Agricultural Company poached people this time, mainly targeting this company.

Because Galaxy Agribusiness is also going to wage a seed war, take control of the global seed market, and fight Monsanto!!

(End of chapter)