Chapter 493: Agricultural Professor Zhou Wenqing
Zhou Wenqing is 64 years old this year, he is now a professor at Anxi Agricultural University, Zhou Wenqing is the kind of real professor, not the so-called "beast brick family" on TV, he is the leader of rice research at Anxi Agricultural University, and he has a strong skill in rice research.
Of course, as a perennial researcher of rice, Zhou Wenqing often goes to the field himself, and he even planted a few acres of rice in the research base of Anxi Agricultural University, and the grain of Zhou Wenqing's family is taken from these shiyan fields, which is not that Zhou Wenqing wants to take advantage, but whether the food in the shiyanshiyan field has any bad effects on the human body after eating it or something.
Zhou Wenqing always believes that if you want the people to accept what you have researched, you must first shiyan yourself, otherwise you don't have a shiyan yourself, so you take it out for the people to use, which is a very irresponsible thing.
Therefore, every time a new rice seed is introduced, Zhou Wenqing and some of his students will first taste the taste of the grain grown with these rice seeds, whether there is any discomfort after eating, etc., in order to make these grains on the people's table absolutely safe and delicious.
Of course, after decades of personally cultivating rice, Zhou Wenqing now looks like an old farmer and a university professor, and there is no scholarly atmosphere in Zhou Wenqing.
Zhou Wenqing didn't care much about the appearance of the martial arts secret realm before, he always thought that practicing martial arts was a waste of time, and with this time for practicing martial arts, it was better to use this time to study rice, these things are really big things.
China is a country with a large population, and the current arable land area in China is only 1.827 billion mu. Compared with the previous year, it decreased by 4.602 million mu, and the per capita cultivated land area of the country was 1.39 mu, which has approached the red line of 1.8 billion mu.
However, although China has more than 1.8 billion mu of cultivated land, the grain output per mu of cultivated land varies from north to south.
In the southern part of North China, the cultivated land is cropped twice a year, and the yield of winter wheat per mu is 800 catties, which can feed one person. A season of corn can also yield 800 catties per mu, and it can also feed one person. More than 2 catties of grain per capita a day, should be able to feed and wear. The cultivated land in the southern part of North China grows twice a year, and one acre can feed two people.
in the Northeast. Cultivated land is cropped once a year, and the yield per mu of wheat or corn is close to 800 catties, which can feed one person; in the northwest, cultivated land is cropped three times in two years, or once a year. The yield per mu is slightly lower. An acre can basically feed one person; in Lingnan, there are three crops a year. Each acre can basically feed three people. In Jianghuai, paddy fields, one acre can feed more than two people.
These figures are not precise statistics, they are completely estimates, but the actual situation in China is not very different, and China's arable land can be basically considered. An acre can feed an average of two people. Maybe a little less than two, but not much.
If there are two people per mu, China's 1.8 billion mu of arable land is planted with food crops, which can feed 3.6 billion people. These 3.6 billion people are fully fed. But don't eat much meat. Now the Chinese population is 1.3 billion, and 2.6 billion people can still be fed.
But don't think that we don't have to worry about the future, because our cultivated land not only grows grain, but also needs to grow some weak white noodles, such as tobacco leaves, which are spiritual soft white noodles, which probably need tens of millions of acres of cultivated land, and there are many cultivated land for growing tobacco leaves in North China. If 20 million acres of arable land are needed to grow tobacco leaves, according to the second cropping a year, the food ration of 50 million people can be reduced.
We also need to be clothed, and that is to grow cotton. This also requires tens of millions of acres of arable land, cotton is a little better, wheat can be interplanted, and the ration of 50 million people will be reduced by about 50 million. As a result, cotton and tobacco farming have reduced the food rations of 100 million people.
We need to eat vegetables, and we probably need to reduce the food rations of 100 million people. We need oil crops, and we need to reduce the food rations of about 200 million people. Sugar crops, fruits, peppers and other crops are needed, and the food rations of 200 million people are probably needed.
There is also a lot of cultivated land that suffers from natural disasters every year, and it is estimated that the food rations of 200 million people can be reduced based on the area of hundreds of millions of acres of cultivated land affected by disasters every year. These factors have reduced the food rations of 800 million people.
To sum up, China can feed 2.8 billion people now, and if you take into account the possibility of overestimation, maybe China can feed 2.4 billion people. If underestimated, China could now feed more than 3 billion people.
However, this is only an easy way to estimate how the land can feed the population. These estimates of the number of people that can be supported by China's arable land and the standard of living are only subsistence and clothing, not moderately well-off. If you follow the level of moderate prosperity, you can't feed so many people.
Because people eat a lot of meat in a well-off life, corn and other grain production are fed to livestock, and everyone indirectly eats these corns by eating meat. The level of moderate prosperity also means a large amount of consumption in other aspects.
For example, consuming more fruits, condiments, etc., will also take up more arable land. People may have more pets, which will consume the food rations of hundreds of millions of people. People drink more alcohol and consume some food. People will need more clothes, which will require more cotton, which will also reduce food production.
And the most important thing is that the process of urbanization is greatly accelerated, and many cities are developing faster and faster, so the scale of the city is also getting bigger and bigger, and the larger the city, the larger the scope of the surrounding suburbs that he annexes, and the larger the scope of the surrounding suburbs that the city annexes, the more a large amount of arable land will disappear.
You know, the cultivated land around the city has always been the most haode those cultivated land, with the disappearance of a large number of cultivated land year by year, the entire China's cultivated land area is also rapidly decreasing, coupled with the current implementation of the policy of returning farmland to forest, China's cultivated land area has become less and less, and the breaking of the warning line of 1.8 billion mu is also close at hand.
Therefore, if you want to feed China's 1.3 billion people, in addition to expanding China's territorial scope, it is to accelerate the research of high-yield grain, and Academician Yuan's hybrid rice saved the Chinese at that time, and now it is their turn to develop more productive rice varieties.
But it is not a simple matter to study new high-yield rice varieties, which requires a lot of time and data, especially new wild rice varieties, and Academician Yuan's hybrid rice is developed on the basis of wild rice varieties, but with the current environment becoming more and more harsh. A large number of wild rice varieties have disappeared into the rivers of history, and it is very difficult to find a new wild rice seed now.
However, Zhou Wenqing actually got several new wild rice seeds from his students in May, which made Zhou Wenqing very excited, of course, Zhou Wenqing soon knew the origin of these wild rice seeds, which turned out to be the rice seeds that his students found when they went to the martial arts secret realm on May Day.
This incident made Zhou Wenqing knock his head hard, due to the serious environmental pollution on the earth, it is difficult to find new wild rice seeds, but the probability of finding new rice seeds in the very beautiful martial arts secret realm is absolutely very high, so Zhou Wenqing immediately took his students and assistants to set off towards the martial arts secret realm, where there are brand new wild rice seeds they dreamed of.
Just entered the martial arts secret realm. Zhou Wenqing felt that the secret realm of martial arts was indeed a fairyland on earth, not to mention the indigo sky, the fresh air, it was so charming, it made people feel like they would like to linger at a glance. Even the soil of the earth is so fertile.
If you want to say that the fertile land on the earth gets thirty points (100 points), the fertility of the land in this martial arts secret realm is absolutely 100 points. In this way, the haode land only needs to be planted with food. A good harvest is a sure thing.
Seeing such fertile soil and fresh air, Zhou Wenqing was full of excitement about this research action, and he felt that he would definitely gain a lot this time.
And the result was just as Zhou Wenqing expected, this time their harvest was really great, Zhou Wenqing and they not only found more than thirty new wild rice varieties in the martial arts secret realm. And they found something even more surprising.
The yield per mu of the farmers who planted rice in the jade area actually reached nearly 2,000 kilograms, which made Zhou Wenqing and his party dumbfounded, if it weren't for the rice in this farmer's house that Zhou Wenqing helped harvest and calculate. Zhou Wenqing: They would never have imagined that there would be such a large yield per mu.
If there is such a yield of rice on the earth, then where will there be a food crisis in China, and where will China need to import a large amount of grain from those three countries?
Zhou Wenqing and the others knew the rice yield of this farmer, so they asked him about the origin of his rice seeds, and to Zhou Wenqing's surprise, the rice seeds planted by this farmer were actually the No. 24 rice (fabricated) developed by them, which made Zhou Wenqing and them really can't believe it.
Zhou Wenqing and the others immediately began to inspect the rice varieties of these rice, and sure enough, the situation was exactly the same as what the old farmer said, which made Zhou Wenqing feel very incredible, how could this rice seed have such a big change?
Zhou Wenqing and his entourage stayed because of this, and if they didn't study the anomalies inside, Zhou Wenqing was not ready to leave, as long as he developed the reason for such a mutation, then China would no longer have to worry about food in the future.
For professors like Zhou Wenqing, serving the country is their biggest dream, and in order to realize this dream, what about staying in the martial arts secret realm for a few years, compared to making China no longer worry about food in the future, it is really nothing to suffer a little by themselves.
After Zhou Wenqing stayed in the secret realm of martial arts, he used their solid knowledge to solve a large number of problems of planting rice mountains for a large number of peasant brothers, especially the prevention and control of some pests and diseases, which made the peasant brothers love them very much.
Zhou Wenqing and their research base for the development of rice seeds in order to develop rice seeds more haode, but when Zhou Wenqing and they began to study rice seeds in a hurry, he didn't know that a black hand had reached out to Zhou Wenqing and them, and Zhou Wenqing was in danger.
The country of dwarfs and the country of ladyboys have always been big exporters of rice, to be honest, the rice industry in the country of the country and the country of ladyboys in the entire national income accounted for about 40% of the billy (apocryphal), so the rice industry has always been the pillar industry of these two countries, and these two countries are the first and second in the ranking of rice exporters on shijie, it can be seen that the importance of the rice industry to these two countries is unparalleled.
The quality of the rice in the country of dwarfs and ladyboys is quite good, not only the grains are full, the taste is very good, and the aroma of the rice grains is very sweet. What is even more satisfying is that when these two countries grow rice, they pay close attention to the quality, and the fertilizers applied in the rice fields are organic fertilizers, and the pesticides used are also biological pesticides.
Therefore, the rice produced in these two countries contains zero harmful substances, and it can be said that it is truly green rice, so it is a sure thing that it is very popular in the modern era when food safety is important. Coupled with the low fragmentation rate of rice in the country of dwarfs and ladyboys, the rice of the two countries is invincible in the international market.
The governments of the Dwarf Country and the Shemale Kingdom can be said to have made a lot of money in the rice market, and they already regard the national rice market as their government's ATM, so as long as any country wants to take a bite of meat from the rice market, it will be sniped by the Dwarf Country and the Shemale Country.
Compared with the cost of rice production, the low labor cost of these two countries is enough to make them invincible in the price war, coupled with the embarrassment of the two countries in the national grain market, so in the past few decades, the status of the dwarf country and the ladyboy country Shijie first, the second rice exporter has never been able to shake.
Originally, these two countries thought that this kind of thing would continue forever, but to their surprise this year, a sudden shipment of grain appeared on the international market, but the quantity of this grain was very small, and the price was prohibitively high.
After the government of the dwarf country and the demon country learned about this situation, they didn't care at all, and they were secretly laughing at this grain seller if he was crazy about money, and actually offered a price dozens of times higher than the best quality rice in their country, isn't this whimsical, what is it?!
They believed that these rice zuihou would never be sold, but something happened to them dumbfounded, these rice had just been listed on the trading platform, and the rice was sold out in just a few seconds, which made the two monks of the dwarf country and the ladyboy country confused and confused.
But this thing really hit the country of dwarfs and ladyboys, they thought at first that the people who bought these rice were just hired by the seller of this pending order, just to raise the price of their own rice, such things are often done by their two countries, but the news in return shows that the people who buy these rice are some big names in the United States, this fact makes the country of dwarfs and the country of ladyboys frown, they know that this time they are in big trouble. (To be continued......)
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