Chapter 68: Agricultural Investment (2)
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Xia Jun also has plans for the 130 million mu of forest land in Fujian. Some of these forest lands have not been developed yet, and those undeveloped self-grown forests will be kept, and at least 50 million mu of self-grown forests will be left.
Another 70 million mu of forest land is used to plant fruit trees, another 20 million mu of nanmu and 20 million mu of fast-growing fir trees are used to plant fruit trees.
Nanzhu is a bamboo with the highest economic value and the tallest of bamboo species.
Xia Jun found improved nanmu bamboo on the exchange platform. This improved nanmu bamboo can generally grow to 20 meters high, generally have a waist circumference of more than one foot, and a density of more than 300 roots per mu. The maximum output of winter bamboo shoots is 300kg.
If ordinary nanmu bamboos can only grow to 20 meters high, and although there are many with waist circumference of more than one foot, there are many with less than one foot. As for the density of 300 per acre, it would be very powerful. Such a density of ordinary nanmu bamboos can also be achieved, but it is not universal.
From the growth of bamboo shoots to the growth of the growth of the bamboo shoots, it can be cut in two years. For some uses, it will be the best for three years, and for four years. For some people who cannot manage, it may be delayed in five or six years before cutting, but it will miss the economic benefits.
This is something that can be regenerated quickly, and can also dig winter bamboo shoots and spring bamboo shoots. However, there are not many winter bamboo shoots of this type of improved nanmu bamboo. Generally speaking, bamboo shoots that grow in winter are useless because they grow too early and cannot be kept as bamboo, so they will be dug out.
Obviously, this is a kind of nanmu that sacrifices bamboo production in exchange for high-density growth. It is much more cost-effective than planting other tree species, but it only needs care every year.
Fir trees are fast-growing trees with straight texture, corrosion-resistant and insect-proofing. They are widely used in buildings, bridges, telephone poles, shipbuilding, furniture and craftsmanship products. About 1/4 of the building materials in later generations are fir trees. Fir trees grow fast and generally can be made into 10 years. They are one of the most important specialty tree species in the south.
The fast-growing fir trees that can be cultivated in Xiajun system can be cut in just 3 years, can be grown in 5 years, and can grow to 30 meters in 15 years, which is nearly twice the growth rate of the original fir tree.
The so-called "living the mountains and eating the mountains and the sea" is the one in Fujian. Fujian lacks arable land, but it can eat the mountains and seas. Naturally, this mountain cannot be missed. Xia Jun spent 2 million points to build an improved nanmu bamboo cultivation base and a fast-growing fir tree cultivation base.
Although nanmu grows faster than fir trees, nanmu can barely be regarded as some uses of wood, and there are many uses that wood does not have, but it requires annual care, such as laying fertilizer, digging bamboo, and cutting bamboo. However, nanmu does not have the same purpose as wood, so fast-growing pine trees are still very necessary to plant. At the same time, pine trees do not need care, so you can ignore them after planting. If you want to make the pine trees grow better, it is also possible to take care of them, such as hoeing the weeds on the mountain.
Xia Jun wants to take a diversified agricultural route, and investing just this is not enough. However, after he exchanged for the cultivation base for feeding corn, high-yield sugarcane, and fast-growing fir trees, only 11 million points were left.
But Xia Jun's investment in agriculture is far from over. After all, with feed corn, there is also a breeding industry! The breeding industry naturally raises cattle.
Beef cattle and dairy cows. The reason why China cannot raise cattle on a large scale is because it does not have enough land to grow enough feed. After all, there are 1.3 billion people in the future, and the farmland resources are so tight that they are dying. The feed conversion rate of cattle is 10:1, so naturally it cannot become the main force of meat.
Pork is also needed. After all, pigs are easier to raise than cattle. Farmers can raise pigs, and cattle require a farm to build a farm.
Fishery breeding is also needed, but Xia Jun thought about it and let it go for the time being. Anyway, Fujian is by the sea, so I just need to get a few fishing boats to fish in the sea. The fishery resources are very rich these days.
The beef cattle Xia Jun chose a grade 4 beef cattle. This beef cattle is resistant to rough feeding, has average disease resistance, average cortex, reaching 530kg in one year, with a slaughter rate of 68%, a lean meat rate of 80%, a feed-to-meat ratio of 10:1, and a cultivation base: 1 million.
This kind of cattle grows fast, has a higher slaughter rate and lean meat rate than ordinary beef cattle.
Then Xia Jun selected 4-grade high-yield dairy cows. This cow is resistant to rough feeding, has average disease resistance, and has average cortex. When it reaches the milk production period at the age of 2, the average annual milk production is 8,000 liters, the milk feed conversion rate is 1.2:1, and the milk quality is excellent. The bull reached 480kg at the age of 1, the slaughter rate is 61%, the lean meat rate is 78%, the cortex is average, the feed-to-meat ratio is 10:1, and the cultivation base is 1 million.
The milk production of this cow is very high, but the disadvantage is that it consumes feed. The feed conversion rate of ordinary cows' milk is 1:1, while that of this cow is 1:1.2.
In this era, Chinese people were generally short in size, and only people in Shandong and other places were tall in size. The main reason was that their nutrition could not keep up.
People’s living standards must keep up, which requires production to have enough substances, not only beef cattle, dairy cows, but also meat pigs.
Xia Jun then exchanged for a level 4 fast-growing lean pig: it has a rough feed resistance and average disease resistance, reaching 150kg in 160 days, a slaughtering rate of 65%, a lean carcass rate of 58%, a feed-to-meat ratio of 2.5:1, and a cultivation base: 1 million.
These three cultivations can greatly solve people's livelihood problems.
Xia Jun only has 9 million points left, and the cultivation bases of beef cattle, dairy cows and pigs are different from those of crops and poultry.
After all, this is a mammal and is born from the viviparous species. There must be breeding cattle, breeding pigs, cows, and sows. The breeding base is responsible for breeding cattle and breeding pigs.
The farm must be built by itself, and breeding cattle, pigs, cows, and sows must be purchased from the redemption platform.
The cultivation methods are as follows: after purchasing the breeding cattle, breeding pig, cow, and sow, they give birth to small bulls and send them to the breeding base for cultivation. The breeding base is a pure breeding cattle and breeding pigs. Those who are not sent to the breeding base have no fertility. Sows and cows must mate with the breeding cattle produced by the breeding base before they can give birth.
In this way, Xia Jun doesn't have to worry about stolen varieties by other countries, because these excellent varieties can only reproduce for one generation without going through the cultivation base and cannot cross other varieties.
Xia Jun immediately selected personnel from the teachers and students of the Agricultural College of Jianzhou University to form three groups, specializing in the construction of beef cattle, dairy cows and pig farms.
Among them, pigs are the simplest, and pigs have the strongest reproductive ability. One child can give birth to more than ten or twenty pigs, while one cow can only give birth to one child, so the management needs to be more precise.
Due to the lack of staff in the Agricultural College, Xia Jun only purchased 3,000 cows (half of dairy cows and beef cattle each), and 5,000 sows.
Everything is difficult at the beginning. Now no one can only raise so many for the time being. When the management personnel are trained in the future, Xia Jun can buy more, increase the scale of feeding, and then give birth to more calves.
In terms of popularizing dairy cows and beef cattle, it will take at least 3 to 5 years, after all, the breeding speed of cattle is not fast.
This can improve people's livelihood. Xia Jun naturally needs to exchange it early in order to promote it earlier. However, only these cows, sows and breeding cattle, and breeding pigs cost Xia Jun 500,000 points, which cost more money to buy some than the cultivation base.
After large-scale investment in agriculture, Xia Jun only had 8.5 million points left, so Xia Jun no longer exchanged anything. There is no need for fertilizers and other things for the time being. It is almost winter, so where can we use fertilizers? Let’s see how many gaps there are in the capital and agriculture industry. After all, I can produce fertilizers now.
At this time, the Ministry of Agriculture was the busiest. In order to complete the indicators issued by Xia Jun, the Ministry of Agriculture surveyed, counted, and planned everywhere, which land was used to grow rice, which land was used to grow sugarcane, which mountain was used to grow fruits, which mountain was used to grow nanmu bamboo, and which mountain was used to grow fir trees. They all had to be clearly planned.
The Taxation Bureau was also established and began to collect taxes on foreign traders and goods transported on the Minjiang River. For a time, foreign goods prices in Fujian skyrocketed.
However, in terms of exports, there is no tax revenue. Although imports are affected, exports are not affected at all.
Fujian has already brought the prelude to tariff protection. This is an illegal tax, just like farmers setting up checkpoints to collect travel fees. As Xia Jun’s current identity, he has no right to collect tariffs, but this cannot stop Xia Jun from collecting tariffs.
Chapter completed!