Chapter 35 New Problems
Tian Fujun returned to Yuanxi County to learn about the current situation in Yuanxi County. He still hoped that his old friend Zhang Youzhi would be in the same mind as him and to take the people of Yuanxi County to live a good life. However, when he went to learn about the situation with Zhang Youzhi, he found that Zhang Youzhi became a little lazy about his work, and the situation in Yuanxi County was not as good as he thought, everything became better.
Since the implementation of the responsibility system, although farmers have become very enthusiastic about farming, more farmers have gone to the city to work, and instead abandoned their own arable land.
This made Tian Fujun feel a little distressed. The harvest was good, but there was no increase in yield, which was different from what he expected.
He felt very distressed when he wanted to change the current situation. He hoped that Zhang Youzhi and others could take the lead and build a 10,000 mu of millet in the former Xi County. In addition to increasing yield and income, he could also develop large-scale planting and scientific farming like Shuangshui Village, which solved the problem of abandonment in rural areas.
Tian Fujun felt that since farmers did not know how to farm scientifically and plant crops in the south but did not achieve increased yield and income. The problem was that the commune and the county did not provide scientific guidance.
But Zhang Youzhi said, "The situation is very good if farmers want to plant whatever they want."
Tian Fujun looked at Zhang Youzhi in disbelief and said, "Youzhi, this doesn't look like your speaking style."
"Ha, the situation is very gratifying."
Tian Fujun said: "Brother, I came to Yuanxi County this time to ask my brothers to tell you. If we understand, the work in Yuanxi County will have a direction."
"Okay, then let's talk about your corn cereal."
"It's not my corn flavour, nor yours, it's from our Quanyuan Xi County. I heard that the sorghum in Shikuanzhong is also what you object to?"
"Feng Shikuan wants to plant sorghum on both sides of the Dongla River because the sorghum is red."
Tian Fujun was stunned when he heard this and said, "I just said, "You can't say anything you have."
The two exchanged opinions on the work in Yuanxi County. They said a lot, a lot...
Zhao Shucheng is also busy with the matter of Shuangshui Village, especially the chicken farm. Since the surrounding villages have begun to implement household and group management, many people have naturally started to learn as they have made money by raising chickens in Shuangshui Village. Without a collective large chicken farm, every household starts to raise chickens, and the eggs saved in three to five days are sold at the market.
The two companies have no impact on the market, but as more and more people start raising chickens, the number of eggs is increasing. However, many farmers are reluctant to spend money to take a bus to the city, and they also feel that the price given by the supply and marketing cooperative is not as good as that in the market, so they are all focused on selling eggs at the market.
But the digestive capacity near the Shiguijie Commune is limited, not to mention that most farmers in Shiguijie are raised by their own chickens at home, and fewer and fewer people need to buy eggs, so naturally the eggs are unsalable. Farmers can't watch the eggs break like this. Many people buy eggs but still women at home, and they don't know so much, so they start to lower the price. You cost one cent, he costs seven cents, and I cost five cents each. The price of this egg is getting lower and lower, but the sales volume of eggs is still the same.
I won’t say that they have a lot of losses, but this affects the price of eggs in the area near the Shigui Festival, and problems have also begun to arise in the cooperation between the chicken farm in Shuangshui Village and the supply and marketing cooperative. If the supply and marketing cooperative wants to lower the price, it is best to be the same as the price at the Shigui Festival market. This way, the cost is lower, and they can earn more money and each person can also pay more wages.
At the beginning, Tian Runsheng didn't care. He was busy dating Hao Hongmei, but when checking the accounts, he found that the income of the chicken farm had been much lower in the past few days. Only then did he find out the problem and start to get anxious.
He went to communicate with the purchasing staff of the supply and marketing cooperative, hoping to restore the original price, but the other party refused to buy oil and salt, and even if he gave some benefits, he would not agree.
It’s not that Tian Runsheng had never thought about solving the problem himself, but what could he do? He said a lot of good things, and even had dinner with the director of the supply and marketing cooperative several times, but it was useless.
He could only come to Zhao Shucheng, hoping that Zhao Shucheng could do anything, at least not let the chicken farm suffer losses, and the villagers would not scold him to death. Not to mention that many people now say that it is because Tian Runsheng wants to marry Hao Hongxia, which is a broom star, that the chicken farm has such problems.
Otherwise, why wouldn't this problem occur early or late? Runsheng was fine when he was the director of a chicken farm. He was about to get married, but such a problem occurred?
After hearing what Tian Runsheng said, Zhao Shucheng looked at him with a funny look and asked, "Do you think it has something to do with Hao Hongmei?"
"Of course I don't think this has anything to do with Hao Hongmei, but now rumors are everywhere in the chicken farm. I don't find a way to solve it, so it's not right."
Zhao Shucheng said: "Have you ever investigated how many eggs are in the Shigui Festival Commune Market every time? If we buy them all at our previous price, how much will it cost? If we sell them to the supply and marketing cooperative, can we still make a profit?"
Tian Runsheng was stunned for a moment and said, "Brother-in-law, what you mean is that we will buy all the eggs near the Shigui Festival and resell them to the supply and marketing cooperative. Isn't this a speculative move?"
Zhao Shucheng shook his head and said, "There is no such statement now, and we have not raised the price. We just help the surrounding farmers solve the problem of egg sales. However, we cannot buy it at a price of one, but we have to buy it at a price of one pound to avoid losses. In addition, these eggs are not enough to be bought, but we also have to choose. The shelf life of eggs is generally about ten days, and it may be a little longer in winter, but it will not exceed half a month. However, the eggs at farmers' homes are uncertain. So after buying, there will be a process of choosing. Let me tell you about this problem at that time, but the primary problem now is to use the method of purchasing eggs to restore the price of eggs in Shigui Festival to normalize, and then reach an agreement with the supply and marketing cooperative, and sell them at this price in the future. If they are unwilling to sign a long-term agreement, they can also calculate the price in a week or a half month."
Zhao Shucheng actually didn't expect that the supply of eggs began to appear near the Shigu Festival so soon, but this also reminded Zhao Shucheng.
Since this happens in the Shigui Festival now, then the communes near the Shigui Festival may also have this happen in the future, and even in the end, such problems may occur in the entire Yuanxi County.
I originally thought that I would wait for a period of stable development and after a period of development near the former Xi County, I would think about solving the problem of egg sales. Now it seems that I need to prepare for the future. I cannot wait until the supply of eggs is really oversupply and the price of eggs falls before I find a way to solve it.
Zhao Shucheng has actually been prepared for this for a long time, and has also learned that most of the deep-processed egg products on the market are braised eggs, pineapple eggs, salted duck eggs, etc. There are also very few egg powders. As for other products, they are not common on the market now.
But Zhao Shucheng knew in his mind that there are many semi-finished eggs in the future, such as mayonnaise, salted egg yolks, egg yolk liquid, protein liquid, etc. for further processing. Of course, the processing of these egg liquid egg powder requires very professional equipment. At present, there are not necessarily domestic products, and building such a processing plant is not something that Shuangshui Village can do in a short time.
But if you want to say that fresh eggs are no longer sold in Xixian, they are transported to other cities. One is a freight problem and the other is a road problem. Now most roads in Xixian are dirt roads, and only the county town can have asphalt roads. They can be transported by car. The eggs delivered to the destination may not be asphalt. There are not as many eggs that have been broken on the way.
So the only way now is to deep processing, at least make it into braised eggs, pineapple eggs, salted eggs, etc., and then package them and transport them to other areas.
There is also a problem, that is, if an egg processing factory is built this year, the village’s purchase of harvesters will have to be postponed, and at least most of the funds this year will be used in the processing factory.
But such a decision is very good, but for the rest of the village, they may not understand Zhao Shucheng's approach. Even Jin Junshan and Jin Cheng may misunderstand that Zhao Shucheng is deliberately targeting them just to deceive them.
When Zhao Shucheng came to the farmland, he saw Jin Cheng and Jin Junwu busy with the villagers.
Some people saw Zhao Shucheng coming and said, "Shao'an is here!"
Kim Junwu came over with Kim Sung and said, "Shaoan, why are you here?"
Zhao Shucheng looked at the others and said, "I'm here to find Jin Cheng."
Jin Cheng looked at Zhao Shucheng curiously and asked, "Shaoan, what are you asking for me?"
"Jin Sung, I'm here to apologize to you. I promised to form a harvester fleet for you, and it may take some time to postpone it."
Jin Cheng's face tweaked after hearing this, and Jin Junwu asked in surprise: "Shao'an, why is this? Although there is a harvester in our village, if there is one more, the wheat in our village can be harvested faster, and our corn also needs a special corn harvester. Otherwise, it will take too much time for us to harvest corn manually like this."
Zhao Shucheng said: "The village now needs to build an egg and chicken processing factory first. You should have heard that the eggs in the chicken farm in the village cannot be sold at the price, and there are more and more people raising chickens in nearby villages. Sooner or later, the chicken farm in our village will be forced to survive. This will not work..."
After Zhao Shucheng said his thoughts, he looked at Jin Cheng and said, "Jin Cheng, I'm sorry for you. If you want to blame me, blame me. If you don't dislike it, you can be the factory director or other jobs after the egg processing factory is established. What do you think?"
Jin Cheng didn't think so. Although it seemed like being a factory manager was a good thing, he understood very well that since Zhao Shucheng implemented the cooperative system in the village, those who were factory managers were actually only earning dead wages. But if he continued to be a harvester master, it would be different. When he went outside to harvest crops for people, he would not only make money, but only farmers were responsible for food and vegetables, and even tobacco and alcohol to take. There was no such good thing in the village. And according to Zhao Shucheng, sooner or later, the harvester in the village would be eliminated and he could buy it himself. Whether it was for the village or outside, the money he earned was his own.
"Shao'an, you need to say nothing, I'm still in the cooperative, driving my tractor and harvester!"
Chapter completed!