Chapter 39: Planting trees
On this day, Ling Yinong and Zhao Shucheng met. He looked at Zhao Shucheng awkwardly. Because he paid for the mushroom farmers to harvest mushrooms, the market price is still a bit chaotic. Today, he was even more competitive with the mushroom collectors, and he directly beat someone up.
The villagers felt that it was safe to get the money, so most people chose to sell the mushrooms to processing plants instead of saving them in Ling Yinong's warehouse. Zhao Shucheng hadn't told Ling Yinong in person for so long, otherwise he would have gone to find Ling Yinong.
"Professor Ling, are you still going to collect mushrooms at two dollars? How much does this price have to be paid? Have you calculated it yourself?"
"Do you know everything?" Ling Yinong smiled bitterly and looked at Zhao Shucheng in front of him.
"Of course I know. Since I am planning to deep processing of mushrooms, I must understand the market conditions of the mushrooms and various freight costs. Only by setting the price at a price that everyone can accept can my factory have a steady stream of Agaricus bisporus, mushroom farmers are willing to continue growing mushrooms, and buyers are willing to go to the village to collect mushrooms and sell them to me."
"You pay for mushrooms yourself now, or two yuan per pound. Such a price makes many middlemen profitable at all, and they have to pay for money. It is because the Agaricus Bisporus is now a bumper harvest and you can't store too much Agaricus Bisporus in your own cold storage, so they don't care about you."
Ling Yinong said indignantly: "I just can't stand them like this. It's obvious that the market can be sold between one yuan and five yuan, why do they give the purchase price less than one yuan? Such a price is a bit too low for mushroom farmers. Isn't it exploiting people to death? One pound of 80 cents, what does this mean? Mushroom farmers lost dozens of dollars, or even hundreds of dollars in vain."
Zhao Shucheng did not stop Ling Yinong's complaints, but he did not agree with Ling Yinong's point of view. Zhao Shucheng's mushrooms price has always been 1.5 yuan. Why is no one who sent it here directly? Instead, it sold it directly in the village for 80 cents? It's not that I feel that it's safe to sell breakfast. In addition, many mushroom farmers are not good at the level of their mushrooms. Most of their mushrooms are of level 2 and level 3, and the purchase price is about one yuan.
"Professor Ling, you said you are also a big intellectual and you have to fight with others. Is this really good? Besides, this Agaricus bisporus must follow the most basic market rules, right?"
"You pay for money to collect mushrooms yourself, you can't let everyone do this, right? If you really feel that you want the villagers to avoid losses, you can calculate the benefits and costs of your order. What is the price if you don't make money and lose money yourself."
"At that time, you can contact the Price Bureau and set the price of mushrooms to a price range, which is much better than if you do it against them like this. Secondly, you can't let the middlemen have no profits. Without these merchants, you can only sell so many mushrooms? Because you can't keep in charge of sales, and in the end there will definitely be other merchants to collect mushrooms."
Ling Yinong said unconvincedly: "Why can't I do it? The order I got this time can digest all the mushrooms."
Zhao Shucheng looked at him without saying a word. Ling Yinong was a little embarrassed and asked, "Is there any problem?"
"Of course there is a problem. Your order can digest the mushrooms this time, but can you keep paying for subsidies? Also, your order can only solve the problem of mushrooms in greenhouses now. However, many people who built greenhouses two months ago will also have their mushrooms out. Can you still solve them? Even those who built greenhouses within a month will also produce mushrooms in more than a month, so can you solve them in sales?"
"Have you ever calculated how many greenhouses you have built in total? After a month, what will be the yield of mushrooms?"
"Oh, don't worry. This fight was not without gains. Director Wu has already said that I won't have any problems. I will compensate me after selling mushrooms."
Ling Yinong said embarrassedly: "Besides, I only have this time, and I will definitely follow the market rules in the future. But the price must be around 1.5 yuan, otherwise I will still have to take action. Besides, you have not started processing mushrooms, and the output is not a problem."
"But I really didn't expect that you actually thought of drying mushrooms. In this way, even if the villagers' mushrooms cannot be sold, they can be processed into dried mushrooms. They can be stored for a longer time, and you no longer have to worry about smelling in three or two days."
Zhao Shucheng was not proud of this, but instead felt that this was the right thing to do. However, he did not announce this method as soon as possible, just because the villagers did not want to blindly expand their breeding. At least they should understand that raising mushrooms is also risky.
"Professor Ling, I'm here to find you this time, I'm not talking about mushrooms. Do you still remember what you came to Russia for?"
"Of course I'm here to promote mushroom cultivation."
Ling Yinong didn't understand what Zhao Shucheng meant, so he stared at Zhao Shucheng, not understanding why he asked this.
“Is it only possible to promote mushroom cultivation?”
"Well, if you want to say this, there is really one thing, that is, to control wind and sand. Some results were achieved before, and it was mushroom grass."
Zhao Shucheng looked at the other party and said, "By the way, this is the most important thing. Although promoting mushrooms can help the villagers make money, if the environment here is not improved and the environment continues to deteriorate, we cannot survive here and can only continue to migrate to other places."
"I have talked to you about sand control before, but we were all busy growing mushrooms at that time, so we didn't have a deep discussion. Now the mushroom issue is on track, when will we study the problem?"
Ling Yinong looked at Zhao Shucheng and asked, "What do you think?"
"Professor Ling, my idea is this. You are studying mushroom grass. You said before that mushroom grass can prevent wind and sand. But mushroom grass cannot be evergreen all year round, right? In addition to some plants in this place, the plants and trees must be withered in autumn and winter. In this way, mushroom grass can prevent wind and sand and sand in winter, can the effect of mushroom grass protect the wind and sand in winter?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Ling Yinong looked at Zhao Shucheng without understanding, not understanding what he meant.
"Professor, this is what I think. You must not just use mushroom grass to control sand. You must also cooperate with planting trees. Besides, the wind and sand here are strong. Although mushroom grass can solidify sand, its effect on wind is still not as good as that of trees."
"Before, we used the solution of "narrow forest belt, small net format farmland shelterbelt network" to address the problem of desert control in the Gobi Desert area. Although there are not many trees planted in this way, it can at least protect the farmland in the Russian village."
"But this method can cure the symptoms but not the root cause. There are mobile deserts around the Yuquan Camp of Russia. If the problems of these deserts cannot be solved, sandstorms will continue to occur, and they may even slowly invade Russian farmland."
"If you want to solve this problem, you must use the wind wall to control the liquidity of the desert and reduce the occurrence of sandstorms. However, if you really want to do it once and for all, you must still fix the desert so that it will not cause sandstorms."
The problem of desert control is a long-term problem. The country has thought of many ways to deal with this and has been working hard for decades before finding these methods. Zhao Shucheng felt proud of this when he thought of this. Which country in the world has the confidence to formulate and implement a decades-long desert control project? In many cases, this desert control project only has input but no output, otherwise other countries will not ignore the issue of desert expansion.
In the past 70 years of desert control in China, China has roughly experienced three stages: "the start of national mobilization and entry into the desert", "national will, development driven by projects", "promoting externally and speeding up efficiency", and has launched 16 ecological restoration projects with huge investments and far-reaching impact, including the construction of the "Three Norths" protective forest system, the management of sand source in Beijing and Tianjin, natural forest protection, and returning farmland to forests to grasslands.
In the past decade after the 21st century, green space was restored through a series of ecological restoration projects, and the land achieved "from yellow to green", contributing 25% of the world's green increase.
Ling Yinong did not expect that Zhao Shucheng had a lot of research on sand control and said directly: "I didn't expect that you also have research on sand control, but it is all very difficult. I have been studying sand control for many years, and I found that one thing is that sand has life."
Shuihua was listening, and asked curiously: "Sand still has life?"
Ling Yinong smiled and said, "You don't understand this. Sand is constantly eroding the land. If we just manage a piece of land and let it be green, it won't take long to get the sand here again."
"Sand control is like fighting a tug-of-war. No matter how much effort or effort you spend, as long as you cannot think about the expansion of the desert, exceeding the speed of sand erosion, the sand will spread again. If you want to really solve the problem of desert expansion, the best way is to manage large areas of large areas, and then large areas of sand prevention, so that the desert can be prevented from expanding and even let it disappear on this loess."
"The most critical question is now, how can we better release wind and solidify sand? I don't know what the wind wall you are talking about, but if you just plant trees, this will not work at all. Because the sand moves, the woods can only reduce the wind speed, but they cannot stop the movement of wind and sand. In the end, the saplings are eroded by wind and sand and eventually die of drought."
"Sand control is not a simple problem. I have studied this with many experts and even discussed it many times. It is definitely unrealistic to solve this problem in a short period of time. We have experimented with many methods, including grid planting methods, and even specialized wind-proof and sand-fixing vegetation, but the results are not very ideal."
"What we can do now is to use countless human and material resources to fight against nature, but it is often useless. This sand control thing cannot be accomplished by you alone. No matter how powerful a person is, it is too small compared to the great power of nature."
Chapter completed!