Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1696 United as One

Shortly after this meeting, experts from the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences came over.

They were quite surprised by the geographical environment of Lianhe Township, which was simply a "treasure land" born for growing pomegranates.

The most important thing is that such a precious land has not been "polluted" by local varieties of pomegranates. It can become a research and development base for the "unique advantage" of Moroccan soft-seeded pomegranates, which is quite rare.

After Lao Chi Ri's introduction, everyone understood what was going on. Before the water source was cut off, corn and rapeseed could be planted on that piece of land on the mountain. After the landslide, the water source was cut off, and in the past few years, only buckwheat and potatoes could be planted.

That is to say, that area was originally agricultural land and was quite productive, so no one thought of turning it into an orchard.

The situation of the riverbed is roughly the same. The land there is planted with broad beans and vegetables during the winter dry season, and rapeseed is planted above the water line. After the rapeseed is harvested, autumn corn is planted. It is also a relatively high-yield area. However, if there is a heavy flood in a certain year, there will be no harvest.

In closed rural areas, the process of agricultural technology promotion is very slow. For example, in Fujian and Guangdong, everyone likes to raise Muscovy ducks, which have strong disease resistance, high meat yield, and excellent meat taste. However, they cannot be promoted in Jiachuan.

Twenty years have passed since my uncle introduced the Muscovy duck breed to Jiachuan and Old Yangtou started raising them at home. Moreover, Old Yangtou was the first person in Baimi Township to raise Muscovy ducks.

The same situation exists in Liangshan Prefecture. For example, the purple potato that Zhou Zhi likes very much is still grown in Lianhe Township outside Puge. These seeds are the ones that Lao Chi Ri brought back when he went to "Zou Bimo".

Local cherries are basically concentrated in Mianping, while local soft-seeded pomegranates are rarely seen outside Huili.

Thanks to the longer shelf life of pomegranates, the autonomous prefecture is working hard to expand their breeding, and they have now gone beyond the county. The shelf life of local cherries is a maximum of twelve hours, and basically the end point is when they arrive at the prefecture capital from Mianping.

Information closure, conservatism among villagers, and inadequate popularization of agricultural techniques are all reasons why the expansion and propagation of excellent agricultural varieties and development in other places are very slow.

This time, the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences brought not only Moroccan pomegranates but also a batch of American sweet cherry seedlings. This was a variety that Li Yutang learned about after Zhou Zhi reminded him. Moreover, this variety has been planted in Shandong Province for more than ten years and is completely unknown to the outside world.

  Experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences were even surprised. Why did the cadres far away in Liangshan Prefecture know that this thing existed in Qingdao, thousands of miles away?

The Moroccan soft-seeded pomegranate seedlings were really precious, but Li Yutang kept crying poor, so since they had brought it up, the experts were happy to use American cherry seedlings to make up the number.

As for the transliteration of foreign words such as "cherry", it is not accepted by experts.

American cherries have very high requirements for soil fertility. Each tree needs to be topdressed with up to 40 kilograms of farmyard manure after it bears fruit. Therefore, although all other conditions such as light, temperature, precipitation, and soil in Lianhe Township are met, this one condition is a sticking point.

Zhouzhi really has no other choice. Given the current situation in the village, it is indeed very difficult to ferment so much farmyard manure. And even if the local thin-skinned cherries are turned into cherries, the shelf life of the fruit is still worrying without a cold chain.

Another point is that it takes four years for cherries to bear fruit from planting, while it only takes two years for pomegranate tree high-branch layering seedlings to bear fruit from planting, and even one year if managed well. This is undoubtedly a huge advantage for Wu Renzhong to achieve political achievements in a short period of time.

Sowing seeds upon taking office, blooming during the term, and demonstrating political achievements before promotion are undoubtedly the best projects to help a cadre write a resume. Although this will bring various drawbacks such as short-sightedness and forcing things to grow, as long as the system is like this, this phenomenon is difficult to avoid.

There was no need for Zhou Zhi and Wu Renzhong to tell the experts from the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences about these things. The experts only saw the enthusiasm of local officials and, of course, the recklessness of young people.

How can you say that before the seeds have even started to grow, you have already planned the area and even completed 60% to 70% of the infrastructure? !

  Under Zhou Zhi's secret instigation, Wu Renzhong began to perform with tears and snot, and spoke very simply, "The autonomous prefecture is poor, Meigu County is poor, those statements are all bullshit, our Lianhe Township is the real poor!"

After living in Lianhe Township for a year, I have seen a lot of problems and feel anxious. I only regret that I had too little knowledge of agriculture and could not help my fellow villagers.

After a year of frantically searching for information and studying hard, I finally discovered that among the several excellent fruit varieties introduced by the country, some may be suitable for development in Lianhe Township.

As soon as I told the villagers, they couldn't wait any longer and waited for the rice to be cooked. Even if the rice didn't come in the end, we still have a pot, right?

But if there are no pots, when the rice really arrives, it may be snatched away by other towns and villages that have pots!

  We may be poor, but we still understand this clearly!

Listening to Wu Renzhong's generous and pure words, watching the ragged villagers who were "performing in their true colors" at the seed farm, as well as Ziqi Aguo and Muxia Laha's big eyes blinking as they carried steamed buns, and the words "Grandma, have some water" melted the heart of Professor Liu Liangzhen, the authority on cherry planting science in China and the introducer of American big cherries, and she waved her hand and said, "This is it! This is our Brooks propagation base and the cultivation base of Red Light No. 1, this is it!"

On the return train, Liu Liangzhen wrote at the end of the investigation report: "In addition to the superior geographical location, geological conditions, climate factors and other scientific research conditions, the support of local cadres and the masses is one of the important reasons why we chose this place as a scientific research base. Although the local area is a minority area, the thinking is far more open than most villages. The cadres and leaders have positive ideas and have a desire for science and technology."

"Their mentality surprised our comrades. After investigation, we found out that some students from Shudu University who were doing research on humanities projects had arrived here before us and had already established a field research station."

"Because the project was sponsored by AXA Fund, they also set up a satellite communication base station, UPS uninterruptible power supply, satellite phones and laptops. Such excellent scientific research conditions really shocked us."

"According to the project leader Zhou Zhi, if we set up the research base in Lianhe Township, he can apply to the AXA Fund to share resources with us. Even after they withdraw, the research base of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences can take over the equipment and the AXA Fund can continue to sponsor it."

"This will undoubtedly save a lot of money and provide great convenience for our future work. Therefore, the inspection team unanimously agreed that although the conditions in Lianhe Township are slightly more difficult than those in Mianning, which is located in the Anning River Valley, it is more suitable as a cherry breeding research base."

"As for the remaining difficulties, I believe that our scientific and technical personnel, local leaders and the general public can work together to solve them!"