Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 3 Aifeng No. [-]
"When I left my unit, Director Xing wrote a letter for me, saying that he was also responsible for my accident, so he recommended a job for me. One of his classmates is now a leader in Shenzhen. There is a shortage of people there. , let me go and join him for a while!" Li Lei explained without waiting for Li Qiyun to ask.

"And Director Xing also said that I'd better not stay in Heyang during this time!" This sentence was added by Li Lei himself, in case his family would not let him go.

"It's better not to stay in Heyang?" Li Qiyun frowned, thinking behind his hands.

After a while, he nodded slowly, "That's right, the situation in Heyang County is still unclear. If you stay, someone will probably find a breakthrough from you. It's better to leave! Come back when the overall situation is settled!"

"Director Xing said the same thing, he will call me then!" This is true, Xing Shuwang cherishes talents.

"Then stay at home for two days, and leave the day after tomorrow! Be careful on the road!" Li Qiyun didn't hesitate, and decisively supported him after thinking clearly.

"I have been to many places when I was in college, and there are people in Shenzhen to take care of me, so nothing will happen!" Li Lei said this just to reassure his family, but in fact he may not necessarily go to Xing Shuwang's place.

After crossing a canal, he came to his own wheat field. Li Lei habitually looked at the growth of the wheat. The field was planted with dwarf wheat. The stalks were about [-] centimeters high. is endearing.

"This is 'Aifeng No. 3', right? It grows well. I'm afraid it can yield more than 700 catties per mu this year?" This kind of wheat is so famous that Li Lei recognized it at a glance.

In later generations, the production capacity of winter wheat per mu reached one thousand catties or even one thousand two hundred catties. If it was only more than 700 catties, farmers should cry.

But this was in 1983. When Li Lei was assisting in the compilation of "Agricultural History of New China", he read relevant data. In 1952, the national average wheat yield per mu was only 48.8 kilograms, which was less than 1976 kilograms. In 236, it increased to 1980 kilograms. , rose to 255 jin in [-].

Central Plains Province is a large grain province. Heyang County has good water and soil conditions, and the average yield per mu is higher than other places. The yield per mu in the past few years was only about [-] catties, but now it has risen to [-] catties. It is definitely a bumper harvest. .

"That's right, it's 'Cow to Death'. This wheat seed is good. If it could be planted a few years earlier, it wouldn't be starving!" Li Qiyun smiled from the bottom of his heart.

Although he is a teacher, he has always regarded himself as a farmer. For a farmer, there is nothing more gratifying than a good harvest.

"Why is it called 'Angry Cow'?" Li Lei was curious.

"Haha, what do you think, what are the stalks of the wheat used for after threshing? Didn't they use a guillotine to crush them and feed them to the cows? In the past, the wheat stalks were taller, and the cows ate more! Now it is replaced by short-stem wheat, and the yield has increased. There are fewer straws! The cows do more work, but eat less, so why not be mad?" Li Qiyun smiled.

"Ha, that's really true!" Li Lei burst out laughing, "If Mr. Zhao knows that the wheat seed they cultivated with so much effort is called 'Angry Cow', I don't know what expression he will have?"

Of course, Li Lei also knew that his father was joking, how much do rural people cherish cattle?How can you be willing to let it not be full?
"This wheat seed was cultivated by your teacher? Are you going to Shenzhen to leave the provincial capital? Are you going back to school? I'm going to prepare something, you bring it to Teacher Zhao, and thank him for us!" Li Qiyun asked hurriedly.

"No, no, Teacher Zhao is at Northwest Agricultural University! We learned his textbooks back then, so we called him Teacher!" Li Lei told Li Qiyun the story of Zhao Hongzhang and "Dwarf No. [-]".

"Ms. Zhao is the one who breeds wheat in our country!" Li Lei gave a thumbs up, "He graduated from Northwest Agricultural College at the age of 22, and became a member of the faculty at the age of 38!"

The members of the Faculty will be the academicians in the future. Even when the People's Republic of China was first founded, it would be quite remarkable to become an academician in less than [-] years old.

"Ms. Zhao first bred 'Bima No. 1', which is high-yielding and resistant to wheat rust. In 1959, it planted more than 9000 million mu, setting the record for the highest annual planting area of ​​a single wheat variety in our country and even in the world."

"In the 60s, Mr. Zhao presided over the breeding of 'Fengyi' No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 wheat varieties, among which 'Fengyi No. 3' performed outstandingly. Now this type of wheat is the most grown in the North China Plain."

"'Aifeng 3' was bred by Mr. Zhao in the 70s. Compared with the original variety, the yield is higher and the lodging resistance is better!"

In the future, Zhao Hongzhang will also preside over the breeding of new wheat varieties represented by "Xinong 85" and "Xinong 881", setting a precedent for the successful breeding of scab resistance in wheat regions in northern my country.

The four batches of wheat varieties selected and bred by Zhao Hongzhang have accumulatively planted an area of ​​9.5 million mu and increased wheat production by about 256 billion kilograms, creating four innovations, which are rare in the history of wheat breeding in my country.

If Yuan Longping is the representative of rice breeding in my country, then Zhao Hongzhang is the representative of the wheat industry.

Why not call Zhao Hongzhang the Yuan Longping of the wheat world?Because this title belonged to his student Li Zhensheng, counting, Mr. Zhao Hongzhang's seniority in the academic world is a generation higher than Mr. Yuan's.

"Oh, now that you said that, I remembered that the chairman even sent him a commendation for a national model worker. This should be the first model worker among intellectuals!" Li Qiyun recalled the information he had read in the newspaper. But the great benefactor of our farmers is amazing!"

"Yes, if there is no such person as Mr. Zhao, it will be difficult for us to fill our stomachs!" Li Lei has great respect for people like Zhao Hongzhang and Yuan Longping.

In the future, when people talk about the increase in grain production in the 80s, and when people across the country finally no longer have to go hungry, they seem to like to attribute it to the household contract responsibility system.

However, if there were no excellent seeds cultivated by a large number of agricultural science and technology workers such as Zhao Hongzhang and Yuan Longping, the countless water conservancy projects built in the first 30 years, and the large-scale chemical fertilizer installations introduced in the 70s... I am afraid that it would be exhausting for farmers to work hard. You can't do it even if you die.

"If you can breed such a good breed, then I will have no regrets in my life! Why don't you work hard to get a graduate student? It's better to be from Teacher Zhao?" Li Qiyun's expectations for his own children are not low.

"I'm afraid it won't work! But I should be able to do something!" Li Lei thought of the information in his mind. If used properly, it could also bring surprises to farmers across the country.

During the conversation, the two of them had already walked to the house. There were two trees in front of Li's house, one was an apricot tree, and the other was also an apricot tree.

(End of this chapter)