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Chapter 339 Soybeans
The main reason for the poor economic situation in the Northeast is that it is far away from the coastal areas. Coupled with economic structure, climate, and lack of market concepts, the economic vitality of the Northeast is far less than that of the southeast coastal areas. It is difficult for the products produced to compete with the southeast coastal areas. , but this problem does not exist in farms, other things may not be sold, how can no one want food?So it was strange for Li Lei to see all the farms appearing on the near-bankruptcy list.

Xu Jinzhou, the leader of the city where the farm is located, immediately explained, "The problems of Dongfeng Farm are multifaceted. First of all, the farm is not only engaged in crop production, but also has a variety of subsidiary factories such as flour mills, medicinal materials factories, maintenance factories, and breeding stations. As well as schools and other affiliated institutions, they used to be fine when their profits were good, but now these enterprises are no longer able to survive, all relying on farm relief, and after a long time, they can't survive on the little money from selling food and are dragged down!"

"In addition, after contracting production to households, farms have less and less advantages compared with local governments, and some are even worse than local governments. The biggest difference is that agriculture and rural infrastructure construction are supported by state funds, and farm infrastructure construction is at its own expense. Profit and loss mainly depend on loans. Farm debts are getting bigger and bigger, farm operations are getting more and more difficult, and workers' production and living burdens are getting heavier and heavier. After rural areas are divided into households, farmers' living standards are improving day by day, and farm workers can only sigh. The wages of the administrative personnel in the city are raised, and the wages of the leaders of the farm and the huge management team are also raised. The salary increase of the staff of the national administrative institutions depends on financial allocations. Increasing the commission in units of mu, the burden on farm workers is getting heavier and heavier!"

"Under the general situation that agriculture, rural areas and farmers are gradually benefiting from policy support, the poverty alleviation and support policies enjoyed by agriculture, rural areas and farmers, farmland water conservancy, traffic and road construction and other public welfare undertakings implement annual investment, and the state appropriation policy, farms do not have this treatment, plus from The change from collective labor on large farms to the contracting system of small households, in a word, farm enterprises have been unable to maintain production, life, and survival, and employees’ per capita income has been reduced year by year and they have slipped into poverty.”

Li Lei nodded slightly. This is quite similar to what he heard from the leaders of the Eighth Agricultural Division in Shihezi. It is a good thing to contract production to households and put it in Heyang. Putting it in the northwest and northeast, where the per capita cultivated land area is large, is more suitable for large-scale mechanized production. It is not necessarily the case in other places, and the decentralization of land contracting rights in farms has lost this advantage. Dongfeng Farm has experienced a decline in profitability just like the Eighth Agricultural Division in Shihezi.

"Of course, some policies of our local government have also dragged down the farm. In the past two years, other factories in the city were not profitable, and workers from some bankrupt enterprises needed to be resettled. Other units in the city refused to accept them, so they could only be arranged to go to the farm! In this way, the burden on the farm has increased!" The leader added that this is a more troublesome place than the Eighth Agricultural Division. The Eighth Agricultural Division has a serious problem of population loss, but the corresponding burden is also small. After contracting the land, there is no need to raise so many People, Dongfeng Farm has more people to support.

Li Lei thought about it. If he took over, it would not be as simple as contracting land in Shihezi. Huinong needed to resettle a large number of people, but it was not without benefits. First of all, Dongfeng Farm is located in the fertile Songnen Plain and was reclaimed. All of them are black land that can produce oil, and the output is much higher than that of Shihezi; secondly, these personnel seem to be a burden at present, but they can easily be transformed into valuable human resources, and Dongfeng Farm cannot accommodate them. They can go to Shihezi and Kazakhstan. Huinong's farms in these places need a lot of manpower, and they can go directly to them.

The most important thing is the breeding research station. Li Lei saw in the information that this breeding station has been engaged in soybean breeding for many years. It has a research team with excellent technology and rich experience. If the assigned college students take over this research station while purchasing Dongfeng Farm, it means that Huinong can enter the field of soybean breeding.

Li Lei too knows how important soybeans are to China. In the future, China will need to import hundreds of millions of tons of grain every year, of which soybeans account for 9000 to [-] million tons, which is the largest import variety.

This is determined by China's food strategy. China has a large population, and the annual food consumption is astronomical. However, the domestic arable land is limited and cannot meet all needs. Under such circumstances, there must be a trade-off, so China can only first To protect the staple food, the main energy will be devoted to maintaining the safety of the staple food, giving priority to planting rice, wheat, corn and other grains. For soybeans whose yield per mu is too low and mainly used for oil extraction and feed raw materials, we can only rely on imports. On the one hand, it has been under the control of the United States for a long time. Although the source of imports has been changed in the future, soybeans from Brazil and Argentina have been replaced by American soybeans, but the soybeans from these countries are still controlled by the United States. As long as the United States cuts off the supply of seeds, pesticides, and fertilizers, South American countries cannot provide them. Enough soybeans.

If it can be solved, or even just eased a little bit of the soybean dilemma China is facing, then it will not be a waste of time. The idea of ​​maintaining national soybean security through soybean breeding is just that due to various reasons, there has been no opportunity to really get involved in this industry. Now that the opportunity has come, it is difficult for Li Lei to control his impulse. Dongfeng Farm is far inferior to the acquisition of other companies that can bring more benefits to Huinong in a short period of time. He still couldn't help asking Xu Jinzhou for the details of the acquisition, "Leader, how much is Dongfeng Farm going to sell? If we Huinong acquires, the land What is the contracting policy? And what about these schools, processing plants, maintenance plants, and breeding stations?"

Li Lei has already made up his mind that as long as he can buy this breeding farm, other conditions can be negotiated. Xu Jinzhou originally didn't have much hope for selling Dongfeng Farm, because the burden on this farm is too heavy. With tens of square kilometers of precious land, there are tens of thousands of farm workers, affiliated schools, institutions, and factory workers. According to the current situation, it is impossible to rely on these lands to support these people. Interested in the project, he was very excited. If it can be sold successfully, it will be equivalent to helping the city get rid of the burden of tens of thousands of people at once.

"Mr. Li, as long as you can buy Dongfeng Farm, everything can be negotiated! If I can make the decision, I will make a decision immediately, and if I can't make the decision, I will try my best to fight for it!" Xu Jinzhou immediately patted his chest and promised, and took out the market. "We can even transfer this farm to you for free, and you only need to repay the debt owed by Dongfeng Farm!"

This is a common way when state-owned enterprises are sold, because many enterprises are already insolvent. Of course, this insolvency depends on how to calculate it. Some are really insolvent, while others understand everything. Dongfeng Farm belongs to the former , They not only owed a large amount of loans to the bank, they even owed the contract fee for contracting the land for several years and did not pay it. The sum of these messy debts for equipment matching funds is not enough to pay off the farm.

If the farm can be sold, everyone will be happy. The bank has recovered the loan, the state has received the land contract payment, and the seed company, chemical fertilizer factory, pesticide factory, and agricultural machinery factory can also recover the arrears. The government no longer needs to find ways to raise money for the farm. Life has been extended, except for the farm workers who have lost the iron rice bowl of the state workers, everyone seems to have benefited. In fact, even the workers are looking forward to selling it early, because the iron rice bowl is now rusty and full of holes. I can't fill my stomach even if I hold it.

Li Lei believes that Dongfeng Farm is really insolvent now, and now is not the time for the feast in the future. Except for some bold enterprises in the southeast coast, most of the first batch of companies sold in other places are indeed unable to support However, when he still intends to actually start the acquisition, he must dispatch a professional team to conduct careful calculations as before. I did everything I could.

"Leader, what are the debts you mentioned? Do you count the wages owed by the farm to the workers, medical reimbursement expenses, etc.?" Li Lei asked, and what he could see in the information was not comprehensive.

Xu Jinzhou was very embarrassed, because when he calculated the debts, he did only calculate the external debts, and did not calculate the debts owed by the farm to internal workers. In fact, Dongfeng Farm had collected funds from the workers in addition to wage arrears and medical expenses. , This is also a method that many state-owned enterprises on the verge of bankruptcy often adopt. The superiors do not give money, and the bank does not give loans, but they still want to fight, so they can only find workers to raise funds, and the workers are not willing. Sitting waiting to die, or afraid of being fired, you have to find ways to raise enough funds to pay them, and then most of them are in vain. Why not use this money to start a business, and you still have the possibility of making money in business, Even if he lost it, he paid it himself, but the money was made and lost by others.

"If this is the calculation, then it will be more expensive for me to pay off these debts than to buy a new farm!" After hearing these situations, Li Lei shook his head and almost gave up the purchase. Although he was willing to pay a little more to get Going to this breeding station, but too many are not cost-effective, and although there will be fewer bankrupt farms than state-owned enterprises in the next few years, in terms of absolute numbers, there are still many options for him to choose from.

Many people took advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune. The most famous one is Chu Shijian of the Hongta Group. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 99 and was released on medical parole after only two years in prison. The farm went bankrupt and had to lease the land. There were more than 3000 rock sugar orange trees on this farm. Chu Shijian saw the opportunity to take down the farm and start Chucheng. The sales problems that plagued other fruit growers did not exist at all with him. Every year, before the fruit is ripe, someone orders it in advance, and ordinary people can't buy it if they want to buy it. So Chu Shijian once again succeeded in starting a business in his 70s.

When others asked him about his success experience, he would talk about it with eloquence. It was nothing more than being able to endure hardships and adding some clichés, but even if other people could grow oranges with the same quality as him, or even better, they might not be able to grow like him. The same, you can sell it without worrying about it at all, and the price is still high, right?
"Dr. Li, can we still discuss the debt? I can help you fight for it, let the bank charge less interest, and let those suppliers reduce some of the payment. We really want to sell this farm, and everything can be negotiated!" Xu Jinzhou Immediately anxious, this long-standing problem has finally seen the hope of solving it, but we can't scare away the big buyers!

Banks basically don't expect to recover the loan now, and it is a pleasant surprise for them to be able to return the principal. How can they dare to expect extra interest?The same is true for seed companies, chemical fertilizer factories, and agricultural machinery factories. If Li Lei doesn't know, sign the contract first and they will definitely chase after him to collect debts. I admit it, after all, it is easier to recover less money than to never get back a penny?This trick can help Huinong save a lot of money.

"We also go to work for the workers. Many of them haven't worked for a long time, and they only need to pay basic wages! They also don't have any hope of getting money. You can give them some and keep them. They will be very moved! As for the medical treatment Reimbursement" Xu Jinzhou gritted his teeth and planned to make a tough move, "We will strictly check these expenses, especially for some leading cadres."

The medical reimbursement expenses of leading cadres must be the biggest problem. In normal times, Xu Jinzhou would definitely not want to do such offending things, but now he can't care about it in order to get rid of the burden.

Xu Jinzhou offered various preferential terms, not only won him the largest amount of debt relief, but also agreed to Li Lei's plan, promising that all cadres who were unwilling to stay would be taken away by himself, and those who were willing to stay had to accept Huinong's offer The assessment, re-evaluation, and more importantly, the re-signing of the land contract, gave Huinong 30 years of contracting rights. As for the breeding station, it was a trivial matter. Li Lei stayed if he wanted to.

So Li Lei agreed to the acquisition, asked the teams of both parties to recalculate the assets of Dongfeng Farm, and then signed his name on the acquisition contract. Huinong immediately fulfilled his promise and returned the bank loan and suppliers. The arrears were paid to the workers, and medical expenses were reimbursed for them. The uneasy workers were finally relieved, and Li Lei was even more happy. He finally got the soybean breeding station he wanted.

(End of this chapter)