In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 15 Kelp Seedlings

on the sea.

Li Duoyu and Chen Dongqing shuttled around the kelp seedling breeding base in a sampan boat.

For coastal farmers, this small sampan is just like a land bicycle, which is very convenient and easy to use.

Even in 2020, sea farmers on Dandan Island are still accustomed to using this small sampan for sea farming operations.

However, there are also many disadvantages. Most sampans do not have a roof for the convenience of operation.

When the sun is exposed to the sun or when there is a sudden rainstorm, it will make the farmers very uncomfortable, but as a native islander, these are not serious.

The small sampan was driven along the kelp rope, and Li Duoyu bent down from time to time, pulled the kelp seedlings up from the sea, and touched them here and there.

At that time, the varieties cultivated by the Fisheries Research Institute were not particularly good. The kelp seedlings looked thin and long, with curls on both sides.

It can't compare with the high-quality varieties such as Gold No. 1 and Gold No. 2 in later generations, but considering the reality, Li Duoyu is already very satisfied.

This is the 80s after all.

In the planned economy, the country planted kelp for the purpose of curing diseases, so it didn’t care about the variety of your output, as long as it could be planted.

At that time, the diet in some parts of our country was deficient in iodine for a long time, which caused many people to suffer from big neck disease, a kind of goiter caused by iodine deficiency.

In addition to big neck disease, iodine deficiency can also cause various physical problems. Iodine deficiency in children may lead to mental retardation, and iodine deficiency in pregnant women also has a risk of miscarriage.

Of course, in addition to iodine deficiency in people's bodies, the development of science and technology also requires a large amount of iodine. For example, catalysts for rockets and shells require a large amount of iodine, and the medical field also requires a large amount of iodine.

At that time, due to special circumstances, many countries were reluctant to export iodine to us.

In order to break the blockade of iodine and take the initiative to produce iodine, it happens that kelp contains a lot of iodine, so the country has to study how to extract iodine from kelp.

This led to a frenzy of cultivating kelp in the north for a long period of time under the planned economy.

But the south is not so smooth.

Kelp likes the cold and is not heat-resistant, so it is not easy to grow it well in the south.

These summer seedlings studied by the Fisheries Research Institute are aimed at the characteristics of the southern climate.

Although these kelp seedlings are not very good now, they are already very good under the current science and technology.

Chen Dongqing, who was on the side, looked at Li Duoyu curiously. He looked at Miao very carefully. The two of them stood here, as if he was a scientific researcher.

"You still know how to look at seedlings?"

"Looking at kelp seedlings is the same as looking at little piglets. Of course, the bigger and fatter they are, the ones that can grab milk, and the ones that look good are the best."

At this time, Li Duoyu hadn't been exposed to kelp farming, and he didn't want to be too prominent and scare my uncle.

Chen Dongqing was stunned for a moment, Li Duoyu's words were crude but not unreasonable, and he was really right, good kelp seedlings are like this.

In the past two days, his nephew has frightened him so much that now he is more or less immune.

Even if Li Duoyu said that he jumped out of a rock, Chen Dongqing might hesitate for a while.

Looking at the kelp seedlings in front of him, Chen Dongqing went on to say:

"The kelp summer seedlings in our institute, the best time to go to sea is November, there is only a little more than a month left, will you make it in time?"

Li Duoyu frowned slightly:
"It should be fine."

When he said this, Li Duoyu was really out of ideas, because until now, he seemed to have only solved the problem of kelp seedlings.

And wanting to grow kelp is not a simple matter. It is not just throwing kelp in the sea and it can grow freely.

Some farming equipment is needed, such as brown ropes specially used to hang kelp, and floats to float the brown ropes, which he does not have.

In addition to the breeding equipment, the kelp culture generally uses a culture raft frame, which requires prongs on the seabed, that is, piling, to fix the kelp culture raft frame.

In this day and age, it is not a simple matter to put prongs under the sea, unlike the piling ship in later generations.

Just a few clicks and it's done.

Now if you want to drive dozens of piles in the sea, it will take ten days and half a month, and you will never be able to do it.

Even if you finish the farming rafts, you still need fishermen to help clamp seedlings, train them in seedling clamping techniques in advance, and finally have to set up two small sampans for daily maintenance of kelp cultivation.

In short, there are a lot of things to do. If he hadn't had breeding experience before, Li Duoyu would definitely be ruined on the spot when he faced so many problems at once.

But in this era, apart from taking shortcuts, it is really not easy to make money. Even if you go fishing, you have to take a lot of risks, and seafood is cheap.

Otherwise, Li Duoyu really didn't want to engage in farming, but there was no turning back when he started.

Li Duoyu glanced at his uncle and asked:
"Is there a way, give me some benefits, let the research institute sponsor me some kelp ropes and floats."

Chen Dongqing frowned instantly:
"According to the current policy, during the trial period, we will provide free kelp seedlings to the farmers, which is already the greatest benefit."

"It's really impossible to be flexible, report to the leader, and ask the higher-ups for instructions?"

"If you can be flexible, there are so many people in our institute, and many relatives are also fishermen. They have already done it, so it's your turn."

"That's right, why don't you fight for it?"

"Li Duoyu, why did you become so grumpy? You said it was impossible, and you kept asking."

Li Duoyu whispered:

"If I don't bother, I can catch Xiaoying."

"You really are."

Seeing that he couldn't get more benefits from the Fisheries Research Institute, Li Duoyu finally said:
"Since there are no other benefits, it's okay to set up a sign for me."

Chen Dongqing's face was very dark, but he had nothing to do with his nephew. Depressed, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and said slowly:

"What's the sign?"

"It's the brand of the kelp breeding base. Otherwise, if I really got involved, those people in the village might get pink eye disease, and there will definitely be a lot of troubles for me. I must have a backer."

Chen Dongqing took a puff of cigarette:

"I haven't even started to raise them. You know you can do it when you know it. On Dandan Island, you just don't make trouble for others. How dare others make trouble for you."

"I'm rehabilitated, and I broke up with that group of drinking and meat friends."

Chen Dongqing was stunned for a moment, then said:
"It's easy to set up a sign. I'll tell the leader of the institute that there will be no problem. I'll do it for you later."

"Comrade Dongqing, thank you for your hard work, I will treat you to dinner later."

"Call me uncle."

"If you're not used to it, don't even think about it."

After watching the kelp seedlings, the two returned to the shore in a small sampan. Before returning to Dandan Island, Li Duoyu planned to go to Shangfeng Town first.

The breeding base happened to be only a few miles away from Shangfeng Station, so Chen Dongqing asked the tractor master to pick it up for him.

But on the way to Shangfeng Town, I saw a spectacular scene. The small dirt road was crowded with Jiefang and Dongfeng trucks.

Because their walking tractors were driving too slowly, the trucks behind them kept honking their horns, and there were many truck drivers with better quality.

Directly fucked the quintessence of the country.

(End of this chapter)