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Chapter 180 The reason why rice is so expensive (please recommend)
For people who live around forest areas all year round, wild vegetables that grow naturally when the season comes every year can be collected as long as you have hands.But in previous years, most of them only collected this wild vegetable to improve the taste or add dishes.

But what they never expected was that this wild vegetable could be sold for money, and the price seemed to them quite good.As long as you are diligent and hardworking enough, earning a few yuan or even more than a dozen yuan a day is not a problem.

Considering the subsequent processing and sales, Mu Shanhe pointed out to Xu Siwen several wild vegetables that were delicious, easy to process and store.For example, the old thorn buds commonly seen in forest areas are also called the king of wild vegetables.

Although it will lose a certain umami taste after blanching, it can be stored for a longer period of time.It is precisely because of this fact that the purchase price of spinach is the most expensive among several types of wild vegetables.

In addition to the old sprouts of thorns, wild vegetables such as cucumber and oxmaoguang have more troublesome processing procedures and a slightly worse taste.But for these wild vegetables, Mu Shanhe believes that customers from Japan will love them.

As people go into the mountains and collect the designated wild vegetables, most of them come to the purchase point in the town based on the village.Seeing other villagers queuing up to sell wild vegetables, they also asked: "Are they really harvesting these wild vegetables?"

"That's for sure! If you don't accept it, wouldn't you be playing tricks on us people? It's just that they have stricter requirements."

"What do you mean?"

"Even if the wild vegetables are not in good quality and do not meet the standards, they will not accept them at all. They only want the wild vegetables that meet the standards. It is our first time to pick these wild vegetables, and we did not know that there are so many rules. However, they do give us money."

"I'll give it after it passes the scale? No IOU or anything like that?"

"No! Every time they receive one, they will record it, and then take the weighing receipt and ask the person next to them to collect the money."

"Hey! No wonder there are so many people queuing up. I don't know what they do with these wild vegetables. Do people in the city like to eat this?"

"Who knows! Maybe there is someone in the city who likes this?"

Although there are many acquisition personnel arranged at each acquisition point.But for the first purchase, in order to let the people who collect wild vegetables know what kind of wild vegetables meet the standards, the collectors also have to pick and choose.

In Mu Shanhe's words, he would rather be strict at the beginning than relax the acquisition conditions.If the purchase conditions are relaxed, Mu Shanhe is also worried that the quality of the first batch of wild vegetables processed will not be guaranteed.

Even though he purchased wild vegetables, he hoped to increase the income of people in the forest area.But he also knew that no matter that era, some people still liked to be clever.If you relax a little now, they will definitely not be happy if you impose stricter requirements in the future.

Now if the standards are set more strictly, then they will go into the mountains to collect wild vegetables in the future, and they will also know what kind of wild vegetables can be sold for money, and what kind of wild vegetables are useless if they are collected, and they will not accept them at all, then they will naturally act according to the rules. .

After a large amount of wild vegetables are collected and reaches a certain amount, the collection station will have special vehicles to transport them to the food processing factory in the city.I saw that the purchased wild vegetables have different processing methods and are sent to various workshops for processing.

Although Xu Siwen, the boss, doesn't know much about these wild vegetables, Mu Xiaohe, his assistant, grew up in the forest area and naturally knows the quality of these wild vegetables.The recruited workers are also familiar with wild vegetables.

"We have collected the wild vegetables, and we have to start working. Be quick, these wild vegetables are to be sold abroad to earn foreign exchange. If foreign customers eat unclean wild vegetables, our reputation will be bad. "

"Manager Mu, don't worry, we guarantee to clean these wild vegetables."

Even though the food factory is a start-up, Mushanhe has extremely strict hygiene requirements for food processing.Workers entering the workshop must wear masks and white coats.Even your hair should be covered with a hat.Even for processed finished products, Mushanhe requires inspectors to carry out corresponding inspections and carefully register each batch of products leaving the factory.If product quality problems occur later, you can also know which link has the problem.

The county leaders who were also invited to visit were surprised to see such a standardized and strict food processing process and said: "Mr. Xu, it seems that your food factory pays great attention to hygiene!"

"The processed wild vegetables will be delivered to the tables of foreign customers. If the quality is not up to standard and foreign customers eat unhygienic products, it will not only affect our reputation, but also cause claims from customers!"

"Ah! Are overseas customers so selective?"

"It's normal to be picky about what you eat. Only by strictly implementing such hygienic standards can we ensure that the wild vegetables we produce are trusted by foreign customers, and orders will increase more and more.

Now we only have one food factory in Shuangdian, but there are still many counties in the Northeast that produce these wild vegetables. I believe the people there also hope that we can buy their wild vegetables.Therefore, the first batch of wild vegetables must have strict requirements! "

"That is, that is!"

While Xu Siwen personally supervised the processing of the first batch of wild vegetables, Mu Shanhe, who was staying at the farm, was also busy.He will also personally breed the rice seeds selected last year.For rice breeding, there are also special insulation sheds.

Mu Xingfu, who was invited to help as a supervisor, saw that Mu Shanhe was breeding earlier than others and thought he was messing around.After seeing the rice sprouts in the heat preservation shed, I felt a little incredible.

“I never thought that by just building a shed, we could grow seedlings in advance.”

"Grandpa Mu, this shed is specially used for breeding. You may not have noticed it when you came in before. We all have thermometers hanging in the shed, and we have to check the temperature in the shed every day.

Only by maintaining the temperature required for rice breeding can the rice seeds grown be healthier.From breeding to sowing to subsequent management, the way rice is grown on farms is still very different from outside. "

"That's true! I heard that your rice doesn't use chemical fertilizers or pesticides, right?"

"Well! Although doing this will reduce the yield of rice, the rice grown and processed in this way will taste more fragrant and delicious. You should have eaten the rice I gave you before. Does it taste good? A little special?"

"I really didn't pay attention! However, the rice you gave me is indeed more fragrant."

For old people of Mu Xingfu's age, they don't pursue so-called quality when eating. They feel very satisfied if they can eat enough.But as people become richer, their requirements for food quality will become increasingly stringent.

The Wuchang rice, which became famous in the Northeast in later generations, has different farming methods from other rice, and the fertile black soil unique to the production area.That's why the rice grown looks different.

But in Mu Shanhe's view, the quality of the rice now cultivated and grown on the farm is probably better and healthier than the Wuchang rice of later generations.And he believes that the price of rice produced on his own farm will only become more and more expensive in the future!

(End of this chapter)