Super Ranch: Brothers come to Africa to farm

Chapter 426

After all the wheat is harvested, the new force of the pasture turns to the oil sedge planting plots.

The professional harvesting machinery on the John Deere 9620rx trailer can easily harvest the oil sedge on the ground. The yield of these oil sedges can reach more than [-] kilograms per mu. It is a very good source of income just used as silage feed. .

Moreover, the efficiency of harvesting is also very high. The grassland is flat, and the mechanical beast can easily leave a large area of ​​grass stubble by running forward.

However, harvesting the oily cypress beans is much more troublesome.

Because the oilseed beans grow deep underground, it is quite difficult to harvest them. They are usually harvested manually, but this is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

However, the country has specially developed machinery for harvesting the oily cypress beans, and Wang Lu asked the Farm Reclamation Group to purchase more than 20 machines in advance.

This kind of small machine is easy to operate manually and can be set up to be self-propelled. But in terms of efficiency, a machine can harvest more than twenty acres a day. It is already very good. This is different from the oil sedge that can be harvested easily on the ground. The efficiency of Baimu is completely incomparable, but there is nothing we can do.

At this time, the John Deere 9620rx is of no use, so we can only take our time.

The veterans controlled the machinery to dig out the cypress beans buried deep in the ground. There was a machine nearby that was specially used to remove the seedlings, sift the soil, remove dust and other processes for the unearthed cypress beans.

The price of the oil squeezed from the oily cypress bean is several times more expensive than ordinary edible oil. In addition to its rich nutritional content, the harvesting of the oily cypress bean is also more difficult, inefficient and requires many processes. !

Wang Lu leaned over, twisted a squid bean with his fingers and put it in his hand. He found that the size of this thing was only one centimeter, and the largest one was no more than two centimeters.

Moreover, the tubers under a sedge plant are full of these things, and they are densely packed. Based on this alone, the yield per acre of these sedge will definitely not be low. It is estimated that it will be at least [-] kilograms. If it is higher, It is not difficult to produce one thousand kilograms per mu.

The outer skin of the oil nut is wrinkled into a gray-brown color, like a miniature water chestnut, so this thing is also called water chestnut in China.

It is still fresh at the moment, but when it is dried and the water is almost removed, it becomes wrinkled, somewhat similar to walnut kernels, and it gets the nickname "walnut".

The veteran on the side picked up a squid bean, wiped it with his clothes and put it in his mouth.

Generally, this kind of thing that can be used to extract oil can basically be eaten raw, and it can be regarded as a nutritious nut!
Wang Lu also imitated the veteran's behavior, twisting a mustard bean and putting it into his mouth to chew. As soon as it entered his mouth, it tasted like starch, but as he chewed slowly, Wang Lu tasted a sweet taste. And the more you chew it, the sweeter it gets, and the taste is quite good.

Not only is this stuff high in fat, but it also has pretty good starch, sugar, and protein content!
Letting those machines continue harvesting, Wang Lu returned to the living area with the first batch of harvested cypress beans, intending to squeeze out the first batch of cypress oil first.

The oil can only be extracted from the oil by the most traditional hydraulic cold pressing method, which is another reason why the oil of the oil is expensive.

However, the oil yield rate of cypress beans can reach about 30.00%. Combined with the yield per mu of this thing, planting cypress beans on one acre of land is almost equivalent to harvesting oil from four acres of soybeans, and [-]% of corn. !
The economic value is very considerable. Of course, the cost of harvesting and caring for this thing is also higher than that of soybeans and corn.Wang Lu just took advantage of the fertile land in the pasture.

Soon after a series of processes, Wang Lu saw a stream of clear oil flowing out of the oil outlet. The first thing that hit his nose was the aroma of oil mixed with the unique flavor of these oily beans. .

Some of the first batch of cypress oil produced will be sent to the laboratory to test the oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid and other components in it.

This simple test can be done in the laboratory in Arusha.

So the results came out quickly. What surprised Wang Lu was that the oil squeezed out from the oily cypress bean as raw material had a higher content of ingredients that are beneficial to the human body than olive oil!
After learning the result, Wang Lu did not hesitate to replace the oil used for Zhou Rou with the oil squeezed from the oily cypress beans.

By the way, I didn't forget to send a copy to Her Royal Highness the Princess in London. I also noted the ingredients and contents of these oils one by one to express my gratitude. After all, they gave us so many baby products, didn't they?

For half a month, the workers on the entire ranch were basically busy with the harvesting of oily mustard beans.

Faced with thousands of acres of planting area approaching 20 acres, the efficiency of those oilseed bean harvesting machines of twenty or thirty acres a day is still too low. Twenty machines can harvest four to five hundred acres a day. The entire harvesting The process of collecting homework will last from [-] days to a month!

But Wang Lu has no other options. At present, the harvesting machinery and technology of oily mustard beans are the most advanced.

Perhaps when this thing becomes completely popular in the future and the market becomes larger, the technology of harvesting machinery will improve.

Soon Wang Lu also received a reply from Her Royal Highness the Princess, expressing her sincere gratitude for Wang Lu's gift and hoping to add the oil to the royal family's purchase list.

This was also within Wang Lu's expectation. After all, these wealthy and free royal family members were probably most concerned about health issues.

After the oil arrived in London, royal officials must have taken it for professional testing. The nutritional and health ingredients of this product are even better than olive oil. Naturally, Her Royal Highness the Princess has no reason to be unhappy.

Time passed by, and all the sedge beans were almost harvested. The John Deere 9620rx in the pasture was now useful. After all the land was plowed again, these beans could be planted again. It’s oily sedge!
The loss of soil fertility caused by this kind of natural pasture is almost negligible. Coupled with the fertility of the pasture land, Wang Lu will not have to think about soil restoration for at least ten years, which is very trouble-free.

After the wheat samples taken away by the Agricultural Reclamation Group were professionally tested in China, the results were finally obtained.

Like the rice and corn grown by Wang Lu before, these wheats have become a completely new variety. Not only is the yield much higher than ordinary varieties, but the quality of the wheat produced is also better!

You can definitely follow the example of the gourd and seek help from those food giants...
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