Chapter 281 Not a long-term solution

"Okay, okay! Immediately, inspect immediately! Well, Xiaosan, why don't you bring a few people with you, and you don't want to bring the technicians to inspect... Well, Chairman Xiao Zhong, please eat here at night!"

"No, they all have to go back to school at night - I can eat here."

"……"students.

——Feeling to be treated differently.

Principal, can you please stop using your privileges in front of us?

But if you think about it carefully, you are used to the delicious food in the big cafeteria, but there is actually nothing delicious in the small village.

Subsequently, under the leadership of Dean Tian, ​​the technicians went to various places to conduct inspections... In fact, in the previous month, Dean Tian had already brought the students over for a rough inspection and extracted soil samples to send Detected.

Today, we will conduct a further detailed assessment according to the last plan.

The chairman was not idle, and said directly: "Tell me about the situation in your village, and take me to your vegetable patch at the same time!"

"well!"

Patriarch Xu quickly started bragging about the history of the village.

"Chairman Xiao Zhong, don't look at our small village! It has its origins. I wonder if you have ever heard of 'front office', 'center office', 'right office', 'nine official offices and eighteen'" Ying', our village can be traced back to six hundred years ago, when it was called Juntun! Basically everyone in our village has the surname Xu, and maybe we are related to General Xu Da!"

Patriarch Xu's high chest deflated like a broken bag in the next second.

"...Now there are less than 100 households."

Before Zhong Tao came, he naturally did his homework and understood the geographical environment of Jiagou Village.

The terrain here can only be described in four words.

Easy to defend but hard to attack!

In this ditch, there is a very rugged path that can pass through the mountains. If it were ancient times, it would definitely be feasible to use this path to carry out a 'Ziwu Valley Surprise Attack'.

But now it's a bit troublesome. Cars can't drive in. The maximum path can only allow donkey carts to travel smoothly.

So poor, very poor!

Even poorer than Taoyuan Village once!

Most of the villages are thatched houses or bamboo-legged buildings, and some houses have been abandoned for an unknown period of time. The adobe walls have turned reddish brown, and colorful flowers have bloomed on them.

The only bright and beautiful thing in the village is the ancestral temple.

It is like a glory that has not faded even after six hundred years.

Chairman Zhong did not feel any more sad about spring and autumn. Instead, he started working directly and came to the largest vegetable field in the village.

"Uncle Six! The chairman is here!"

Patriarch Xu immediately shouted to the old man who was tending vegetables in the vegetable field, and an old man with gray hair came over quickly. Patriarch Xu put a lot of effort into this meeting, and even made a special trip to the Taoyuan Village canteen to get a meal for Uncle Sixth.

I have to say that the box lunch strategy is really effective. The old man greeted Chairman Xiao Zhong respectfully:

"Chairman! You are here!"

"Grandpa Six, you are too polite!"

Chairman Xiao Zhong quickly and respectfully responded to his grandfather, and then began to conduct official business, investigating whether this vegetable field could be directly included in the farmers' alliance system.

After Chairman Xiao Zhong inspected the vegetable fields, he stopped in front of a celery field and asked:

"Grandpa Six, how much is the price for buying celery fields here now?"

"It was valuable when it first came on the market because there were so few. Now that everyone has grown it, it is no longer valuable." The old man sighed and said, "We have no roads here. If I take the load outside and let others collect it, I can get 7 cents and 6 cents." One pound."

"How many?"

"7 minutes 6."

Chairman Xiao Zhong then looked at the store manager of Taoyuan Food Store who was traveling with him, and asked: "What is the price of celery currently used in our provincial capital?

"The price we used was 6 cents and 8 cents per pound, which was less than 5 cents before." So, the purchase price of this land was less than a fraction of the price he used?

The reserve store manager explained: "It's like this. Although the local purchase price is very low, the cost of transportation is more than 1 cent per catty, and the storage and cold storage is more than 1 cent per catty. The dealers themselves also have to make more than 1 cent. In our hands , that’s the price.”

Zhong Tao nodded, this makes sense.

If we take this a step further and send it to a large supermarket in the provincial capital center, today's celery special price is only 0.99 yuan.

That is to say, people in the city have never understood that, let alone 2006, even in a dozen years' time, it is not uncommon to buy vegetables from the fields for a few cents per catty. Of course, the price for citizens to buy them will definitely not be this price.

Vegetable logistics, cold storage warehousing, and store rentals are the big ones. The most important thing is that middlemen have to make money.

This is very reasonable! that is--

Very awkward.

Because in the entire process, the producer who spends the most time and works hardest gets the least share.

We are a nation that loves growing vegetables and consume the most vegetables per capita in the world, which is a good thing.

In fact, if you look at most developed countries around the world, you will find a very surprising thing - vegetables are more expensive than meat, meat is very cheap, and it is difficult to eat vegetables.

Not to mention far away, if you look at the little days and little sticks next door, you can see that eating vegetables is much more difficult than ours.

But why can’t vegetable farmers make money? In fact, it’s still the same sentence.

You don’t grow vegetables, but people do.

The ancients said——

"The farmers are hungry when the grain is expensive, but the farmers are hurt when the grain is cheap." This is what Ye Shengtao wrote in "Three or Five Dou More Harvest".

So, is there really no cost to this?

of course not!

All the gifts in fate have already been secretly marked with a price, and if things go on like this——

There are fewer and fewer people making cakes, and more and more people are dividing the cakes.

The cake that everyone can share is getting smaller and smaller, and the cake that can be divided into hands is getting smaller and smaller.

Looking at the cakes on hand getting smaller day by day, no one will feel happy, and no one will not feel anxious. Over time, everyone will feel that life is very hard and even painful.

Zhong Tao patted the soil on his hands and said, "If there are no problems with this batch of vegetables in the test, the Farmers' League will accept them all. However, the price is still the same as other people's prices. Are you willing to accept it?"

Zhong Tao did not increase the price.

Because there must be a reason for increasing prices!

You can never do business based on wishful thinking, especially if you want to ensure long-term sustainability!

If you want farmers to make more money, you have to be based on some feasible criteria. Providing subsidies out of charity is not a long-term solution.

But even so, the old man was very happy.

Because of the inconvenient transportation, he often cannot sell vegetables.

Making money is secondary. The elderly don't want to waste food. They carry it from door to door in the village. Principal Zhong is willing to take it all. That's really great.

After talking about the ownership of this piece of food, Chairman Zhong started to talk about merging into the Agricultural League.

Expert Zhong didn't hide it, and spoke unceremoniously:

"Honestly, you guys are really careful in taking care of these vegetables, but the quality is basically average!"

“If you want to make money, this definitely won’t work!”

"The Agricultural Federation is always willing to purchase higher-quality vegetables at higher prices, but to be honest, my desire to purchase low-quality vegetables is not that strong at all. Either don't do it, or do it better!"

(End of this chapter)

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