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Chapter 126 Unmanned Agriculture
The importance of agriculture to a country is beyond doubt.

If the industrial development is not good, at most people will be bullied and poor. If the agricultural development is not good, it will kill people.

Kanya is a typical example.

Kanya's land area is more than 70 square kilometers. Such a large land area is not considered a small country even in the world.

But their population is less than 1000 million, and their domestic infrastructure is close to zero.

Not to mention the degree of industrialization, even self-sufficient agriculture cannot be achieved, and international assistance is often needed.

But is Kanya hungry for lack of arable land?
the answer is negative.

The land in Kanya is very suitable for farming. According to a detailed survey by the Academy of Civilization and Science, the area of ​​land suitable for farming in Kanya is as high as 217410 square kilometers.

What is this concept?
The land area of ​​Huaguo is 960 million square kilometers, and the arable area is only 140 million square kilometers, accounting for only 14.5%.

However, the proportion of cultivated land in Kanya is as high as 30.1%, which is more than twice that of Huaguo.

In terms of population, Huaguo has a population of 15 billion, 900 times that of Kanya's 1.6 million population, and the per capita arable land is only 3.8% of Kanya's.

With such a large gap in arable land resources, Huaguo can achieve self-sufficient food supply, but Kanya will starve to death.

It is true that there are a series of reasons for this, such as the war in Kannia, government corruption, and so on.

But in the end, Nico is so lazy.

When Lu Chen came to Kanya for the first time, he bought a large piece of land in order to build a military camp for S-type clones.

It turned out that the land was cultivated by a nearby tribe.

If the other party hadn't come to make trouble, Lu Chen would never have believed that the wasteland was arable land.

This kind of thing is simply unimaginable in Huaguo.

To what extent has Hua Guo gone crazy for farming?
It is said that research on how to plant it in the desert has already begun.

As a native of China, Lu Chen naturally had farming genes in his bones.

Every time he saw Kanya's large tracts of arable land abandoned, he felt heartbroken.

This has nothing to do with economic interests, it's just that I can't stand it.

Of course, from an economic point of view, agriculture is the basis of industry.

Without a well-developed agriculture, it is impossible to feed a sufficient population. Without a sufficient population, how to develop industry?
Even though Lu Chen's Civilized Science City doesn't need low-end labor, he needs scientific researchers!

The more the merrier!
Normally, scientific researchers have to be born from ordinary people, so population is the basis of everything.

The cloning factory like Lu Chennong is just a stopgap measure. He will build a city or even a country in the future, and it is impossible for all citizens to rely on cloning.

This is neither accepted by the world, but also brings a series of social problems.

According to Lu Chen's idea, after he has built Kanya to a certain extent, he will start to deal with the immigration issue.

Of course, this must have the support of the Hua Guo government.

But Lu Chen didn't think it was a big problem.

In history, Huaguo has always been a pioneering and enterprising nation, but a series of setbacks in modern times has made people mistakenly think that Huaguo is a country that rests on its laurels.

For example, if you are poor, you will be peaceful and friendly, and if you are rich, since ancient times, it is not because you don’t want to, but because you don’t have enough ability.

This is basically the same in countries all over the world.

And the basis for all this is agriculture.

Only enough food can feed enough people.

Unless one day human beings don't need to eat when they become immortals, this point will never change.

Long before the T-1 robot appeared, Lu Chen had the idea of ​​developing unmanned agriculture. After the T-1 robot was manufactured, Lu Chen even put the establishment of an unmanned agricultural company on the agenda.

The emergence of super seeds has also given a shot in the arm to this yet-to-be-born industry.

In the international market, grain is a product that will never fade.

In this regard, even oil cannot be compared with food.

Again, human beings may not develop industries, but they cannot live without food.

No big country with a little foresight will put the lifeblood of food in the hands of foreigners.

But in fact, many small countries have lost the right to speak about food, and the lifeline of food is completely controlled by foreign countries.

Among them, the country that has done the best in this regard is the United States.

The current international grain market is almost monopolized by four giants, ADM, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus.

Of these four companies, three are North American grain giants and one is a French grain giant.

In general, all belong to the camp of Western developed countries.

Lu Chen wanted to establish his own power in Kanya, and it was impossible for him to hand over the lifeblood of food to others.

Before buying food and other materials in Rainbow Country, he had no choice but to produce these things himself sooner or later, and dump them to other African countries.

In this regard, Kanya, who is in the African Union, has given Lu Chen a lot of convenience.

Leave the Academy of Civilization and Science.

Lu Chen immediately saw Qin Ruolan who was busy.

During this period of time, Qin Ruolan started to set up the Huanyu Trading Company, and was almost too busy to touch the ground, but finally finished building the framework of the company.

Huanyu Trading Company will be the foreign trade window of Civilization Science City in the future. If Civilization Science City is compared to a country, it is the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, and its importance is beyond doubt.

But for now, it only handles trade and transports arc cars.

The center of gravity of Chensheng Technology is mainly in Huaguo. Kanya's current industry only has one arc car. Although this industry is very powerful, it is obviously not enough from the perspective of diversity.

Lu Chen still needs to develop more industries.

Inside the office.

When Qin Ruolan saw Lu Chen, her first reaction was that the other party had another task for her.

Sure enough, her premonition was right.

When Lu Chen saw her, he opened his mouth and asked, "How is the unmanned agriculture project going?"

Hearing Lu Chen's question, Qin Ruolan was a little worried and said: "Unmanned agriculture involves agricultural drones, satellite communications, unmanned cultivation, unmanned picking, unmanned transportation, and unmanned processing.

The technologies included here mainly include the manufacture of agricultural drones, the application of unmanned driving, and the regulation of the overall system by artificial intelligence.

None of these technologies are difficult for us, and there is only one most difficult one, which is not cost-effective. "

"Not worth it?"

Lu Chen said in surprise.

"Of course it's not cost-effective," Qin Ruolan said solemnly, "Leaving aside the cost of these advanced equipment, if we want to implement unmanned planting, we still have to invest in large-scale infrastructure."

Speaking of this, Qin Ruolan seems very dissatisfied. The government of Kanya really doesn't do anything, and the domestic infrastructure is like shit.

So much so that they have to do it themselves from start to finish.

Hearing this, Lu Chen finally understood where the bulk of the cost was - the water conservancy project.

(End of this chapter)