Rebirth of the Southern Drift Era

Chapter 511 Seed War
"The market for yellow beef is very hot now, so not only our family, but also many other families in southern Shonan have raised yellow cattle. It doesn't take much thought, and you can get a lot of income. The calf of the yellow cattle was bought from the Shonan Agricultural Company. Yes. Including those muntjacs, they were all bought from the Shonan Agricultural Company."

When Liu Chang came to the reservoir, Liu Chang's father was taking a few children to watch the invited people break down beef and pork.What Liu Chang's mother was worried about didn't happen. Liu Chang's father killed cattle and pigs just to feed his family, and he didn't plan to sell them at all.

Their family is not short of money now, but if they had kept a yellow cow for food in the past, they would have been reluctant to do so.But now, Liu Chang's father doesn't feel sad at all. Although this scalper is worth a lot of money, there are so many children in the family, so he has to eat more meat to grow well.

People are invited to help slaughter and decompose, and then calculate the money according to how much a head is killed.The Chinese New Year will be very lively at home this year, the three brothers and sisters Liu Chang and their children will celebrate the New Year at home.Coupled with the happy event of adding a baby, that's why Liu Chang's father would do this.In addition to pigs and cattle, a sheep will be killed at that time, and free-range chickens can be eaten at any time, just kill them at any time.

"Uh... I don't even know about this. But it's true that we've seen yellow cattle here and there recently. I thought it was only raised by a few people and bought. Isn't this yellow cattle raised for a long time? Raising this Can you make money?"

There are a lot of scalpers nearby, this Liu Chang has seen it.The ox has a gentler personality and is less aggressive than the buffalo, so Liu Chang didn't pay much attention.Unexpectedly, it was because the market for yellow beef was relatively good, so more cattle were raised.Anyway, you don't need to spend much thought on this, just rush to the mountains to graze every day.

"Raising cattle is much better than raising pigs. It's easy to take care of, just feed grass. It doesn't pollute the environment too much, and there are those goats. Raising pigs is not good, because the pollution is too great, and you have to feed all kinds of feed. Recently, the market Li is checking, and now there is no one raising pigs around here."

Because Liu Chang's family doesn't raise many pigs here, and they have their own processing system for recycling, they haven't been investigated.Several other larger pig farms are now closed because they pollute the environment too much.This place is now a high-tech park, and it is definitely not good to be influenced by the smell of pig feces every day.

Cattle and sheep don't have so many troubles, they are all pastured here.Cattle and sheep will not be fed like other places, and the number of breeding is much smaller than that of pigs, so it has not been investigated. Anyone with a little open space in the vicinity will raise some, and then circle around outside to see , just set up a thatched cottage to guard it.

"Our pig farm has been closed a lot? Why haven't I heard about this? When did it happen?"

Liu Chang didn't pay much attention to this issue. Now that his father said it, Liu Chang felt that he had to pay attention to some things.It seems that in the previous life, around these years, many places did not allow pigs to be raised.Then came swine fever later on, and the second senior brother immediately became a sweet potato.

But Liu Chang didn't notice the exact time, and he didn't know when the rectification started in his hometown.I didn't expect to start rectifying these now. This is the key point, which means a lot of business opportunities.

"Well, it is said that only a few bases of the Shonan Agricultural Company in Shonan City have farms, because the facilities there are very good, and they are far away from the city and residential areas. Other private farms are closed, and the surrounding villagers No one raises pigs anymore. Unless there may be people raising pigs in some mountainous areas, other places will not give it.”

Liu Chang's father replied that he didn't understand some things, why didn't he even feed pigs?For many people, a pig is worth a lot, and it can also subsidize some households.But now that pigs are not fed, how can we eat pork in the future?Those pigs are being raised by big capital, and they will have the final say on the price of the pork at that time.

He didn't tell Liu Chang this, because Liu Chang is also a party of big capital.The Liu family didn't have to worry about not being able to afford pork, but the others didn't necessarily have to.Liu Chang probably wouldn't cheat the common people, so there was something wrong with the policy above.

This kind of phenomenon is not uncommon. Anyway, as long as the leader says something, the people below will directly do it across the board in order to please the leader. Their position is more important. No one cares about how ordinary people live.No one tried to find a way to have the best of both worlds, they just wanted to please the leaders.

"Fortunately, seeds are much cheaper now, and there are still many good seeds that can be grown to earn some pocket money. The government's seed company has released a lot of seeds, and your Shonan Agriculture also has a lot of good seeds. Otherwise, the lives of ordinary people It’s really impossible.”

Now farmers want to plant something, seeds are very important.In the past, they kept their own seeds for cultivation in the next year. The quality of these seeds was average, and the yield was not high.If you want to buy seeds, the quality of ordinary seeds is not good, and there are often fake seeds.As for good seeds, the price is too high. It is said that those seeds are imported from abroad. They can only be planted once and cannot be saved.

What Liu Chang's father didn't know was that improved seeds are an important strategic resource to increase crop yield and maintain food security.The competition of improved seeds among countries is also very fierce, and various measures are taken to protect the germplasm resources of the country from loss, and to obtain the seed resources of rivals as much as possible.

This is why the export of high-quality rice and high-quality soybean varieties has been banned in China in recent years.The United States, which now has absolute control over the entire soybean industry, is also behind the problem of seeds.As the origin of soybeans, China has more than 90% of the wild soybean varieties in the world. It was not the country that really controlled the soybean varieties, but the United States.

But now, not only for soybeans, but also for other seeds, the domestic market lags far behind foreign countries.And the United States is the stealer, and the stealer has already counterattacked.In order to catch up with the opponent on the seed, the country has spent a lot of thought, and even has other means.

An event that happened in the previous life, the "Da Bei Nong" incident, once shocked the domestic agricultural community.Liu Chang remembered this incident very clearly, and even made a special trip to find out more about it.

In December 2013, Mo Hailong, director of Dabei Nong's international business, was accused of stealing genetically modified corn seeds from the United States and was arrested by the United States. He was also charged with five other employees of Dabei Nong.In July of the following year, Mo Yun, the wife of Shao Genhuo, chairman of Dabeinong Group, was arrested in Los Angeles, USA.

In 2016, Mo Hailong pleaded guilty in the United States, admitting that he had long participated in planning to steal the trade secrets of DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto, and was sentenced to 36 months in prison.

Why did Dabei Nong take such a big risk to steal the seeds of its competitors?This is because seeds are the core of competition in agricultural development. It can be said that whoever controls the seeds controls the commanding heights of the market and industry.Seeds are the first strategic resource for agricultural production and contain huge commercial benefits.

According to the indictment of the US court, the theft brought losses of 3000 million to 4000 million US dollars to these seed companies in the US.This is why seed companies do not hesitate to invest huge sums of money in research and development, and even take illegal means to obtain high-quality germplasm resources.

As the link with the highest profit margin in the agricultural industry chain, seeds support a huge market and industry.Agriculture itself is a weak industry that needs strong support and subsidies from the state, but the seed industry is a high-profit industry.

At present, the seed industry is highly market-oriented, internationalized, privatized, and forms an oligopoly.Several companies such as Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, and Dow occupy more than 60% of the entire market.These multinational giants grab monopoly profits, and behind the bill are the vast number of farmers who rely on subsidies to survive.

The seeds of these commercial companies can only be planted for one season, and cannot be saved, and the seeds must be repurchased from this company in the second year.Large international agricultural breeding companies control high-quality seeds of major crops, which itself is a threat to national security.Taking advantage of this advantage, international seed companies can reach the level of controlling a certain agricultural industry in a country.

Argentina, for example, has encountered such a problem.Not only does Argentina have a mighty soccer team known as the Pampas Eagles, but it is also the world's third-largest GMO grower, arguably thanks to Monsanto.

In 1996, Argentina licensed Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans.At that time, Argentina was facing the dilemma of capital outflow and economic recession. Large-scale planting of soybeans for export could generate foreign exchange. Therefore, with the support of the government, genetically modified soybeans were rapidly promoted.

Monsanto has not registered patents in Argentina, does not charge patent fees, and supplies seeds at very low prices.Soon Monsanto monopolized the soybean seed market in Argentina and bankrupted most Argentine seed companies.

Around 2000, Monsanto changed its face and wanted to charge high patent fees to Argentine farmers, but the Argentine government was unwilling to compromise.Monsanto threatens to withdraw from Argentina.Once Monsanto withdraws, the entire genetically modified soybean planting in Argentina will be in jeopardy, and the seed industry will also be unsustainable.

But Monsanto did not leave Argentina, announcing in late 2004 that it would charge European buyers what it believed South American farmers should pay.Since then, Monsanto has also filed a lawsuit to prevent Argentina from exporting soybeans to the European Union.Argentina loses control of the soybean industry.

Monsanto has absolute control over GMO soybeans, and he is a complete stealer. In April 2000, Monsanto discovered that a certain domestic wild soybean contained a genetic marker leading to high-yielding traits, and then applied for gene patents in 4 countries around the world, earning billions of dollars in profits every year, and our country has to pay patent fees.

In 1995, China became a soybean importing country. Today, the domestic soybean import volume has reached 9300 million tons, and the degree of dependence on foreign countries is 90%.China has paid a heavy price for the lost germplasm resources, and China is actually one of the countries with the most serious loss of germplasm resources.

In addition to soybeans, there are other resources. For example, as we all know, New Zealand kiwifruit is synonymous with high-end fruits.New Zealand kiwifruit accounts for more than one-third of the world market, but its domestic and international market share has shrunk sharply.

But what many people don't know is that New Zealand's kiwifruit is stolen from the country.Now, the New Zealand kiwifruit back in the "hometown" is 10 times more expensive than domestic kiwifruit.In order to maintain and improve the quality of kiwifruit, New Zealand is still continuously collecting wild kiwifruit resources in the country.

"There will be more and more of these good seeds in the future, and they will get better and better."

After pondering for a while, Liu Chang replied that the seed program of Shonan Agriculture Company had already been launched when Shonan Agriculture was established.After so many years, Shonan Agriculture has a lot of high-quality seeds in its hands. Compared with those monopoly companies like Monsanto, Shonan Agriculture's seed market share is not much worse.

More importantly, much of Shonan Agriculture's focus is on genetically modified seeds.And these years, because of Liu Chang's earlier arrangements, various soft media, and news reports have been promoting the dangers of genetically modified seeds. limits.

Whether it is domestic or foreign, genetically modified products are the object of boycott, even making feed and processing oil are boycotted.However, Shonan agriculture is only taking the road of improving seeds, improving the yield and quality of the original seeds in various places.

Shonan agriculture is also developing genetically modified technology, but all the seeds except for some research, the other part is exported to foreign countries.These things are not practical in their own bases or in the country.Whether there is a problem with the genetic modification, Liu Chang has not obtained enough information to prove it, but this does not prevent him from using it as a trick.

Whether it is Monsanto or Bayer, they are all established big companies.Shonan Agriculture still has a long way to go to defeat them.It's normal to use a little bit of tricks. Shopping malls are like battlefields, and others have never been kind to the country.

In the past, China was led by these people and took many detours.Those people all regarded foreigners as their own fathers, thinking that foreigners would send charity to help them, but they never thought that these foreigners have never had a good heart and are very poisonous.

It's a pity that many people still don't understand this truth.He treats foreigners as his own father, and others give him sweets, and he doesn't even know where his ancestors are.What's even more hateful is that these people are helping his foreign relatives to harm the country.There are many such things, and they happen every year, but it's a pity that Liu Chang can't control so much.

He also just has a little money, he really can't control how other people behave.However, he tried his best to change the things around him that could be changed.For example, in the current seed issue, this piece of Shonan agriculture has really cost a lot of investment, otherwise, Shonan agriculture can earn more every year.

With the sudden rise of Shonan agriculture, the road is not so easy.Now those companies just didn't react, which gave Shonan Agriculture a chance to rise.After all, no one would have thought that Shonan Agriculture would put all their effort into making seeds when they were planting bases everywhere in the country.

When Shonan's agriculture is really threatening, those people will react. At that time, no one can say for sure who will have the last laugh, including Liu Chang himself.

(End of this chapter)