Nongmen Rice Flower Fragrance

Chapter 41 Rice
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wen Bo and Wen Hao went to the academy by themselves, and Li Xin took his two younger sisters back to Osmanthus Village.

Walking in the village, at a glance, rice is swaying everywhere.At this time, the ears of rice are already very long, and it should not be long before they can be harvested.Li Xin also went to look at his own field, two kinds of rice, the seeds of this era are no different from those of other people's.The plants are tall, but the ears of rice are not long, and there are few tillers. It is conceivable that the yield must be low.

This is the difference between the rice in this era and the previous life!And the part of the rice ears planted from the seeds brought over from the previous life has turned yellow, and it seems that it is ready to be harvested.There are quite a few ears of rice in each plant, and there are also many grains on the ears. The long ears of rice can't hold back their heads, and they can tell that the yield must be high.Li Xin folded a fringe in his hand and looked at it carefully.To her, many rice varieties seemed similar, and she really couldn't tell which variety it was.

Although the output seems to be high now, I am afraid it will only be this year.If it is a hybrid rice, it cannot be kept as a seed, and it will be extinct after one year.However, in the previous life, conventional rice was crowded out by hybrid rice, almost no one cultivated conventional rice, and it was difficult to buy conventional rice in places that sold grain seeds.The chances of this being regular rice are really slim.

After all, she is a graduate of the Agricultural University, so she still knows a lot about food crops.In fact, since the advent of hybrid rice, it can be said to have developed rapidly, and the planting area has also increased rapidly. Gradually, the concept of better hybrid rice has taken root in people's hearts.Conventional rice is almost gradually eliminated by hybrid rice due to its shortcomings of less tillers and troublesome management.Hybrid rice has more tillers, less seeds per acre, and is thick and long in management, and does not require much labor, so many people prefer to grow hybrid rice.

The planting area of ​​conventional rice is less and less, and almost only some areas that specialize in cultivating high-quality rice and high mountain areas where hybrid rice cannot be grown will keep the habit of planting conventional rice.Also because there are still areas where conventional rice is grown, conventional rice has not been completely replaced by hybrid rice.

The special feature of conventional rice is that it can adapt to a wider range of regions, the taste of rice is better, and the price of rice seeds is quite cheap, which can greatly reduce the cost of planting for rice farmers.However, conventional rice breeding itself suffers from market challenges: it takes a long time to breed and requires a lot of human and financial resources; it is difficult to protect intellectual property rights and the market returns are low.For this reason, some conventional rice breeding units have abandoned conventional rice breeding.

However, there are also some people who are not afraid of difficulties, and have unremittingly selected and bred a large number of high-quality rice varieties for decades.Li Xin also paid attention to conventional rice before, because the quality of rice is very good. She also thought that if the yield of conventional rice can be increased, there must still be many people willing to plant it.She had heard that "Tsuhara 45", which caused a shock in the national breeding field, had a high-yield field of about 800 kilograms.It is resistant to various diseases and insect pests such as rice blast, stripe leaf blight, and rice planthopper, and won the second prize of the National New Variety Selection and Breeding Award.

However, cultivating conventional rice has no rewards for researchers, and the rewards are almost far lower than the effort.Because conventional rice can keep its own seeds, unlike hybrid rice, which needs to be purchased every year, almost all the rice seeds in the second year cannot be sold.Moreover, intellectual property rights are not protected, and many people reproduce seeds without authorization and sell them.This is also the reason why many companies are unwilling to spend money and effort to develop conventional rice varieties, let alone operate conventional rice varieties.

But come to think of it, the planting of conventional rice should slowly recover, because "high yield" is not the "patent" of hybrid rice, but "high quality" is the eternal "excellence" of conventional rice, and the low cost of conventional rice will definitely be mobilized. Farmers' enthusiasm for planting.Conventional rice can save its own seeds in the next year, which saves the cost of seeds, and the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers for conventional rice is also less.

Li Xin hopes that these are good conventional rice, but whether it is or not is up to her, let's try again next year!

After turning around in the sky to see the growth of the crops, she went home.

Two days later, shopkeeper Sun sent his assistants over for the cherry tomatoes.The output of pumpkins gradually decreased, and Li Xin also wanted to keep some old pumpkins, so less and less young pumpkins were picked, and fewer and fewer buddies came.Shopkeeper Sun was very careful, and even asked the waiter to bring some flower pots over.Li Xin also started with his buddy, dug some cherry tomatoes in the vegetable garden and transplanted them into flower pots.There wasn't much to save on cherry tomatoes, so Li Xin asked him to dig some big tomatoes.

The buddy was amazed when he saw the bright red tomato, the fruit was really pretty.Li Xin then asked him to pick some and eat them. The taste was not bad compared to the cherry tomatoes, but the fruit was a bit bigger and didn't have the petite and exquisite feeling of the cherry tomatoes.But big also has great benefits, eating aquatic ones, the juice inside is sour and sweet and very delicious.

After the transplanting was finished, Li Xin picked a basket of tomatoes and peppers in a basket, and let Yuexiang and Yueting take care of the house, while she carried the basket and her assistants to the town in a carriage.

Sitting in the carriage, Li Xin felt that he should also buy a carriage.Originally, the whole family was a child, and so was she, even though she was mature in mind, but her body was still young!Walking is very slow and exhausting.If there is a carriage, it will be different, and it will be more convenient to go anywhere.

However, driving a carriage is somewhat troublesome. She had driven a carriage in her previous life, but she may not be able to drive a carriage!After all, horses are not obedient animals.But wait!Now that the family is building a new house and buying a house in the town, it has already made countless people jealous. If they buy a carriage again, some people will not be envious!I don't know what trouble I'm going to get into!

The family is full of children, so keep a low profile if you can!After all, you are not afraid of thieves stealing, but you are afraid of thieves thinking about it!
It doesn't feel good at all to have money and not be able to spend it boldly.It's not good to have no adults at home. I don't know if it's good to hire someone at home.I still have to think about it carefully, if I can hire an adult to stay at home, I can feel more at ease.But hiring people also has to be carefully considered, and it must be someone you can trust!
It didn't take long to arrive at Pinxiang Pavilion.The Mid-Autumn Festival is over, and the streets seem to have returned to the way they used to be.However, the sweet-scented osmanthus in autumn has not yet bloomed, so the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus all over the street has not disappeared.The scent of sweet-scented osmanthus filled the air, and a simple town was like a fairyland.

(I'm sorry everyone, this chapter was written very slowly, and it was a bit late.)
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