The rise of nanometers

After resting for a night in Rhenium Town, Li Bin and his party set off again to another town about 37 kilometers south.

Leaving the industrial punk-style town of Re, after passing through a coal mine, the scenery that comes into view is acres of soybeans. The emerald green under the sun makes people feel like they are in the fields of the Great Northern Wilderness.

A water sprinkler truck has long spray poles extending from both sides, spraying water mist on soybean seedlings.

Li Bin couldn't help but sigh that the power of human science and technology can indeed change the world to a certain extent.

The sandy land in Mobei can also be transformed into fertile farmland after soil transformation and a steady stream of fresh water.

From a latitude perspective, the southern part of the Mobei region is actually at the same latitude as the Songnen Plain in China, with even better light and heat conditions. The only shortcoming is water.

When the water pipeline continuously imports fresh water into Mobei, it also means that the last shortcoming in Mobei's agricultural planting conditions has been filled.

According to the 2010 land resources survey conducted by the Grain Alliance, the Gobi desert in Mobei is approximately 513,000 square kilometers and the semi-desert grassland is 346,000 square kilometers, totaling 860,000 square kilometers.

Without freshwater support from the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, it is expected that the area of ​​Gobi desert and semi-desert will exceed 950,000 square kilometers around 2020.

After such a huge area is transformed and utilized, according to the strategic plan of the Grain Alliance, in addition to the 240,000 square kilometers of nature reserves, the remaining 620,000 square kilometers of this 860,000 square kilometers of land will be fully transformed. use.

Among them, 300,000 square kilometers are used as farmland, 300,000 square kilometers are used as pasture or pasture planting areas, and 20,000 square kilometers are used as forest areas.

What is the concept of 300,000 square kilometers?

Converted into common acres, it is 450 million acres, which is equivalent to a quarter of the country's bottom line of 1.8 billion acres of cultivated land. If all wheat is planted, 200 million to 220 million tons of wheat can be produced; if all soybeans are planted, 56 million tons can be produced 65 million tons of soybeans.

However, considering the domestic situation, the farmland in Mobei basically grows cotton, soybeans, peanuts, flax, sunflowers and sugar beets, which are basically textile, oil crops, sugar crops and feed crops.

The soybean planting area that Li Bin saw was the soybean planting area in Dongfang Province, a joint venture agricultural company under Fengmin Agriculture.

The current soybean planting area in Mobei is about 20 million acres, with an annual soybean output of about 3 million tons. As the desert transformation movement advances, this planting area will increase year by year.

In fact, the domestic soybean planting area has increased a lot in the past two years, and the average yield per mu has also increased from 125 kilograms to 164 kilograms. Although it is not as good as the more than 200 kilograms per mu of genetically modified soybeans, it is at least controllable.

The total soybean output of the Grain Alliance this year will reach about 24 million tons.

In addition, native soybeans imported from Lucia are expected to reach 4.7 million tons.

At the same time, the Food Alliance has invested in a Caspian Sea desalination plant in Kazakhstan and plans to build a circum-Caspian agricultural zone, which is also an important agricultural investment direction for the Food Alliance in the future.

Looking back to Li Bin's motorcade, they passed by the endless soybean planting area and then came to a salt marsh and semi-desert grassland.

Li Bin took a look at the nearby terrain and knew why his company had not enclosed this place. The Gobi Desert, the undulating mountains, and the degraded salt marshes of the salt lake made this place obviously unsuitable for large-scale mechanization. Production.

Udon called the local herder customers and soon they arrived in a small town.

The town in the middle of the two hillside is also a new town. Because the two hillside resembles a hump, it is named Luotuo Town.

Although it is quite far from Hulunbuir, it is not far from the border. Continuing about 74 kilometers south, you will reach Erenhot.

The reason for the development of Luotuo Town is the rise of breeding farms. Since 2010, the Grain Alliance has formed many joint ventures with local companies to take advantage of Mobei's vast territory and sparse population to breed pigs on a large scale.

The reason why pig farms were established in Mobei is that, firstly, Mobei is a feed production area, which is convenient for nearby supply; secondly, it is convenient for management, and the Gobi desert can be used to form a natural isolation zone to combat the outbreak of exotic animal diseases.

The Luotuo Town breeding base implements very strict biological prevention and control management. With the cooperation of the terrain, it is conducive to isolating the spread of foreign pathogens.

There are currently 47 pig farms here, with a pig population of about 840,000, and 7 meat product processing companies.

As for cattle and sheep breeding, the scale here is quite satisfactory. There are only a dozen households raising cattle, and relatively more sheep, about 30 households.

The main reason is that the comprehensive income of cattle is not high. After all, cattle have the lowest feed conversion efficiency and the breeding cycle is too long; while pigs have relatively high feed conversion efficiency, the breeding cycle is about half a year, and they can give birth to a large number in one litter.

Many herdsmen have switched to raising pigs or sheep, which has relatively high economic benefits.

Li Bin came to a fenced artificial pasture. He saw obvious signs of transformation. The owner of the pasture was an old herdsman in his fifties.

"Brother, this ranch is very professionally built!"

Hearing Li Bin's words, the old herdsman laughed: "This is my son. He came back to mess around after seeing the big ranch in Monan."

"This is not a fool's errand." Li Bin saw that the improvement technology of this pasture was quite professional and had basically reached the first-class level of artificial pastures.

Entering the breeding farm, Li Bin was even more convinced of the other party's professionalism. Although the equipment may be relatively simple, modern breeding has basically been achieved.

A young man wearing a denim shirt walked out of the delivery room. After seeing Li Bin, he smiled and stretched out his hand: "Team Leader Li, I am very happy to see you after a long time."

"It turns out it's you!" Li Bin suddenly realized that when he first joined the company last year, he worked in the Horqin Pastoral Area of ​​Mongolia District. This young man was also one of the intern employees. Later, he worked for more than four months and then resigned and returned to his hometown.

The two chatted about their current situation for a while. The young man's name was Temuhule, and he was a former international student in China.

"Team Leader Li, let me show you something good."

"Oh? What is it?"

"Follow me." Temuhule did not explain, but took Li Bin and others to a breeding farm.

As soon as he came in, Li Bin saw a dozen unique cows. He compared the breeds of cattle in his memory, but none of them completely matched.

"Is it a new species?"

Temuhule nodded: "When I was studying abroad, I was studying breeding engineering. I have experimented with several batches in recent years. This is the most successful variety."

After speaking, Temuhule handed an autopsy report to Li Bin.

After reading the autopsy report, Li Bin quickly learned the characteristics of this breed, which is that it has a high meat yield when slaughtered and is prone to snowflake texture. Under grain-fed conditions, the muscle fibers are close to those of pine-banged Wagyu cattle.

"Have you registered the variety and brand?"

Temuhule nodded: "It was just registered last month, and its name is Gobi Big Ox."

"It seems that high-end beef brands will soon have a place for you." Li Bin congratulated.

"It's just a casual meal." Temuhule shook his head with a smile.

In recent years, affected by the wave of localization, many agricultural companies have invested in the cultivation of new varieties. The high-end beef market is a big piece of cake, and it has naturally attracted many investors.

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