Homo sapiens

As the Homo sapiens company launched a heavy blow, eighty agricultural cooperatives were quickly established, and soon more than 30,000 farmers were participating, and this number is still increasing.

The joining of these farmers has brought 270,000 acres of mountainous land, 63,000 acres of paddy fields, 28,000 acres of dry fields, and 5,436 acres of fish ponds to Haitian agriculture.

Of course, land is nothing but trivial matters.

You must know that the Fernando family and the Lopez family are the real big landowners.

Take Panay Island, the headquarters of the Lopez family, as an example. The plantation area it controls is very large, reaching 1,736 square kilometers, which is equivalent to about one-seventh of the entire Panay Island area.

The Fernando family's plantation in southern Luzon also covers an area of ​​about 2,245 square kilometers.

The total area of ​​plantations and other agricultural lands controlled by these two families across Luzon reaches 5,571 square kilometers, equivalent to one-fiftieth of the total area of ​​Luzon.

Not to mention the small families and small farmers affiliated with their family.

Naturally, Haitian Agriculture will not let go of such a large piece of land.

Panay Island at this time.

Zhang Wei, led by the local person in charge of the Lopez family, inspected the island with the second largest rice field area in Luzon, where rice and sugar cane are mainly grown.

At present, the total rice production in Luzon is about 17 million tons, and the rice self-sufficiency rate is only 79%.

There are also about 10 million tons of corn.

Based on Luzon's population of 102 million, the total output of 27 million tons of grain is equivalent to about 260 kilograms per capita. This per capita output is enough to ensure food and clothing.

The problem is that Luzon's staple food is rice, and some wheat flour is also consumed, while corn is exported.

Luzon produces about 27 million tons of grain annually, exports about 20 million tons of grain, and imports about 8 to 9 million tons of grain.

This is very embarrassing.

Even with the introduction of hybrid rice from China, Luzon is still unable to be self-sufficient in food. The core reason is that large landowners and businessmen are unwilling to increase the rice planting area. They would rather plant corn that Luzon people do not eat.

Then these guys cooperated with ABCD inside and outside to import cheap rice and wheat flour, sell them to urban residents at high prices, and earn high profits.

As for food security, what does it have to do with big landowners and big businessmen?

On the contrary, they wish for a food crisis to happen every day and take advantage of it to drive up prices.

Previously, the Fernando family and the Lopez family were also members of this comprador landowner system.

It's just that now that Homo sapiens company has taken over the inheritance of these two families, if it remains the same as before, it will only be used as a dog for America.

Li Qingye often laments that he is not cold-blooded and cruel enough and seems to be incompatible with this world.

But why should he take the initiative to adapt to the world?

Why doesn't the world adapt to itself?

As long as you are strong enough, the world will revolve around you.

The current series of actions in Haitian Agriculture are to increase Luzon’s food self-sufficiency rate and establish its own system.

The cultivated land area of ​​Panay Island is very large, but the rice planting area is lower than the sugarcane planting area, mainly because the profit of sugarcane is high enough.

"Cass, how many rice fields and sugar cane fields are there in our land on Panay Island, apart from the plantations in the mountains?" Zhang Wei wore a straw hat and looked at the endless paddy fields in front of him.

Cas Lopez took out a document: "There are 82,731 hectares of sugar cane fields and 41,108 hectares of rice fields."

Zhang Wei shook his head: "Too little. The rice area is too small. We will cut down 40,000 hectares of sugarcane fields and plant hybrid rice instead."

"Uh..." Cass swallowed his throat, and then reminded: "General Manager, the income from rice is too low. If the planting area is increased, the market price may be even lower this year, and the company may lose money."

"So what if we lose money? We can afford it, and you think sugar cane can make a huge profit?" Zhang Wei sneered.

As the general manager of Haitian Agriculture, he knows that with the expansion of Haitian area and the diversification of genetically modified Eucheuma varieties, there are now genetically modified Eucheumas rich in sucrose.

If sugar cane was not canceled all at once, it would have a drastic chain reaction in the market. He would like to convert all the remaining 40,000 hectares of sugar cane fields into rice fields.

Nowadays, cooperatives, plantations, and arable land suitable for rice cultivation in various places have been replanted with hybrid rice. The rice planting area is planned to reach 300,000 hectares, and it is planned to be planted for two seasons.

It is expected to produce 2 million tons of rice this year, and then purchase some rice and corn from farmers to stabilize grain prices in the control area.

As for whether ABCD will engage in a price war.

With the urine of these guys, there is a high probability that they will deliberately dump the rice at low prices with the intention of destroying the rice industry of Haitian Agriculture.

But Zhang Wei is not afraid, because Haitian Agriculture can afford to lose money, and at worst it can make up for it from other industries. For example, the head office recently assigned the eel industry to Haitian Agriculture.

At this time, Homo Sapien Company is only responsible for technology research and development, process improvement, and production of key raw materials.

For example, the eel sex hormones in the eel industry are only controlled by the headquarters of the Homo sapiens company, and subsidiaries are not qualified to get involved.

Faced with Zhang Wei's strength, Cass could only bite the bullet and agree.

Zhang Wei did not leave Panay Island immediately because he still needed to take a boat from Panay Island to the Cuyo Islands in the waters west of Panay Island.

The Cuyo Islands are more than 90 kilometers away from Panay Island. Although the land area is small, the shallow sea area is as high as tens of thousands of square kilometers.

This small archipelago is also the sphere of influence of the Lopez family. Cass took Zhang Wei and his party to Cuyo Island, the main island of this archipelago.

The professionals who followed were also testing the salinity, water temperature, water depth, and coral reef coverage of the surrounding sea areas.

The mayor of the island, Mingkai Lopez, introduced the situation of the Cuyo Islands to Zhang Wei.

"Do the hydrological conditions here meet the requirements?" Zhang Wei asked the marine aquaculture expert who came over.

The other party nodded: "It meets the conditions for Eucheuma cultivation. As long as we avoid part of the coral reef area, we can build a floating island-style sea farm here."

The floating island-style sea farm planned to be built by Haitian Agriculture is indeed the construction of fixed floating islands in areas where the seawater depth does not exceed 20 meters.

As for how to build it, we need to use the coral cement previously prepared for Qingye Group. Part of the specially prepared coral cement can quickly solidify in seawater and is extremely resistant to salt-alkali and seawater corrosion.

At present, Coral Building Materials has secretly transformed a cement factory into a coral cement production base, with an annual output of approximately 2.4 million tons of coral cement.

After evaluating the information on hand, the marine farming expert reported to Zhang Weihui: "According to my estimate, the area suitable for transformation in the entire Cuyo Islands waters is about 800 to 1,000 square kilometers."

Zhang Wei thought for a while and then ordered: "Then designate a sea area as an experimental field! The area is about 50 hectares. Researcher Chen, you will be in charge of this project here."

"no problem."

This project is of an experimental nature. After all, there are still a lot of tidal flats and saline-alkali lands along the coast, so there is no need to enter shallow seas all at once.

Sea fields in shallow seas and even sea fields in deep seas actually have technical reserves that will definitely be used in the future.

In addition to arranging a Haitian experimental project in the Cuyo Islands, Zhang Wei also asked the local area to build a garbage recycling station and a gas distribution station. This project was not commissioned by Haitian Agriculture, but by Jade Energy.

As a small and underdeveloped archipelago with a small population, it has a population of only about 27,000, and basic services such as power supply and water supply are basically zero.

But once shallow sea fields can be built on a large scale in the future, the economy here will definitely take off. Hidden Emerald Energy and Coral Construction are already preparing to seize the opportunity.

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