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"This comparison," Dou Xueyang couldn't help shaking his head, with emotion in his voice, "it's really 'very good progress'!"

"In short," Nie Zhibo shrugged and continued, "In our country, the Northeastern region, the Huanghai-Huaihai region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the main railways and highways leading to major provincial capitals have all been basically cleaned up. That’s here, here and here on the map.”

As he pointed at the projection screen, Dou Xueyang squinted his eyes and spoke: "In other words, in fact, the plains and basins in the Northeast and Eastern monsoon areas, which are the main cultivated land areas in our country, have almost been cleared. Out?"

"Well, not that fast," Nie Zhibo thought about it and responded, "However, about one-eighth of the country's arable land has been cleared, and now the country is urgently organizing production."

"Oh?" Dou Xueyang was very interested, leaned forward and said, "Can you tell me more about this?"

"Of course." Nie Zhibo quickly called up a PPT with a total of 12 different plant images. "Since the food reserves are about to be exhausted, our country is aiming to restore food production with new evolved plants with high yield characteristics. .”

"Everyone, please take a look," he pointed to the 12 pictures on the background projection screen, "As of 7 o'clock last night, Jiuqu had released a total of 4 episodes of the "Biological Change: Hope" series of videos, and we also discovered 12 different of evolutionary plants.”

On the PPT, colorful plant pictures formed a miraculous rainbow shape.

"Among the 12 new evolutionary plants discovered so far, three have the characteristics of fast growth and fast harvest, namely banana, sorghum and green vegetables." Nie Zhibo pointed to three of the pictures, and then stopped at one of them. On the picture, "Among them, sorghum can be regarded as a staple food crop, and it was discovered in our country. Compared with some other evolved plants, it is easier to obtain seeds, store and transport. Therefore, sorghum is currently The crop that has been tentatively designated as the main product of our country is undergoing emergency breeding in the laboratory."

Food crops refer to crops generally used as staple food for humans, mainly cereal crops and potato crops. Unlike vegetables and fruit trees, the seeds of food crops contain less water, so they are more shelf-stable than vegetables or fruits. People began to cultivate them a long time ago. Rice began to be cultivated in China about 7,000 years ago, corn began to be cultivated in the Americas about 7,000 years ago, and wheat began to be cultivated in the Middle East about 6,000 years ago. Since ancient times, food production has been the basis of agriculture in most countries.

Before the Third World War, the world's food crop planting area accounted for about 85% of the total crop planting area, and wheat, rice and corn accounted for about 80% of the world's total food production and have always been the leading crops among crops.

However, after World War III, the situation changed. Agricultural production once stagnated, and the cultivation of various crops completely disappeared in the world. Not to mention food crops, other crop production also disappeared. The world is frantically looking for alternative edible items, including mutant chicken farms in China and other countries, analysis of the edible properties of evolved plants by the Bald Eagle Country, and many other projects.

Many countries are doing their best. Even the United Nations' "Global Evolution Project" was largely born out of this.

However, even so, in the eyes of knowledgeable people at the time, a global famine was almost unstoppable in the future.

A global famine is very possible, causing more deaths than World War III!

It was not until the broadcast of the "Biological Change: Hope" series of videos and the appearance of the "five rainbows" miracle that people truly discovered that in the future, there might be a slight possibility to avoid this catastrophe.

"Sorghum," someone in the audience sighed, "I haven't eaten sorghum in a long time."

Compared with many foods such as wheat, corn and rice, sorghum can be regarded as a very rare food crop in the current era.

"How do you eat sorghum?" Someone in the audience asked curiously, "I seem to have eaten, um, sorghum steamed buns? But the main ingredient is also flour, right?"

"Well, sorghum can be made into porridge or eaten as rice," an older person replied thoughtfully, "but it doesn't taste very good, it doesn't taste soft and glutinous, and I remember it's not as delicious as white rice."

"It is said," someone in the audience shared the news, "this new type of sorghum tastes good and has improved a lot after evolution. Of course, I have never tasted it. I just heard what the researcher said."

"Yes, the taste of evolved sorghum is much better," Nie Zhibo on the stage confirmed the news, "However, it is essentially a coarse grain after all, and I heard that the characteristics of this evolved plant are not particularly perfect and need to be cultivated in the laboratory. Excellent breeding. In short, let’s make do with planting and plant for one season.”

"Coarse grains, although some are better than nothing," someone in the audience scratched their heads in frustration, "But when will we find grains that can truly be used as staple foods?"

"If you want to encounter such a miraculous thing recently," the people around him shrugged, "you can only sincerely pray for God's favor..."

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