Anyone who is familiar with geography knows that the Ryukyu Islands are poor in resources and have infertile soil.
There are very few fields suitable for growing food.
The previous agriculture in this area was mainly sugar cane and pineapple, and the food was completely unable to be self-sufficient.
When Ximen Fubuki was the county magistrate of Ryukyu County, he vigorously promoted temperate rubber trees and diesel trees, as well as seawater fish farming, kelp farming, and seawater pearl farming, which increased the county's agricultural output value sevenfold in five years, and rural people The average annual income increased threefold, which was one of the achievements that led to his promotion.
The agricultural conditions in Ryukyu County are already the best in the city.
Even if Ximen works so hard, he still relies mainly on cash crops, and he still cannot be self-sufficient in food.
Although China is not short of food now, no one wants too much food.
It is always good to have more.
Especially if food can be self-sufficient, it will be of great significance to a region.
If we rely on traditional agricultural varieties, if the Ryukyu Islands want to achieve food self-sufficiency, they will have to stop all cash crops, turn all mountainous areas into terraced fields, and plant potato crops, otherwise it will be impossible to rely solely on ordinary rice. .
Cash crops are an important source of income, so of course they cannot be stopped.
In addition, in China, terraced fields are not allowed to be opened casually, especially in areas with heavy rain and thin soil.
This is strictly prohibited.
Because in the long run, this kind of thing is equivalent to a one-time deal, and it can easily cause rocky desertification.
By then, it will be completely finished, and the entire land will be scrapped and nothing can be planted.
It is very uneconomical.
But now that Mr.
Wen is here, the world is different.
During World War I, many new varieties of crops of later generations were copied one after another by experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and began to be promoted across the country.
Among them is sea rice, a new food crop.
Ryukyu City is one of the first areas to be promoted.
They tried planting hundreds of acres last year and were very satisfied with the results.
They started large-scale planting this year.
"Xiao Liu, how is the autumn harvest of seawater rice in your village?"
Ximen Chuixue couldn't help but ask before they even reached the end of the field.
Liu Jinbao replied: "Mayor, we started the autumn harvest yesterday, and now we have almost harvested one-third of it."
"Well, how is the yield?"
This is what Ximen Chuixue is most concerned about.
After all, the yield in the experimental field and the field are two different things.
"We have all made records.
The average yield per mu is more than 530 kilograms.
The lowest is over 500 kilograms and the highest is more than 570 kilograms."
Liu Jinbao paused and said: "It is much lower than normal high-quality rice, but it is better than what we used to have."
The old rice seeds are taller” Village Chief Liu's expression was somewhat disapproving, because in the eyes of Chinese people who were accustomed to various high-yielding crops at this time, the average grain yield of more than 530 kilograms per mu was nothing.
The rice yield per mu could easily reach a thousand kilograms, and the yield per unit It’s not uncommon to see tons of them.
However, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, this kind of unsightly yield could only be achieved in a few fertile lands such as Jiangnan, Huguang, etc.
In many places, the yield was only three to four hundred kilograms.
"Well, that's for sure.
The yield of this kind of seawater rice is indeed not high, but it can be planted on beach tidal flats and in salt-alkali marshes that could not be used before.
This is its biggest advantage.
In addition, don't you think Don’t you think it’s easy to grow?”
Ximen smiled.
The yield of this kind of sea rice is not as good as that of normal rice, which he has known for a long time.
"Indeed, this kind of rice can be irrigated directly with seawater, and it can be planted on the beach without picking the land.
It does not require cultivating or fertilizing, because it is saline-alkali land on the beach, and weeds cannot grow.
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Even weeding is not required.
It’s quite easy to get up, it’s really convenient.”
Village Chief Liu also smiled.
He also felt that he was a little dissatisfied, but being able to plant this one on the beach was already of great value.
Nan Dadong Island is not big, and Ximen and the others soon reached the hillside of the rice fields.
Looking around from a high place, I saw that about 100 meters along the coastline had been opened up into rice fields.
At this time, the fields were golden, as if a golden belt was wrapped around the island.
The sea breeze blows, the rice waves roll, and the fragrance of rice comes to your nose.
"Okay, okay," Ximen Chuixue said happily after seeing this scene.
Ximen walked quickly to the rice field, pulled out an ear of rice and looked at it.
The ears of rice are very full and the rice grains are relatively long.
They look somewhat like indica rice or wheat grains.
"Mayor Ximen, our village has opened up a total of 1,200 acres of new rice fields on the seaside.
According to the plan of the city's expert group, these new fields will be opened along the seaside," Village Chief Liu introduced.
These lands could not be used for planting before.
On these seaside tidal flats, sea water flows back every time the tide rises, causing the soil to contain a large amount of salt.
Except for weeds such as mangroves and reeds, it is difficult for general crops to grow.
Of course, some tidal flats can be used for farming, but not all tidal flats are suitable.
In the history of the original time and space, the Datu Dynasty also had the idea of transforming tidal flats into cultivated land.
They encouraged coastal areas to use tidal flats to reclaim land and expand the area of cultivated land.
But the idea is very beautiful, but the reality is very ugly, because the reclaimed tidal flats are all saline-alkali land, and it is very troublesome to transform it into cultivated land for growing ordinary crops.
It requires a large amount of fresh water to be flushed for many years before it can be used for planting.
Due to the general lack of fresh water in coastal areas, the cost of converting tidal flats into cultivated land is high and the efficiency is low, making it difficult for Datu Dynasty to realize its wish to expand cultivated land through reclamation and land reclamation.
And even if land reclamation is successful, it will have serious consequences.
The construction of embankments to block the sea during the reclamation process will cause seabed siltation.
Practice has found that about 10 years after the cofferdams are closed, the new siltation area outside the embankments is equivalent to the original reclamation area.
This makes the nearby sea channels shallower and narrower, affecting port functions. .
At the same time, the fertilizer washed into the seawater will cause serious pollution and reduce the self-purification ability of the sea area.
In the future, management will cost more than reclamation.
Very worthless.
The new varieties of crops being promoted now are completely different.
They do not require time-consuming and laborious construction of embankments to block the sea, nor do they need to modify the soil.
In addition, they have the function of fixing nitrogen, have developed root systems, and there is no shortage of phosphorus and potassium in seaside areas.
Elements, even fertilizers are saved.
Planting these crops only requires leveling the beach and sowing them, without changing the local ecological environment at all.
The sea water that pours in during high tide is actually watering and fertilizing them.
At this time, several tractors dragged small harvesters into the fields, rumblingly harvesting.
Next to them were several agricultural vehicles with special shapes.
They had six tires like military vehicles, and each tire was wide and large.
There are also deep grooves on the tread, which look like special tires that are particularly suitable for traveling in fields.
The tires of this new type of agricultural truck are replaceable.
You can replace them with ordinary tires when driving on the road.
You can also remove the middle pair of wheels.
If you want to go to the fields, you can replace them with these special tires, plus the middle pair of wheels.
That's right for the wheels.
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The removal and installation of tires are very convenient and fast.
If two people work together, it can be done in up to an hour.
The efficiency of the harvester is much higher than that of human power.
I can see that patches of rice are harvested by the machine one after another.
The golden color on the seaside is decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The harvester passed by without stopping, and the cut rice ears and straw were sent by the conveyor belt into the truck that followed.
After filling a truck, the harvester stopped temporarily, and the truck quickly drove to the drying field at the edge of the field.
The driver moved the handle, and the cargo box immediately slowly lifted up, dumping the rice inside into the open space, and quickly Return to the harvester and start the next round of work.
The people at the drying field were not idle either.
They immediately ran over, picked up the rice, and sent it to a machine next to the drying field.
This is an integrated threshing machine that can complete threshing, sorting and binding straw at the same time, which is very efficient.
Golden rice poured out from the discharge port, and a bundle of tied straw was thrown out from another discharge port.
There are large reed mats spread on the drying ground, and farmers use baskets to spread the threshed rice on the reed mats to dry.
The fields are busy.
The de-grained straw is also sent to the other side and spread out to dry.
These things are also useful.
After being chopped, they can be used as the base material for growing mushrooms; they can also be thrown into the biogas tank to be fermented into fertilizer; they can also be mixed with fish meal and other things to make feed; It can also be pressed and formed and then carbonized in a coal kiln to make straw carbon, which can be used as fuel for gas generators, pot machines or household fuel.
"This mechanization is great.
If it used to take so much rice that it couldn't be done in a few days, now it's gone in less than an hour."
A farmer said with emotion.
"Yeah, it's much easier for us to do farm work now.
Now, almost all the rice in the 1,200 acres of land is harvested by tractors.
Only the places where tractors can't go are done manually, and they also use human harvesters.
Another old farmer said with a smile.
On a mesa that cannot be accessed by a tractor, dozens of people are harvesting on it.
They are divided into several groups, with four people in each group.
Three people are responsible for transporting rice to the fields, and one person is responsible for harvesting.
The harvesters did not use traditional sickles, but pushed a human-powered harvester like a cart.
This kind of machinery is small in size and light in weight.
It does not require electricity or oil.
It can harvest rice by pushing it by hand.
It can harvest 0.50.8 acres of land per hour, which is 58 times that of sickle harvesting.
This machine can not only It can harvest rice, wheat, sorghum and other grass crops.
It has been welcomed by farmers once it was launched.
And this kind of human-powered agricultural machinery is not only a grass harvester, but also a potato harvester, a seeder, a rice transplanter, etc.
Anyway, there are all types of mechanization.
Now this kind of human-powered agricultural machinery has been sold all over the world.
Moreover, these things are of modular design.
If you find it too tiring to use human power, you can add animal-powered accessories and it will immediately become an animal-powered machine.
The old farmer's son was also playing this game.
He said with some sigh: "The mechanization nowadays is good, but hey, if I wait until my grandson's generation, they may not even be able to use a sickle."
The middle-aged farmer next to him laughed: "Hahahaha, Old Yangtou, what's the point of sighing?
This is science.
Didn't the science and education film shown last month say that agricultural technology is constantly improving, and this agricultural tool is also constantly improving.
This sickle has not been around since ancient times.
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You see, my son can’t even use a hoe, and driving a tractor is not the same as farming now.”
There were also people talking on the other side of the grain drying field.
"It's unheard of that rice can be grown by the seaside."
An old farmer held a handful of rice with an expression of disbelief on his face.
"Uncle Liu, you must lose.
When you first planted the rice seedlings this year, you said it was all whimsical, hahaha."
The young man next to him laughed.
"I lost, I lost.
I am convinced that I have lost.
When the autumn harvest is over, I will serve wine and invite the whole village to drink."
The old farmer nodded repeatedly.
An old farmer next to him gloated: "You deserved to lose.
Don't you look at the time when the Holy Emperor is in power.
What auspiciousness can't come out, let alone growing rice in sea water, even if Mr.
Wen said that there is something in the stone."
Oil comes out, I believe it too” The young man was embarrassed and said: "Ahem, Uncle Li, the secretary said it, this is science, not auspiciousness."
"But science is also auspicious.
Before Mr.
Wen took over the world, how could these things exist?
This is not auspicious.
Let's talk about scientific socialism.
Isn't it what Mr.
Wen did?
So this is auspiciousness," Uncle Li said confidently.
The young man was completely embarrassed, with an expression on his face that said, "What you said makes sense, but I am speechless."
A middle-aged man next to him came over and said: "But it is true that oil can be produced from this rock.
I read in the newspaper that oil is extracted from rocks in the Northeast.
It is called shale oil."
"Look, look, as long as the Holy Emperor is in power, all good things will happen."
Uncle Li was even more proud.
The young man has already knelt down Ximen Chuixue and others also arrived at the grain drying field at this time.
He also heard some of the farmers' conversations, and many of the embarrassing words made him dumbfounded. for example: "How big is the official position of Deputy Mayor Ximen?"
"Equivalent to Master Tongzhi in the former Qing Dynasty, a fifth-rank official."
"The officials in our new dynasty are good, but they don't look very majestic.
When Ximen Tongzhi went on patrol, he didn't even have a guard of honor.
In the past, when the county magistrate went on patrol, he had to carry a sign saying "Shout out of silence" to clear the way.
This Tongzhi Master, come out, at least eight people will clear the way, and there will be gongs, drums, flags and so on."
"Mayor Ximen, don't mind this," Village Chief Liu Jinbao said a little embarrassed.
"It's nothing.
The folks didn't scold me.
Is there anything I can't say?"
Ximen shook his head indifferently and said to the secretary next to him: "Go and measure an acre of confiscated land and harvest it.
Xiao Liu, please find someone to cooperate. ” Liu Jinbao agreed and quickly arranged the manpower.
After a while, the one acre of land measured by the secretary was harvested.
After the grain was threshed, it was weighed, weighing 604 kilograms.
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"After drying, you usually need to remove about 6.5% of the water, which is 565 pounds.
Well, this yield is not bad."
Ximen Chuixue nodded with satisfaction.
Liu Jinbao also breathed a sigh of relief.
If the output that the deputy mayor saw in person was inconsistent with what he said, it would be troublesome.
Then Ximen randomly harvested a few acres, and the yield after conversion was more than 500 pounds.
At this time, he finally had a smile on his face.
Based on a yield of 530 kilograms per mu, the 1,200 acres of land on Nan Dadong Island can harvest 318 tons of grain.
There are only 412 people in their village, which is more than enough.
Ryukyu City’s food self-sufficiency problem has been solved.
Of course, not only Ryukyu City’s food self-sufficiency problem has been solved, but with the promotion of new salt-alkali-tolerant crops such as seawater rice, the food self-sufficiency problem of many other island areas, areas near the sea, and inland saline-alkali areas has also been solved. . s: Please vote for support, thank you all: