Chapter 59 Chili's DilemmaThe teacher's words made Guo Yang come to his senses. He knew that it started with the country's promotion of the development of the western region. In the next 20 years, the western region will implement a series of projects, including natural forest protection, returning farmland to forests, returning pasture to grassland, controlling sandstorm sources in Beijing and Tianjin, building the Three Norths shelterbelt system, and protecting the ecological environment of the Three Rivers Source. The provinces of Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, etc. are all involved in a large amount of grassland ecological restoration. Even in forestry, Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry can try to get a piece of the pie. After chatting with the teacher for a while, Guo Yang also understood what Weng Lixin meant by "having some reputation in the industry". In addition to more than 2000 million mu of saline wasteland, Long Province also has more than 2 million mu of natural grassland. But currently 90% of them have experienced varying degrees of degradation, and the area is increasing at a rate of more than 150 million acres per year. Compared with 40 years ago, the grass height has dropped by 50%, and the vegetation coverage and grassland carrying capacity have almost been halved. The reduction in the area of natural grassland has greatly reduced the ability to conserve water for the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, causing streams to dry up and lakes to dry up.
Even the Hexi region, a green barrier that locks Huanglong in the north and protects the oasis in the south, is under serious threat. From 1999 to 2001, Gansu Province also completed the task of returning large areas of farmland to forest and grassland, but it was far from enough. In the next few years, returning farmland to forest and grassland will remain an important task for the Longnan Provincial Government. Specific tasks will be delegated to various counties and cities, and subsidies for returning farmland to forests and grasslands will also be allocated to local governments. Weng Lixin's intention was to let Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry take over engineering projects from these local governments, and he could also provide some help. In addition, Weng Lixin also revealed that Qinghai Province will fully launch the "Three River Source" comprehensive ecological management project next year, and start the natural grassland grazing restoration project in Yushu and Golog prefectures. He can introduce Alfalfa Farming and Animal Husbandry over there. Guo Yang understood the meaning of Weng Lixin's words. No one doesn't like money. He is like that, and the teacher is no exception. Maybe the teacher didn't have the idea of taking the opportunity to make money, but he couldn't think that way. After thinking for a long time, Guo Yang finally agreed. Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry has the capital, strength, and ability to get things done. At least I know from the teachers that many places want to complete the task as quickly as possible, cope with inspections and acceptance, and get more subsidies for returning farmland to forest and grassland. Many bad ways and methods were adopted. For example, the original forest and grassland can be included in the scope of returning farmland to forest and grassland, or the returning farmland to forest and grassland can be implemented on better arable land. This has caused ecological projects to lose their original significance and increased the country's financial burden and losses. In contrast, after entering the market, Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry will at least be guided by ecological restoration rather than money. Because Guo Yang did this to accumulate natural energy. Guo Yang found the human resources manager of Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and asked him to contact headhunters to increase the recruitment needs. At the same time, the organizational structure of Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry was adjusted, and an engineering department was added, which is mainly responsible for external ecological restoration projects.
The current management of Alfalfa Agriculture and Animal Husbandry is temporarily coordinated by Guo Yang, and he is not satisfied with the several candidates for general manager he interviewed. Although the people recommended by the headhunters all had high academic qualifications, relevant professional skills, rich theoretical knowledge, and outstanding work experience, he felt that they were not suitable. In his plan, alfalfa farming and animal husbandry is an important base for him to obtain natural energy in the future. What is needed is a "reckless man" who dares to work hard and push forward one project after another. Rather than slow-cooking management. As for the source of funds, there is sufficient capital in the account at present, and the government has also relaxed loan channels for alfalfa. In the future, Alfalfa No. 1 seeds and alfalfa products will also generate benefits. Moreover, it is difficult to incur losses in ecological restoration projects undertaken from outside, unless we encounter difficult local governments. ...Lanzhou City, Vegetable and Pepper Institute of Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Guo Yang looked at the short man who walked in and pretended not to know him. The short man was none other than Bi Qiang, Guo Yang's roommate who had helped him with his meal. After the baptism of summer, Bi Qiang is now dark and small. Seeing Guo Yang in a suit and tie with no expression on his face, Bi Qiang was a little confused, thinking he had come to the wrong place. He turned back hesitantly, took two steps, and then thought something was not right. Guo Yang couldn't help laughing, "Puchi, haha..." Hearing the laughter, Bi Qiang reacted and regained his confident look. "Good boy, you are dressed like a decent person, and I almost beat you. It seems that the rumors in school are true. You really became rich overnight." Guo Yang laughed and said, “Hahaha, that’s because I saw that you were tanned. I almost didn’t recognize you.” Bi Qiang mercilessly counterattacked: "You say I am evil, but you are the same. Tell me, what do you want from me?" Hearing this, Guo Yang also got back to the point, "I want to come and see if you have any good sweet pepper seeds, and consider cooperation." Bi Qiang said: "We do have sweet pepper varieties, but because our main breeding direction is screw peppers, the germplasm resources of sweet pepper varieties are relatively few." "Screw pepper?" "Didn't I bring you a portion of stir-fried pork with chili peppers when I was doing my internship? That's it. So, what do you want the bell pepper seeds for?" "I want to replenish my inventory and do some sweet pepper seed production business." Bi Qiang looked surprised, glanced at Guo Yang and said, "The profit of sweet pepper seed production is indeed good. There are several excellent varieties in China, and there are also many foreign brands represented by many seed companies." Guo Yang also nodded. "How about you guys? The spicy pork with peppers you brought me last time was pretty good. How's the promotion going?" Hearing this, Bi Qiang smiled bitterly. "That's a variety we cultivated from the local Northwest variety 'Pig Intestine' screw pepper." "The 'pig intestine' screw pepper has a thin outer skin, low cellulose content and good taste. But its disadvantages are also obvious. It has low yield, poor resistance and poor adaptability. It can only be grown in small quantities in some dry and cold areas in the northwest." "After long-term selection and breeding at our institute, we have developed Longjiao No. 2, which has significantly improved its yield and resistance, but its yield is still not as good as other varieties with poor quality but high yield, and its recognition among growers and dealers is not high."
Hearing this, Guo Yang was also confused. He originally thought that it was the ugly appearance that made promotion difficult. “Shouldn’t high quality lead to higher market acceptance?” Bi Qiang patiently explained: "Because the domestic pepper market is currently in short supply, pepper sales cannot be sold at high prices for high quality. Sweet peppers are different. They are sold at high prices regardless of quality." "Moreover, the homogeneity of pepper varieties is serious nowadays. Once a signature good variety is cultivated, the economic benefits will be good. Soon, a large number of similar varieties will appear on the market." "Some people even obtain the parent species through improper means, and then simply change the name to promote and sell it as their own variety, thus infringing on the efforts and interests of the original breeders." "Some thieves were so brazen as to pry open the seed warehouse of the Vegetable Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in order to make huge profits." Guo Yang felt as if Bi Qiang was complaining and seemed to be very dissatisfied with the industry. He gradually had some ideas in his mind, but he still listened silently. "So, the vegetable seed industry is not very attractive to capital. There are only a few small private enterprises. The serious homogeneity of varieties makes it difficult for pepper seed companies to expand." "The entire industry is restless and only focuses on products that can generate profits quickly, rather than revolutionary, epoch-making products that can drive industry development." “It looks lively, but the key technical bottlenecks that restrict industrial development have not been resolved…” (End of this chapter)