China New Hope Agricultural Science and Technology Research Institute.

In China, this may be the largest agricultural science and technology research institute in China. Although this research institute was founded by Li Zicheng, the opportunity for its establishment was due to the more than 3 million acres of salt fields in northern Jiangsu allocated by Yuan Shikai.

During the reclamation process of this wasteland, the ** company did not introduce foreign immigrants, but directly established a reclamation company, and the "labor corps" who appeared to be farm workers but were actually half-farmers, half-workers, and half-soldiers were responsible for the reclamation.

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After the first two years of reclamation, as the wasteland was cleared and the labor corps was exported, changes began to occur here. Initially, this was a breeding base for fine varieties. In the past three years, high-quality wheat and high-quality black wheat have been bred here.

As well as improved rice varieties, they were quickly promoted in Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places. In the fifth year of the Republic of China, with the increase in wheat production in the five northern provinces, China directly ended the import of wheat for more than half a century.

But to the outside world, the most successful place here is cotton breeding. Three years ago, upland long-staple cotton was cultivated here. This new hybrid cotton species fundamentally solved the problem of high yield but poor quality of upland cotton.

, the problem of high-quality but low-yield sea-island cotton. This laid a solid foundation for the development of the cotton textile industry in Jiangsu, especially in areas along the Yangtze River. In the following years, in addition to cultivating improved varieties, this area completely transformed into the cotton textile industry in Jiangsu and other places.

The raw material base can be said to be the largest cotton growing area in China. However, despite this, changes occurred quietly here last year, and this change was the establishment of the New Hope Agricultural Science and Technology Research Institute.

Perhaps, a variety of improved varieties have been cultivated here and promoted in many provinces, but in fact those agricultural experts who know the inside story clearly know that the cultivation of improved varieties here is actually "stepping on the shoulders of giants"

"" - All the improved varieties are provided by the Prime Minister. According to him, these are the improved varieties that he hired experts from abroad to specially cultivate. And what they need to do is to domesticate these improved varieties locally. Therefore, this

The great development of agricultural technology with "unprecedented achievements" has nothing of its own.

The reason why we "publicize" the achievements here is just for the sake of "publicity". For the Chinese people who have low self-confidence and whose self-esteem has been bullied, they really need all kinds of boosters.

, just like in newspapers, you can often see that the output of a certain product exceeds that of Japan and the UK in a certain month, or that the technology of a certain product far exceeds that of other countries and is the world's leading level. Although this is a fact, it is just that.

It's just for propaganda purposes, it's just to give people an image of a "powerful country."

Politics always penetrates into people's lives inadvertently, and all aspects are affected by politics. For Li Zicheng, who is eager to rebuild "national self-confidence", he is always good at using various means to inspire people's national self-confidence.

A sense of pride. To help citizens build self-confidence.

However, in the end, all of this must get back on track, and only by truly achieving the goal of becoming a powerful country, and to achieve this goal, we must achieve the localization of science and technology.

The localization of science and technology refers to the process by which developing countries accept advanced Western technology and are able to independently carry out scientific research and independently innovate technology. Countries that develop science and technology can only learn and introduce from advanced countries in science and technology at first. But science and technology

It must undergo localization transformation before it can become a practical technology rooted in the national culture.

Last year, based on this largest contiguous planting land and ** company's investment of 5 million yuan, the New Hope Company, especially the New Hope Agricultural Science and Technology Research Institute affiliated to the company, was established precisely to create a real

Breakthrough—Mastering China’s agricultural technology.

Compared with other technologies, among agricultural technologies, localized transformation is particularly important, because agricultural production has the most obvious regional, national and historical continuity. Only agricultural science that has undergone localized transformation and is closely integrated with local agricultural production can

Technology can be applied in production practice and become a theory to guide agricultural production and a new technology to improve the level of agricultural production.

In this, perhaps the largest agricultural science and technology research institution in the world, the income from hundreds of acres of cotton fields is enough to support the time-consuming agricultural technology, especially the research on improved varieties.

Rice breeding base.

On a June day, a good harvest should have been in sight, but at this time, beside the thousands of acres of fields of the rice breeding base, the workers of each base, and even the "engineers" of the Labor Corps who still stayed here,

, all looked at this breeding base with dull expressions.

Tears!

Tears kept falling from Yuan Songzhou's face. The rice in this breeding base embodies his two years of hard work. Two years ago, he began to add the local rice variety "Haitou" single ear from Dangtu, Anhui into the variety.

After two years of comparative testing, he sought to breed high-yielding pure rice. Originally, when the rice was heading, he was hopeful that the yield could be increased by more than 20%, but now, a withered and yellow rice field was a ruthless reminder.

He has a reality - the rice is finished!

"What's going on?"

Ding Ying jumped off the motorcycle and looked at the rice fields in front of her in surprise.

Like Hara Songzhou, he both studied agriculture in the United States. Although he also conducted breeding experiments, he was different from Hara Songzhou's blind breeding. The 06 Rice Experimental Field he presided over used Japan's plant selection method for rice breeding.

While the scale of breeding continued to expand, in order to explore the effectiveness of pure line breeding, they also conducted pure line separation experiments. In addition, he also conducted research on rice farming technology. He pointed out that China's rice has more indica and less japonica. When indica rice matures,

It is easy to lodging and it is difficult to pick single ears. The soil quality of Chinese rice fields is relatively uniform, and the number of repetitions is not as high as that of dry farming. The "plot transplanting method" was created to make up for Love's "pure line plant row method" breeding cycle.

The length and length are insufficient, and it adapts to the characteristics of transplanting technology of rice cultivation in China.

At this time, he was also stunned by the scene in front of him. He had never seen such a scene in the past. This was by no means a mature scene, and there were many places that were green, but... almost instinctive.

He went down to the rice field and opened a rice plant. Sure enough, he saw a few things that made his scalp numb - a few small insects.

"Gray planthopper!"

When he said these three words, Ding Ying's face was full of horror. As an agricultural expert, he was certainly aware of the damage caused by BPH to crops.

Bose planthoppers, belonging to the family Planthoppers of the order Homoptera, are mainly distributed in areas ranging from Hainan Island in the south to Heilongjiang in the north, Taiwan Province and the eastern coastal areas in the east, and Xinjiang in the west. The occurrence is more frequent in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and North China.

Many. Because the host is various lawn grasses and gramineous plants such as rice, wheat, corn, and barnyardgrass, it is very harmful to agriculture.

But the people who are most afraid of this little pest are rice, because the virus it spreads is fatal to rice.

Yuan Songzhou nodded, his face looking extremely gloomy.

“Rice stripe leaf blight!”

With tears on his face, when Yuan Songzhou said these words, he knew that all his hard work was over. Two years of hard work were ruined in one day. Even after this year, he would have to start over next year. Originally, he still had to start over.

It is planned that after this year's breeding, the planting scale can be expanded next year, so as to estimate the scale output, and even, if everything goes well, there is the possibility of large-scale promotion next year.

But now?

It's all over!

"Arrangements have been made to get kerosene!"

As if comforting a friend, Yuan Songzhou looked at Ding Ying apologetically. Now, we must stop the spread of BPH as soon as possible to prevent rice stripe leaf blight from spreading throughout the breeding base.

"All crops in base 05 and within 800 meters of the surrounding area will be burned. This should be able to prevent the spread of the disease!"

Just as he was talking, he saw two cars driving over, but the trucks were obviously not dragging kerosene, but people. They were wearing white jumpsuits, goggles and masks, and were carrying machinery such as spray pumps.

After they jumped out of the car, they did not spray alcohol and kerosene into the fields. Instead, they opened the small gasoline engine on the spray pump on their backs, and then walked along the edge of the fields carrying thick pipes.

"What do they seem to be smoking?"

Ding Ying looked at these people in surprise, what are they doing?

"Hey, are you..."

Just when Yuan Songzhou walked by and was about to ask for details, the leader gave him a document, a document signed by the director, requiring them to fully cooperate with their work.

"What are you going to do? The most important thing now is to burn all these lands to prevent..."

"Sorry, Professor Yuan, fever can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. We are going to cure the root cause now!"

With a smile on the face of the visitor, he called another staff member who came with him, then took out a glass bottle from under the suction pump on the man's back, wrapped it with gauze and sealed it. Yuan Songzhou, Ding Ying and others

Seeing that the glass bottle was full of BPH, it was obvious that the purpose of their coming here was this bottle of BPH.

"This is?"

"Test specimens, I forgot to explain to you. We are from a chemical company. Your company entrusted us to develop a new pesticide that can kill most pests. For pesticide testing, we need to collect various agricultural pests...

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The visitor explained his intention, but after a brief explanation, the two of them understood their intention of collecting BPH.

"Then I'll leave it to you. Other crops may not be so afraid of BPH, but if it exists in rice fields, it will definitely be infected with rice stripe leaf blight. If rice gets this disease, it will be reduced by at least 80%..."

"That's, that's what we are here for. You cultivate improved seeds for agriculture, and we develop pesticides for agriculture. You are fundamentally increasing production, and we are assisting. Your work is the most important.

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The people who came here still had smiles on their faces while flattering the two agricultural experts, and while they were talking, those people in white robes kept sucking glass bottles filled with bovine planthoppers into iron boxes.

Then the iron boxes were carefully loaded onto the truck. From the looks of them, it seemed that they had done this kind of work many times.

"Haha, if my two thousand acres of rice can allow you to develop a pesticide that kills bovine planthoppers, then my two years of hard work will not be in vain!"

Yuan Songzhou said with a smile, but the people here didn't seem to be interested in chatting with him. After a few simple polite words, he walked towards the other side. On the other side, there were already several experiments

The experimenters set up a simple test bench, and one of the experimenters was observing something with a microscope, all looking extremely focused.

"How about it?"

The only person not wearing a white robe, as soon as he walked up to the experimenters, he asked softly.

"Well, that's right, now it seems that they are all third-generation strains carrying bacteria..."

Their conversation did not attract anyone's attention. Of course, no one would notice them. More than an hour later, those people put on the spray pumps again and sprayed pungent water mist while walking around the fields.

, according to their explanation, this is a pesticide under testing...

Early in the morning, Wang Shaopu rode a somewhat worn-out Phoenix bicycle, ringing the bell from time to time and riding towards the outside of the city. The sun was shining on his back, and he only felt a hot sting, and even the dirt on the ground seemed to...

They were all so hot that they had a fever.

Wang Shaopu has long been accustomed to this. Now his face has completely lost the scholarly look he had when he first came to Baoding last year. His dark complexion makes it difficult to believe that he is the manager of Baoding Agricultural Company.

The Agricultural Company is a company established in Baoding City last year. It is a company that promotes improved seeds and agricultural technology. It underwrites wheat and naturally also provides grain loans to farmers. Because of this, in the past year, Wang Shaopu has almost been riding like this.

I rode my bicycle throughout half of Baoding Prefecture.

Compared with lending to farmers, the agricultural company's more important responsibility is to promote improved varieties. Last year, the improved varieties he promoted were black wheat, which some people said was "black wheat, black heart", although the appearance of black wheat, especially the

Whether it is making noodles or making steamed buns, the appearance of black wheat is not as good as that of red wheat. It is valuable for its high yield, but even though it is such a "black wheat and black heart", black wheat is still not popular. Otherwise, he would not have to work so hard.
To be continued...