Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 306 Preliminary Work
The income from the contracted land is directly linked to the area. Calculated based on the income from the contracted land in XJ in the future, the annual income of contracting 20 mu of land to grow cotton is about [-] yuan, and food and clothing are no problem; It can be quite moist; if you contract tens of thousands of acres of land, then you are a big local tyrant, and you are not necessarily worse than those who have mines at home.

This also reflects a problem from the side, that is, if you want to make money through agriculture, you must master a large area of ​​land. If it is the same as in the Central Plains Province, each family has less than ten acres of land, no matter how hard you work and how to find a way Can't make money.

The Eighth Agricultural Division is now leasing thousands of hectares of land to Li Lei. At first glance, it seems that it is not as good as the hundreds of thousands of hectares of the Ivolga Farm. It is also convenient; more importantly, this is just the beginning. XJ has a large area of ​​land that urgently needs to be cultivated by hand. If I take good care of these thousands of hectares of land, do I still need to worry about finding land parcels in the future?

"Enough is enough. I just started working together. I can't handle too much at once! Where are our thousands of hectares of land? Are there any requirements for land lease?" Li Lei asked, how is the contract fee calculated?Can I choose the species to plant, and how to solve the problems of water supply and power supply?These must be explained clearly, but judging from what they mean, there shouldn't be any problems.

"Hey, as far as the current situation is concerned, the most important thing for us is to complete the production plan of the superior, so the contract fee should be paid in the form of physical agricultural products such as cotton, wheat, and corn! The payment ratio is based on the group farm. How many hectares do you rent? As long as you pay for the land, the rest is yours!" Luo Wenhua and the others are most concerned about how to complete the tasks assigned by their superiors to the regiment field, and they don't even think about making money from Li Lei.

"Water and electricity are also easy to talk about. We pull the electricity to the ground. If you want to pull it in, you can pull the wire by yourself. The electricity fee standard is the same as that of the regiment. For water, we also help to lead it to the ground. There are ditches in the ground. , it’s just that it has been abandoned for a long time, and you may need to repair it; in addition, if you want to dig the well yourself, we will send people, and you will pay for the materials.” In order to make Li Lei agree, the conditions in all aspects are very loose .

"This won't work!" Li Lei shook his head quickly after hearing this, and the hearts of several leaders immediately rose to their throats. Isn't the discount not enough?This is already the most lenient condition we can give. Fortunately, Li Lei immediately let them relax when he said next, "Your conditions are too lenient, and the contract fee must be paid. It is inappropriate not to pay it. How much to pay, I don't know much about our situation here, how about you give me some advice?"

"No, no, no, no! Li Dong, to be honest, you have helped us a lot by helping us plant these lands. How can we ask you for money again? And you have to pay for food, Pay the cotton? This is the contracting fee!" Several leaders waved their hands again and again, no wonder those old comrades said that dealing with Li Dong was comfortable, seeing his attitude, listening to him made him feel at ease.

"Whatever you want, what you want, these grains and cotton should have been paid, the imperial grain tax! No matter who comes to plant the land, you have to pay; if your land is usable, if you don't have any indication, then I will be too unkind! Spread the word Others are laughing at me!" Seeing that they refused to ask for a price, Li Lei had no choice but to test the price himself, "That's better, I will divide the contract fee into two parts, and one part will be paid in kind. In addition to paying an extra part, so that if our teacher has other team fields that cannot be handed in, we can also use this part to offset the tasks assigned by the superior; the other part is paid in cash, and our teacher must have places where money is needed , I have some living money in my hand, and it will be easier for you guys to do things!"

"Mr. Li, you are so serious. We don't know what to say!" Li Lei's two solutions just solved the problem that bothers them the most. Every year when they hand in the task, they have to find a way to move around. Xicou, now that I suddenly have a large amount of mobile supplies, I can save some hair loss; and cash is even more precious. Why don’t you need money to buy machinery, fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides?It would be a lot easier to get an extra sum of money, so the leaders were very grateful to Li Lei.

"As long as the policy allows, I also want to cooperate with our Eighth Agricultural Division for a long time. Since it is a cooperation, I can't take advantage of it. Everyone can get benefits!" If Li Lei only wants to make quick money, then naturally How to take advantage of it, but agriculture has always been an industry that takes a certain amount of time to see benefits. Among other things, it will take one or two years to organize the thousands of hectares of land right now, so it has to be dealt with from the beginning. Good relationship, if you just think about taking advantage and leave a pimple in people's hearts, and after a few years when people stop cooperating with you, wouldn't these initial investments be in vain?

"It's still the same sentence, you have helped us a lot by coming to help plant the land!" Luo Wenhua and the others wanted to continue to be polite, but Li Lei was unmoved. Now they really think so, and they can't find a human race. The land can only be left uncultivated. At this time, Li Lei is willing to help them plant the land. He is naturally happy, but when the situation changes in a few years, they will not think so. Cheap, so might as well make things prettier in the first place.

"It's already September, and we're about to start planting winter wheat. If we continue to delay this way, time will be delayed! This year, we will do as I said. Let's sign the contract first. After signing the contract, I will ask the company to send money. By the way Send over the materials mentioned earlier, and plant this batch of winter wheat quickly, or this year’s task will not be completed again!” Li Lei urged, and the winter wheat sowing along the Tianshan Mountains in northern Xinjiang (Wusu-Shihezi-Qitai) The period is from September 9th to October 15st. Although Shihezi is a bit later, it must be completed by the end of September at the latest. They really don't have this time to delay.

"Since this is the case, let's change it here and extend the contract time for a few years, so that Director Li can feel at ease when he invests!" Luo Wenhua and others discussed it and chose this way to express their gratitude. To me, the first few years are always the most difficult, because it takes time to turn raw land into mature land suitable for cultivation. The time for contracting the land is too short, and it will be cheaper for others if the raw land is taken back as soon as it becomes mature. Now they are willing If the time is extended, Li Lei will have more time to cultivate the cultivated land, and the profit will be higher.

"Then thank you all! Let's have a happy cooperation!" This is what Li Lei was eager to do, so he immediately agreed. But when you have to choose to adjust the contracted land every year, everyone has no intention to nourish the land?Li Lei couldn't figure it out.

Then they took Li Lei to the site to look at the land. The land in front of them was endless, and everywhere they could see was flat, and the main channel in the irrigation ditch area had been built, which was very suitable for industrial production of large machinery. It was a little regrettable. The only thing is that the windbreaks between the lands are seriously damaged, and the branch irrigation ditches that reach the edge of the land are also very dilapidated and need to be refurbished. Moreover, judging from the situation in the land, there are already some signs of salinization, which must be properly adjusted just work.

"It's too late to make big moves this year. We should hurry up to complete the task of planting wheat first, and quickly plant rapeseed for half a year in saline-alkaline land. Next year, we will wait for the rapeseed to be harvested before thinking of other ways." Shihezi is severely cold in winter, hot and dry in summer. Less rain, large evaporation, deep groundwater and slow runoff can easily lead to salt accumulation greater than discharge, which can lead to soil salinization, but this problem is not insurmountable, and growing rapeseed is one of the ways to use these lands.

Rapeseed has the advantages of low cost, low temperature resistance, fast growth, large growth volume, and high coverage. It can be used as green manure (or used as feed for returning to the field), can quickly increase the content of soil organic matter, and can be used for multiple functions. Combining agriculture and animal husbandry to develop circular agriculture , While improving the saline-alkali land, there are economic benefits. Therefore, many places in XJ later generations chose to plant rapeseed to alleviate the problem of land salinization. At the same time, it can also develop tourism and beekeeping, which can serve multiple purposes.

In the end, the Eighth Agricultural Division leased more than 5000 hectares of land to Li Lei this time. These lands are all concentrated in one place, about five kilometers wide and ten kilometers long, which is very suitable for large-scale industrial planting.

After signing the contract, Li Lei paid them the same day, and at the same time quickly mobilized manpower to plant rapeseed and wheat before the end of the season; the problem with the machines was not difficult to solve, as there were many large-scale plants in the division before. Machinery, but in recent years the land has been divided into too small pieces to be used. Li Lei called Wu Shunchang and the others from Heyang, and they simply learned how to drive a tractor to reclaim the land and then sow seeds.

"How come no one grows such a good land? If it were in Weijin, it wouldn't be uncommon for people to be killed in order to grab these stretches of land!" The mikes from these inland densely populated provinces couldn't understand this at all. In reality, there are flat lands that are connected and irrigated by canals. This is a precious property that many farmers dream of!Why is there no one to breed?

"If you are interested, you can pay more attention. The policy has not been relaxed in the past few years, and it is not easy for you to rent land. No problem, and you can come here easily with machine farming! Oh, by the way, if you still only want to engage in mechanical farming and harvesting teams, the business here is also easy! The land area is large, and running with machines is more refreshing than in Central Plains! "Meeting this kind of young people who are willing to make progress, Li Lei doesn't mind mentioning them occasionally.

"It's much more refreshing. You don't have to turn around when you drive for more than ten kilometers in one breath. Unlike in Heyang, you have to turn around for a hundred meters. After a day, you just turn around on the palm-sized land and turn your head. I'm dizzy! And this big machine is fun to drive, boss, when will we get some big ones?" Wu Shunchang is a bit fond of the new and dislikes the old, as soon as he drove the big machine, he began to dislike the little guy who was once regarded as a baby.

"Large machinery is good, but it can't be used in the mouth. Each family has such a large piece of land. If you drive such a big machine over, it will plow into another family's field after a little movement! So in the short term, time The wind is still dominated by small and medium-sized agricultural machinery. For large-scale machinery, at most it is to make some technical reserves. If it is really used, it depends on when the policies in the Northwest and Northeast will be released!" Large-scale agricultural machinery is also in Li Lei's plan. Among them, it's just that the current situation is not suitable for large-scale start.

"Shunchang, it's too late this year. Next year, you can bring people over early, pick cotton first, and then help plant the land. You can be busy from September to the end of October in one go, but it's too tiring!" He Yang is the busiest It is the summer season, and September and October are the busiest here. Since cotton is harvested and the land has to be planted, it is impossible to keep busy with just a few scattered people in the local area, so every time this time comes, there are many people From Mouth to XJ, earn this hard-earned money.

Picking cotton is hard work. First of all, the leaves and branches of cotton are dry and easy to scratch hands. No matter how skilled the cotton picker is, after a season of hard work, the hands are full of scars. Secondly, the cotton is short to the ankle, and the tall one is on the thigh. In order to pick cotton, people have to bend down and lift their waists, and sometimes they even have to lie on the ground. After a day, the waist is not their own. In addition, XJ has a large temperature difference between day and night, cold in the morning and evening, and hot at noon. It's even harder, so many students who came out of XJ have sour faces when they talk about the experience of helping to pick cotton.

However, although this work is hard, it also earns money. Later generations go to XJ to pick cotton for 2 yuan per kilogram. Some skilled workers can earn more than 10 yuan in one picking season; it is certainly not so high now, but they can earn thousands of yuan. , so every cotton picking season, tens of thousands of people go to Xinjiang from Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan and other places to earn money. When it is busy, the Ministry of Railways will even open temporary special trains.

Far away, picking cotton is next year's business. The most important thing right now is to tidy up the land. There is still a lot of preliminary work to be done!
Fortunately, Li Lei had worked on the Ivolga Farm before, and he had all the experience and manpower in this field. He first asked Jiang Shuangcheng to transfer a group of managers from the Ivolga Farm. Most of these people were retired workers from various farms. Now it is natural and skillful to return to work in the group field.

They took the workers temporarily recruited by Huinong and started replanting windbreaks, repairing ditches, erecting poles to pull wires, and constructing workers' dormitories. The bustling bustle all day was in stark contrast to the lifeless regiment field.

These tasks take a long time, and it is impossible for Li Lei to watch here every day, so he left after the work here was on the right track.

　Continue to code, and hope that the next chapter can catch up with the normal time.

　　
　
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