Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 376 Sea Rice

Two cars drove crookedly into Hutoupo Village, Suixi County, Zhanjiang, Guangdong. Although it is located on the coast, the economy is relatively backward, so the various infrastructures are not perfect. After the car stopped, Lin Weimin got out of the car quickly , crouched on the ground and vomited for a long time, the journey had ruined him.

After drinking a bottle of mineral water, the driver also asked where Chen Risheng's professional planting cooperative was, so Lin Weimin got back into the car and continued walking towards the sea, bypassing a mangrove forest. In the tidal flats by the sea, he was stunned by this scene. He knew very well that the tidal flats by the sea had a very high salt content, so rice could not be grown logically, so what happened?

"Who are you looking for?" A man in his 40s and [-]s, with a square face, gray hair, and glasses, came out of the simple house next to the rice field and asked them.

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Chen Risheng Chen?" Lin Weimin hurried over, "I'm Lin Weimin, we talked on the phone, and I'm here to learn from you!"

"Oh, Xiao Lin, hello, hello!" Chen Risheng remembered, and walked over quickly, two pairs of big rough hands tightly clenched together, the moment the hands just touched, they both looked at each other and smiled. They are engaged in breeding, "Welcome to Hutoupo, it goes without saying to learn from the classics, let's learn together and make progress together!"

After coming to the room and sitting down, Lin Weimin looked at the surrounding environment and couldn't help sighing, "Mr. Chen, the conditions here are too difficult, right?"

"Compared to the previous years, it is much better. It was just a shack at the beginning, but now there are permanent rooms, research rooms, breeding rooms, kitchens and bathrooms. It is good enough!" Chen Risheng said to this place. But it was as sweet as it was, and it didn't feel difficult at all.

"Come here this time, our Director Li specially asked me to bring you some things on behalf of Huinong, and bring them in!" Lin Weimin greeted, and the accompanying Huinong staff began to unload the goods from the car, and Lin Weimin gave them the same. He introduced, "These are two latest models of computers with special rice breeding software installed in them. This is what Mr. Yuan is using now, but there may be differences between seawater rice and high-yield hybrid rice. If you find any problems, you can communicate with us at any time, and we will arrange professionals to modify it.”

"This is a PCR instrument for gene sequencing. This is a device that automatically detects rice phenotypic parameters. It can measure rice plant height, included angle, stem diameter, rice panicle number per mu, theoretical yield, rice panicle number, a/ The number and length of secondary branches, the number of grains on each branch, the density of grains, the length of ears, the total number of grains, and the weight of thousand grains. Image, while obtaining the weight of the seeds, calculate the number of the tested seeds, according to the number and weight of the measured seeds, you can quickly obtain the thousand-grain weight, average length, width and other information of the seeds.”

When Chen Risheng saw these devices, his eyes lit up. Some of them were things he had been looking forward to for a long time but had no money to buy, and some of them were things he didn't even dare to think about. Finally, Lin Weimin took out a check from his bag, " Oh, by the way, here is a check of 20 yuan, which is given to you by Huinong, of which 5 yuan will be given to you personally to help you improve your life, and the remaining 15 yuan will be used for sea rice research!"

"Too much, too much! I can't take this money!" Chen Risheng waved his hands repeatedly. Lin Weimin told him on the phone before that he would donate some supplies and money, but he never expected it would be so much.

"We, Mr. Li, have inquired about your situation with Mr. Yuan before. We know that the conditions here are relatively difficult, so we prepared these. You must not refuse. With these equipment and funds, your research progress will definitely be accelerated a lot. , This is also for our sea rice!" Lin Weimin handed over the check again.

Before getting the support of Mr. Yuan, Chen Risheng basically did it alone. Without the land allocated by his superiors, he rented several hundred acres of tidal flats from Hutoupo Village. Without funds, he found a way by himself, because the investment in breeding was very large. Chen Risheng tried his best to raise money. He sold sugar cane and pepper, planted trees and raised fish in Guilin, and even participated in road repairs and construction.

Li Lei didn't want an excellent breeding expert to waste his energy on these things, so he asked Lin Weimin to bring money, "If you need it, we Huinong are willing to cooperate with you and provide you with equipment and funds. So you can focus on your research."

Lin Weimin began to tell him the specific ways of cooperation, "Hui Nong and Mr. Li Denghai have cooperated in the Denghai Seed Industry, and we have also cooperated with Yuan Lao's Hybrid Rice Research Institute. The cooperation methods are different. They are relatively abundant, so they donate some equipment and provide them with free chemical fertilizers and pesticides for trial use; Mr. Li is a shareholder, providing equipment and funds for Mr. Li, and the seeds cultivated are owned by Denghai Seed Industry. We benefit farmers You can also get some returns by selling seeds; your situation here is similar to that of Mr. Li, and you can also set up a company like Mr. Li. We will provide money and equipment, and you will provide technology. When the time comes, we will research and promote sea rice together. "

"Of course, these equipment and money are given to you now. Even if you don't cooperate with us, we will not take them back! These are just Huinong's thanks to you and our sincerity! If we are sure that we can cooperate, we will Director Li said that the annual research funding should not be less than 200 million, and more can be added if necessary!" This figure is not small for Chen Risheng today.

Because the scale of his research is not large now, BJ Fucheng Group and Chen Risheng will only give him 100 million when they cooperate with Chen Risheng in the future. Now, 200 million is given to him every year, which is enough for his expenses in the next few years. If the sea rice project continues in the future Make it bigger, just increase the funds when the time comes.

"If we cooperate, then who will own the seeds?" Chen Risheng was tempted. He now has a headache every year about the source of breeding funds. If he can have a big backer like Huinong, his future research work will undoubtedly benefit It's much easier, but his ideal is to promote sea rice as widely as possible in the country, so he must have a say in this aspect, otherwise he would have promised those foreign companies to go abroad and earn a high salary to live his own life. It's time.

"You can rest assured on this point. We Huinong and your goal are the same. We both want to use the large area of ​​saline-alkali land in the country, so we will not do things like killing chickens to extract eggs; if you are worried, you can go with us Take a visit to Denghai Seed Industry, learn about the operation situation there, and then make a decision!" Lin Weimin said with a smile, Huinong's team had already guessed Chen Risheng's concerns, and also thought of countermeasures, "If the country pays attention to it in the future Based on your research, we can continue to cooperate with the country and let the country take the lead in the promotion of sea rice!"

This does not affect the interests of Huinong, and the country cannot control everything. At most, it is to improve the status of the Sea Rice Research Center and use administrative means to get more research institutions to participate in this matter, but the cultivation of seeds and Sales still need to be handed over to the enterprise, just like Longping High-Tech. At that time, the big deal is to give up some shares to the state, and Huinong can still make money.

"Don't rush to make a decision on this matter. I came here this time mainly to learn from you the experience of cultivating salt-alkali-tolerant crops. These are just incidental things. Other people will come to discuss with you at that time. You can think about it slowly. !” Lin Weimin said, Chen Risheng did not refuse this time and took the check, but judging by his expression, the money will definitely be used for breeding, and the 5 yuan for improving life is also the same.

The two chatted for a while, and Lin Weimin naturally asked about sea rice. Chen Risheng took him to the rice field and introduced his experience of studying sea rice, "It happened in November 86. At that time, I had just graduated from Zhanjiang Agricultural College, and I came to the beach here with my teacher, Professor Luo Wenlie, to conduct a census of mangrove resources; when I passed a dense reed field, I suddenly saw a tree about 11 meters high, which looked like It looks like a reed plant, except that this plant also produces blue-white spikes, which look just like rice, but where is the rice that blooms, bears fruit, and heads at the same time, and the grains have thorns?"

"I was very curious at the time, so I called the teacher over. The teacher was very excited and said that this should be a kind of wild rice that grows in saline-alkali soil. It may be a new species. He asked me to collect the seeds quickly and go back to try to cultivate them. I Quickly took out the tools and collected 522 seeds. Later, it was found that the rice produced by this kind of rice is red, and there are similar crops in some places, called Changmao Valley. It is possible to grow rice in tidal flats!"

"Sea rice has great advantages. First of all, it can grow on the tidal flats by the sea. It has a short growth period and does not require fertilization. It can kill insects and weeds by relying on high tide seawater; but it also has disadvantages, because it grows on saline-alkali land. With the ebb and flow of the tide and typhoons in coastal areas, sea rice is often blown into the water, and the seeds will be eaten by sea fish, so it is more difficult to cultivate."

"It took me five years just to select the species. In 87, I planted 400 strains of seawater rice, and selected 51 excellent single plants from them. In 88, I selected 51 strains from these 15 strains. It was not until 1991 that there was a finalized strain. I named this rice 'Haidao 86' according to the time of discovery; and then established a cooperative in Hutoupo Village to continue cultivating new varieties while cultivating new varieties. The farmers around the professor planted sea rice. At first, no one was willing to come here. I managed to get [-] villagers to join. After the harvest, the number of people who came gradually increased, but the corresponding cost also increased. , Although I have thought of some ways to make money, but it is still a drop in the bucket, now that Hui Nong is here, I finally see hope!"

Chen Risheng finally relented. He knew very well that the large-scale promotion of any new crop would require a huge amount of funds, and he alone could not complete it. However, the appearance of Huinong just filled this gap, with ample resources. With the funds, he can recruit manpower and expand the planting area.

"By the way, there is another advantage of planting seawater rice. According to my statistical comparison of data collected over the years, the soil salinity structure in these saline-alkali lands where seawater rice has been planted in front of me will change every year, and it is a good change. If we can continue to maintain With this trend, in a few years, this piece of land will be able to grow ordinary rice!" Chen Risheng bent down and dug out a piece of soil to show Lin Weimin.

"Hey, there is a flaw now. The taste of sea rice is relatively poor, and not many people are willing to buy it. In the future, large-scale planting may have a good harvest but it may not be sold!"

"This can actually be solved. The taste of Yuan Lao's hybrid rice is far inferior to that of Northeast rice, but it is a success if it can be grown. Even if it can't be cooked directly, it can be sold to food processing factories as industrial raw materials to make rice cakes." , rice noodles and other food for sale!" Lin Weimin comforted, many people said that they had never eaten Yuan Lao's hybrid rice, but it was a bit early to say that, many snacks use hybrid rice.

"Huinong has our own food processing factory. As long as the rice can pass the inspection of the food factory, you don't have to worry about the market, we can digest it internally!" Even if the price is lower, it doesn't matter, because these rice It was originally an extra income, and the common people did not expect to grow crops in this place before.

"I have a lot of samples here, you can take them for inspection." Chen Risheng said quickly, because the taste is not good and can't be sold, so he has accumulated a lot of inventory here, and it would be great if he could sell them.

"I can send someone to a food processing factory in Guangzhou for inspection right now! If there is a result, you will get good news in a few days!" Lin Weimin called someone over and asked him to bring samples to Guangzhou, while he stayed Learn from Chen Risheng's experience in breeding seawater crops.

A few days later, the food factory completed the inspection and told them the good news that 64% of the nutrients in seawater rice are higher than that of ordinary polished white rice, and it is also rich in various trace elements and dietary fiber. In this case, it can be directly used as raw materials for food processing It would be too wasteful.

In addition to the report, the visitor also brought Huinong's solution, "Huinong also has its own rice processing factory, which has many rice brands. According to our investigation, we found that consumers are not only concerned about rice. The taste is more and more important to nutrition!"

"So we propose to set up a new brand specifically for seawater rice, focusing on the high-end market, and packaging this kind of rice into high-end nutritious rice, so that the purchase price of seawater rice will even exceed that of ordinary rice!"

This good news made Chen Risheng very happy.

(End of this chapter)