Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 411 A good start

In addition to participating in meetings to discuss issues related to food safety, Li Lei was also invited to participate in some other meetings related to agriculture, the most important of which was to provide opinions and suggestions for joining the WTO agricultural negotiation team. Li Lei is now the owner of the largest private agricultural group in China , exported its products to Europe, America and other countries many years ago, and now it has established several branches in Southeast Asia. Such an identity still has some influence.

When attending the meeting, Li Lei provided them with some valuable information based on his own experience. At the same time, he also learned about the difficulty of negotiations. The United States naturally hopes that China will fully open the agricultural market, because they are the world's largest agricultural market. Once the domestic agricultural market is fully opened, a powerful country and the largest grain exporter can quickly overwhelm domestic agriculture with cheap grain, thus achieving the effect of eliminating opponents without bloodshed.

Fortunately, the negotiators remained extremely vigilant and did not fully accept the demands of the United States. However, some concessions must be made. The general content includes agreeing to cut the import tax rate of agricultural products, gradually increase the import quotas of sensitive commodities, and impose restrictions on dairy products and fish. Reduce tariffs and taxes on vegetables, meat, etc.

Among them, there are two points that will have the greatest impact on the future. The country has held the bottom line in grain imports, and implemented a tariff quota system and a quasi-state monopoly system for grain imports, which prevented the possibility of foreign grains entering China indiscriminately; For the control of soybeans, it is promised to gradually cancel the tariff allocation and quasi-state monopoly of soybean oil, and only impose a 9% tariff on imports. Secondly, there will be no quota system for soybeans, and the tariff rate will be limited to the current 3%. The fiasco of the war.

Li Lei had to remind them, "Everyone, although from the current point of view, my country's soybean imports are still relatively small, and this year is expected to be only 300 million tons, but it should be noted that we were a soybean exporter in the past. The consumption of edible oil and meat and egg products will definitely increase exponentially, and the demand for soybeans will also rise in a straight line at that time! It is only a matter of time before the import volume of soybeans increases to 3000 million or 5000 million tons. It’s just a problem, if the tariffs are lowered to this level, the domestic soybean industry will inevitably face a severe impact from foreign soybeans!”

In response to this, the representatives present at the meeting had different reactions. Some people thought that Li Lei was worrying unfoundedly. Now that the country’s economic conditions are better and the foreign exchange reserves are a little more abundant, the annual purchase of 3000 million tons or 5000 million tons of soybeans still exceeds the Beyond their imagination, it is even more impossible for them to believe that China's annual soybean imports will even exceed [-] million tons in the future.

Others are very helpless. Even the current conditions are based on their arguments. China’s national strength is far from being comparable to that of later generations. China’s entry into the WTO is an urgent need for national development, so certain issues must be resolved. Make a concession, even if such a concession will lead to losses, you have to bite the bullet and agree, because if you do not agree, you will not be able to join the WTO, and the country will suffer even greater losses.

"There is no way. Now the country's strength is limited, and we can't take care of both jobs and oil tanks at the same time. In order to keep jobs, we can only open a hole in the oil tanks for foreigners!" said an expert who participated in the negotiations. Tariff quotas should be abolished. It is not just soybeans and soybean oil that are in line with the national monopoly system, but also sunflower seeds, peanut kernels, corn oil, etc., covering almost the vast majority of vegetable seeds that can produce edible oil.

"But what you said is also reasonable. In the future, our consumption of meat, eggs and edible oil will definitely continue to rise, and the problem of soybeans will become more and more prominent, so we will try our best to fight for it in the next negotiations and see if we can Get better conditions!" They can only say that they are fighting for it.

I really missed this matter, so after the matter in the capital came to an end, Li Lei immediately took a plane to the northeast, wanting to see if Lin Weimin and his soybean research institute have made any progress recently?
Lin Weimin knew his character, so he didn't engage in those fancy receptions, and began to report to Li Lei after he had a short rest. "Our work during this period is divided into two parts. The first is to use gene sequencing technology to screen domestic The wild soybean varieties, from which to find out the key genes that determine the high yield of soybeans, thanks to the help of Professor Gai, we have obtained many valuable wild soybean seeds, and have screened out a number of genes that may lead to high soybean yields. under study."

In this process, Li Lei also played a significant role. The information in his mind has records in this regard. Those high-yielding genes have been tested in practice, and what kind of soybeans these genes were found in Yes, Li Lei is very clear!Then, according to the results, they will work backwards to guide Lin Weimin and the others to carry out research and exploration in these directions, even if the efficiency is not high.

Determining these genes is decisive for improving breeding efficiency, because when you don’t know which genes can increase yield, you can only use conventional hybridization methods and try your luck by permutation and combination. Once determined, you can screen out a large number of invalid genes. According to the permutations and combinations, find out which ones have the highest success rate and put them into experiments. In this way, you can save a lot of money and precious time, shorten the research and development progress, and produce results as soon as possible.

"I saw an article before, and some of the views in it are very similar to the situation you are encountering now." Taking the opportunity of listening to the report, Li Lei began to secretly guide Lin Weimin and others to move quickly in the right direction. When they heard Li Lei speak, they immediately took out a pen and paper to record. The previous successes made them adapt to this way of working. After each meeting with the boss, their efficiency can be greatly improved. It seems that This time is no exception.

"Screening genes is a long-term work, and there will be no substantial benefits in the short term, but once a breakthrough is made, the next breeding work will be twice the result with half the effort! So everyone must be patient, let alone worry about funding, as long as you If there is a need, I will dial as much as I want!" Anyway, the little money I just earned from the Southeast Asian financial crisis has not been spent yet.

Because he has found a breakthrough, Lin Weimin seemed very excited, "Funds are indeed needed, but what is even more lacking is talents! Especially talents who can help with experiments, there are still too few available manpower!"

"Haha, that's no problem. You report your needs, and the company will help you recruit them, or if you can lure some more juniors to come over! As long as the ability is up to standard, the salary will definitely not be a problem!" Li Lei haha Responding with a smile, he also wished for more talents in the breeding center, the better!

"I plan to find some less critical things to publish a few papers, and at the same time advertise in the journals that publish the papers, so that the possibility of finding talents is higher!" Lin Weimin also has his own ideas.

"As long as the core issues are not involved, the papers that should be published must still be published! With a certain academic reputation, it will be much more convenient to do certain things in the future!" The company often does this too, and its technicians have published articles in journals and magazines related to animal and plant breeding, farming, agricultural machinery, and food industry. Huinong also encourages them to do so, because it will help expand the influence of Huinong and increase the benefits of Huinong. The success rate of recruiting talents.

Many senior talents value more than just remuneration. They are more eager to make some achievements in this industry, so they are more cautious in the choice of platform. Huinong can provide them with sufficient R&D funds and a relaxed R&D environment. It doesn't matter seniority when publishing articles, whoever should belong to them, so although the overall atmosphere is still more inclined to work within the system, Huinong can still recruit a lot of talents every year.

After these talents came to Huinong, they got more opportunities than most of the students in the system. Some of them successfully published articles in important journals early, and they were ahead of their classmates. These people lead the team back to their alma mater to recruit, and with their personal experience as a demonstration, the success rate is even higher.

Lin Weimin agreed cheerfully. It seemed that he even prepared the article, and then continued to report to Li Lei, "The second focus of work is the cultivation of saline-alkali resistant soybeans. This work has achieved good results so far. At first, thanks to the breakthrough of gene sequencing technology, we successfully found the key gene of soybean salt-alkali resistance. On this basis, we screened the existing soybean seeds, and then referred to what we learned from Mr. Chen Risheng Based on the experience of cultivating saline-alkali-resistant crops, various hybridization experiments were carried out, and finally several soybeans that can survive in a saline-alkali environment were found."

Li Lei stopped his report, "I saw it in your work report before, and this time I came here mainly for this matter. Since we want to talk about seeds, let's go to the experimental field and see the real thing!"

So a group of people came to the test field from the conference room. There are eye-catching signs on the heads of several test fields, which indicate the salinity degree data of the land. The growth of soybean seedlings in the test fields is different, and some are good. Some soybeans are almost no different from normal land, and some are worse, but it seems that there will still be a certain harvest, and it will definitely not be useless.

"The salt content of this test field is 0.3%, which belongs to mild saline-alkali land. There are large areas of saline-alkali land in Shandong, Hebei, Gansu, XJ and other places in this province, so once our experiment is successful, we will be able to create Huge economic benefits!" When Lin Weimin introduced, his hands were dancing and his face was full of excitement. These are the results of the hard work of him and his team.

"It has been harvested for one season in the test field in Hainan before. The final mature soybean plant height is 65.8 cm, with 15 main stems, 1.2 effective branches, 21.2 cm bottom pod height, 28.8 effective pods per plant, and 61.3 effective pods per plant. 16.4 grains, 24.7 grams per plant, 183 grams per hundred grains, round grains, yellow and dull seed coat, black hilum, yield over 42.58 kg per mu, which has exceeded the average yield per mu in many places! In addition, this The crude protein content of the seed soybean is 19.97%, and the crude fat content is [-]%, these two data are also much better than many large-scale planted soybean varieties!"

"Although the soybeans in the experimental field in front of you have not yet reached the harvest season, according to our monitoring results on plant height, root depth and other data, the growth of these soybeans is no worse than that of the Hainan experimental field. If you have the previous results, then you can try larger-scale planting experiments and experiments on disease and insect pest resistance!"

This kind of crop breeding work has to go through the process. After the small-area experiment is successful, it will be a larger-area planting experiment to determine whether the performance of this new type of seed is exactly the same as before after the expansion of the planting area. At the same time, anti-virus performance is also required. In terms of research, if this kind of seed has excellent performance in other properties, but its anti-virus performance is weak, and it is very easy to be infected with various common soybean diseases, then it cannot be directly put into use, because any disease will be enough. Let the common people lose their money.

If you encounter this situation, you can only continue to breed, improve the anti-virus performance of the variety, reduce the possibility of them being infected with the disease to the allowable range of large-scale agricultural planting, and then go on the market. It is used in specific disease-affected areas.

"In this case, you need to expand the area of ​​the experimental field. No wonder you have to recruit more people. It turns out that not only are you short of people who understand gene sequencing, but you also need someone to help expand the scale of the experiment!" Li Lei pondered for a moment, "In this case, we can't just Experiments have been carried out in Hainan and here, and if conditions permit, it is better to expand the planting area as much as possible, so that more data can be obtained as soon as possible.”

"I'll get someone to help coordinate. Wesfarmers should be interested in this project. We will pay and they will send people to find a few more saline-alkali lands in Shaanxi, XJ and other places for experiments; we also need Shandong. I can ask Mr. Li to help coordinate; I will tell the leaders of Wuchang at HLJ that they also have saline-alkali land.” Li Lei thought about it casually, and determined a number of test fields in different provinces and different climate environments, so that he could Test the adaptability of this new type of soybean to see if it can achieve good yields in different environments.

"Oh, by the way, there is also Mr. Chen in Guangxi. I also ask Mr. Chen to help find a suitable place. We will pay for the planting by ourselves. By the way, we can ask Mr. Chen to give us some advice!" Li Lei said. I have not forgotten that Chen Risheng, a famous expert in the cultivation of salt-alkali-tolerant crops, since Lin Weimin said his experience is useful, so let's learn more from him!

"For this project, don't publish articles for the time being, let's concentrate on doing things first! Of course, the company's internal rewards must be indispensable!" Li Lei reminded, now that the soybean war is getting closer and closer, and we have to give it as much as possible Ride more cards is.

　The situation is not too serious, but it is easy to get tired and weak, and it took a long time for this chapter to come out.

　　
　
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