African Nationhood

Chapter 282 Internal Affairs Meeting-Agriculture, Forestry and Animal Husbandry
  After Futong finished speaking, Tan Yaoxun from the agricultural department stood up to speak.

“From last year to now, the amount of farmland cultivated by the company has increased significantly. The previous cultivated area reached 185 million hectares, an increase of 18 hectares last year.

Among them, the proportion of state-owned and private farms has expanded, reaching 6.3:3.7.

65% of state-owned farms grow staple foods such as wheat, soybeans, corn and rice, and the rest grow cash crops such as cotton, coffee and tobacco.

Last year, the company harvested 4.9 tons of wheat, 3.9 tons of soybeans, 6.8 tons of corn, 1.9 tons of rice, 11 bales of cotton, 8 pounds of coffee beans, and 4.8 pounds of tobacco.

Pasture increased by 20 hectares, bringing the total to 300 million hectares.

The company's livestock inventory has increased significantly, including 82.9 cattle, 130.1 million sheep, and 49 horses.

This is because a large number of livestock, as well as food supplies were seized during last year's cleaning operation.

At present, the company has accumulated reserves of 99 tons of wheat, 289 million tons of corn, 49 tons of rice, 210 million tons of soybeans, and 590 million tons of dried sweet potatoes.

6.8 tons of dried salted sardines and sturgeons, 4 tons of dried beef and sheep meat, 18 pieces of cotton cloth, 41.5 pounds of tobacco, 1050 tons of white sugar, and 3000 tons of sucrose.

These materials have greatly enhanced the company's strategic reserves, and its ability to resist risks has been sharply enhanced! "

Hearing this, everyone in the meeting nodded frequently. The company's wealth is getting stronger and stronger.

With these supplies, we can indeed resist some unexpected attacks.

The company has been attaching great importance to hoarding supplies for so many years. Everyone listens to it every year and feels relieved every time.

Precisely because some of them have experienced hunger, they understand the importance of strategic reserves.

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“With the development of animal husbandry, the harmfulness of tsetse flies has gradually increased, which has attracted the attention of our animal husbandry department.
  We have set up a dedicated veterinary team to provide special protection against tsetse flies.

The company received news from surrounding areas that the recent rinderpest disease seems to be spreading. Our department has arranged dedicated personnel to promote and support farmers.

In addition, it is hoped that the company can strengthen the import and export management at the border, especially the cattle, sheep and horses from the two Boer countries, and do a good job in isolating them.

In addition, our agricultural department hopes to establish a special epidemic prevention and control department to strengthen livestock quarantine management in surrounding areas. "

Hearing what Tan Yaoxun said, Shi Jintang frowned.

"The prevention and control of tsetse flies cannot be completed overnight. I have entrusted the responsibility of this matter to the medical department. You do not need to set up an additional department. They will notify you of the results.

As for quarantine management, can your department be busy?

If we increase the number of civil servants, the company will not consider it for the time being.

At present, the company's civil servants are not well-off. You'd better find a solution on your own, or cooperate with the border defense department. "

Shi Jintang said this because the civil servant team of Nanhua Company has expanded to more than 4000 people, of which the center accounts for 65%, mainly concentrated in Anhai Town and Whale Bay.

The number of civil servants in local governments is relatively small. Although the benefits are better than those of central civil servants, life safety cannot be guaranteed.

There are a lot of complaints from civil servants in remote areas. Local officials often call for increasing the number of local civil servants in the "South China Newsletter". Shi Jintang has seen this many times.

At the current stage, when it comes to the establishment of civil servants, priority must be given to local governments, and the central government must strictly control the establishment quotas and not increase them unless necessary.

Hearing what Boss Shi said, Tan Yaoxun sighed.

"Okay, Mr. Shi, I understand.

So much about agriculture and animal husbandry, let’s talk about forestry issues next.

Since the company took over the two kingdoms, the scope of forestry was added to the powers of the agricultural department.

After more than four years of investigation, our department has now established general statistics on forestry under control. The forest land in Matabeleland Administration accounts for 85%, the forest land in Lunda Administration accounts for 93%, not to mention the 98% of forest land in East Africa Administration.

Judging from past experience in the Namib and Orange Grove regions, the proportion of forest land in these three regions is too high.

Therefore, I suggest that the company should cut down as much forest land as possible to increase the area of ​​cultivated land for immigrants. "

Shi Jintang agreed with Tan Yaoxun's words.

The more woodland there is, the more desolate it is, and the wilder the tsetse flies and malarial bugs.

Most of the most populous countries in later generations do not have a high proportion of forests. Currently, immigrants from the company have a three-year "white period" after arriving, which can be used to arrange for them to log trees and build houses.

In addition to cultivating farmland, the indigenous people of the East African Administration can also arrange to cut down trees and build houses.

"Well, please come up with a specific charter for this matter. After I review it, I will issue it to the three administrative offices and let them make arrangements as appropriate.

The commercial sector has logging factories, wood tar and other industries. Take a look and see if you can cooperate with them to promote forest felling in a planned way.

Do not cut down blindly. Excessive cutting may easily cause soil erosion. "

Tan Yaoxun nodded: "Okay, Mr. Shi, I understand.

Let me talk about the agriculture department and the Singapore Agricultural Park. They have developed three high-yield crop varieties, namely corn Huayu No. 3, wheat Xinmai 1 and soybean Fengdou 105 varieties.

Planting these three crop seeds can significantly increase the yield per mu by 10% to 15%. "

This news made Shi Jintang feel fresh. He didn't expect that the Agricultural Technical Institute would finally produce results, and there were three of them, which was not easy.

"Well, this matter deserves a lot of praise, and the relevant researchers should give some rewards and commendations.

Commissioner Ouyang, please catch up on this matter. "Nanhua News" will publish a special issue to give them some exposure opportunities and let the public know about them. "

Ouyang Geng stood up after hearing this, "Okay, Mr. Shi, I will follow up on this matter. I also have an idea here, please approve it."

Shi Jintang nodded, "Go ahead."

Ouyang Geng cleared his throat, "Our immigrant population has exceeded one million, and I think it's time for us to launch a newspaper.

We have been paying close attention to the issue of education for immigrants for several years. It is time to launch newspapers to enrich the cultural life of immigrants.

Although we have many opera programs and cultural activities, immigrants also need to know what is happening outside, so that they can know through comparison how good our lives are now. "

This question made Shi Jintang hesitate. Newspapers should be done, but when to do them and when to do them all need an opportunity.

Boss Shi wants to do it in a few years. After all, the current population base is still too small.

But when Ouyang Geng raised it, it represented the thoughts of some officials.

"Well, does your cultural department have any ideas about the newspaper? If so, please take this opportunity to talk about it.

By the way, Director Tan, have you finished speaking? "

Tan Yaoxun nodded, "I've finished speaking. Commissioner Ouyang, please continue."

Ouyang Geng took out a large sheet directly from the table and posted it directly on the wall of the conference room. "The newspaper our cultural department plans to launch is called "South China Daily"."

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