African Nationhood

Chapter 562 State Council-Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

“As for the Rhodesian Company, we have currently filled 30 immigrants, mainly in the Nampula region and the Lake Malawi region.

Next, we plan to continue to invest in immigration in this area, and strive to invest another 1918 to 200 million people in immigration before 300.

The coastal areas of the Rhodesia Company and the Tanganyika Great Lakes area are relatively fertile lands, and planting and freshwater fishing should be vigorously developed.

As for the transportation of immigrants from the West African Administrative Office to the West African Administrative Office, ocean shipping is not very economical and is far less convenient and fast than the East African coast.

Moreover, there are great hidden dangers in the Skeleton Coast area, so we recommend that we try to open up land transportation for immigration. "

Hearing this, Shi Jintang was convinced, "Minister Futong's suggestion is very good. Minister Liszt of the Ministry of Transport should also have made transportation planning. Let's hear what he has to say later."

Futong nodded, "Okay, Chairman, I'm done with my speech."

Ouyang Geng waited for Futong to leave the podium. He looked at Tan Yaoxun and said, "Minister Tan, please talk about the situation in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery."

Tan Yaoxun stood up and walked to the podium, cleared his throat, and leaned in front of the microphone to speak: "Dear Chairman Shi Jintang and Prime Minister Ouyang Geng, let me report on the performance of the domestic agricultural sector in the past five years.

The current domestic annual wheat output is 1280.4 million tons, the annual soybean output is 1312.3 million tons, the annual rice output is 725.2 million tons, and the annual cotton output is 800 million bales.

The annual output of coffee beans is 651 million pounds, the annual output of tobacco is 378 million pounds, the annual output of sisal is 3.2 tons, the annual output of sucrose is 4600 tons, and the annual output of white sugar is 2019 tons.

The amount of domestic farmland cultivated has increased significantly, reaching a total of 3100 million hectares, and the number of pastures has reached 2995 million hectares.

The number of registered employees on state-owned farms has reached 1609 million. These prime-age laborers have greatly accelerated the development of agriculture and animal husbandry on state-owned farms.

There are currently 16188 state-owned farm vehicles and 14108 diesel tractors. With the help of these agricultural machinery, our planting capacity has been rapidly improved.

There are more than 14210 agricultural machinery in the hands of farmers, mainly cars, and the share of diesel tractors is still very low.

Here we would like to thank the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Their diesel machinery factory has been cooperating with our agricultural department to improve tractor tires and plowshares.

We finally solved the problem of tractor tires after several years of research.

Our R&D personnel found during actual use that the tractor's driving performance on soft ground is better when the tires are under-inflated than when they are fully inflated.

So our R&D personnel asked workers from the tire factory to help produce a large-sized, high-pattern, low-pressure pneumatic rubber tire.

This tire has been tested and proven to significantly improve the driving and traction performance of wheeled tractors.

Nowadays, our new diesel tractors can not only plow fields with high horsepower, but also drive quickly on the road.

We have applied for a patent and believe that in the near future, our tractors will be able to go abroad and contribute to the country's foreign trade exports.

With the new tractors, farmers are greatly more motivated to buy agricultural machinery. At the same time, we are also vigorously developing agricultural vehicles.

However, the large-scale development of agricultural machinery requires the use of more rubber, and our rubber production is not sufficient. Our department is considering increasing rubber planting in the Falklands, East India Administration and Lunda Administration.

The annual rubber output of the plantations in Sumatra is far less than the local demand. We hope that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will increase its control over rubber and try not to export it to other countries. "

Since Sumatra was handed over to Indian immigrants, Zheng Ming spent more of his energy on controlling the black workers there.

In order to make more profits, Indian managers adopt the strategy of selling to whomever offers the highest price.

Therefore, the British and the French often competed in Sumatra, and the local needs were ignored by the Indians.

"Well, Minister Tan's suggestion is very good. Minister Wang should pay attention to strengthening control in this area, and economic benefits must give way to local demand."

Wang Zhongyi stood up and nodded: "Okay, Chairman, I will tighten the control over the Indians and won't let them be too presumptuous."

Tan Yaoxun nodded and continued: "Because our land is surrounded by oceans, fishery production has always been our top priority and is also an important supplement to the national diet.

Just because of the bottleneck of preservation technology, the development of our coastal fishing industry is not large, and the number of employees in fishery production has also been low. Currently, there are 25.9 fishery employees in the country, and the annual fishing volume ranges from 80 tons to 100 million tons. The main catches are lobster, sardines, squid, tuna, trout, and sturgeon.

Most of the products obtained from the fishery are pickled fish, and we are also trying to grind dried fish into fish meal for use as feed.

Fishing products have always been an important commodity that we export in exchange for immigrants.

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The growth of the national treasury's material reserves has accelerated. Currently, there are 4450 million tons of wheat reserves, 2845 million tons of corn, 1188 million tons of rice, 2126 million tons of soybeans, and 2917 million tons of dried sweet potatoes.

44.3 tons of dried sardines and sturgeons, 56.6 tons of beef and sheep bacon, 512 million pieces of cotton, 391.5 million pounds of tobacco, 9138 tons of sugar, 1.8 tons of sucrose, and 5.1 tons of salt.

In addition, the number of cattle, sheep, and horses in state-owned pastures has also increased significantly, including 4001.1 million sheep, 571 million cattle, 292 million horses, and 350 million pigs.

There are 1302 million sheep, 302 million cattle, 41.2 horses and 55.1 pigs raised by the private sector.

From these data, it can be seen that with the popularity of agricultural machinery, the number of horses has declined rapidly, and people's recognition of agricultural machinery is also increasing.

After all, machinery only needs to be refueled to work well, while livestock require extra care, which consumes more energy and is gradually declining in cost performance.

At the same time, people are becoming more and more inclined to raise pigs. When immigrants first arrived, they were satisfied with meat.

However, with the improvement of living conditions and the increase in grain storage rate, the scale of pig breeding has expanded.

People are becoming less and less willing to eat game, and they are more inclined to eat traditional livestock meat such as cows, sheep, and pigs.

After our department noticed this trend, we began to increase the number of pigs raised.

At the same time, the demand for bacon products from pigs in Europe is also increasing. We will increase the number of pigs raised in the future and strive to significantly increase the export value of pig products. "

Tan Yaoxun's sense of smell is still relatively sensitive. He has an early insight into domestic and international consumption changes and adjusts the direction in a timely manner. Such an official is very rare.

“Well, the agricultural department is observing very carefully, and your adjustments are correct.

We should also make annual plans for hunting wild animals to effectively control the number of wild animals.

We can neither allow their disorderly expansion to endanger our agricultural and animal husbandry production, nor allow them to become extinct due to too small a population.

I think we should guide the people to form a concept of 'sustainable development' and avoid unscrupulous killing and reclamation.

For example, the number of elephants in our territory is very large. A certain number of elephants are killed every year to obtain ivory for export, and the rest are used as the base for population reproduction.

Your agriculture and animal husbandry department should plan this matter in advance, not only for elephants, but also for antelopes, hippos, crocodiles, lions, leopards, etc.

To control these animals, the general principle is sustainable development. It is not advisable to fish all the water at any time.

In addition, as the number of immigrants increases, a clear dividing line between humans and wild animals should be established early to prevent wild animals from colliding with human settlements and leave enough space for wild animals to move.

This kind of policy is called a 'wildlife protection policy'.

Because our population is still too small, we can enlarge the scope of wildlife reserves at this stage.

Human beings live in concentrated areas, and they only need to formulate corresponding policies and then influence the publicity in a subtle way.

Over time, citizens will be able to form a concept of sustainable development and at the same time establish a concept of living in harmony with wild animals. "

Hearing what Chairman Shi said, Tan Yaoxun immediately nodded, "Okay, Chairman, we will record your instructions and implement them one by one."

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