Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian inquired about it, and it was true.In the 80s, the Chinese Academy of Sciences had already tried this sweet sorghum, or the plant whose full name is Yajin sorghum sugarcane.This kind of stuff is really a praise. It is drought-resistant, salt-alkali-alkaline and flood-resistant, and can be grown in a non-cultivated soil environment, and the straw and grain of this sweet sorghum can be solid-state fermentation together!

This amazing plant can be said to be a combination of sorghum and sugar cane - grain grows on the top and sugar cane grows on the bottom!After the plant grows, its basic height reaches 5 meters, which is two floors high!The stalks of four to five centimeters have a very high sugar content, comparable to sugar cane!And the most amazing thing is that for such a thing, the place of origin is China!

It can be said that such a thing, if it can be made into bioethanol, it is much better than corn!But why didn't China seem to make efforts in this area in the previous life?Moreover, Jia Hongjian made a general inquiry. There is a capital Sangliang company that has been improving the seeds of this sweet sorghum, and it seems that it has already reached No. 69 Yajin!Obviously a number is a newly developed seed code!If this thing is operated as a company, why is there no news yet?Haven't even heard of Jia Hongjian?

As a result, I continued to inquire and found out that this Sangliang company was established in the 60s. Needless to say, what kind of companies could be established in the capital at that time other than state-owned?In short, it is a company affiliated to relevant agricultural departments and research institutions such as the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.Such a company has long discovered that sweet sorghum is suitable for bioethanol.However, in the 80s, China's petroleum was still sufficient, and the price was super cheap, so there was no need to make ethanol into fuel at all, so Sangliang Company just "pre-researched" it.

In the 90s, although the Sangliang Company began to study supporting facilities and how to industrialize sweet sorghum into products, the focus of research was not ethanol. After all, leaded gasoline was cheap and messy back then!So what they researched were sweet sorghum sugar or sweet sorghum wine!However, if a series of bioethanol is to be put into production today, only American equipment can be purchased.And it can only handle corn.From this point of view, if you don't invest yourself to design and develop a set of equipment suitable for China, then obviously you can only rely on buying corn.

After inquiring about it, Jia Hongjian heard that Jiling Province in the northeast is now negotiating with the United States about a project introduction, mainly about introducing the project of fermenting corn from the United States into fuel ethanol.We're talking about sevens and eights now.It is estimated that in 2001, the construction of factory buildings can begin.From this point of view.It is true that the bioethanol project in this era has just begun, and it is because the country has raised the price of refined oil several times in the past six months that some people are interested in this!

Thinking of this, Jia Hongjian was really interested in this sweet sorghum.If only this sweet sorghum was so amazing.If seeds can grow on the top and the stalks below have such a high sugar content, it is true that at least this will not involve grabbing land or grain from others.However, on the other hand, if this thing does not rob people for land or food, how many places are there that are suitable for large-scale planting?If it is planted in a place like a barren mountain, it is not suitable for mechanized harvesting or something!Under such circumstances, there is no way to lower the unit cost as much as possible, right?

With this in mind, Jia Hongjian asked the people under the company to contact Sangliang Company and asked for some information from them.Looking at the results, Jia Hongjian was quite interested—compared to the current experimental fields in the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, corn seeds such as Yuyu 22, after careful cultivation of one mu of land, the summer growth period is about 104 days , and then the corn per mu can have a meal!However, the corn stalks are useless. They can either be returned to the field as fertilizer, or they can only be used as feed.

But this sweet sorghum is different. Take Yajin No. 69 as an example. In the experimental field in the capital area, the annual growth period ranges from 105 to 125 days, with an average plant height of 3.5 meters and a stalk length of 2.8 meters.Although the average grain yield per mu is only 350 kg, the straw yield reaches 5700 kg per mu, which means the overall biological output per mu exceeds 6000 kg, or six tons!Then the sugar content of this straw is about 20%, that is, 5700 kilograms of straw can produce more than one meal of sugar per mu through pressing!And it's the ultimate solid sugar!It's not syrup or something!So from this point of view, the total output value of sweet sorghum here is higher than that of corn?

And the most important thing is that this sweet corn can still grow north of the 400mm isohyet line!It can grow up to the 200mm isohyet!You must know that 200 mm of rainfall is the standard for arid areas!So this thing can be grown on the grasslands in the north, and it can be grown on those lands where there is no food except for the desert and the next door!Basically, except for the arid land in the Northwest, it can be planted in most parts of the country!At the same time, this thing is also resistant to pests and diseases!Looking at the row of characteristics on the technical data "drought tolerance, waterlogging tolerance, salt tolerance, lodging resistance, high yield, high sugar, high temperature tolerance, severe cold tolerance, and barrenness tolerance", the sweet sorghum produced per acre is a mess. Added together, 500 kilograms, or more than half a ton, of ethanol can be produced!And it's still 50% ethanol!If it is made into absolute ethanol, which is 99.5% concentration, it is almost 250 kilograms!That's a quarter ton!That is to say, one ton of anhydrous alcohol can be produced in three to four months on four acres of land at a time!

Didn’t later generations say that China’s arable land red line is 18 billion mu?If we only have 180 million mu of non-arable land to produce sweet sorghum, we can produce 45 tons of absolute ethanol in three to four months at a time!Even if it is produced twice a year, this is 90 tons!This plant can grow if the average ground temperature is above 10 degrees Celsius, and it can grow smoothly if the accumulated temperature of 10 degrees Celsius, that is, the total accumulated temperature is kept above 2600 degrees Celsius. This is in the southern part of Heilong Province, the northernmost part of China. There are five or six months in a year to grow!If you are quick, you can collect two stubbles!After this thing is pumped, the fastest growth rate is 10 centimeters per day!Ten centimeters a day!

It can be said that at this time, Jia Hongjian was really tempted!So he found the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mr. Luo, and Sangliang Company, and then he planned to work together to study a set of equipment assembly lines for the production of bioethanol.At the same time, after the development of this equipment, I plan to start talking with the governments of various northern regions to see if they can use the package purchase treatment to stimulate farmers to plant. If this is the case, Jia Hongjian is interested in putting one into production immediately. A factory with an annual output of 50 tons of absolute ethanol has come out!

Of course, if you invest in such a factory from the beginning, it is impossible to say that it will have an output of 50 tons immediately after it is put into production.After all, this thing still needs to be promoted, but what are we afraid of when we have alcohol?If it doesn't work, our alcohol can still be sold to the old man as vodka!Besides, it's not that Jia Hongjian doesn't have gas stations under his name, and he can also promote it through his own TV station and media at that time, and sell food through his own gas stations!What are you afraid of!It's not that he has no channels!

That's right, when many other people want to invest in such an industry, the biggest problem they face is that there is no sales channel.It may not be easy to sell people who beg grandpa to sue grandma everywhere, but Jia Hongjian is different.After he took advantage of the tide of reform and opening up, and took advantage of his greatest advantage as a reborn person, he accumulated wealth in an instant and became prosperous in an instant.When he has the first pot of gold, or even a series of stuff, he doesn't even need to ask someone to buy it if he wants to invest in new projects!He has his own sales channels and advertising channels!Even his family has the ability to produce small cars and sales channels!In the future, if he really wants to sell bio-ethanol gasoline, he can also set up a membership system. Anyone who buys his car will get a membership card, and then go to his gas station to refill this ethanol gasoline to give a discount!

In this way, his family has become a one-stop monopoly. From the beginning of planting, they have directly signed an underwriting contract with farmers, which is equivalent to reducing the cost by reducing the risk of farmers. After purchasing at a relatively low price, Then it will carry out production in its own factory, and after that, it can also carry out joint sales with its own products.From acquisition to manufacturing to sales, Jia Hongjian's business is one-stop, and the profits are huge!And there is nothing to be afraid of giving people a little discount in the sales link, because other links can still be profitable!

It can be said that such a monopoly is tantamount to the concept of "upstream and downstream industrial chain integration"!If they enter this industry now, they may be able to sell a large amount of bioethanol to the United States in ten years' time!Don't forget that the United States is still dominated by corn!With corn as the main product, there is still a risk of grabbing food and land from others!Even in the future, Jia Hongjian and the others are not unable to invest in Sangliang Company, and the two sides will work together to research new and more drought-resistant sweet sorghum. If it can still grow in arid areas, then can we go to Africa to promote it later? ?Isn't the biggest reason for the turmoil in Egypt is that they don't have enough food?And if we promote this kind of drought-resistant crops here, can't we make the best use of the waste wood land over there?At that time, the farmers over there will at least be able to make more money, and the country will also be able to make more money, so that they can get more food and they will not be in turmoil?Even Jia Hongjian and the others can set up a factory in Egypt, process it directly into ethanol locally, and then sell it to the European market or something!This saves a lot on shipping as well!

At this time, a big plan appeared in Jia Hongjian's mind! (To be continued..)