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Chapter 99: Great Expansion (Medium Cup! More Updates)
It has only been three days since the news that Yandunshan Feed Factory started collecting Egyptian catfish came out.

More than 1,200 tons of Egyptian catfish were purchased.

This amount can be consumed in three days if the two fish meal production lines of the feed factory were running at full capacity. However, considering the need to maintain production, only one production line is currently in operation, and it only processes more than 50 tons of Egyptian catfish every day.

In order to avoid the same situation in the feed production line, Fang Yi has prepared to use one of the feed production lines to produce No. 4 feed, which is Egyptian catfish fattening feed.

Although the gross profit per ton of No. 4 feed is only 1000 yuan, it is still possible to make money by taking the approach of small profits but quick turnover.

Now that the feed has been produced, except for the one hundred tons of No. 2 feed reserved for the company's own eel farm, the remaining feed must be prepared for sale.

The sales department did not find this kind of sales work too difficult. After all, they had a large number of eel farmers and Egyptian catfish farmers as clients.

The first is to target local Egyptian catfish farmers.

Inside the purchasing room of Yandunshan Feed Factory.

Several salesmen have already started to promote their sales strategies to every fish farmer who comes to sell fish.

One of the salesmen from Xinxiang said with a smile: "Uncle Dafu, don't hesitate. This feed is good stuff. As long as you follow our formula, you can get about 3 catties of fish per acre of fish pond. Although the cost has increased, 3 catties can be sold for more money."

"Xiaoman, is this true?" Jiang Dafu was a little skeptical.

Jiang Xiaoman struck while the iron was hot: "Uncle Dafu, we are all family, how dare I lie to you? After all, the boss is also from our village. This kind of feed is limited now, don't miss it. I give priority to my family members and sell it to you."

After hearing this explanation, Jiang Dafu's doubts were largely dispelled.

After all, the reputation of Jiang Miao's family is obvious to all in Magong Town. Although they seem a bit stingy when it comes to activities such as opera performances, ancestor worship, and repairs in the village, they are still very caring for families in the village who are truly in need.

During the Chinese New Year last year, Jiang Dahai gave him a red envelope of 1,000 yuan to comfort his paralyzed wife in bed.

“Do we need 2.4 tons per acre?”

"Yes, Uncle Dafu, how many acres do you have?"

Jiang Xiaoman said quickly, "Two acres means 4.8 tons. Considering the shelf life, we should come once every two weeks! We can bring 0.8 tons each time. You can buy the other ingredients and fodder directly according to the formula."

"So I'll pay now?"

"No, just record it directly in the account. When you harvest the Egyptian fish, you can deduct it from the payment for the Egyptian fish. Of course, you can also pay first."

"Well... of course I'll deduct it when the time comes." Hearing this, Jiang Dafu naturally chose to take the feed first and then deduct it when selling the Egyptian fish.

This payment method also allowed Jiang Dafu to put aside his last bit of worry.

In fact, this is equivalent to Hailufeng Company lending money to breeders.

However, for this kind of "loan", there is no need to worry about repayment issues, unless there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster. Otherwise, as long as the farmer raises the Egyptian fish well, repayment is an inevitable result.

After all, there are no other companies around that will purchase Egyptian fish on a large scale, so the fish farmers can only sell them to Hailufeng Company. In this case, it is very easy to deduct the payment for goods.

Soon, other Egyptian catfish farmers also signed contracts to purchase No. 4 feed, and each of them took home a copy of the Egyptian catfish breeding technical manual.

Taking into account the need for farmers to adapt to local conditions, these breeding technology manuals do not have just one formula, but five.

For example, use peanut vines, corn stalks, and wild grass powder instead of sweet potato leaves and foxtail grass powder.

At the same time, if kitchen leftovers are used, the amount of No. 15 feed can be reduced by about 20-4%.

These adjustments are made after fully considering the various situations of the farmers.

Of course, since the farmers are not professional, there may be problems with low utilization during the breeding process, resulting in output falling short of expectations.

However, as long as the amount of No. 4 feed is sufficient, the basic yield of 1.2 kilograms per mu can be maintained.

This depends on whether the farmers are willing to learn the technology. If the technology is learned well and the management is in place, it is easy to reach 1.5 kilograms per mu, or even higher.

And the other side.

The sales department encountered certain difficulties in promoting eel feed.

Fortunately, this was within the company's expectations.

Although some eel farmers have doubts, there are also many who are willing to take risks.

The sales department did not force the salesperson. After all, this was a new product and it needed a period of market verification. Once the farmers discovered the benefits of the new feed, they would take the initiative to come to the store to purchase it without the salesperson’s promotion.

This is where technological products come into play.

Hailufeng Company’s feed does not need to compete with other companies’ ordinary fish feed.

Moreover, at present, the Yandunshan Feed Factory can only produce 750 tons of No. 2 eel feed per month, but the No. 4 Egyptian catfish feed can reach a monthly output of about 9000 tons.

The production capacity of eel feed is limited by the production capacity of Egyptian catfish fish meal, so the scale of Egyptian catfish farming must be gradually expanded.

According to the current situation.

In order to make the feed factory's production line operate at full capacity, the breeding scale of Egyptian catfish must be increased by 3 to 4 times, to about 3600 to 4800 acres. Combined with the production increase effect of No. 4 feed, the feed factory can be supplied with 2.1 to 2.9 tons of Egyptian catfish each month, achieving a monthly production capacity of 9000 tons of No. 2 eel feed.

If there were no No. 4 feed with the effect of increasing production, the scale of Egyptian catfish breeding might need to reach 1.2 acres to barely meet the needs of the feed factory.

Kanamachi Village.

Wang Baorui, who had just returned from the feed factory, hurried to the door of a new five-story house.

"Shitou, are you home?"

The stainless steel door slowly opened, and a fat man appeared behind the door: "Hey? Isn't this Brother Rui? What brings you here?"

As Wang Baorui walked, he said, "Shitou, how about renting your two acres of land to me to start a fish pond? One acre per year for 2000 yuan?"

"Is raising Egyptian fish so profitable?" Wang Baozhu looked surprised.

"Not as good as your seafood stall."

Speaking of this, Wang Baozhu looked depressed: "Bullshit, I lost 20,000 yuan this month. Now the tourist season is so bleak. I want to change my career. Damn it."

"Huh? Is this true?"

"Of course it's true. I'm so worried now."

"Why don't you dig a fish pond out of those two mu of rice fields? We can harvest Egyptian fish every three months. I heard that with the new feed, we can harvest 30,000 kilograms of fish per mu."

Wang Baoshu's eyes widened. "30,000 catties per mu? How much did Hailufeng Company pay for it?"

"One dollar and fifty cents a pound."

"Fuck! Brother Rui, you're rich now. I'm going to find someone to dig a fish pond right now."

"Don't worry! If you want Hailufeng to buy your fish, you must sign a contract. Otherwise, you can only rely on other contracted farmers, but this is not reliable. After all, each farmer has a limit on the purchase amount."

When Wang Baozhu heard this, he became even more anxious: "What do I need to bring with me to sign the contract?"

"Bring your ID cards and those of your family members, preferably two or three people, and dig the fish pond within a month, because then the Hailufeng Company will send someone to check the fish pond to prevent someone from occupying the fish pond without doing anything."

"Thanks, Brother Rui. I'll treat you to a meal later."

"Look, you're in a hurry."

"But didn't you say the quota is limited?"

"There's no rush. I plan to find a way to take over the rice fields around my fish pond. You can also take some of them. I'll go find Lao Zhu to the east, and you go find Guo Xin to the west to see if they have any ideas for renting them out."

"That's right."

The two of them split up.

Although the benefits are attractive, not everyone values ​​this hard-earned money.

For example, those who own shops and rent out commercial houses in Jincheng Bay naturally have no great interest in breeding Egyptian catfish.

Soon Wang Baorui rented 4 acres of rice fields, and Wang Baozhu also rented 5 acres of rice fields.

in the afternoon.

In the office building of Yandunshan Feed Factory, the breeding contract office is set up here to work. Previously contracted breeders come here to apply for an increase in the breeding scale, and new breeders come here to apply for contracts.

The 3600 mu of quota that had just been released was divided up by the villagers of Nanhu Village, Yancheng Village, Xinxiang Village, Jincheng Village, Changsha Village and Nanfen Village, who were close to the water and got the first chance.

Interests are indeed the most moving things.

Before the fish were officially purchased, many fish farmers were hesitant. But now that they have received the money and heard that Hailufeng Company is going to expand the scale of purchase, they can't wait to expand the scale.

In addition to the 436 households that signed the contract before, 755 more households were added in the past few days, bringing the total number of signed farmers to 1191 and the breeding area to 4921 acres.

This almost covered all the low-lying idle wasteland near Magong Town and occupied more than 2,000 acres of rice fields.

Even several farmers who previously raised whiteleg shrimp came to sign the contract.

The main reason for this situation is that the breeding efficiency of whiteleg shrimp is not high. Farmers with better technology can use earthen ponds to produce about 300 kilograms per mu. There are 20 to 30 whiteleg shrimps per kilogram, and the purchase price is about 40 yuan. The maximum sale price per mu is 1.2 yuan.

After deducting costs, there is not much money to be made.

There is also a more troublesome problem in breeding whiteleg shrimp, which is the impact of extreme weather, especially the extremely high temperatures in summer. If the water temperature exceeds 35 degrees Celsius for several days, a pond of shrimp can be wiped out.

Extreme weather has become more frequent in recent years, causing great suffering to many farmers.

Compared to the white shrimp and other tropical freshwater fish that can easily die in front of you, the Egyptian catfish is not only resistant to high temperatures, but also resistant to low oxygen and has strong disease resistance.

The survival ability of the Egyptian catfish in Lingnan is only surpassed by the catfish that has only invaded in recent years.

After confirming that Hailufeng Company would purchase the shrimp at the price, the white shrimp farmers could no longer sit still and immediately chose to change their business.

What is white shrimp?

Climb for me!
I'm not serving you anymore!

Egyptian catfish is our true love!
The hearts of farmers are just like the weather in June, changing at any time.

In fact, it is not impossible to raise whiteleg shrimp. If a high-standard indoor breeding plan is adopted, the yield per mu can reach 2500 to 6500 kilograms.

But this brings us back to a more fundamental question.

The investment cost of a high-standard indoor farm is too high, and the operating cost is also not low, which is simply not affordable for ordinary farmers.

No wonder many local shrimp farmers choose to change their business and start farming Egyptian catfish.

Just when Hailufeng Company was expanding its catfish farming in Egypt on a large scale.

The company has not forgotten the development of other businesses.

For example, the fish ball factory and indoor breeding farm south of the Yandunshan Feed Factory are being renovated and constructed at an astonishing speed, and are expected to be put into use by the end of September.

At the same time, as the rice harvest is completed, the transformation of Nanhu Farm’s 500 acres of newly leased greenhouse farmland is also proceeding rapidly.

In the Nanhu edible fungus base, 30 acres of white truffles have been planted in six batches since mid-July. It is expected that the first batch of 6 acres of white truffles will be harvested in late October this year.

Also, as one greenhouse after another was built, the tomato tissue culture seedlings and ginseng fruit tissue culture seedlings produced in the tissue culture laboratory were also transplanted into the greenhouses in rows.

Tomatoes begin to be harvested three months after transplanting, that is, in mid-to-late October.

Ginseng fruit can be harvested four months after transplanting, which is mid-to-late November.

The expansion of these production capacities has also led to the expansion of Hailufeng's workforce, with the total number of employees now approaching 600.

总部114人（含储备员工），南湖农场86人，盐町养殖场124人（含烟墩山养殖场储备员工），码头罐头厂88人（含烟墩山鱼丸厂储备员工）、烟墩山饲料厂92人、梅拢金银加工厂25人。

There are 18 field salesmen in the sales department, 11 of which are in Qiongzhou branch, 5 in urban gold shop and 7 in urban specialty store.

570 people in total.

These are just the regular employees. There are also more than a dozen temporary workers in Nanhai Farm.

Next, the fish ball factory will also need to recruit a large number of female workers to kill fish. However, it is very likely that a large proportion of these female workers will be regular employees. After all, this is a semi-mechanized production line. Employees do not need to kill fish directly, but they must process the fish meat picked out by the machine.

The management of the real estate company has gradually been put in place.
The general manager of Hailufeng Real Estate Company is Su Xiaoqiang, who previously worked as a project manager in a branch of a small real estate company in Yangcheng.

However, as their boss went to jail and cried, Su Xiaoqiang's job was ruined. In addition, the real estate market has been bad in recent years, so he was willing to come to work at Hailufeng Company.

Jiang Miao read this person's resume and interviewed him in person. He felt that his professional level was okay, but his personality was relatively Buddhist, which was one of the reasons why he was chosen.

After all, Jiang Miao hopes that his subordinates will be honest and obedient, and management who are too ambitious are not in his eyes at all.

As the company gradually expands, some departments and industries are also gradually adjusting.

After the merger of the agricultural planting division.

Recently, the canning factory, fish ball factory and breeding farm were merged again and combined into the aquaculture division for unified management. My brother-in-law Zhang Xincheng serves as manager and Li Xinhua serves as deputy manager.

Immediately afterwards, a feed business department was set up above the feed factory, with Fang Yi temporarily appointed as the manager.

The gold and silver processing plant, gold shop, specialty store, and headquarters central kitchen were incorporated into the physical business division, with sister Jiang Xia serving as manager.

The online store department was changed to the e-commerce business department, and Zhang Xinyi is still the manager.

At this point, Hailufeng Agricultural Technology Company has formed eight departments at its headquarters: Human Resources Department, Finance Department, Legal Department, Sales Department, Purchasing Department, Logistics Department, Attendance Department, and Scientific Research Department.

In addition, there are three offices: the Chairman’s Office, the General Manager’s Office, and the Environmental Protection Office.

As well as five business divisions: agricultural planting division, aquaculture division, feed division, physical business division, and e-commerce division.

There are also two branches and an independent real estate company.

Lv Weibin, who has just taken over as the manager of the agricultural planting division, has also been very busy recently. He does not need to worry about the affairs of Nanhu Farm, after all, most of the work has been put on track.

What really gave him a headache was renting land in the urban area and Haifeng County to grow durian.

Haifeng County has a hilly area of ​​35 mu and a mountainous area of ​​50 mu. Together with the hills and mountains in the urban area, it seems possible to rent tens of thousands of mu.

In fact, it is indeed easy to rent land.

The problem is that most of the land available for rent is fragmented and cannot be put together, which will invisibly increase management difficulty and production costs.

Lv Weibin had no choice but to ask for help. He first used his connections with Magong Town and Hongcao Town to acquire 1.4 acres of barren mountain land in more than a dozen villages.

These lands can basically be divided into three major areas, namely, Yandunshan area of ​​3829 mu, Nanfen Qingcao area of ​​5811 mu, and Pubian Beishan area of ​​5409 mu.

After acquiring the land, only the hillsides that already had orchards were left. These lands were very troublesome. Lu Weibin did not want to complicate things, so he gave up the idea of ​​continuing to expand the durian plantation in the urban area.

He turned his gaze towards Gongping Town, Haifeng County.

Through the matchmaking of the Magong Town Government, Lv Weibin reached a cooperation agreement on behalf of Hailufeng Company and Gongping Town Government, planning to invest in a 5-acre durian plantation in the town.

Although the government team of Gongping Town found it somewhat unbelievable, they did not refuse the huge investment of real money from Hailufeng Company.

Soon, six plots of forest land were allocated to Hailufeng Company, totaling 6 acres.

Having so much land does not mean that you can start planting right away.

There is still a lot of work to be prepared in the early stages, such as building simple roads, building small water storage tanks, laying watering pipes, plantation management stations, clearing trees and large rocks in the wild mountains and wilderness, building fire isolation zones, and finally planting the beautiful kapok trees.

It is estimated that these investments will require several hundred million.

But the investment is worth it.

As long as these 6.6 acres of durian are planted, about 2027 tons of durian can be harvested by August 26.4.

Even if the wholesale price is 3 yuan per ton, 26.4 tons is worth 79.2 billion yuan.

Of course, this is just a temporary estimate, as durian cultivation will also be affected by the weather, especially typhoon weather.

This is why when Lv Weibin was selecting the location for his plantation, he chose an area that was not directly facing the South China Sea, in order to avoid being directly hit by the typhoon.

However, his worries were unnecessary. Jiang Miao had already made preparations. The durians he was studying were all dwarf types, on the one hand to facilitate picking, and on the other hand to prevent typhoons.

(End of this chapter)