1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 160: The problem of raising chickens is purely due to the chickens, and has nothing to do with others!

Luo Yan was a little confused when he heard Su Wenchen's words.

"Do you guys grow vegetables in the chicken coop at your chicken farm?"

"Can this be grown?"

Luo Yan thought that if vegetables could grow in the house, it could be promoted.

He felt that it would be nice to get a green cucumber in the middle of winter.

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"You can't grow vegetables indoors, unless they are near a window and are well insulated, otherwise there won't be enough light in the house."

Because Su Wenchen knew that in this day and age it was impossible for anyone to turn on the lights every day to provide additional lighting for vegetables.

Even their chicken farm only has a few hours of supplementary lighting every day.

If you turn on the light to illuminate a few vegetables separately, you will lose your underwear.

Hearing this, Luo Yan asked curiously.

"Then how do you grow vegetables? You can't grow them outdoors! How can they survive?"

Su Wenchen had no intention of hiding anything and spoke directly.

"It's something called a greenhouse. Once it's built, you can grow off-season vegetables in it. We just learned this from Shanghai. This thing has only appeared in Beijing and Shanghai a few years ago."

“It’s still being promoted slowly now!”

"This type of greenhouse cultivation mainly relies on a kind of plastic film. This material has good light transmittance and heat preservation properties, so it is possible to grow off-season vegetables in winter."

"This plastic film is a petrochemical-related material. Our big cities are just starting to develop it, and only a small amount of material is available. If our chicken farm didn't have a good relationship with the Shanghai Qianjin Farm, we wouldn't be able to buy this kind of thing."

"After all, off-season vegetables are not urgently needed by the people now, and our main focus at the chicken farm is still on breeding."

"We will only plant a small number of this type of greenhouse. Its main function is to reserve greenhouse-related planting talents."

"When the conditions for promotion are met in our city, we will then consider whether to build an off-season vegetable base."

Hearing Su Wenchen say this.

Luo Yan roughly understood that this thing was a new technology developed in big cities.

But he really admired Su Wenchen's foresight.

Even if we know they won’t be needed now, we will still reserve talents in advance.

In fact, their Lan City has been learning new technologies from various big cities.

For example, the city's agricultural machinery factory went to Shenyang to introduce new tractors, and the city's textile factory went to the textile factory in Shanghai to exchange and learn new technologies.

But that kind of thing is more of a repetition of what others have said.

What we learn are technologies that have already been proven by others and are already popularizable.

Greenhouse technology like this is something that even big cities are just beginning to explore, but Su Wenchen has already been able to cultivate reserve talents in advance.

Luo Yan believed that once their Lan City also introduced the preparation technology of chemical materials such as plastic film, then Su Wenchen and his chicken farm would definitely be ahead of all units in Lan City in terms of greenhouse cultivation.

Seeing this, Luo Yan didn't plan to continue being polite with Su Wenchen. Ninety percent of the people who came to their unit were there to ask for things.

He also didn't believe that Su Wenchen was simply telling them the good news, because there was no need to.

Song Pingwen, who was standing next to him, heard Su Wenchen talk about Shanghai's greenhouse technology.

The little eyeballs moved rapidly.

Greenhouse?

Off-season vegetables?
Especially since Su Wenchen had said earlier that he would give him two green cucumbers at the end of the year.

Can we eat summer food in the middle of winter?

Thinking of this, Song Pingwen swallowed.

Then he wanted to drink some water to moisten his throat, but found that Luo Yan, that bastard, didn't even pour him any water.

But he didn't plan to leave, as he was afraid that he would never find the other person again after leaving.

Moreover, Song Pingwen was very interested in this greenhouse technology. He felt that this thing sounded like something that could produce results.

Eat fresh summer vegetables in the middle of winter.

If this were really distributed to supply and marketing cooperatives and vegetable stores, they would be snapped up like crazy!
After all, although he didn't know how to raise chickens, he had bought vegetables before, because he often went to transport the cabbage for the winter storage at home.

In that scene, almost every family in the city went out together, young and old, to queue up for food.

After all, if it is your last turn, you can only choose what others have left.

Even cabbage is so popular in winter. He couldn’t even imagine how long the queue would be if it were fresh vegetables.

And this kind of thing is likely to attract the attention of leaders.

At that time, let's see who dares to say that he can write materials. He has to prove that he can not only write materials, but also get practical things done.

The problem of raising chickens is purely due to the chickens. It has nothing to do with him. How can it be okay to have chickens that are always sick?
Or maybe the Shiquan Chicken Farm has bad feng shui, but he only dared to think about it in his mind.

I definitely wouldn’t dare to say that.

But think of this.

He also discovered that if chickens can get sick, then vegetables might also get sick!

When he thought about it, he felt hopeless. If this happened again, he would be finished.

After all, the chickens at Shiquan Chicken Farm were already half-dead before he went there, so the fact that they were not saved does not mean that he was incompetent, but only that the problems at Shiquan Chicken Farm were too serious and no one could save them.

But if he grows vegetables in a greenhouse, they will be like chickens, getting sick easily and dying in large numbers.

He can't bear that.

No, I have to talk to this guy later. If it can avoid a lot of illness, I can give it a try, otherwise forget it!
At this time, Su Wenchen didn't realize that in a short while, the other party had set their sights on the greenhouse project.

But even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

If greenhouses were so easy to build, he would have done it long ago. Not to mention the petrochemical materials such as plastic film used to cover greenhouses, very little can be produced at the current stage.

Even if I get it.

However, although people have demand for off-season vegetables, it does not mean that they are willing to pay a high price. If you offer the same price as winter storage vegetables, then they will indeed be popular.

But once the price is too high, people will not buy it at this stage. Wouldn’t it be better to eat meat with that money?
Is the meat not tasty? Or is it because you don't like having too much money?

To put it bluntly, the demand for meat among urban residents is far from being satisfied.

Their income does not support them to eat summer vegetables which are extremely expensive but can be eaten in summer.

Being one step ahead is a sign of godliness; being too many steps ahead is a sign of insanity.

Su Wenchen naturally would not do such a thing, which is why he is now vigorously developing the chicken farm.

We also plan to breed a few high-quality black pigs next year to mate with the large white pigs at Qianjin Farm.

See if we can borrow the genes of this white pig and improve it in advance. Su Wenchen, who knows history, knows that this white pig has been cultivated for nearly ten years before it was completely domesticated and turned into a genetically stable local breed.

This is also why it was introduced in the 1960s but not gradually popularized until the 1980s, because before that it could only exist in testing fields with meticulous care.

I can't adapt to the rough rural environment in the countryside at all.

On the other side, although Luo Yan did not know the specific cost of this vegetable, he also knew that before the city introduced factories related to petrochemical engineering.

It does not have the ability to be popularized on a large scale, so his attention is now on the eggs from Su Wenchen's chicken farm.

Fifty thousand kilograms of eggs is actually not a lot.

Especially when it comes to the whole city, but this time of the year is very critical for them.

If the people in the city could buy a few kilograms of eggs at the end of the year, it would effectively calm the anger of a large number of people. After all, most people actually could not buy eggs throughout the year.

Everything that could be bought was bought with the help of relatives in the countryside. If you didn’t have any relatives, you would basically not be able to buy anything even if you went there.

After all, if a stranger goes to someone else's village, most people will ignore you.

Their Planning Commission’s fourth quarter internal meeting was also concluded a few days ago.

The main theme is to ensure sufficient daily necessities as much as possible so that most people can have a good New Year.

So this batch of eggs from Su Wenchen was definitely a timely relief for him.

It's just that the rain is a little less. It would be better if there was 500,000 kilograms of rain, but he also knows that it is unrealistic.

Last year, including the supply from all the rural areas in the city, it is estimated that there were less than 500,000 kilograms.

Because residents in each county also have a demand for eggs.

This is why the city is now eager to build various breeding farms, because the supply in the countryside can only meet the needs of county-level residents at most.

Faced with the higher-income and larger-population city employees, this supply of ideas is simply a drop in the bucket.

Now their city has actually begun to discuss learning from the advanced experience of big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, and establishing several large farms in various suburbs of the city, so as to meet the city's meat supply.

Since Su Wenchen offered the bait, Luo Yan naturally understood what he meant. After all, the other party did not need to complete the targets given by their Planning Commission this year.

Even if they can mobilize this kind of unplanned work, they have to discuss it with the chicken farms, and the prices will be based on market prices.

"Well, Brother Su, just tell me what you want!"

"When you came up, you asked for eggs and off-season vegetables at the end of the year, and you still didn't make any requests. I was a little nervous!"

"So you tell me the truth, just tell me what you want, and I will try my best to satisfy you if I can. If I can't, I will also point you in the right direction and let you know who to go to. What do you think?"

For Luo Yan, although he is the deputy director of the Planning Commission, the mobilization and allocation of materials in the city are also separate from the Planning Commission.

Each director is responsible for different areas, so he didn't dare to agree to it directly.

Since he was in charge of daily necessities and had supported the establishment of the Lanshui Chicken Farm, this batch of eggs could really be counted as his achievement within the Planning Commission, so he gave Su Wenchen a direct yes.

After hearing this, Su Wenchen stopped wasting time.

"Okay, Director Luo, I won't hide it from you. Isn't our insulated chicken coop built over there? If the temperature outside is too low in winter, natural insulation alone cannot maintain the temperature inside the chicken coop."

"So we have to use fire channels to maintain the temperature of the chicken house, but this year we were allocated only 20 tons of coal for our chicken farm."

"It's only enough to support the cafeteria and the bathhouse. If we divert the money to the chicken coop, our employees will have trouble even taking a shower."

"For our farm, we still have to maintain the hygiene of our employees as much as possible."

"So we, the chicken farm, hope that the Planning Commission will support us with several dozen tons of coal."

"Oh, and recently our farm is going to dig a well. We are currently getting water from the river, and we found that the chickens are prone to gastrointestinal diseases. Pressurized water wells are not available on the market, so I'm here to ask you for help!"

After hearing Su Wenchen's request, Luo Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

Coal may be difficult to obtain for others, but for him, it is not a difficult task because their Planning Commission reserves a portion of it every year as mobile supplies.

Of course, it's not just coal, but also grain, meat, and other daily necessities, which are actually stored.

In order to prevent a large gap in any aspect and fill it in time, it is definitely not possible to use up all of this part, but it doesn't matter if it's just a few dozen tons.

After all, the purpose of keeping this kind of mobile supplies is to supply where they are needed.

Now he sees that the chicken farm is in great need.

As for the water well pressurization, he didn't even need to get a note for that, it was just a matter of a few words.

After all, Luo Yan's words carry some weight outside.

It’s just that of the two men in front of him, one is the former chief secretary of the secretary, and the other has the support of both the secretary and the mayor.

Otherwise he's not that easy to talk to.

However, knowing what to say to whom is their basic quality.

So Luo Yan patted his chest and said to Su Wenchen.

"This is indeed an oversight on our part on the Planning Commission's part. After all, you can produce eggs in the winter, so it is necessary to equip you with enough fuel."

"Fifty tons, do you think it's enough?"

Su Wenchen was a little surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect Luo Yan to be so easy to talk to. He directly gave 50 tons and even doubled the amount.

He originally thought he had to pull it! Otherwise, he wouldn't have come up to show off his achievements first.

But he still nodded quickly in response.

"Enough, Director Luo, thank you so much. Only with responsible leaders like you to protect our chicken farm can our chicken farm develop with confidence."

Facing Su Wenchen's business flattery.

Luo Yan shook his head.

"Don't flatter me. This is what your chicken farm needs. The supplies we reserved are specifically for your situation."

"I approved it purely because of the needs of the chicken farm!"

"I'll write a note here, and you can take people to the Planning Commission's Mobile Warehouse No. 23."

Su Wenchen nodded, but the problem of the water well pressure had not been resolved yet, so he spoke directly.

"Then I'll trouble you, Director Luo. But what about the water pressure well?"

When Luo Yan heard this, he just waved his hand.

"That doesn't require a note. I'll call Director Dai from the Agriculture Bureau out at noon and have lunch together. The Agriculture Bureau is promoting the water well pressurization thing, but it should be no problem to approve part of it from you."

"But you said that 50,000 kilograms of eggs must be supplied by the end of the year!"

As he said this, he nodded at Song Pingwen.

"This year, thanks to the Shiquan Chicken Farm, many residents in the city have not tasted eggs for a whole year."

"I'm counting on that New Year's Eve over there!"

"Some people even come here with flattering words and say that we should move this year's targets to next year!"

(End of this chapter)