1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 168 Are you sure you're right? You can grow to pounds in half a year?

Now hearing what Secretary Li said, Su Wenchen thought for a while and said.

"Secretary, this is what I think. Our chicken farm will continue to expand after the New Year. We will expand the scale by building one chicken house per month. Our goal for the whole year next year is to expand to 50,000 laying hens."

"We don't need much support from the city in this regard. We just need to develop steadily step by step."

"Our other goal is to breed a batch of excellent local pig breeds and borrow the white pig breeds from Shanghai."

Secretary Li was a little confused when he heard that Su Wenchen was planning to raise pigs next year.

After all, the greenhouse vegetables delivered today, he thought that the other party planned to vigorously develop this kind of greenhouse vegetables next year and asked him to allocate more land to the chicken farm.

And he really thinks that growing this kind of greenhouse vegetables still has prospects!
So I asked directly in confusion.

"Are you not planning to grow greenhouse vegetables? I see the vegetables you grew this year are pretty good, aren't they? Are there any difficulties?"

Su Wenchen nodded.

"To be honest, large-scale planting is still difficult now. One reason is that plastic film is difficult to obtain. This kind of petrochemical raw material is still relatively rare."

"Another reason is that the cost of planting is higher than that of ordinary planting. We only have two greenhouses this year, and we used more than 5,000 kilograms of farmyard manure made from fermented chicken manure per acre of land."

"If we want to grow chickens on a large scale, the chicken manure we currently produce in our chicken farms will not be enough."

"Greenhouse farming is different from open-air farming. If you don't use a lot of fertilizer to improve the soil structure, and grow similar types of vegetables in large quantities for a long time, it will easily cause the soil to become compacted."

"So my idea is to develop animal husbandry first, which will also produce enough fertilizer to feed back to agriculture."

"In addition, I also think that the workers in our city currently have a higher demand for meat, eggs and milk than for things like off-season vegetables."

Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Secretary Li nodded frequently.

"Meat and eggs are more in short supply in the city now than vegetables."

"In the past few years, we have been focusing on developing industry and neglected the development of animal husbandry. As a result, many working families in the city cannot buy enough food even if they have money."

"Now is the time to make up for this shortcoming, but why do we have to borrow pig breeds from Shanghai? Can we adapt to this?"

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"Whether we can adapt or not, we are ready to give it a try. That kind of white pig is a breeder introduced by the country. Only a few key breeding pig experimental farms have this breed. If it weren't for our relationship with the Shanghai Farm, it would be really hard to borrow this breed of pig!"

"I heard that this white pig can reach the standard of more than 200 kilograms for slaughter in half a year, but it has more lean meat. However, since the slaughter speed is fast, it is still suitable even if there is more lean meat."

When Su Wenchen said this, Secretary Li was a little confused. Why did he keep hearing things today that he had never thought about before?

"Are you sure you're right? You can grow to 200 pounds in half a year?"

"If we can really sell them out in half a year, it would be perfect even if they were all lean meat, not just more lean meat!"

Su Wenchen was speechless when he heard this. What good thing was he thinking? It was all lean meat, without any fat. Even if the pig exercised every day, it would not be good!
But still explained.

"Secretary Li, I heard that this pig breed was introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture a few years ago! But this pig is not that easy to raise, otherwise it would have been promoted long ago."

"I heard from the people at Qianjin Farm that this breed of pig has been introduced and bred and hybridized for many generations, but it can only live in a breeding farm where it is carefully cared for."

"So even if we bring them back, we have to slowly breed and domesticate them with local pig breeds. We don't know the details yet."

For Su Wenchen, he is not sure whether the hybrid breed brought back from black pigs can inherit the characteristic of white pigs that can be marketed quickly, so naturally he will not say anything particularly certain.

Secretary Li nodded.

"Even if we bring them back to tame them slowly, we still need to borrow their seeds. Not to mention doubling the time to market, even if it increases the time by 10%, it's worth it."

"So, if the farm has any requirements that you can't meet, you can tell the city about it, and we will do our best to support you if we can."

"Also, since you are in the development stage now, you don't have to hand over your profits to the county. I will talk to Lanshui County and transfer some of their industries to them."

For Secretary Li, he now finds that although the Blue Water Chicken Farm is newly built, it seems to have much greater development potential.

At first he thought that the Blue Water Chicken Farm was the same as the one in Shiquan, after all, the support provided by the city was the same.

But it has only been half a year and the answers given by the two sides are completely different.

On the one hand, it wants to expand its scale, but on the other hand, it is half-dead.

Moreover, the Lanshui Chicken Farm can also establish connections with farms in Shanghai and obtain pig breeds introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture, although he is not sure whose connections Su Wenchen used.

But all this shows that he is definitely a talent.

Su Wenchen was delighted to hear that next year’s profits would not have to be handed over and could all be used to maintain the development of the chicken farm.

Suddenly I couldn't believe it.

"Secretary Li, can we use the profits from our chicken farm ourselves next year?"

In this era, state-owned enterprises must hand over their profits. In addition to reserving funds for wages and employee benefits, most of the profits must be handed over every year.

Of course, in this case, if you need to purchase production lines or various equipment for factory development, you don’t need to pay for it yourself. You just need to submit a report and ask the higher-ups to help you coordinate.

Therefore, for Su Wenchen, it will be much more convenient if he can use the funds in the field himself next year.

After all, even if you submit a report for many things, your superiors will not approve them immediately unless they are urgently needed.

It’s definitely not as fast as purchasing it yourself.

Secretary Li nodded.

"After all, your farm is just being built, especially since you will be building a breeding farm next year. It is not easy for the city to allocate funds to you again and again."

"So next year, use your funds for your own development!" "By the way, the accounts must be kept clear. Although they don't need to be handed in, the city still needs to check them."

Obviously, he was reminding Su Wenchen that although he could control the profits himself, he still had to keep a detailed account of the funds, at least to be able to pass the city's inspection.

As for whether Su Wenchen put the money in his pocket or not, he didn't really care, as long as the city didn't find out.

Su Wenchen immediately made the promise when he heard this.

"Secretary, don't worry, I will definitely not make any mistakes in this regard!"

Hearing Su Wenchen's assurance, Secretary Li nodded.

"Okay, I'll see how you perform then. Is there anything else you need my support for?"

Su Wenchen pondered for a moment.

Now that they have sufficient funds next year, they can expand with all their strength, but Su Wenchen also remembered the shortcomings of their chicken farm.

It seems that there are not enough talents.

Since the establishment of the chicken farm, Su Wenchen has only submitted an application for recommendation of cadres to the city for Hou Guozhong.

For Su Wenchen, since other people have not done anything to make concessions, he feels that they should be promoted out of turn.

And now, there are still several departments in the field that are in a state of disarray.

For example, he is the head of the Personnel Department, and Han Yang is the head of the Propaganda Department.

The production department and the technical department are currently managed by Hou Guozhong, while the security department and logistics are concurrently managed by Miao Yuan.

For Su Wenchen, this kind of concurrent role cannot be sustained for a long time, otherwise it will easily become a mess.

Su Wenchen also decided to take this opportunity to ask the city to transfer a group of people down.

The responsibility system of each department at the chicken farm has been reorganized. It is not possible for one person to always take on multiple duties.

"Secretary, we do have some difficulties at the chicken farm."

"Now the leaders of the chicken farm are all multi-tasking. It was OK when the chicken farm was first built, but it's getting busier and busier. I'm afraid everyone can't hold on!"

“So I hope the city can support a few people. After all, it takes time for the people in our chicken farm to grow.”

When Secretary Li heard Su Wenchen's words, he fell into a brief contemplation.

He remembered that some time ago, Song Pingwen came to him and wanted to change places.

Although he failed to succeed in Shiquan, considering that the other party had volunteered to go down and solve the problem, he decided to give him a chance.

So after Song Pingwen left, there was no good candidate to take over Shiquan.

It's obvious that this is a mess and no one in the agency is willing to go there.

We can transfer people from other counties, but these people who know nothing might be even worse than Song Pingwen.

So his previous idea was to promote Shiquan's deputy director.

After all, the city now has the Blue Water Chicken Farm supplying eggs, so the Shiquan Chicken Farm is not as indispensable as before.

In his opinion, it would be best if the other party could do a good job, but if not, there was nothing he could do because the city would not continue to invest resources in it anyway.

Now that the Lanshui chicken farm is short of people, just let Lanshui merge with Shiquan.

Because there are still some things in Shiquan now. Otherwise, if we let them do it on their own, we may not know if there will be anything left in the end.

Thinking of this, he spoke directly to Su Wenchen.

"Your Blue Water Chicken Farm is short of people, and you're going to expand next year. What do you think of merging with Shiquan?"

When Su Wenchen heard this, he blinked, a little confused.

what's going on?
They merged with Shiquan Chicken Farm?

At first Su Wenchen thought Secretary Li was joking, but looking at his expression it was completely different.

But after thinking about it carefully, he probably knew what the other party was thinking.

After all, although Shiquan is not an absolute negative asset now, it is not a good industry either.

Especially since there was no money in the account, and he heard that Luo Yan was not able to outlast Director Song in the end, so Shi Quan's task this year had to be moved to next year.

However, for Su Wenchen, merger is not impossible, but who will merge with whom must be agreed in advance.

And he absolutely doesn't want Song Pingwen. After all, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain.

If the other party merges with him, he doesn't want to compete with them in a battle of wits and courage every day.

So I asked tentatively.

"Secretary Li, will Director Song from Shiquan agree to this merger? And how will he arrange it then?"

"Besides, there will definitely be people in Shiquan who will not agree! After all, we are merging their newly built chicken farm."

Secretary Li naturally understood what Su Wenchen meant.

"Don't worry, I will transfer Song Pingwen away. After the merger, I will transfer the troublemaker you don't want from Shiquan directly. I only have one request, that you resume production as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)