Era: I was a farmer at the foot of Yaoling Mountain

Chapter 53 [Agricultural Reclamation 58] Great Harvest
"Brother, come here once a week to water and weed. You don't have to be too meticulous."

Fang Wei and his elder brother set out on their journey home with brisk steps.

Fang Ping was suggesting refined management, but Fang Wei felt it was unnecessary. This acre of land had a bonus attribute anyway, so even with extensive management, the yield per acre wouldn't be bad.

The main reason is that there is not enough time. The summer harvest is almost here, so how can we have the time to go to the mountains frequently?
In fact, the brothers and sisters in Pan Lianhua might not have been unaware of what was happening in the valley, but they were just pretending to be ignorant.

The village is too far away from the valley, and all our time is wasted on the road, so we have no time to work.

Another point is that although droughts are common in the area, floods can also occur.

If a flash flood really occurs, no matter what is planted in the valley, there will be no harvest in the end.

If the harvest had not been poor in the past two years and there was almost no food to eat, the two brothers would not have come here to farm.

the next day.

Fang Wei was busy working in the experimental field when his nephew came running over and called him, "Manman, there are guests at home. We need you to come back."

He then returned home with Taotao and saw his elder brother talking to Uncle Guo.

"Is the third brother back? Uncle Guo is bothering you again. Can you help me buy some more sweet potatoes in the village? The price is negotiable."

The rations have been decreasing in the past two years, and city dwellers still cannot get enough to eat.

Uncle Guo was annoyed by his family's nagging, so he came to find the Fang brothers.

He estimated that there was not much surplus food in the countryside, but he still wanted to give it a try. What if he could buy some food?

"Uncle Guo, you've come at the right time. I'll go ask for you right away. 180 kilograms of sweet potatoes should be enough."

Fang Wei didn't beat around the bush. He stood up and walked out while he was talking.

Later, he and Zheng Hu came back carrying a bag of sweet potatoes, which weighed a total of 100 kilograms.

"I won't raise the price. I'll sell it to you at the same price as last time, 20 cents per pound. But I have one condition: you have to give me a few feet of cloth coupons."

Zheng Hu repeated what Fang Wei had said before.

Uncle Guo didn't even hesitate and responded immediately: "No problem! But I didn't bring any cloth coupons with me today. I'll ask someone to send them over later. Is that okay with you?"

"Okay, I trust you."

Hu Zi got the hint and immediately took the 20 yuan and left.

Uncle Guo didn't delay and tied the big sack to the back seat of the bicycle and headed straight for the county town.

He kept his word and the next day he asked someone to deliver seven feet of cloth coupons to Fang Wei, and also brought a small bag of fruit candy for the two children of the Fang family.

A few days passed quickly.

The melons and cucumbers in the private plots are gradually ripening, and the varieties of vegetables are gradually increasing.

Fang Weiyi got up early in the morning and was busy watering the fields, with a smile on his face all the time.

[Nongken 58] is growing very well. The heavy rice ears bend the rice stalks, and the millet grains are full and can be harvested soon.

According to this situation, the harvest time of [Nongken 58] will be half a month to twenty days earlier than that of the 5-mu experimental field.

This is the result of him trying his best to control the growth rate, but the output will definitely exceed everyone's imagination.

When the day came, Fang Weiyi harvested the rice on this piece of land by himself. After threshing the rice, he placed it in his front yard to dry.

After weighing, a total of 36 kilograms of rice were harvested from one mu of land, which means a yield of 360 kilograms per mu.

Of course, the data from the experimental fields are definitely higher, and the output will be lower in large-scale production.

But no matter what, the yield per mu is more than 300 kilograms.

evening.

He called Guan Chongyang and Wu Maosheng into the house for dinner and showed them his harvest.

Wu Maosheng grabbed a handful of rice and looked at it for a long time, his eyes becoming moist.
"Is the yield per mu of [Nongken 58] so high? If it were really used to promote late rice cultivation, the yield per mu would be double what it is now."

"Promotion is quite difficult. One issue is the taste. People are used to eating indica rice, but may not be used to japonica rice.

Another thing is that [Nongken 58] has high requirements for soil fertility, which will increase the amount of water and fertilizer used, and field management will be more troublesome."

Fang Wei, however, was less optimistic. The resistance to promoting new varieties was often significant, and successful implementation required a long process. The team would still plant indica rice for this year's late rice season, so [Nongken 58] would have to wait until next year.

"Yes, everything is difficult at the beginning! We really can't rush things."

Wu Maosheng sighed and put the rice in his hand back.

"What's the harm in delaying the promotion? Gold will always shine."

Guan Chongyang is knowledgeable and does not agree with Wu Maosheng's sentimentality.

After that, they had lunch, and Guan Chongyang went to take a look at Fang Wei's land. He felt that this piece of land was a little different.

But when asked to explain it in detail, he couldn't.

Next, Fang Wei began to select seeds, choosing the best from the best, and picked out a total of 16 kilograms of high-quality seeds.

In other words, its requirements are very high, otherwise, at least 26 kilograms of rice can be selected for seeds.

The remaining 20 kilograms of millet were screened a second time, and 10 kilograms of second-grade seeds were selected. The remaining rice was left at home to make porridge.

Then he came to Zheng Xianfa with 10 kilograms of second-grade rice seeds.

"Captain, these are [Nongken 58] japonica rice seeds. The yield per mu will not be less than 300 kilograms. I still have 16 kilograms. I'll give you these 10 kilograms of rice seeds."

"What a good thing! Leave it with me. I'll try to exchange these seeds for something good later."

Zheng Xianfa was such a smart man that he immediately understood Fang Wei's intention.

Afterwards, he took the 10 kilograms of rice seeds to find the team leader. I don’t know how he tricked the leader, but he exchanged more than 50 ducklings from him.

The team also has side businesses, such as tobacco curing, and now raising dozens of mallards is no big deal.

"Giving them such good seeds, the old fellow should be secretly happy! But we are all from the same team, so I won't make a big deal about it.

Little scholar, if you are willing to raise them, take a few ducklings back home."

Zheng Xianfa has a principle in doing things, which is to never let honest people suffer losses.

Seeing that Fang Wei was interested, he gave him 6 ducklings and 100 kilograms of feed.

In this way, Fang Wei not only has feed for raising ducks, but also for raising chickens.

Of course, the summer harvest is approaching, and the team has new bran income, so they don’t care about the hundred or so pounds of feed.

"Thank you Captain!"

Fang Wei did not refuse and returned home with the six ducklings and feed.

He then built a shed next to the chicken coop and drove all the ducklings inside.

[If you find a duck shed, should you combine the duck shed and chicken coop into a 'poultry house'?]

[No points are required for this merger, building level -1]

An information prompt suddenly appeared, and Fang Wei thought about it and felt that it was still a good deal.

Otherwise, it would cost even more points to upgrade the level of the [Duck Shed] from the beginning.

So he merged the [Duck Shed] and the [Chicken Coop] into the [Poultry House], and the [Poultry House] was one level lower than the [Chicken Coop].

He still had a lot of points, and after spending 1000 points, he upgraded the dropped level.

[Facility] → [Production Facility] → [Poultry House]

【Facility Level: (Level 5, 0\1000)】

[Facility attributes: disease prevention, strengthening, accelerated growth, increased egg production, nesting]

[Raising poultry in this building will increase all attributes by an additional 50%]

Total points: 2576

The [Chicken Coop] and [Duck Shed] have both become part of the [Poultry House], and the level is still Level 5. Unfortunately, the number of poultry is too small to generate significant economic benefits.

(End of this chapter)