1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 19 Leafy Vegetables Cleared (Please read! Please vote!)

The sweltering heat of the plum rain season is like being wrapped in a thick quilt, making you feel suffocated. The rain-filled scene is like an invisible hand, suppressing all sounds.

The next day, most vegetable farmers were harvesting vegetables with tears in their eyes.

The vegetables were rotten, so I could only bend over and pick out vegetables of decent quality from the vegetable garden.

Even the remaining vegetables of Chen Jiazhi were not spared. The leaves of one vegetable looked fine, but when the roots were pinched, they became limp and rotted.

At least half of it is rotten, and the rain hasn't stopped yet. It's a waste to store such vegetables.

Chen Jiazhi collected the items for a while and then started to display them.

After handing over the task of harvesting vegetables to Ao Dehai and his wife, he went home and spread his hands to Li Xiu: "Wife, take the money, I want to go spend some money."

Li Xiu didn't understand his implication, so she took out the money she had collected and said in a low voice, "I sold 626 yuan yesterday, a total of 2532 yuan, all here."

Chen Jiazhi felt bored and said seriously, "Give me 500 first. I may not be able to find everything this time. I need to go buy agricultural supplies."

"Okay." Li Xiu counted out 500 yuan and asked, "Do you want to deposit the rest at a credit union?"

Chen Jiazhi shook his head. "I'm planning to build a small greenhouse. Otherwise, I won't be able to grow good vegetables in the next few months. I still have a lot of things to buy, and I won't have much money left."

Li Xiu suddenly became nervous.

"It's not that bad. It's okay to let you eat meat two or three times a week." Chen Jiazhi smiled, collected the money, and prepared to go out.

Li Xiu was still a little worried: "Don't serve such good food. I saw Aunt Juan secretly wiping away tears at noon."

"It's okay, just keep a low profile back there."

If the vegetables had not been harvested in advance, Li Xiu would be secretly wiping away tears right now.

...

Hong Zhongzheng, the owner of the agricultural supply store, was using quicklime to remove moisture and prevent humidity when he stumbled upon the pesticides he had brought in a few days ago. He muttered, "Damn, I'm really being tricked, am I?"

Just then, a shout was heard from the shop. When Hong Zhong walked out, he saw the handsome guy from that day.

"Handsome boy, you're finally here. We've got both imidacloprid and avermectin. We were just waiting for you to come get them."

From Hong Zhong’s impatient expression, Chen Jiazhi knew that the other party was waiting very anxiously, and the price was not low.

Chen Jiazhi: "Don't worry about the pesticides yet. Boss, can you get some film, bamboo strips, and fermented manure?"

"How can I not be anxious!" Hong Zhong was immediately unhappy. "I only got the imported pesticides because you wanted to buy them!"

Chen Jiazhi subconsciously touched his wallet, not angry, and asked, "How is the price calculated?"

Hong Zhong went to the warehouse at the back and took out two boxes of imidacloprid and avermectin, one in a bag and one in a bottle.

"Imidacloprid is mixed with a bucket of water, and the price is 25 yuan per bag. Abamectin is also mixed with a bucket of water, and the price is 12 yuan per bottle."

Chen Jiazhi stared at him and said, "Even robbing people can't make money as fast as you do. Even if it's Abamectin, the cost is five times that of ordinary pesticides!

Imidacloprid is at least ten times more expensive, which vegetable farmer can afford it? "

"You idiot, you said you don't use cheap stuff, but it turns out you were just bragging. You deserve to be idiot!"

Hong Zhong was annoyed and chased Chen Jiazhi to scold him, thinking that he had been fooled. He had bought some smuggled goods because he saw that an ordinary vegetable farmer actually knew about new foreign pesticides.

Chen Jiazhi also had a headache. He was careless and had boasted a little too much at that time.

Also forgot to talk about the price.

This price is indeed a bit hard to bear. The cost of using the medicine per acre has skyrocketed. The main reason is that he doesn't have any high-end customers now... After thinking for a while, Chen Jiazhi said, "Apart from these two boxes, you probably don't have anything else."

"Do you think I'm you, you loser? I've already guessed you can't afford it. Who would dare to buy more? Let me tell you, even this imidacloprid costs 50 yuan a bag if you go to the Agricultural Technology Station to import it!"

"Then I'll take these two boxes."

Hong Zhong thought he had misheard and stared at him with wide eyes: "What are you doing here? Can you afford it?"

“Grow vegetables!”

Chen Jiazhi opened the box and took a look. There were only 10 bags of imidacloprid and 10 bottles of avermectin, which cost 370 yuan in total.

Damn it~
"But I have to wait a few days before coming back. I need to buy other things first. Please keep this pesticide for me for another twenty days."

Hong Zhong looked at him with disdain: "If you can't afford it, then you can't afford it. Why are you showing off? Okay, I'll go to the agricultural technology station later. Tell me, what do you want today?"

"20 bundles of bamboo strips, 3 rolls of agricultural film, 2 tons of decomposed chicken manure, 100kg of phosphate fertilizer, and 20kg of potash fertilizer."

After giving the list concisely, Chen Jiazhi said, "How about it, boss, can you get it all here?"

Hong Zhong: “There is no decomposed chicken manure, but there is a pig farm in Dashi Town that sells fermented pig manure, but you need to go there yourself or find a car.

Other items include bamboo strips, agricultural films, and fertilizers.”

Next, the boss took Chen Jiazhi to look at the goods. The main thing was that the bamboo strips needed to be fumigated to avoid insects in the future.

There is also a bamboo product wholesale market in Huacheng City, but it is too far away and it is not convenient to transport it back by yourself.

After bargaining with the boss, Chen Jiazhi bought the supplies for the small shed except chicken manure for 1120 yuan.

In addition, I also bought agricultural supplies such as paclobutrazol and compound fertilizer that will be needed for subsequent bean and melon vegetables, which cost more than 200 yuan.

In the end, the total was 1360 yuan.

After adding in 2 tons of decomposed organic fertilizer, the remaining money is still quite sufficient for daily life, but buying imported pesticides will have a slight impact on the standard of living. As for the pesticides for home, we can only wait a little longer.
It would be best if the boss could sell it to the agricultural technology station. Chen Jiazhi just needs to confirm that it can be bought here and then come to the boss for it when he needs it in the future.

However, the Agricultural Technology Station is quite wealthy and can afford such expensive imported pesticides.

During the conversation, he also learned the boss's name, Hong Zhong. The name is very meaningful, but it's a pity that Sichuan Ma doesn't need Hong Zhong.

After talking to Hong Zhong about the loan after the goods arrived, Chen Jiazhi asked about the location of the pig farm and went to the farm to inquire about the price and place an order.

Fermented pig manure with humidity ≤30% costs 300 yuan/ton, and the freight is 25 yuan/ton. After paying the deposit and agreeing to deliver the goods after the weather clears, Chen Jiazhi went home.

After hanging around for an entire afternoon, I spent 2010 yuan, all of which I spent working at the agricultural supply store.

When they returned home, Hong Zhong had already delivered the bamboo film fertilizer. Chen Jiazhi asked Li Xiu to take the money and paid the balance. He then said to Hong Zhong:
"Boss Hong, if the Agricultural Technology Station doesn't want your imidacloprid, you'd better keep it for me."

Hong Zhong hesitated for a moment and finally nodded, mainly because he knew that the agricultural technology station was very poor and might not be able to afford it.

The supplies are all there, now we just have to wait for the weather to clear up. Only Plot 1 has been half-plowed, Plot 2 has not been plowed yet, and Plot 5 will be vacated soon, so there is still a lot of work to do.

After saying something to Li Xiu, Chen Jiazhi went out to pick vegetables again.

The vegetable room was full of rotten vegetables left over. The original plan was to harvest 400 to 500 kilograms of vegetables to clear plot No. 5 today, but now it is estimated that only 200 to 300 kilograms can be harvested.

As the plum rain season came early, Chen Jiazhi's timely stop-loss was quite good.

It also laid a good foundation for the next month, except that the plan to stockpile agricultural supplies was temporarily bankrupt due to lack of money.

But when seeing the current situation of other vegetable farmers, Chen Jiazhi could recall how difficult it had been for him and Li Xiu in the past two months.

(End of this chapter)