silent farm

Chapter 133 Wheat X Virus
During this time, the news frequently reported that some wheat virus was spreading.Li Sheng also noticed it, but he didn't pay much attention.

Hearing what Fernando said seemed serious, he couldn't help but patted the ashes on his hands, and asked earnestly, "The world's production has been reduced? Then why is the wheat virus so harmful?"

Fernando said with a smile: "Didn't you say you are a farmer? Don't you even care about this?" He smiled and continued. "It's not unreasonable that the virus is called X virus. It is said that it mutates very quickly, and as many as 93 varieties that are pathogenic to wheat crops have been isolated. In fact, there may be more, and they will become more and more in the future." Many. The rapidly increasing number of variants makes it more difficult to solve."

Hear what Fernando said.Li Sheng suddenly felt that it was a good thing to have such a farm that was almost cut off from the outside world, at least it would not be easily infected.

I only heard Fernando say again: "The research institute in the United States has made all the research materials public. Maybe all countries are now studying how to solve the X virus. But no one has said whether there is any progress."

The appearance of the so-called X virus was a man-made disaster, and the culprit was a research institute under the name of a certain American company.They are working on a genetically modified wheat that they hope will improve its resistance to viruses.As a result, a new type of wheat virus was inadvertently produced and circulated.This virus first appeared a year ago, and the previous impact was still very small, and the United States could still cover it up.However, after a year, a large number of variants of this virus have emerged, and its toxicity has become stronger and stronger. The impact on wheat production has attracted the attention of the whole world.

"The latest research proves that this virus can survive for a long time in the form of cysts at a low temperature of minus [-] degrees. That is to say, they can follow dust and spread around the world through atmospheric circulation. That is the scariest thing. I said you should pay attention here in the future. Maybe you can consider not planting wheat in the future.”

This is the first time that Li Sheng has heard that the virus can be transmitted through the air. The gyre where the equator is located is located in Australia, and Australia is now the hardest hit area of ​​the X virus. The whole world prohibits the import of wheat from this country, but there is The arid area is the main area, so there must be a lot of dust.And those virus-laden dust will one day fall to Silent Farm.

But it is still too early to say these, the existence of the virus does not necessarily cause disease.Viruses and bacteria need a pathogenic concentration if they want to attack.Otherwise, countless types of viruses in the air would have wiped out humans long ago.And now the virus is ravaging severely in some relatively dry places, such as the central part of the United States and Australia, and in humid areas like Western Europe, it seems that I have never heard of it having a big impact. Maybe the virus is in a humid place. The ability to cause disease in the environment is relatively poor.

"I'll think about it. Anyway, leave the wheat to you."

After hearing what he said, Fernando didn't mention it anymore.He didn't mention other difficulties to show his ability, he just said: "Silence Farm is quite well-known in Europe now. There are fewer countries in the world that import wheat, and I think Europe will have no problem digesting 20 million tons. .Chen can probably digest tens of thousands of tons in China. The rest can be sold in Brazil.”

"By the way, those fragrant pigs, do you want to allocate more quotas to me? Or increase the number of slaughtered. That is also very popular in Europe."

Without even thinking about it, Li Sheng said, "It's not enough now, the quantity is still too small. Let's wait another half a year. After half a year, there will be enough quantity."

Little Fragrant Pigs are doing very well in China, with a plane transporting [-] tons by air every day.

Now Li Sheng can be so comfortable because these products have started to bring him back money.Before that, he spent money like water. In less than two years, he spent more than one billion US dollars.Of course that was mostly spent on the purchase of cattle and the construction of the farm.Such as hardened roads, such as airports.In addition, he spent more than 2 million to build a laboratory.

The airport is still being expanded, mainly because the mushrooms on the farm have to be shipped out every two days, and these mushrooms are fresh products with relatively large weight and volume. Just a heavy-duty helicopter cannot meet the transportation needs.In addition, helicopters can only be transported to Manaus by air, but Manaus does not have a few international routes.He had to rent some medium-sized cargo planes to transport the goods to the big cities in the south.

And the runway that was thought to be enough before now seems a bit insufficient.So he had to expand the runway from the previous 500 meters to 300 meters long and 70 meters wide.

The 300-meter runway is a bit of a waste for medium-sized aircraft.But he also intends not to expand in the future - who knows if he will suddenly be sullen and buy an A380 private jet?

Fortunately, it is only to expand the runway, and there is no need to build corresponding facilities such as luxury terminal buildings.Otherwise, he may not be able to build this airport even if he loses his fortune.

Li Sheng saw that there were still a lot of unpacked sweet potatoes on the ground, but it was already almost noon, and it seemed a bit bad for Fernando to bask in the sun with him here.

He will pick up two baskets of sweet potatoes and say, "Let's go back and make you a sweet potato soup. You will want to eat it after eating it."

This will be the time when the sun shines directly on the equator, and it is the dry season, and the temperature at noon is very high.

Fernando was already drenched in sweat.He was walking in the farmland wearing leather shoes, and his walking was slower than Li Sheng who was carrying two big boxes of sweet potatoes.He looked at the back of Li Sheng's clothes still dry, and didn't know what to say.

Sometimes he even doubted whether Li Sheng was an alien, whether he came from Mercury, and he didn't even sweat at all in such a hot weather.Also, he has too much strength.Those two baskets of sweet potatoes must have weighed more than a hundred catties.But he carried a basket in one hand and walked quickly.

Li Sheng put the two baskets on the tractor bed.More than 20 boxes of sweet potatoes have been installed on it.This is the result of his one-morning labor.What I have to say is that with the tractor, the labor intensity is much lighter, and he only needs to pick the sweet potatoes.The action of turning the sweet potatoes out can be done by a tractor.

He jumped on the tractor, and after Fernando came up, he drove towards the villa.This piece of land is only a few hundred meters away from the villa, and he specially reclaimed it to grow vegetables and fruits for his own consumption.

Soon the tractor drove to the lawn of the villa.

After Fernando jumped out of the car, he saw several ruts on the lawn being run over by the tractor. He wanted to vomit, but he didn't know what to say.

Li Sheng also got out of the car and said, "You go in and have a meeting first, and get yourself something to drink. I'll take the things back first." After he finished speaking, he ignored the other party, and walked to the warehouse with the two baskets of red.

Fernando had no choice but to advance into the villa by himself.He was so hot.

However, when he entered the villa, he saw the pair of leather shoes on his feet that he would definitely not be able to wear next time, so he took off the shoes and threw them outside the door, and walked into the villa wearing socks like this.

After he drank two cups of tea, Li Sheng came in.

Li Sheng walked in barefoot.He didn't want to get the villa dirty either.His hands have been washed outside, but there are still many dark spots.It was sweet potato slime mixed with traces of dirt.It takes a little effort and time to make these traces.

He saw Fernando drinking slowly, a little absent-minded, and ignored the other party. Instead, he went back and changed his clothes, sat down on the sofa, poured tea and asked, "What are you planning?"

Fernando put down his teacup and said, "I checked the researcher on your farm. He is really amazing, and he is called the most imaginative genius student by Hardin University. I remember that you spent nearly [-] million dollars for his laboratory. "

"Then?" Li Sheng did indeed spend a lot of money on experimental equipment.And those equipment are necessary for agricultural genetic research, so he is not worried about losing money.Even if Feng Xiaoting has no skills and can't research anything, the equipment will not be destroyed because of it.

"You have people and equipment now, maybe you can study that virus."

Li Sheng was taken aback.It's not that he didn't expect Feng Xiaoting to study it, but that Feng Xiaoting is already researching that thing.It's just that he didn't have any expectations.

After all, although Feng Xiaoting offered to study this eye-catching, he was only one person.A team of more than a dozen people in other research laboratories have been researching for so long, but there is still no result.What can he do alone?
He agreed with the other party's research, mainly because there is no research project at present, and the cost of that project is not too large.Furthermore, even if such a project is unsuccessful, it is possible to obtain some other results.He invested with the mentality of a blind cat touching a dead mouse.Fortunately for me, but not for my life.

The task he voluntarily entrusted to Feng Xiaoting was to study the sterile seeds of several kinds of grains on the farm.Of course, it is not a genetically modified crop, but the original gene is used to make the next generation of seeds bear seeds that cannot reproduce.Only in this way can he keep the source of these kinds of grains on the farm.

Although the unit price of food is not high.But the efficiency per unit area is not low.And the planting area on the farm is large enough, the benefits that these grains bring to him every year are still great.Before that, he knew that someone was studying the grains of Silent Farm.So in this regard, he had to be careful.

"Do you think it's possible? So many institutions around the world are doing research, but they haven't achieved anything. How lucky am I to be able to achieve results?" Of course, Li Sheng knows how much benefit it will bring if the X wheat virus can be solved.But he doesn't expect that castle in the air.

He looked at the time and said, "You can do whatever you want. I'll pick Tia up." Tia would be leaving get out of class in 10 minutes.

Fernando looked at him with a strange look, and he didn't bother to care about it.

(End of this chapter)