In fact, this time Yang Shimin called him over, mainly to ask for an increase in the scientific research budget. The 500 million that had been invested in had basically been sold out at this time.

"It's really a burning money!" Lin Ruiyu said in a little amazement after hearing this. Lin Ruiyu now knows Jiang Feng's family background, knowing that Jiang Feng has a net worth of billions, and her usual consumption is also very high, but under normal circumstances it is only tens of thousands or tens of thousands. Now, when she hears that this project has cost hundreds of millions, she can't help but feel a little shocked.

"It's nothing." Jiang Feng said fairly, "The actual research and practice will be about two years. It only takes less than 300 million yuan a year, and the average expense is less than one million a day. It's not too much. You should know that Mengsandu's daily scientific research fund is 2 million US dollars, which is incomparable to us."

"You can't say that," Yang Shimin explained next to him, "Although Xiaofeng only gave a special grant of 500 million yuan, our actual income, in addition to the necessary equipment upgrades, has basically been invested in scientific research. Overall, the actual investment is about 1.5 billion yuan."

"This base makes a lot of profits, which is more than some listed companies." Lin Ruiyu calculated that the construction expenses of the planting base were not mentioned. In three years, he invested 1.5 billion yuan in scientific research alone, which was indeed a big deal. This is rare among other domestic companies, not to mention that this is just a farming company, not a high-tech company.

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "What's going on in domestic listed companies? You don't know what's going on? There's nothing comparable to this."

Lin Ruiyu has been with Jiang Feng for quite some time. Although he can't tell the situation in the mainland, he is not unaware of it. He is very clear about what Jiang Feng said. The so-called listed company of state-owned enterprises is a good performance in one year, a loss in two years, and hovering on the verge of asset restructuring for three years. Three years later, he is flooded by countless new stocks. This historical law seems to have not been broken since the birth of the domestic stock market.

However, Lin Ruiyu also found a problem, that is, the research projects conducted in the base are all plant-based genetically modified projects, and there are no animal-based genetic research projects.

"The research on plant genes is relatively simple, and I don't want to create a large number of freaks in the laboratory." Yang Shimin answered this question.

Jiang Feng didn't say anything about this, but in fact he was also a little disgusted with the problem of animal genetically modified. Yang Shimin's move coincided with his ideas, but for scientific experiments, it was a pity to give up one aspect of research.

But think about it if the plant-based GMO project and animal-based GMO project were carried out at the same time, the investment in funds would be even greater. At least it is more than three times the investment now. Such a large amount of expenditure is indeed a bit hesitant to use to cultivate freaks.

Jiang Feng’s last meaning is to fully sprint for the research of plant-based genetically modified projects, concentrate superior forces to attack one point, and make breakthrough progress in the shortest time. That is the best way to do so.

In the past few years, the base has made some achievements here, especially the research on the genetically modified project of cotton seeds has made breakthrough progress.

When it comes to genetically modified cotton, we must mention Guo Sandui, a researcher at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who has made the most achievements in domestic insect-resistant cotton, before he developed insect-resistant cotton. The domestic cotton seed market has always been monopolized by Mengsandu Company in the United States, and then his insect-resistant cotton seeds quickly changed this situation. Although the genetically modified cotton seeds of Mengsandu Company in the United States still have a market, they are already declining. The market share is constantly being compressed.

The development direction of genetically modified cotton seeds developed by Jiang's Consortium is in addition to insect resistance. The focus is on the generation of heterochromatic fibers, which is what people often call colored cotton.

Natural colored cotton fibers are soft and have good feel. The clothing has soft color, simple format, pure texture, comfortable and safe, and conforms to people's mentality of returning to nature and natural colors. Therefore, its textiles are called "the darling of the 21st century" and are known as "the second healthy skin of mankind". They cater to market demand and are one of the most development potential products in the international green textile market in the 21st century.

Natural colored cotton is a natural cotton with color. It does not require dyeing in textile processing, thereby reducing the processing process, correspondingly reducing the discharge of sewage and the treatment of sewage, avoiding pollution to water resources and banning dyes during processing, and the harm of toxic additives to the human body and the damage to the environment, and reducing energy consumption. The entire production process of natural colored cotton textile processing uses non-toxic, low-toxic chemical additives and pollution-free processes and equipment for industrial production, so it is a green and safe textile product and is for human health.

"Actually, this means that after the cotton grows, it is no longer a trace of unchanged white, but generates various colors according to our needs, and the color difference can be controlled within a very small range." Yang Shimin explained to several girls, then looked at Jiang Feng and said, "This is also a difficult problem that Xiaofeng personally explained to us to focus on."

"Colorful cotton automatically grows?" Several girls asked excitedly after hearing this, "Didn't that mean that there is no need to dye it? You can directly produce colorful cotton thread?"

Yang Shimin smiled and nodded and said, "Yes, we thought it was a bit incredible at the beginning, but experiments have proved that this idea is indeed feasible, and now we have obtained some relatively satisfactory sample genes in the laboratory."

When he saw several girls, Yang Shimin agreed to take them to the laboratory to see the sample cotton.

The security level of the laboratory is very high. Not only does it require identity verification, it also requires several doormen's inspections. The identity backup of the visitor was carried out in the computer system, and then it entered a room in the Colored Cotton Genetically Modified Project Research Room. As expected, thousands of colorful cotton plants were planted here. The red, blue, yellow and purple cottons can be seen, but some colors in color cannot meet the requirements of the researchers.

Among these girls, Xiang Jin is the youngest and is usually the most cared for by everyone. This girl is like a curious baby. After seeing her, she said excitedly: "There are really colorful cotton!"

"The naturally grown colored cotton is obviously more environmentally friendly than cotton dyed with pigments, but from the perspective of genetic changes, we have not yet come up with a very clear view on whether it is good or bad." Yang Shimin said, "So now we are only strictly controlling their growth in the laboratory, just because we are worried that it will affect other crops. We will consider officially launching this variety after the pathological or toxicity test is completely passed."

Jiang Feng is quite interested in this colorful cotton variety, otherwise he would not have specifically instructed to conduct research on this project before.

Some naturally grown cottons are dark brown when picked. In fact, Indian farmers in America are very familiar with cotton that are not naturally white, but all of these brown cottons, which are native to America, have too short fibers to be spinned into yarns by machines for commercial use.

American botanist Sally Fox discovered that these cottons were becoming more and more interested in colored cotton. She patiently cultivated cotton varieties with darker and darker colors, and selected those varieties with fiber length and strength that were sufficient to be spun into fabrics for making clothing, sheets and towels and gloves. In 1989, she founded the Natural Cotton Color Company to sell cotton of various colors. Currently, the company sells varieties including reddish-brown, yellow-brown and olive-green cotton fabrics.

Since colored cotton is not treated with caustic dyes used in traditional cotton processing processes, colored cotton can eliminate almost all environmental hazards related to textile production.

These colored cottons also have a unique but still unexplainable characteristic. Their color will deepen after initially washing twenty to thirty times and then return to the color in the cotton field, but will never become lighter than the original color.

my country began research and development of colored cotton breeding in 1994, and now has grown colored cotton with brown, green, yellow, red, purple and other colors. The Brown No. 1 cultivated by the Cotton Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Tiancai Brown 9801 developed by Xijiang Tiancai Technology Co., Ltd. are leading in the international colored cotton variety improvement. These two varieties were used in field production and product development in 1998.

In addition, Xijiang China Color Cotton Co., Ltd. now has three fixed varieties of brown, green and camel color that can be planted on a large scale and more than 90 excellent selected materials. Among them, three fixed varieties of brown, green and camel color have been successfully planted on a large scale in Xijiang.

However, considering that the colored cotton varieties of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences are not yet mature, Jiang Feng is worried that their patent issues will affect their actual application and increase the production cost too high, so he decided to do it alone. After all, it is easier to start research on genetically modified technology in this regard and the market prospects are also better.

Western Xinjiang is sparsely populated and has a natural barrier, and can erect a wide isolation belt for colored cotton of different colors, which is very suitable for the development of colored cotton. With this unique natural environment, the Jiang family's consortium can easily enter the field of colored cotton. In addition, a number of new varieties with excellent quality and bright colors that have been cultivated can easily pass the colored cotton seed certification of the Ministry of Agriculture and obtain the colored cotton seed patent.

In addition, Jiang's Consortium itself has a planting base and a cotton and wool mill that is actually controlled. Therefore, it is very convenient to produce and process colored cotton products. It is easy to establish a colored cotton industry chain integrating scientific research, planting, processing and sales. It not only can recover all investments in a short period of time, but also hope to obtain huge profits.

At present, the research center is conducting stable genetic research on new varieties such as blue, red, duck egg blue, and research on colored cotton against cotton aphids and bollworms, striving to make colored cotton rich in color and better quality.
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