Chapter 169, Shocking Space Agriculture
On December 15, 2020, at the Fuyun Group Space Center of Longling Town, Sanjiang District, Meijiang City, Tang Yunshan, the head of the Chinese space field, led a huge inspection team here. There was a team of top scientists from the Space Agriculture Research Institute. The leader of the Ministry of Agriculture of China, who received the news, also brought a team of more than ten people to the investigation team. At the same time, there were even a larger famous private entrepreneur invited by Tang Yunshan.
Among them are Lao Wang, a real estate tycoon who was ambitious to enter the space industry, Lao Ma, a tycoon in the virtual world industry, Zhang Xianzu, the "Future Star" who is now making a fortune by lunar tourism, and Lei Dapeng, the head of Huaxia Grain Group, and a huge team of more than 50 people.
Accompanied by the roars of 2 huge "Hercules" space planes rushed into space with long tail flames. This time, there were quite a lot of people. They were all close to a team of more than 200 people. For the sake of safety, they were divided into two aerospace planes.
When visiting space agriculture, it will be divided into several parts, which will be received by Li Fu, Gu Feng, Luo Xiaoyao and others, and will take them to visit the space farmland.
Taking a space plane to space is not unfamiliar with these people at all. For example, Tang Yunshan, the head of the space field, has even been to the moon several times. Except for a few who seemed a little nervous when they went to space for the first time, everyone seemed very relaxed.
The aerospace plane slowly approached the space farmland of Fuyun Group. At this time, the space farmland was already quite large. As the aerospace plane slowly approached, it continued to magnify in its field of view until the entire field of view was occupied by the space farmland. Everything was filled with green worlds everywhere.
"Xiao Li, how big is your space farmland now? How much is the investment?"
The head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nong Jiamo, looked at the farmland in space, and seemed a little surprised and said to Li Fu beside him.
"The current area is about 250,000 square meters, divided into 25 space farmland, and hundreds of crops have been planted. The initial investment is not too large, and the cost is about 5 billion Chinese coins."
Li Fu replied with a smile.
"5 billion Chinese currency? It's not too big."
The rich men such as Lao Wang, Lao Ma, Zhang Xianzu and others on the side also nodded. They had such a huge space farmland in space and only invested 5 billion Chinese coins. They really didn't have much, much lower than the number they had originally estimated in their hearts.
Soon, the aerospace plane slowly parked to the port area of the space farmland. People in space suits slowly floated under the leadership of Li Fu and began to enter the space capsules of the space farmland to visit the space farmland.
"Please see, this is one of the earliest space farmlands we built. This space farmland mainly grows fruit watermelons."
In a space capsule, through thick tempered glass, Li Fu pointed to the green and fruitful space farmlands, facing dozens of people behind him, including Tang Yunshan, farmer Mo, Lao Wang, Lao Ma Ge, Zhang Xianzu and others.
Everyone looked at the space farmland, and saw green watermelon vines everywhere in the entire space farmland, and huge watermelons vaguely revealed their figures. Even people who do not understand agriculture can see that the yield of watermelons in this space farmland is quite high.
"Can we go in and take a look?"
Farmer Mo looked at the scene in the space farmland, and his eyes couldn't help but widen, and then asked Li Fu.
"sure."
Li Fu nodded, then entered instructions from the control computer next to him, and soon the hatch door was opened.
The farmer Mo's hand gently pushed it, and he slowly drifted into the space farmland. Tang Yunshan, Lao Wang and others also floated into the space farmland one by one.
When you enter the space farmland, you feel like you are in a green ocean world. No matter from that direction, you are all green watermelon vines. At the same time, because you are in it, you can more intuitively see the appearance of the space farmland.
The spacing between watermelon vines from the roots is very regular, and the vines have no guidance at all. They are only affected by microgravity in space. The vines of watermelon spread everywhere, and huge watermelons are quietly suspended in the void, while some are very naughty hiding under the leaves of the watermelon vines.
"Dong, dun!"
The farmer's ink kept knocking on the watermelons one by one, obviously checking the ripening of the watermelons, and at the same time, he was silently calculating the number of watermelons that were born on a vine.
"A watermelon vine can actually produce 15-20 large watermelons, and these watermelons are very well-proportioned, and they generally look more than 10 kilograms."
As the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Farmer Mo also knows a little about agriculture. Generally, it is normal for a watermelon vine to produce 3-5 watermelons. It is rare to see 10 watermelons. However, in the huge farmland in front of him, the number of watermelons in each watermelon vine is between 15-20, and these watermelons are very well-proportioned, so he couldn't help but exclaim.
"In space, because it is only affected by microgravity, coupled with sufficient sunlight and no pests and diseases, combined with scientific planting and management methods, the yield of watermelons can generally reach ten times the yield of watermelons on the ground. In space, agricultural production can be carried out all year round. If calculated in this way, the yield can actually double."
"Not only the output is much higher than the ground, but also the quality will be higher than that of several levels, without the influence of pests and diseases, so there is no need to inject pesticides at all. The temperature and light are reasonably adjusted, and the sweetness of watermelon is also quite high."
Li Fu smiled and introduced the advantages of developing agriculture in space.
"Ten times the output, high-quality agricultural products."
Everyone couldn't help but grasp the keywords in their minds.
"If the output is dozens of times that of the ground and can produce high-quality agricultural products, there is a lot of profit margin here. The area of this space field is tens of thousands of square meters, and the three-dimensional layout, its area can actually be increased by ten times. If this calculation is made, the output is really amazing!"
"The entire space farmland can be planted with almost 100,000 watermelon vines. Each watermelon vine is 15 watermelons, and each watermelon is 10 kilograms. In this way, it can be about 15 million kilograms. If it is 1 yuan per kilogram, it means that it can have an output value of 15 million at one time. One phase can be planted for 120 days. Three phases a year can be planted, which means 45 million output value!"
"Li Fu said that his entire 250,000 square meters of space farmland investment was about 5 billion Chinese coins, which means that the investment in a piece of space farmland was about 200 million Chinese coins."
Everyone present couldn't help but start calculating in their minds. Looking at the layers of watermelon vines around them, they could not help but widen their eyes just by calculating them casually.
"Even if calculated based on the lowest data, there is great potential! As for the quality of this watermelon, it can definitely be sold as the top watermelon, and the profits here are really huge."
Brother Ma couldn't help but scream.
Everyone present couldn't help but nod. They all had virtual machines and calculators to calculate, and they could easily calculate the output of this space farmland. After searching for the market price of watermelon, they could easily obtain the output value of this space farmland.
Combined with what Li Fu said at the beginning, the output and investment ratio suddenly came out, and a person couldn't help but widen his eyes and felt moved.
"I didn't expect that space agriculture has such a great prospect. In the past, it was just metaphysical that any investment in space was a loss. Now it seems that everything still needs to be spoken by data."
The whole person of the farmer's family nodded and sighed a long time ago.
"In fact, as our Huaxia's technology becomes more and more advanced in the field of space science and technology, the cost of this space farmland can continue to decrease. In space, unlimited space and unlimited sunshine are all advantages that ground agriculture does not have."
Tang Yunshan nodded with satisfaction. This time he brought everyone here, his purpose was very clear, which was to guide everyone to the side of space agriculture. Now everyone has seen the broad prospects of space agriculture. Tang Yunshan can see that the people who followed him were already moved.
After visiting the watermelon space farmland area, everyone soon arrived at the rice planting area.
Entering the rice space farmland, the farmer Mo was shocked again because he saw that these rice had several rice ears, each of which was full of golden rice grains, and the entire rice space farmland area was filled with golden harvest.
"Xiao Li, are these genetically modified rice? How can several rice ears be produced?"
Farmers are very concerned about rice because rice is the main grain crop, and things that are related to the national economy and people's livelihood are many times more important than watermelons. For a big country with a population of more than one billion, the most important thing for ordinary people is to have enough food.
"It's not genetically modified rice, or even hybrid rice, it's very ordinary rice, the rice that our ancestors have been passing on."
"In fact, it is not just rice, even wheat, sorghum and other crops that have entered space. Because it is only the influence of microgravity, multiple ears can be produced. For rice, even the most common rice seeds, the yield of a single plant is more than twice that of the highest-yield hybrid rice."
Chapter completed!