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#151 - Improved mass production
However, for Ren Zhong, these were no longer problems.
Now, the Dawn Research Institute had a complete set of production factories, and both machine tool and steel production capacity had the surplus to produce these things in the short term.
This was merely a matter of adjusting the production plan.
With the advent of the Farm 100 electric rotary tiller, Ren Zhong turned his attention to another aspect of land reclamation: the high-quality and high-yield of grain.
In the original historical timeline, in 1941, Nanniwan reclaimed 11,000 mu of land and harvested 140,000 jin of grain. This yield per mu was simply unbearable for Ren Zhong to look at. By the end of 1944, the grain planting area in Nanniwan had reached more than 260,000 mu, and the amount of grain harvested was 37,000 dan (120 jin per dan), but the yield per mu was still only about ten jin.
This shows that there were significant flaws in the chosen planting method, and the grain yield was too low.
Ren Zhong focused on the types of grain and discovered that the most suitable crops to grow here were wheat, corn, and potatoes. Ren Zhong set his sights on these three crops and prepared to use the 500 mu of land at the Dawn Research Institute as a breeding base for improved seeds, after all, he no longer had the ability to bring so many seeds from the main world to provide seeds for these newly reclaimed lands.
However, if he bred seeds on his 500 mu of land and distributed them, even if the seed yield per mu was only 500 kilograms, this could still provide excellent seeds for 50,000 to 60,000 mu of land. If 50,000 to 60,000 mu of land became high-yield arable land with a yield of more than 500 kilograms per mu, this would be enough to provide food for more than 100,000 people.
The grain problem in the border area would be easily solved, and there would be no need to deploy a large army.
Ren Zhong formed all of this into a detailed report and submitted it to Jiang Chongjing.
"Boss Ren, today we are mainly here to see the耕地machine you invented!" Jiang Chongjing reacted quickly. After receiving Ren Zhong's report, he brought a large group of people to the Dawn Research Institute the next day.
Ren Zhong saw some people who looked very familiar. However, since no one introduced them, Ren Zhong pretended not to recognize them and asked people to bring out the Farm 100, load it onto a large cart, and bring it to a piece of wasteland next to the Nangou River power station.
"Li Jianyong, you come and demonstrate the usage method to Minister Jiang," Ren Zhong instructed.
Li Jianyong was one of the main researchers involved in this project. A few months ago, he was still studying at the Southwest Associated University. After being coaxed over by his professor, he grew very quickly. This Farm 100 rotary耕地machine design was successfully copied by him based on pictures.
"Okay, Boss Ren." Li Jianyong didn't dawdle. After connecting the power, he operated the Farm 100 on the spot. On the wasteland full of withered yellow weeds, the machine rotated, completely breaking up the roots of the grass and then turning them into the soil. Guiding the rotary耕地machine was like a pedestrian walking forward, and naturally, loosened soil appeared behind him.
"Leaders, we haven't done any preliminary treatment of the wasteland here. If we burn the designated wasteland to be reclaimed in advance and burn the withered grass into ash, the effect will be better when we turn it over again. The ash from the withered grass becomes fertilizer and top-dresses the soil," Ren Zhong said, pointing at the rotary耕地machine while introducing some of his ideas.
"In addition, we also need to do everything possible to complete the collection of farm manure and biogas treatment to form high-quality organic fertilizer for top-dressing during cultivation. This can greatly increase grain yield. In addition, we need to use excellent seeds. According to our experience in the Taihang base area, selecting improved varieties and carefully tending the land with farm manure, the yield of corn we planted exceeded 700 kilograms per mu!"
"A yield of 700 kilograms per mu was also Boss Ren's work! That's really amazing. When I saw the report, I wondered why Lao Peng was so厉害, and the grain yield could be increased to an incredible height. It turns out that Boss Ren provided support behind the scenes," said a member of the observation group.
"Boss Ren, we saw your new type of耕地machine today, and we think your suggestion is very good. How about this, the agricultural development of the border area will be led by you to come up with an overall plan, including how to plant, seed selection, where to reclaim, how many mu of land need to be reclaimed, etc. Let professionals do professional things, and we laymen will just execute according to this plan. What does Boss Ren think?"
"No problem!" Ren Zhong readily agreed.
It wasn't that he was nosy, but this matter was related to the sacrifice of thousands of people, and Ren Zhong had to take the time to complete it. Besides him, there was no more suitable candidate now.
Ren Zhong's demonstration and the success of the Independent Regiment quickly made Ren Zhong's leadership of the agricultural production plan a consensus in the border area, and Ren Zhong did not disappoint everyone.
While mass-producing Farm 100 rotary耕地machines, he began to inspect the land suitable for reclamation along the Yan River.
The flat river valley areas along the Yan River were more or less cultivated by people. Ren Zhong would naturally not compete with the people for profit, but according to the coverage of the hydroelectric generators, he included the relatively gentle slopes on both sides, which were still wasteland, into the scope of reclamation. He checked and measured and recorded all the way, and after a full seven days, Ren Zhong incorporated nearly 100,000 mu of land suitable for reclamation from the Dawn Research Institute to the border area into the plan.
In Ren Zhong's view, with these 100,000 mu of new land, if a high-quality grain production base of more than 500 kilograms is formed, it would be enough for the border area to be self-sufficient, and Ren Zhong would not even have to worry about the Dawn Research Institute's future grain supply.
With so much grain, Ren Zhong could even plan several pig farms, using some miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables to raise pigs to improve the lives of the border area.
The organic integration of the breeding industry and the planting industry can solve the problem of farmland topdressing before the chemical industry breaks through the large-scale production of ammonium nitrate.
With these ideas, Ren Zhong proposed mobilizing a regiment of troops to carry out land reclamation and construction in the spring, incorporating farmland, ditches, biogas digesters, pigsties, etc. into the plan.
He also completed the construction of the 500 mu of land at the Dawn Research Institute as a breeding base for improved seeds. In order to ensure the long-term effect of this work, Ren Zhong also wanted an agricultural research team and began to arrange for them to collect some grain seeds from the current time and space. According to the improved seed screening test design of the main world, a Liangjian world's own improved seed research and development model was formed. In the future, there is no need to rely on Ren Zhong to bring improved seed breeding seeds from the main world.
It's just that this work is slow to take effect, and Ren Zhong did not completely pin his hopes on this. At least in the next few years, he will have to rely on him to bring seeds to expand the production of improved seeds. This year, the capacity to bring goods is limited, and he can only manage the current 500 mu of land. When he frees up the capacity to bring goods in the future, Ren Zhong can expand the breeding base to about 2,500 mu per quarter, so that the seeds that can be produced can cover at least 250,000 mu of land and solve the grain supply for more than 500,000 people.
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Of course, Ren Zhong would not write this into the plan. The initial focus is on the reclamation and planting of 100,000 mu of new cultivated land.
At the same time, during the inspection, Ren Zhong saw that many places were high slopes, and some were more than one kilometer away from the Yan River, making watering very inconvenient.
In order to ensure that the newly opened cultivated land along the Yan River forms irrigated land, Ren Zhong found a windmill-driven rotating wooden waterwheel lifting tool from the main world. After repairing the ditches, it can lift water up level by level, forming irrigated land with less manpower.
When Ren Zhong's plan was submitted, it was quickly approved, and the 8th Garrison Regiment was dispatched to execute according to Ren Zhong's plan. Along the 50-kilometer stretch of the Yan River below the Dawn Research Institute, a vigorous land reclamation movement began. Every day, planned hills were set on fire, and then terraces were built on the slopes according to the plan. The water lifting nodes, level by level, were built according to the planned irrigation canals.
These tasks were very cumbersome, but compared to the large-scale land reclamation movement in the original time and space, Ren Zhong's work has already reduced the workload by at least an order of magnitude, which has enabled these tasks to make great progress in early 1941, initially opening up nearly 30,000 mu of new terraces.
The first season of spring plowing can be sown with wheat and corn in the traditional way, and when winter wheat comes, it will be replaced with the improved seeds grown by Ren Zhong.
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