Chapter 9 Our Agriculture

  A few old men chatted for a while, and then directly dragged Liang Sanping into the conference room. The conference room of the Heat Studio had long been disliked by the old men and had been renovated.

  A few blackboards, a floor full of chalk. On the desk, stacks of reports were neatly arranged, with obvious ink marks on them. And on the ground was a mess of cigarette butts.

  Look at the elderly again, their eyes are red and bloodshot. It's clear that they've been up all night, but the brief report of just a few thousand words to the General Office actually cost them a great deal of effort.

  There is no achievement that can be easily obtained.

  "Mr. Liu, why don't you and the other elderly gentlemen take a rest first?!" Liang Sanping looked at these sleepless and forgetful old men, his heart kept trembling.

  During this period, I will sort out some of the situations that I understand and report to you and other experts. Originally, there were still some hidden and concealed, fearing that their own secrets would be revealed, Liang Sanping decided to inform these old people about what he knew as much as possible.

  They are a group of admirable elderly people who don't think too much for themselves. What they think more about is this country and this nation.

  The elderly here are nearly seventy years old at the youngest. At this age, they still insist on staying up late, just to solve the current difficulties of the country.

  A group of old people are like that, so what reason does Liang Sanping, who is decades younger than them, have not to contribute what he knows?! Although he himself may only half-understand these things, he firmly believes that what he knows will definitely have some impact on the old people...

  "Yes! Old Liu, you and several old gentlemen have been up all night. If you don't rest now, your body..." Xia Zhendong hesitantly suggested to Old Liu.

  Liu looked at his old partners, and suddenly saw the eyes full of bloodshot. The old man sighed in his heart, they were all old brothers who had worked together for many years.

  He knew better than anyone else that if he didn't take the lead and rest, these old brothers would absolutely not rest. The old man could only sigh helplessly.

  "You stinky kid, we must see your report after we wake up!" The old man joked and then took his fellow elders to rest. They were indeed too tired, having been busy for the past two days.

  It was almost noon, and everyone followed Xia Zhendong to the cafeteria of the heat factory for a simple lunch. The old folks then went back to rest on their own.

  After seeing off Old Man Liang and the others, Liang Sanping only then noticed that Director Gou seemed to be nowhere around.

  "Lao Xia, where is Director Gou?! Why can't I see him?!" Liang Sanping curiously asked Xia Zhendong. The latter sneered and said...

  "Director Guo is a busy person! An American business delegation has arrived in the capital, and our department asked someone from our institute to go and see if there are any materials that need to be purchased. So Director Guo went off like this..."

  He paused, and Xia Zhendong said coldly: "Director Gou has never put his mind on our two hospitals, thinking that we are just a group of grassroots people. He wants to go to a 'more important' job position, make his own contribution to the Fourth Hospital..."

  Liang Sanping couldn't help but laugh when he heard the words. It turned out that Director Gou had gone to run for office. He must have been unable to bear staying in the two courts for a long time, after all, the two courts were always dealing with land and had no reputation to speak of, not to mention being in a remote and poor area.

  How can this be acceptable to Director Gu? He is a dragon among men, a figure who presents memorials to the emperor in the nine heavens. Where would he deign to linger here?!

  "Everyone looks down on agriculture, no one wants to engage in it. They think we're dirty and smelly! But why doesn't anyone think about the fact that out of 970 million people in this country, 840 million are rural population?! We are a major agricultural country, yet we ignore more than 86% of the agricultural population, which is irresponsible!"

  "It is unbearable to think that without enriching the 86% of the population who are farmers, how can our country be considered rich?! Without modernizing agriculture, how can our country be considered modernized?!"

  Everyone thinks it's a shame to be a farmer, everyone thinks it's humiliating. How can our country's agriculture develop?! What about the wealth of 86% of the population who are farmers?!

  Xia Zhendong became more and more agitated as he spoke, his fists clenched and teeth gritted, trembling with rage: "I don't believe it! Can our agriculture really not develop?! I don't believe it, must farmers really suffer poverty?!"

  Xia Zhendong's words suddenly lit up a bright light in Liang Sanping's mind. To be honest, since he returned to his 18-year-old self, Liang Sanping had always been living with a mixed mindset.

  But after Xia Zhendong said this, he felt that he should do something. However, at this time, he still hadn't made up his mind. Indeed, heaven giving him a second chance at life was already extremely generous.

  One should have some achievements, but history is not lacking in people who try to achieve something. Among these people, the truly successful ones are very few.

  They were either too proud and failed or made one wrong move and lost everything. Liang Sanping had no intention of following in their footsteps at all.

  Liang Sanping and Xia Zhendong sighed for a while, then Xia Zhendong took Liang Sanping to the previously opened room in the reception building to rest.

  But Liang Sanping did not truly rest, at the desk under the windowsill. He picked up his pen and paper, bowed his head in contemplation for a moment before slowly writing down some of the medicinal formulas he remembered.

  And the most important thing among them is the formula of Triazolone heat spray. Although Liang Sanping did not know the production process of Triazolone, he knew the ratio of Triazolone heat spray.

  These are almost no secret later, the instruction manual distributed to the farm has a clear indication of the main substance ratio. On the one hand, it is convenient for the technical personnel of the farm to configure triazolone, on the other hand, it is also constantly seeking the best ratio method.

  Your implementation of the sprinkler system will be reflected in actual production. All this will form a report, handed over to researchers at the two academies. In this way, they can fine-tune the formula for Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan and Yunnan provinces based on local soil, humidity and wind conditions.

  to achieve the best results with the most suitable dosage and exert the maximum efficacy.

  Xia Zhendong had a large amount of materials moved over here to make it convenient for Liang Sanping to do his work, so that Liang Sanping could easily look them up.

  "Huh?! Nankai University introduced triazolone in 1977?! And named this medicine 'Fen Rongning'?! Liang Sanping saw this message and jumped up suddenly!"

  It wasn't until then that he realized triadimefon was not originally developed for powdery mildew of rubber. It was initially developed for powdery mildew of wheat and also has some effect on corn.

  It was then imported as a preventive and curative agent for white spot disease in corn, wheat and other grains. In fact, the Germans had no good intentions. Because the Indonesian Rubber Research Institute had done experiments on fungicides for rubber with Bordeaux mixture, not only was it more expensive than sulfur.

  But the effect was not as good as sulfur, so the Germans sold this medicine to us. At that time, they did not think that we would use a hot fog machine, which was a relatively advanced agricultural machinery at that time, for spraying.

  What they did not expect was that we would actually make pyrethrin into a hot fog agent and achieve a high prevention and treatment rate with the imported hot fog machine.

  The mist sprayer, a type of agricultural machinery, actually appeared very early. As early as the year World War II ended, that is, in 1945, the Germans had already developed this agricultural machinery.

  After World War II, the US and the Soviet Union successively developed their own agricultural hot fog machines after gaining war dividends and a large amount of German leftover technology. After both poles of the world had successively developed their own hot fog machines, both camps also began to develop and improve on their own based on the technology provided by the two poles.

  After the Anti-US Aid Korea, in the honeymoon period between the Soviet Union and us, the Soviet Union naturally transferred this technology to us. However, due to the limitations of the process level and materials at that time, our domestically produced hot fog machines have always had a relatively large gap with imported ones.

  Then the great disaster broke out, and almost all scientific research activities were forced to stop. The development and improvement of the heat fog machine was no exception, and it did not escape the fate of being impacted.

  The consequence is that those domestic humidifiers are simply unable to reach the level of imported ones. They are unbearable to use.

  "Alas... after all, it still has to be imported..." Liang Sanping sighed helplessly. This report started from the use of powder rust inhibitor on rubber and extended to a comprehensive review of its applications in various fields including corn, wheat, fruits, vegetables, lawns, flowers, trees, etc., together with hot fog machines.

  It is worth noting that powdery mildew can not only prevent and cure white powdery mildew, wheat scab, whole rot disease, rice leaf tip blight, rice blast, black powdery mildew and many other diseases.

  It is also a mevalonate inhibitor and plant growth regulator, with synergistic effects when mixed with some pesticides. When used in certain ratios, its insecticidal and bactericidal effects are enhanced.

  And the price of powder rust inhibitor itself is not cheap, if you want to use it on a large scale, reducing its usage cost is something that must be considered.

  Liang Sanping clearly remembered that he had seen a cost conversion between other medicines and Fenbufen on the report.

  The best effect of zinc oxide per mu is 5 grams, and more is a waste. Although the effect is better, the cost is higher. Even if it's 5 grams, it's enough to use. The cost of 5 grams of zinc oxide is 0.5 yuan.

  After using the fog machine, it is necessary to use the spray oil that comes with the fog machine. The usage of spray oil is 0.2KG per mu, and its cost is 0.3 yuan per mu.

  The remaining tractor fee is 0.015 yuan per mu, labor cost is 0.018 yuan, and the fog machine consumes 0.006 liters of oil per mu.

  That is to say, using Bordeaux mixture for prevention and treatment costs 0.839 yuan per mu, while using sulfur spray would cost a full 1 yuan per mu. Most importantly, the efficacy of one spray of Bordeaux mixture is equivalent to that of two sprays of sulfur.

  Simply put, if the powder rusting hot fog machine method is used for prevention and treatment, it only costs about 0.8 yuan per mu, while using the traditional sulfur spraying method requires at least 2 yuan per mu!

  In that case, many people may still not understand the difference. Maybe everyone will think, isn't it just a little more money? Even in an era when salaries were only over 30 yuan, one more yuan was still affordable for the country.

  Let's take Jianghai Farm as an example. Jianghai Farm, with a total area of 43,000 mu (about 28,667 hectares) for natural rubber planting. Assuming the area is 40,000 mu, and each mu costs 0.8 yuan, then it would be 320,000 yuan.

  And if sulfur is used, then two yuan per mu would be a cost of 80,000 yuan!

  The former is more than twice as expensive as the latter, and at the same time it consumes a great deal of labor, time and energy. Moreover, its preventive effect is far inferior to that of rust powder.

  Everyone will go to calculate an account. After calculating, using sulfur powder is not cost-effective at all. But if you use rust inhibitor, then the source of the humidifier becomes a huge problem...

  "Xiao Liang, you've overlooked one thing. If we use rust inhibitor directly, then yes, the spray oil will cost money. But if we're using a rust inhibitor emulsion, then these three cents can be saved..."

  It was unknown when a group of old men stood behind Liang Sanping. The one who spoke up was Liu Lao, this vigorous and energetic senior.