The reason why Zhao Yi did not let Yaoguang Environmental Management Company do this in 1984 was mainly because the number of employees in the environmental management company increased too fast that year, and there was still some confusion in management. He gave them one year to sort out these management issues. It went smoothly.
After a year of consolidation, it is now time to expand its business externally, and the country's economic development is also good, which is beneficial to environmental management companies.
Environmental governance is generally a national business, which means environmental governance companies can only cooperate with the national government.
After the report of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company was completed, it was Li Jianguo of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company who made the report. In fact, Li Jianguo did not report, and Zhao Yi basically understood all the situation, because their business was relatively simple.
Now it mainly focuses on two major areas, the raising and selling of mutton sheep and beef cattle. The only breeding base is Mu Us Ranch. It used to manage Tengger Ranch, but it was transferred to Tianji Dairy Company.
Although Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has a simple business, its turnover is one of the best among Zhao Yi's companies.
In 1984, it contributed nearly 2 trillion yuan in revenue. Excluding channel fees and taxes, the net profit reached more than 1 trillion yuan, and the net profit margin reached more than 50%.
Although the agricultural and animal husbandry companies made a lot of profits, all of them were used by Zhao Yi in infrastructure construction, such as highway network construction, which took up all the mutton profits of the agricultural and animal husbandry companies.
Now, with great difficulty, Maowusu beef was sold well in 1984, but Zhao Yi misappropriated the profits into fixed investments such as education, medical care, and pensions. It can be said that the agricultural and animal husbandry companies now do not have much funds in their hands.
However, these welfare fixed investments are one-time, and subsequent maintenance costs can be paid from the national finance.
Therefore, in 1985, in addition to the profits from mutton that will continue to be invested in highways, most of the profits from beef will fall into the hands of agricultural and animal husbandry companies.
Originally, Zhao Yi planned to continue to use the beef profits from the agricultural and animal husbandry companies for other purposes. However, when he went to inspect with Baiwei Food Company and saw the economic situation in my country's rural areas, he changed his original focus and allowed the agricultural and animal husbandry companies to prioritize their own development. business mainly.
After all, the agricultural and animal husbandry company has the word "agriculture" in it, but now its main business is animal husbandry, so Zhao Yi hopes that the agricultural and animal husbandry company can expand their business scope and develop in the direction of agriculture starting from 1985.
Of course, the land that can be cultivated now belongs to the state, and most of it is now contracted to farmers for management. Agricultural and animal husbandry companies cannot contract land on a large scale like they can in deserts.
Moreover, these lands are cultivated land, and the state will not allow large-scale contracting by agricultural and animal husbandry companies. In that case, the state might as well run these large farms itself, and how could it be contracted to private enterprises.
Therefore, if agricultural and animal husbandry companies want to achieve "agricultural" business development, they need to find another way and use the same method as Baiwei Food Company to cooperate with farmers from all over the country and establish an agricultural cooperation mechanism.
Baiwei Food Company mainly cooperates with farmers in the cultivation of cash crops and does not involve the cultivation of daily grains and vegetables. This aspect is the business scope of the agricultural and animal husbandry company.
However, the current situation in our country is that there is less land and more people, the per capita cultivated land area is limited, and food security is always at the red line, which brings disadvantages to the cooperation between agricultural and animal husbandry companies and farmers.
The reason is simple. No matter how high-yielding grain cultivation is, the economic benefits obtained are always limited. Neither agricultural and animal husbandry companies nor farmers can grow flowers on limited land.
Therefore, if we want to benefit both parties, we must try our best to cultivate high-value crops while ensuring national food security. At least the output value per unit land area must be very high.
Zhao Yi’s idea is to solve the constraint of food security from two aspects. One is to develop high-yielding and improved varieties so that farmers can obtain higher grain yields per unit of land and solve the country’s food security concerns.
The second is that Zhao Yi plans to start a sea farm project. As the name suggests, it is to grow food in seawater. This food is not rice in our usual sense, but a new type of sea food product developed by Zhao Yi himself.
This grain product is similar to a pomegranate, with a shell on the outside and grain seeds similar to rice on the inside. This grain not only has higher nutritional value than rice, but also has a much higher taste and yield than rice.
A vine of this kind of plant grows from the bottom of the sea to the surface of the sea. Hundreds of fruits can be hung on it. Each fruit is about 20 kilograms, and the grain content in it reaches 90%. In other words, a vine can produce 1800 Kilogram of grain is 1.8 tons.
A vine only takes up about 10 square meters of area. Since it is harvested once a year, one square kilometer of sea area can produce 180,000 tons of grain.
Only an area of more than 3,300 square kilometers needs to be planted at sea to meet my country's food consumption for the whole year of 2019.
Our country’s sea area covers an area of more than 3 million square kilometers. If you point it out anywhere, it is enough to meet the planting needs of agricultural and animal husbandry companies and completely solve our country’s food security problem.
Of course, offshore cultivation faces higher risks than land cultivation, mainly due to the impact of typhoons. If an offshore farm is in the center of a typhoon, it will cause a reduction in output.
At the same time, the initial investment in offshore farms is very large, and a large amount of offshore farm infrastructure needs to be built. The construction cost of these infrastructures is not cheap, and it also requires special offshore farm working machinery, which also requires a lot of funds.
In addition, the working environment at sea is worse than that on land, and the wages of employees are definitely much higher than those on land. Invisibly, the cost of food production on offshore farms is also too high.
Of course, due to large-scale planting and the application of special machinery, the overall cost is actually much cheaper than land-grown grain. Moreover, this kind of grain has higher nutritional value and better taste, so the selling price should be higher than ordinary grain. .
The above only talks about the good side, but the bad side is that this kind of maritime food is a product of genetic technology, and there may be uncertainty about consumer acceptance, which will affect the sales of maritime food.
In any case, this is an opportunity for agricultural and animal husbandry companies to expand their business scope, and it can also solve the food security problem hanging over the heads of our people.
It can even solve the global food crisis. It can be said that both economic and political value are very high.
After doing this, the problem of agricultural land in our country has been completely solved, allowing farmers to have more land to grow cash crops, and even engage in animal husbandry to increase their economic income.
After listening to Li Jianguo's report, when everyone was lamenting the huge operating income of the agricultural and animal husbandry company, Zhao Yi took over and said: "Your business has been stabilized now, so next, you need to expand own business scope.
Only by continuously expanding your business scope can your future continue to be brilliant.
In the past few years, you have been engaged in animal husbandry. It can be said that you have accumulated a lot of experience in the animal husbandry industry, so you can go out and help my country's animal husbandry economy develop.
How to develop? I think the cooperation model between Baiwei Food Company and farmers is very good.
You build large-scale breeding bases across the country, hire local idle farmers to work, and raise pigs, ducks, chickens, geese, etc.
It can not only increase employment for farmers, but also increase the supply of meat products in my country and solve the tight supply of domestic meat products.
Your previous mutton and beef were high-end products that ordinary people could not afford.
After environmental management companies cooperate with the government to transform the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, their mutton and beef can meet the consumption needs of ordinary consumers in my country for mutton and beef.
And you yourself are solving the consumption needs of Chinese consumers for common meats such as pork, chicken and duck. This is your next direction for the development of animal husbandry.
We not only need high-profit products such as Maowusu beef and mutton, but also a large number of ordinary meat products to meet the needs of all consumers across the country and even the world.
Moreover, the centralized breeding of these common meat products can improve breeding efficiency, improve product quality, avoid virus infection, and reduce environmental pollution, which is the development direction of modern animal husbandry.
I think with the technical level of the agricultural and animal husbandry company, it should not be difficult to solve the above problems.
At that time, it will not only provide low-cost meat products to the people across the country, but also increase the income level of practitioners, completely bring our country's animal husbandry into the era of industrialization and ecological development, and end the current development situation of small farmers.
Are you confident that you can accomplish this goal? "
Li Jianguo was fascinated when he heard Zhao Yi's story. If this goal is really achieved, then the agricultural and animal husbandry company will become the largest animal husbandry company in the world.
This does not refer to sales revenue, because they are now the largest livestock company in the world in terms of sales revenue.
It refers to the number of products, the number of consumer groups, and of course influence. People depend on food. Whoever controls most of the food supply will control influence in this area.
Facing Zhao Yi's inquiry, Li Jianguo suddenly felt heroic and said loudly: "We promise to achieve this goal and will never let go of this matter."
Hearing Li Jianguo's promise, Zhao nodded and said, "As long as you have this confidence, I also know that this will not happen overnight.
This matter not only requires the cooperation of local governments, but also requires you to do good industrial planning. The most important thing is to do good quality control. I don’t want a substandard product to flow into the consumer market.
We are in this industry not only to make money, but also to have a basic conscience. We already have enough money, and there will definitely be more in the future. This is no longer our only pursuit. I think you all should understand.
If we want to become a century-old store or even a thousand-year-old store, we need to be able to ensure that the quality of our products is up to standard no matter what time it is.
At the same time, on this basis, products with better taste or products with different tastes are developed to meet different customer needs.
I won’t go into details on these issues, because you are all engaged in this industry and should understand better than me, a hands-off shopkeeper.
It’s just that these businesses are not all of the future agriculture and animal husbandry companies. There are still many tasks waiting for you, so what I want to say next is the key to your ability to successfully implement the plan just mentioned.
That is to completely solve the problem of food security in our country. If we don’t solve this problem, what I just said is just like water in the well. "(End of chapter)