This was only the first half of the inspection team's trip. After everyone had a hurried and simple lunch on the offshore platform, they boarded a personnel transport ship to go to other offshore platforms whose harvesting tasks had been completed for some time.
In order to solve the problem of seawater eutrophication caused by natural degradation, enough fish must be allowed to eat these disintegrated plants when they disintegrate.
If not eaten, the corpses of these plants will absorb a large amount of oxygen in the water during the decay process, causing local anoxia in the seawater. In severe cases, the seawater will become smelly and seriously pollute the surrounding marine environment.
In fact, Zhao Yi had already anticipated this situation when he started the offshore farm project, and also knew that if it were ordinary fish, it would be impossible to digest so many disintegrated fish in just two and a half months. substance.
Moreover, even if ordinary fish can consume so much plant disintegration material, they cannot grow to a certain size in such a short period of time, and the sales of these fish will definitely be affected.
Therefore, Zhao Yi personally improved the genes of some herbivorous fish, allowing them to eat more than normal fish and grow faster. Of course, the meat quality is also tastier than normal fish.
Anyone who has eaten marine fish knows that the meat of marine fish is generally not as tender as freshwater fish. Just like Zhao Yi, he doesn’t like to eat marine fish. Even though freshwater fish have more spines, he still likes to eat them.
According to Zhao Yi's character, if he wants to do something, he must do it to the extreme, just like the sheep and cattle breeds he cultivates for the agricultural and animal husbandry company. If he cannot achieve the top level, he will really be sorry for his efforts.
Therefore, when it comes to the direction of fish modification, in addition to making it easier to grow in size, the most important improvement direction is the meat quality. The bad taste that is common in marine fish is removed and the advantages of other excellent meat fish are added.
To be honest, this is more science fiction than the transformation of sheep and cattle breeds. After such a large-scale transformation, it is actually not much different from new fish species.
It was precisely because the extent of genetic modification this time was a bit large that Zhao Yi had to take action himself.
First, they are afraid that others will not renovate it well and leave hidden dangers. After all, this is for people to eat, and there should be no safety issues.
The second is that this transformation technology is a little more advanced than the genetic technology he gave to Qingnong's laboratory. If it is advanced, it will be equivalent to creating a completely new species.
The reason why Zhao Yi was reluctant to let others learn such terrifying genetic technology was because he was afraid that those who mastered the technology would do something regrettable after being out of his control.
And only he can have higher predictability of the safety brought about by such a large-scale transformation, because he can carry out simulations in the Zeoling space for tens of thousands of years.
It can be determined that in the modified population, after countless generations of reproduction, the genes can still show their stability, and it can also be determined whether cross-transmission of genes has brought about new genetic contamination problems.
Even if other people have mastered this large-scale genetic modification technology, they are not in a position to judge whether this new variety is safe for the human body, because they cannot span the time course of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years.
Many genetically modified species cannot detect this harm within a short span of time. It will only slowly manifest itself after countless generations of reproduction.
Within half an hour, the ship arrived at an offshore platform. This area and several surrounding areas had already been harvested, which could be seen from the leaves of the surrounding plants on the water.
For plants that have been harvested, the leaves on the surface of the water will quickly change from slightly yellow to almost completely yellow. At the same time, due to the mechanical operation during the harvesting process, the leaves are relatively damaged and not as complete as before.
After everyone boarded the offshore platform, the person in charge of the platform led everyone to inspect how to quickly build a marine farm.
If you want to raise fish at sea, you can only raise them in cages, but traditional cage farming cannot adapt to the current situation.
First, because the entire area of the offshore farm is too large, traditional cages are relatively small. If you want to consume all the plant carcasses in the offshore farm, too many cages are needed.
Not to mention the capital cost, it is impossible to quickly build so many offshore fish cages. You must know that the best time for fish farming is only two and a half months. If you miss it, you will really miss it.
Second, although the water permeability of the cage device is relatively good, it is generally closed. The sizes of debris after plant disintegration vary, and larger ones cannot penetrate the cage at all, resulting in a waste of resources.
The third is that the plants in the seawater area of the farm cannot be allowed to disintegrate and be washed away by the waves. Otherwise, not only will these resources be wasted, but they may also cause pollution to the surrounding sea areas.
It is precisely because of this consideration that Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company spent huge sums of money from the beginning to build many large and small offshore platforms throughout the offshore farm area.
The offshore platform not only provides a safe harbor for offshore farm employees, but also serves as a strong offshore fixed pile.
I saw employees using machinery to tie the rope above the fishing net to the buckle of the platform on the sea level. The rope below the fishing net sank to the bottom of the water and tied it to the buckle on the seabed platform.
Then 10 ships will coordinately transport the fishing nets to another offshore platform. During the transportation, the fishing nets will be slowly put into the sea.
By the time we arrived at another offshore platform, the fishing nets on the boat were almost ready, and then the ropes from the fishing nets were tied to the sea level buckles and seabed buckles of the platform.
There are many hooks in the middle of the fishing net, which need to be hung down densely along the offshore platform. Only in this way will the farmed fish not be allowed to slip away.
At this point, the fishing nets on this side have been laid. The distance between the two offshore platforms is one kilometer apart. If it were an ordinary rope and fishing net, its own weight would be very large, and the rope on the sea surface would dent downwards seriously.
In order to solve this problem, the materials of these ropes and fishing nets are made of carbon nanotubes developed with the help of Cornerstone Materials Company. They are not only very light in weight, but also very strong in flexibility and tensile stress.
Fishing nets and ropes made of this material can not only prevent the ropes from sinking downward on the sea surface, causing fish to cross the fishing nets, but can also cope with huge sea waves.
Once the entire offshore farm is enclosed like this, large offshore vessels will not be able to enter the interior. However, various equipment will be prepared in advance in each breeding area, such as automatic fishing machines, fish observation machines, etc.
When fishing in the future, there will be very little manual participation. You only need to operate these machines to complete the entire process from breeding, observation, capture to transportation, which is quite convenient.
Some people may say that farmed fish may also pass under the seabed. After all, the seabed is not flat. Zhao Yi has also considered this issue.
Therefore, the fish modified by Zhao Yi are accustomed to living in the middle and upper layers of the ocean. Under normal circumstances, they will not dive to the bottom of the sea.
Seeing this, the inspection team's maritime inspection trip officially ended. They spoke very highly of the offshore farm operation process of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company.
Not only does the relatively dense offshore platform ensure the safety of offshore farm employees, but the use of various mechanized equipment also greatly reduces the work intensity of employees and improves the work efficiency of the entire farm.
When everyone took the boat back to land, it was already 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was almost dinner time, so Zhao Yi proposed that they let them have dinner in the kitchen here.
Since they are here for inspection, of course they have to taste the taste of this pomegranate rice. Only in this way can they make an accurate assessment.
To be honest, the performance of pomegranate rice far exceeded their imagination. In order to let the delegation fully understand the characteristics of this rice, Zhao Yi specifically asked the chef to demonstrate the production process from beginning to end.
I saw the chef directly peeling open an unopened fruit that seemed to have just been harvested. Inside were fruit seeds similar to rice. This is pomegranate rice.
This kind of fresh pomegranate rice is very simple to cook. You only need to steam it directly on the steamer. You don’t even need to add water. Wait for about half an hour before it is steamed and taken out.
When the steamer was opened, everyone looked inside and found that they had been put into pieces one by one. After steaming, they were still one piece at a time. Unlike rice, which would stick to each other after being steamed without special techniques. .
In this case, the rice made with pomegranate rice will look much better, at least this is the unanimous view of everyone present.
When the pomegranate rice is cooked, the chef personally fills the bowls for everyone and brings them to the table, and then puts the dishes that have been prepared on the table.
"Everyone, try how the pomegranate rice tastes. Make sure your trip is worthwhile." Zhao Yi smiled and greeted everyone to eat.
So everyone picked some rice grains and put them into their mouths with an inquiring look, chewing them slowly, trying to feel the difference between this kind of rice and ordinary rice.
The first is the aroma. As soon as you eat this kind of rice, your mouth will be filled with a refreshing aroma, which is much stronger than ordinary rice. In fact, in this state, you don't need to eat vegetables at all, and you can easily swallow the rice grains.
Secondly, it is chewy. This kind of chewiness is just right, a little chewy, but it does not stick to the mouth. It feels very good.
The above two points are the feelings that pomegranate rice gives them. Not to mention other things, just the appearance and taste make it feel that it is much higher quality than rice.
After everyone tasted it, Zhao Yi also introduced them to the nutritional content of this pomegranate rice. It can be said that as long as you eat this kind of rice, the main nutrients needed by the human body basically do not require additional supplements.
This is the fundamental difference between this kind of pomegranate rice and ordinary rice. When Zhao Yi developed this kind of grain, he deliberately reduced the proportion of starch and increased the proportion of protein. At the same time, it also provided various nutrients needed by the human body. elements are included.
In the past, when people were not wealthy, the pursuit of high-starch substances was mainly to solve the energy consumption of the human body. However, in the future, most people will not need to consume so much starch for their daily activities, and their demand for protein will increase.
So by then, this kind of pomegranate rice will definitely be sought after by more people, because it is healthier for the daily nutritional needs of the human body.
It was just such delicious rice, but everyone present chose to remain silent. Zhao Yi also felt that the atmosphere was not right, and knowing the reason, he could only choose to eat in silence.
After eating, Zhao Yi and everyone rushed back to Kyoto overnight. Before everyone dispersed, the chief assistant said: "Everyone must take time to attend the meeting tomorrow morning."
Originally thinking that nothing happened to him, Zhao Yi prepared to leave the scene. After all, he heard too many things that were not good.
When the result came, the chief assistant added: "Mr. Zhao, you can come over tomorrow too."
There must be a reason for such an urgent meeting, that is, although Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company's offshore farm has a bumper harvest this time, they should be happy, but these senior officials are also very aware of the hidden worries behind it.
Tomorrow's meeting will probably focus on these issues, and a proper solution needs to be worked out to resolve the hidden concerns behind them.
After returning home, after Zhao Yi finished washing, he lay on the bed and thought about this problem carefully. After all, tomorrow is not only a matter of solving this problem, but also a big test for him. If he wants to do well in the test, he must prepare well first.
Zhao Yi knew that this scene would happen before, because this kind of pomegranate rice not only has high yield, but also has first-class taste and quality.
Although this is a happy event, it is not a happy event for the majority of farmers in the country. Zhao Yi understood this from the beginning, so he asked Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company to establish an agricultural cooperation demonstration site.
The purpose is to set an example so that high-level government officials can see what modern agriculture is, and at the same time, to prevent these farmers from growing food, because the domestic food production structure will undergo huge changes.
In the future, agricultural modernization will inevitably significantly reduce the number of farmers employed. This is an inevitable trend. Otherwise, if we continue to plant in the old way, although the number of employed people will increase, the per capita income will not increase.
Just like in previous lives, although farmers have some land in their hands, it is almost impossible to make a living by farming, and most people still need to go out to work.
This is the reality. The unit output of land is too low and seriously mismatches the energy invested. Only by improving labor efficiency and increasing unit output can farmers have the same income as the urban population.
Realizing this, Zhao Yi has been looking for a way out for the rural population in the past two years.
The first is to increase the planting of cash crops. To this end, Baiwei Food Company even subsidizes farmers to plant fruit trees.
The second is to increase the number of industrial industries in various places. It stands to reason that if the factories of Baiwei Food Company are built together, it will be more convenient to manage, and many facilities can be shared, reducing related costs and expenses.
However, Baiwei Food Company did not do this. In order to provide employment for these remaining rural people and to create more jobs, Zhao Yi also asked Baiwei Food Company to expand product categories and expand production scale as much as possible.
It's just that they were just established last year. No matter how hard they work, their energy is limited. As everything gets on track in a few years, Baiwei Food Company has the potential to explode in the coming year.
But this alone is completely insufficient. According to the modern agricultural technology provided by Zhao Yi, our country only needs a maximum of 50 million agricultural laborers to meet almost all of our country's agricultural product needs.
Even if the technology becomes more advanced, the agricultural products grown by these 50 million farmers will not be consumed throughout the country, and can also be exported on a large scale.
Calculated based on the ratio of rural labor force to non-labor force population at 1:2, that is to say, the agricultural sector can only feed 150 million people.
Then there will be a rural population surplus of nearly 650 million. If this part of the employment and survival problem cannot be solved, the agricultural modernization promoted by Zhao Yi will be impossible to continue.
Moreover, among the 650 million people, more than 300 million people need to be assigned jobs. The problem is that not all urban working people have jobs, and the employment of this population needs to be included.
If this problem cannot be solved, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company’s offshore farm will only be able to maintain this year’s planting scale.
Because if the scale is further expanded, the food grown by domestic farmers will not be competitive at all, whether in terms of price or quality.
Therefore, Zhao Yi must provide a stable solution to this problem. The main ideas are as follows.
The first is to increase the scale of industry. Zhao Yi has actually done this consciously. At the beginning, Zhao Yi was engaged in high-tech fields, but the threshold for these industries was relatively high, and the overall number of employees was not very large.
So he started to establish textile companies and clothing companies, both of which are large employers of workers. In fact, this is also the case. For Zhao Yi's two companies, the number of employees now is about 15 million.
But this is almost to the extreme. It’s not that Zhao Yi can’t expand the scale of his company, but that they already account for more than 50% of the world’s textile and clothing industry production.
It is very difficult to improve further. Some countries are also consciously protecting their own textile and clothing industries. Only those developed countries in Europe and the United States do not care about these textile and clothing industries.
Because these industries are low-end industries for them, and their workers' wages are very high, capital cannot obtain excess profits, and if the operations are not good, they will still suffer losses.
Of course, as my country joins the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the world share of Zhao Yi's textile and apparel companies will increase, but Zhao Yi estimates that the maximum will not exceed 80%.
In other words, this industry can only provide employment for about 20 million people at most. This is already the limit, and it is almost impossible to increase it further.
Another industry that can accommodate a large number of jobs is the food industry, which is why Zhao Yi has been asking Hao Simin to accelerate the development of Baiwei Food Company in the past two years.
According to Zhao Yi's estimate, the entire food processing industry can accommodate about 10 million direct jobs, and as the industry expands, there will be serious overcapacity.
The reason is that unlike the textile and clothing industry, the exports of the food industry have higher barriers in each country. It is very difficult to export on a large scale. This is the safety need of each country to protect its own food.
Coupled with the infrastructure projects he invested in, the total number of jobs he has created has not exceeded 40 million despite his busy schedule.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yi couldn't help but sigh. It had been 7 years since he was reborn, and he seemed to have a lot of wealth. In fact, from this perspective, it was just like that, and he had not achieved the goal he wanted. (End of chapter)