Homo sapiens

A day trip from South Cairo.

The next day, Dr. Lena and others followed the inspection teams from various regions and headed to West Cairo.

The North African Agricultural Expo is held in West Cairo.

Unlike the solemn atmosphere of Central Cairo and the prosperous commercial South Cairo, West Cairo seems to be an idyllic village, with the urban area surrounded by forests and grasslands.

The seawater canals brought from the seawater canal provide a large amount of water resources for the plants here.

In order to avoid severe land salinization after seawater irrigation, the seawater agricultural land here will be flooded with flood irrigation at regular intervals to flush the surface back and forth and take away the excessive saline-alkali in the soil.

If seawater is not used for back-and-forth flushing, once the salinity of the land exceeds the standard, even salt-alkali tolerant crops will not be able to grow.

Enter the venue of the agricultural expo.

Everyone saw a holographic simulation promotional image of a farm. This image introduced how to wash saline-alkali land and control soil salinity.

"Eh? Is this a date palm?" Heath looked at the low date palm forest not far away.

When he got closer, he realized that it was not just a date palm, but more than a dozen members of the expedition team from the Sand Kingdom were only discussing in a low voice.

The full name of the date palm in front of me is: salt-alkali-tolerant sugar-oil fiber composite palm.

The name is very long and the functions are relatively complex.

A more specific explanation is that it is a palm tree of the Palmidae family that can be watered with seawater. The pulp has a very high sugar content, the core also has a very high oil content, and the fiber of the leaves can be used for textiles.

"Are you interested in this kind of genetically recombinant palm tree? This is a brief introduction to the species." The commentator said while handing out a large stack of introductions to the guests present.

Lena and Heath also took a brief.

After flipping through it for a few minutes, Heath raised his glasses: "Terrible technology."

"It's really scary." Dr. Lena agreed.

This genetically recombinant palm tree only takes 17 to 18 months from cultivation to maturity, with a maximum height of 3.2 meters. A single tree can produce about 200 kilograms of fruit per year, including 120 kilograms of pulp (24 kilograms of sugar) and 80 kilograms of core. (Contains 40 kg of oil).

In addition, 150 to 200 kilograms of palm fiber and about 200 kilograms of waste residue can be obtained by collecting leaves (which can be used as organic fertilizer and biomass fuel).

On average, four genetically recombinant palm trees of this type can be planted per acre.

The narrator picked a large handful of red fruits from the palm fruit. These palm fruits are slightly larger than quail eggs.

"You can have a taste. Currently, our company has planted 500,000 acres of super palm in the sub-plateau area of ​​the Red Sea Province."

Heath didn't care that it was a genetically modified crop and took a bite. The pulp was very sweet in the mouth and had a bit of a rustling texture.

The eyes of those in the Sand Kingdom were gleaming, and they wanted to uproot the palm trees in front of them immediately.

What the commentator said next made the Saudi Kingdom's inspection team widen their eyes.

“Our palm oil is available in a variety of customized varieties that can produce vegetable oils similar to olive oil, soybean oil, peanut oil, or even directly produce biodiesel.”

"Biodiesel?" The face of the leader of the Saudi Kingdom's inspection team changed and he asked, "Is the oil production the same?"

The narrator nodded.

Now the people in the Sand Kingdom couldn't sit still.

After all, the economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is now very dependent on oil and natural gas. Without the revenue from oil and natural gas, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will definitely be ruined.

One acre of super palm can produce 160 kilograms of biodiesel. The Homo sapiens company can plant hundreds of millions of acres of super palm in the Sahara Desert, and then just lie down and harvest it.

Don’t think Homo sapiens Inc. won’t do this.

Nowadays, Homo sapiens Company purchases large quantities of oil and natural gas from Persia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Kingdom of Al-Thani. This is not because Homo sapiens Company has no oil and natural gas resources, but to maintain trade balance.

In fact, the total number of oil fields held by Homo sapiens companies around the world is quite large.

What's more, Homo sapiens is now comprehensively promoting nuclear power and new energy within the company. The biggest use of oil and natural gas is actually in the chemical industry, followed by the fuel field.

This is also the reason why many West Asian forces cannot stand up to the Homo sapiens company at all.

Now the people in the Sand Kingdom feel even more uncomfortable.

In fact, this is also a warning to all parties in West Asia, asking them to think clearly about who is the boss now.

It seems to be reminding these forces: If you continue to flirt with the Europa Consortium and America, I will make it impossible for you to even eat sand in a minute.

The silent members of the Sand Kingdom expedition team were like chickens pecking at rice, nodding and bowing to the side of the commentator.

Lena, Heath and others, who didn't quite understand this secret confrontation, ignored the intrigues between the commentator and the Kingdom of Sand.

Heath looked at some situations through Super Palm and guessed some of the next things:

"It seems that the Homo sapiens company will further develop the sub-plateau area in the interior of North Africa."

"Oh? Why isn't it a plain?" Dr. Lena asked curiously.

Brian interjected: "The plains must be a food-growing area such as rice and wheat."

Dr. Lena, who came back to her senses, nodded: "That's true."

After all, staple food is the core industry of the Homo sapiens company. Other crops are definitely not as important as food. Therefore, in plains that are easy to irrigate, priority must be given to planting food crops.

The purpose of Haitian Agriculture to develop super palm is to expand the agricultural planting area and march into the sub-plateau in the Sahara Desert.

The terrain of the Sahara Desert is flat, and there are generally no tall mountains or plateaus. Those 200 to 500 meters high plateaus are good places to plant super palms.

Such sub-plateaus are found everywhere in the Sahara Desert.

For example, the Sinai Peninsula in the Suez region, the southwest region, the northwest of Meroe, and the south and west of Numidia.

These areas are typical sub-plateaus.

It would obviously be very difficult to build these sub-plateaus into standard paddy fields.

The difficulty of transforming a super palm plantation into a super palm plantation will be much lower, and at most it will require the construction of a few more pumping pipelines.

Just when Dr. Lena and others were thinking wildly.

People from the Al Thani Kingdom and Persia also came to this exhibition area.

They also had ideas for Super Palm.

However, the Al Thani Kingdom and the Persians, like the Sand Kingdom, are very afraid of the entry of the Homo sapiens company.

After all, there are too many lessons learned from the past, and it is difficult not to be careful.

At this agricultural expo, in addition to the new variety of super palm, there are also genetically recombinant varieties of various other crops.

If Homo Sapien Company hadn't been too fond of causing trouble, forces such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would have cooperated with Homo Sapiens Company long ago.

at the same time.

As relevant content from climate forums and agricultural expos is posted on the Internet, parties are taking notice.

On the one hand, they asked the meteorological research team to study the overall impact of the Sahara Desert greening project of Homo Sapiens Company on the earth's climate as soon as possible.

On the other hand, they have also begun to act rogue. They no longer talk about being a green and environmentally friendly power, but are restarting a large number of previously mothballed thermal power stations.

Obviously these guys plan to increase greenhouse gas emissions and use them to offset the carbon sequestration projects of Homo sapiens.

In the face of huge survival pressure, human beings' bottom line is very flexible.

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