Homo sapiens.

Even Lao Du had no choice but to provide food self-sufficiency, but he didn't have many cards in hand.

As long as Lao Du promotes relevant policies, either opposition forces will come out to make troubles, or ABCD will be dumped at low prices.

If you want to resist ABCD, there are only two ways.

One is to find other countries in Southeast Asia and purchase large quantities of grain from these countries to counter ABCD’s grain monopoly in Luzon. This method is a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

Another method is to store enough grain first, then quickly close the door, and at the same time greatly increase rice planting subsidies.

Obviously, these methods require a very strong authority and sufficient financial reserves. Obviously, Lao Du also has more energy than he wants.

Although Homo sapiens does not intend to confront ABCD head-on, it does not intend to sit still.

The previous layout of Hongshawadi was also for the food security of Luzon. After all, Hongshawadi is a big rice exporter, and it is almost complementary to Luzon.

On the other hand, Li Qingye also intends to use technical means to increase the grain production in Luzon.

One of the layouts is the insect breeding industry.

It should be known that the feed conversion rate of insects is the highest among the animals that can be reared by humans.

The same is to produce protein, the same amount of feed, the protein production of insects is about 12 times that of beef cattle.

Insects also emit much less methane and carbon dioxide than pigs, cattle and sheep.

Of course, the feed conversion rate of white-feathered chickens is also good, but there are two problems with white-feathered chickens.

One is that the seedlings of white-feathered chickens are controlled by western companies, and there is a possibility of being choked; Once infected, it will cause an epidemic that wipes out the entire farm.

Insects don't have this problem.

In terms of seedlings, Homo sapiens can be cultivated by itself. In the process of insect breeding, antibiotics are basically not needed, which reduces a lot of costs.

In addition, breeding insects does not have high requirements for feed, even if it is cellulose and lignin that are difficult to digest for pigs, cattle and sheep, some insects can digest it.

This expands the source of feed. There may not be many other things in Luzon, but there are many weeds and trees.

What's more, Li Qingye plans to transform some algae, using genetically modified seaweed with more comprehensive nutritional value, as the main source of insect feed, and with the dead branches and rotten leaves of various plantations in Luzon, the feed for insect farms can be completely self-sufficient.

The Homo sapiens company has also deployed mushroom plantations, which is also a supplement to food, and mushrooms can also be used as insect feed.

The garbage recycling plant and methane plant can supply gas and a part of fermented fertilizer.

Insects are used to solve protein, seaweed is used to solve starch and sugar, mushrooms are used to replace some vegetables, and rice from Hongshawadi, as well as local grain and plantations in Luzon, are more than enough to meet the internal supply of Luzon.

Once the layout of Homo sapiens is completed, what about ABCD? At worst, we will continue to fight price wars.

Even Li Qingye is preparing the means to turn the table, if ABCD dares to play tricks, he doesn't mind learning the DuPont family's good tricks.

The recently deployed sea fields, insect farms, mushroom farms, deep processing plants, and methane plants are all serving the safety strategy of Homo sapiens.

Through these interlocking industrial layouts, it is planned to complete the construction of these industries in the next two years and create an industrial chain exclusively for Homo sapiens.

As long as food and energy are in their own hands, even America cannot shake Homo sapiens' basic position in Luzon through conventional means.

Unless America intends to tear its face directly, if so, then Li Qingye will use Hongshawadi as his headquarters, and then turn Luzon into a flesh mill, and let America shed the last drop of blood in the Luzon Islands.

What's more, it's not like he doesn't have a trump card.

If Li Qingye is in a hurry, he can open a dungeon like "Umbrella" for North America.

He doesn't use those trump cards casually, but he still has some bottom lines, but this does not prevent him from studying those things, the more technical reserves, the better.

Whether it is used or not is one thing, and whether it is available is another.

Chapter 50 Industrial Layout ([-])

Although Luzon is like summer all year round, the temperature in February is still slightly lower, which makes people feel relatively comfortable.

Lima South City in southern Luzon.

In the headquarters building of Haitian Agriculture, Zhang Wei checked the progress schedule of various projects, rubbed his temples, picked up the thermos cup beside him, and took a sip of oolong tea.

The work of building 60 mu of sea fields this year, as well as projects such as insect breeding plants, mushroom planting plants, and feed processing plants, all made him feel a lot of pressure.

Recently, the head office issued another order to ask Haitian Agriculture to prepare an agricultural association.

He has read the plan book of the Agricultural Association and knows that this is a very large project. The overall plan seems to refer to the Agricultural Association of Japan, but there are some differences.

According to the first stage goal described in the planning document, it is planned to establish 80 distinctive agricultural cooperatives this year, involving about 8 farmers.

He picked up the phone: "Man Ling."

"Yes, Mr. Zhang, please tell me." Assistant Man Ling replied.

"Inform the supervisors of each department to hold a meeting in the conference room on the fifth floor at 02:30 pm to discuss matters related to the Agricultural Association, and ask them to come up with a proposal based on their own department."

"Ok."

02:30 in the afternoon.

In the conference room, more than a dozen department heads gathered together.

After Zhang Wei arrived at the scene, he didn't say any nonsense, and went straight to the point: "Talk about how to promote the Agricultural Association. The head office has high hopes for us. Don't lose the chain at a critical moment."

The person in charge of the Haitian business department directly spread his hands: "Mr. Zhang, I still have a project to promote 60 mu of seafield, and I don't have the energy to participate in the agricultural association."

The insect farming division and the mushroom cultivation division also looked powerless.

Zhang Wei also understands them, but he still reminded: "The Haitian business department doesn't have time to understand, but the insect breeding business department and the mushroom planting business department still need to contribute."

"Huh? Should we promote insect farming and mushroom cultivation to farmers?" the person in charge of the mushroom cultivation business department asked hesitantly.

Zhang Wei asked: "How many varieties of mushroom cultivation technology are currently mastered by the Mushroom Division?"

"Currently there are six varieties of straw mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, pleurotus, fungus, Agaricus bisporus, and Flammulina velutipes, and these are common varieties on the market."

Zhang Wei wrote down the names of these mushroom varieties in his notebook, and then wrote the number 12 on the back: "The Mushroom Business Department is responsible for the technical support of 12 cooperatives. You supply these cooperatives with strains, and the company will provide them with financial support. And sales channels."

"12 cooperatives?" The person in charge of the mushroom business department frowned: "We have to build large-scale planting factories ourselves, and the cost advantage of these small factories is not high!"

Zhang Wei waved his hand: "Don't worry, the company won't do business at a loss. These mushrooms will be eaten by the Harvest House. As long as they are obedient, we can make them the designated suppliers of the Harvest House, even if it is to subsidize farmers at the beginning. And it will continue.”

In fact, Haitian Agriculture is pursuing scale and monopolizing the market.

Even if other small farmers and small families do it themselves, they have no way to fight against Haitian Agriculture.

As long as the market monopoly is completed, others will have to withdraw from the market.

In terms of insect breeding, Zhang Wei also asked the insect breeding business department to provide technical support and seedlings to support six species of locusts, crickets, Tenebrio molitors, silkworms, scorpions, and earthworms, and also 12 cooperatives.

The remaining share of the cooperative consists of fruits, vegetables, and aquatic products.

All the things produced by these cooperatives are purchased by Haitian Agriculture in a unified manner, and after processing, they are supplied to the House of Harvest, or Haitian Agriculture digests them internally.

……

The areas around Limanan and Dart Harbor were the first to be affected.

A small mountainous town called Snake Mountain Town is currently talking about the cooperative that has recently expanded here.

As the big landlord in the small town, Master Basa obviously had some resistance and hostility towards the arrival of the cooperative at this time.

A young man with yellow teeth asked, "Uncle, do we want to cooperate with Haitian Agriculture?"

"What is the cooperation? Is the father short of those millions? Tell everyone in the family not to cooperate with Haitian Agriculture." Master Basa spat at the stars.

His family is a toubob in the local area, and they have connections in Manila. Barcelona owns more than 3000 acres of mountainous land, planted rambutan and lotus seedlings, and can enter the Manila market through its own channels. Naturally, it looks down on Haitian Agriculture.

It's just the farmers in the town, not just the Basa family. Although their family occupies about 33% of the land in Snake Mountain Town, other farmers are also related to the Basa family.

The problem is that there are differences between closeness and closeness. Among them, there are people with good relationships, and naturally there are people with average or even bad relationships.

As a large landlord, the Basa family has a lot of land, but the population is not too large, accounting for only about 3% of the entire town's population.

Those farmers who only have a small piece of land, after hearing the propaganda of the cooperative, although they did not show any impatience, many people are actually already moved, but they are waiting for the first person to eat crabs to appear.

People often like to follow the trend blindly.

The project of the Agricultural Cooperative in Sheshan Town is to grow fruits, vegetables and rice.

Soon the first person to eat crabs appeared.

A farmer named Baile signed the first contract, and the 1.3 mu of mango forest and 0.3 mu of paddy fields under his family's name were included in the cooperative.

To become a contracted farmer of the cooperative, one must plant the agricultural products designated by the cooperative, and the price of agricultural products is fixed, and the price is adjusted once a year.

Moreover, the cooperative also provides insurance to ensure that farmers and cooperatives will not go bankrupt under natural disasters and force majeure.

Seeing the price signed by Basil, the price of mangoes was about 18% higher than the price given by Master Barcelona before, and other small farmers were also moved.

In the face of interests, farmers don't care, even a small number of farmers who have a good relationship with the Barcelona family ignore the ban of the Barcelona family.

The person in charge of the cooperative clapped a large stack of contracts on his hands, sneered and mocked: "It seems that in front of money, the words of Master Barcelona are not worth a single peso."

"Boss, will those guys make trouble?" the salesman asked worriedly.

The person in charge of the cooperative has no fear on his face: "Hehe, don't forget who is behind us. If he doesn't want to be decent, then we will help him to be decent."

Just like what the person in charge said, the Barcelona family is just a small local family. Facing a behemoth like the Fernando family, they dare not use violent means at all.

Next, these small families will feel what malice is.

With a complete transportation logistics and food supply chain, Harvest House quickly opened convenience stores to various small towns, grabbing the market that these small families had previously monopolized.

The contracted farmers can also get discounts similar to employee discounts. The cooperative also has affordable pesticides, fertilizers, and agricultural machinery, as well as professional technical support.

Now more farmers can't sit still, and more farmers want to join the cooperative.

Farmers who do not cooperate have to face higher production costs, and have to solve sales channels, transportation channels, and purchase insurance by themselves, which is simply bloody.

Even the big landlords couldn't bear it at this time.

Chapter 51 Industrial Layout ([-])

With Homo sapiens striking out, [-] agricultural cooperatives were quickly established, and soon more than [-] farmers participated, and this number is still increasing.

The joining of these farmers has brought 27 mu of mountainous land, 6.3 mu of paddy field, 2.8 mu of dry land, and 5436 mu of fish ponds to Haitian Agriculture.

Of course land, these are just trivial matters.

You must know that the Fernando family and the Lopez family are the real big landlords.

Take Panay Island, the base camp of the Lopez family, as an example. The plantation area under its control is very large, reaching 1736 square kilometers, which is equivalent to about one-seventh of the entire Panay Island area.

The Fernando family's plantation in southern Luzon also covers an area of ​​about 2245 square kilometers.

The plantations and other agricultural land controlled by these two families in various parts of Luzon have a total area of ​​5571 square kilometers, which is equivalent to one-fiftieth of the total area of ​​Luzon.

Not to mention the small families and small farmers affiliated to their family.

Haitian Agriculture will naturally not let go of such a large piece of land.

Panay Island at this time.

Led by the local head of the Lopez family, Zhang Wei inspected the island with the second largest area of ​​rice fields in Luzon, where rice and sugarcane are mainly grown.

At present, the total rice production in Luzon is about 1700 million tons, and the rice self-sufficiency rate is only 79%.

In addition, there are about 1000 million tons of corn.

Based on Luzon's 1.02 million population, the total grain output of 2700 million tons is equivalent to about 260 kilograms per capita. This per capita output is enough to ensure food and clothing.

The problem is that the staple food in Luzon is rice, and some wheat flour is also eaten, while corn is exported.

Luzon produces about 2700 million tons of grain annually, exports about 2000 million tons of grain, and imports about 800 to 900 million tons of grain.

This is very embarrassing.

Even with the introduction of Huaguo's hybrid rice, Luzon is still unable to be self-sufficient in grain. The core reason is that big landlords and businessmen are unwilling to increase the area of ​​rice planted. They would rather grow corn that Luzon people do not eat.

Then these guys cooperate with ABCD to import cheap rice and wheat flour and sell them to urban residents at a high price, earning high profits.

As for food security, what does it matter to big landlords and big businessmen?

On the contrary, they are eager for food crises to occur every day, and they just take the opportunity to drive up prices.

The Fernando family and the Lopez family were also members of this comprador landlord system.

It's just that Homo sapiens has taken over the inheritance of these two families. If it remains the same as before, it can only be a dog for America.

Li Qingye often laments that he is not cold-blooded and cruel enough, and seems out of place in this world.

But why did he take the initiative to adapt to the world?