Rebirth in 1989: Creating the Chinese Technology Empire

"You two, this is the agricultural area of ​​our new city. It currently covers an area of ​​100 square kilometers. The main crop grown there is wheat..."

After coming out of the underground city, Muhammad led a team of two people to the agricultural area of ​​​​the new city. The agricultural area has begun to take shape.

The first batch of agricultural areas that officially started operations were 100 square kilometers in size, a square area ten kilometers wide. The entire area is full of continuous special agricultural greenhouses.

These greenhouses look spectacular with photovoltaic panels installed on top. After a group of people entered the interior, the scene inside shocked the two teams.

Wheat, yellow wheat, looks particularly spectacular.

"Mohammed, can wheat be grown in the desert?"

Bashar asked in surprise.

As Bashar knows about the desert, the inability to grow things in the desert is not only due to lack of water. The sand in the desert is all quicksand, and this kind of soil has no nutrients at all.

After hearing Bashar's words, Muhammad laughed and asked someone to cut off some of the wheat on the edge with a knife. Finally, he pulled out a one-meter-square special board from the desert. The whole board was like a big brick. It seems to be placed on the ground.

Seeing this board, the two teams looked curious.

"Actually, these wheats are not planted in the desert, but in nutrient tanks..."

Muhammad asked someone to open the board. This board is actually a special box, and the entire board is made of sand and super concrete.

The entire box is only ten centimeters deep, but the upper lid has round holes as thick as a finger, and the wheat grows in those round holes. When Muhammad asked someone to open the lid, the entire box was filled with wheat roots.

"Everyone, this is a nutrient tank. There is no need for soil at all. All these wheats use soilless cultivation technology. As long as there is nutrient solution, it is just like growing flowers in flower pots..."

Muhammad said with a smile and began to introduce the agricultural area to everyone.

The entire agricultural area is a huge flower pot, and the entire ground is filled with special nutrient tanks. Use soilless cultivation technology to grow wheat directly in the desert.

This was not the most shocking thing. After further understanding, they realized how shocking it was.

There is almost no need for people here, and many things are automated or even intelligent. If there is a shortage of water, it will be replenished intelligently. If there is a shortage of fertilizer, it will be replenished intelligently. The automatic sprinkler irrigation system of the greenhouse needs to be sprayed with pesticides.

Cameras installed in the greenhouse and some sensors in the nutrient tanks can accurately know the growth status of the plants here.

Even planting and harvesting are automatic.

The two teams arrived at just the right time, as a piece of land in the agricultural area was being harvested. The group went directly to the harvest site.

At the harvesting site, a specially customized unmanned harvester harvests the wheat without one, and the threshed wheat is directly transferred to the unmanned grain truck parked at the edge of the field through a conveyor belt.

When the grain truck is full, the entire grain truck will be automatically triggered to transport wheat to the warehouse. When the wheat arrives at the warehouse, it will be dried and cleaned directly by the drying equipment. After it comes out of the machine, it becomes dried and cleaned grains of wheat.

The wheat will be transported directly to the granary for storage.

After harvesting, the wheat fields have special equipment to re-clean the planting modules. After re-cleaning, the smart equipment automatically pours new nutrient solution.

Then there will be special equipment to plant the cultivated wheat seedlings in the holes of the nutrient trough, basically not giving the nutrient trough time to rest.

The harvest had just been completed here, and within an hour these nutrient troughs were already filled with tender green wheat seedlings.

Shocking, this is so shocking.

"Everyone, this is the nursery. We will cultivate seedlings here in advance according to the actual situation. After harvesting, we will transplant the cultivated seedlings into the nutrient tank. This will save a lot of time. These seeds are cultivated by Huaxia Excellent seeds. Guess how long it takes for us to harvest wheat?"

Mohammed said mysteriously, and the group was stunned by this question.

"Half a year?"

Bashar couldn't help but give an answer.

Muhammad laughed at this.

"No, Bashar, we have accurate time here. Here, we can harvest wheat every 90 days. It has only been half a year since this greenhouse was officially put into use, and now it is the second wheat harvest. According to the current According to the progress, we can harvest wheat four times a year. And the yield of these wheats is very high, and the yield per mu can reach 4 kilograms of wheat a year. If each adult eats 500 kilograms per year. With food, one acre of land in our agricultural area can feed 2000 adults. Now there are 500 acres of land. In this agricultural area alone, we can feed 4 people. In the future, the scale of our agricultural area will be larger than it is now. A hundred times or even a thousand times greater..."

Muhammad said proudly. The current scale of this agricultural area is just a pilot project. It covers an area of ​​only 100 square kilometers. The desert area in Libya covers more than one million square kilometers. In theory, there is no problem in expanding the agricultural area times.

100 square kilometers can support 60 people. If expanded 60 times, theoretically just one Libya can support billion people.

Of course, this is only theoretical. No country can afford to invest in such a large-scale smart agricultural area. The technology of this thing is indeed awesome, very advanced, and the output is also very high.

But the investment is really huge. Even in offline Libya, the cost of super and coagulant is not included, and the construction cost of one acre of agricultural greenhouses is as high as 20,000 US dollars.

Libya spent US$30 billion on the first batch of acres of greenhouses.

How much food can 30 billion US dollars buy? The current international price of wheat is only about US$0.1 per pound, and only US$200 per ton. US$30 billion can buy 1500 million tons of grain.

The current annual output of Libyan agricultural areas is only 30 tons. In other words, based solely on food prices, it would take Libya 50 years to recover its capital.

But for a country, it cannot just calculate economic accounts.

Because many times, you may not be able to buy food if you have money. Just like Iraq now, under the sanctions of the United Nations, Iraq is short of food.

You can’t buy it outside, and you can’t sell the oil at home.

Looking at the agricultural area and the harvested food, Uday's eyes were full of fire.

This agricultural area is great. Iraq needs this now. Iraq has oil, and Iraq also has some money.

But oil cannot be sold and money cannot buy anything.

If Iraq had such agricultural areas, Iraq's food problem would be easily solved.