Natural Disaster: My Portable Farm in the End of the World
Chapter 42 Insects are also delicious food
Xu Ge was surprised when he heard this. He was a little surprised as to why President Liao answered so firmly.
But it’s not good to continue asking further.
After sending President Liao to the office near the official greenhouse, Xu Ge and Xiang Chi continued to drive towards their own greenhouse.
After parking the car, Xiang Chi thought about President Liao's words. As soon as she got out of the car and closed the door, she suddenly had an idea. When she turned around, Xu Ge happened to turn around to look at her.
The two people said in unison: "Martial control!?"
The more I think about it, the more likely it is. In this case, if we organize residents to receive relief water, if we want to avoid causing trouble, we can only rely on the military.
Although the network base station is now down for a few days from time to time, after all, the network is not completely disconnected.
A few days ago, there was an uproar on the Internet about the imposition of martial law in major cities. Some people even posted some extremely blurry photos of large numbers of military vehicles driving through the city.
Now it seems that there is no smoke without fire.
Xiang Chi and Xu Ge hope for military control, but the current security situation is really chaotic.
They had stocked up on so many supplies before, and even though they had consumed some during this period, it was only a drop in the bucket.
Now the basement of the bungalow is full of food, water, daily necessities, etc... not to mention the mountains of supplies, fruits, vegetables and food in the space.
The most important thing is that there are several elderly people in the family, and Xiang Chi and Xu Ge are always unable to catch up.
Although the anti-theft facilities in a bungalow are very comprehensive, how can you prevent thieves for a thousand days if you only commit a thief for a thousand days?
If martial law is really implemented, if nothing else, at least the public security will be much better. The military's deterrence is still great.
Moreover, the importance of the vegetable planting base in Hexi Village is self-evident. If military control is implemented, a team of soldiers will definitely be stationed in Hexi Village.
Biliu Community is so close to Hexi Village. Once Brother Bing is stationed in the village, the public security nearby will definitely improve to a great extent.
You may never encounter a robbery on the way home again.
After thinking carefully about the news revealed by President Liao, Xiang Chi became more and more certain that martial law should be implemented.
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When they arrived at the greenhouse, Xiao Shao and Xiao Wei were cleaning out the last batch of seedling substrates contaminated by insect eggs.
Although people discovered that the insect eggs were highly resistant to antibiotics as soon as they were discovered, they did not expect that this small insect could be so powerful.
Various pesticides and disinfectants were used, but these eggs could not be completely killed.
And these bugs are so pervasive that no matter how hard you take precautions, there will always be bugs that slip through the net. One adult insect can lay hundreds of eggs.
Because of its short growth cycle, as long as one insect is missed and not eliminated, a large number will appear within a few days.
During this period of time, this bug was causing everyone a lot of trouble.
Until one time, Wang Jin, the new party secretary of Hexi Village, accidentally mixed some ash containing adult insects into the disinfectant. After pouring the disinfectant onto the substrate, he found that after just a few minutes, the substrate The insect eggs inside actually rotted and melted!
This solved the problem of not being able to kill this little black insect.
After many tests by technicians, they discovered that the natural enemy of this insect was actually himself.
Burn the insects and add the ashes left after burning to the disinfectant. If the eggs come into contact with the disinfectant, they will quickly rot and melt.
After discovering this method, people breathed a sigh of relief. Although the contaminated greenhouses were isolated during this period, the remaining greenhouses were still attacked by the black bug.
In just seven or eight days, it spread to the entire vegetable planting base in Hexi Village.
And because once the adults lay eggs in the substrate, people can only choose manual processing and screening. This requires a lot of manpower.
Now because of the importance of the entire base of Hexi Village, all vegetable greenhouses, whether contracted by the villagers themselves or built with their own funds, are all managed by the government.
Although these eggs require a lot of manpower to deal with, it is impossible for the officials to let too many people enter the greenhouse. In addition to food, vegetables are also in short supply. When there are too many people, trouble will occur.
Therefore, everyone is working overtime during this period. Even so, it still caused a reduction in the production of some vegetables.
Later, after in-depth research on this bug by official researchers, it was discovered that the residue after the eggs of this mutated bug melted was actually rich in many special nutrients!
Vegetable seedlings grown using a substrate mixed with this residue will have larger leaves and a better taste than vegetable seedlings grown with ordinary substrates.
Officials purified this residue and processed it into plant nutrients. Extremely easy to use.
This is really a turn of events. The villagers used to look sad when they found this kind of insect, but now they feel like finding a treasure when they find the eggs.
Officials have also set up a team to purchase the eggs of this insect. Villagers can collect insect eggs from their own greenhouses and exchange them with officials for food or plant nutrients.
Ten pounds of insect eggs can be exchanged for one hundred grams of cornmeal. For a time, the black insect eggs that everyone had been shouting about before became meat and potatoes.
There are even villagers who have isolated an area in their greenhouses for insect breeding.
Nowadays, greenhouses require full use of space. Thirty or forty seedling trays can be placed in one square meter from high to low.
If there are many contaminated seedling trays in a greenhouse, three to four hundred kilograms of insect eggs can be screened out.
If calculated as three hundred kilograms, it can be converted into a full three kilograms, which is six kilograms of cornmeal.
If an adult eats these six pounds of cornmeal sparingly, he can eat them for twenty days!
Although villagers with greenhouses generally have no shortage of food, who doesn't have relatives and friends? You can't live without food and drink while watching others starve to death.
Moreover, everyone now knows that food is the most important thing. Now that there are channels to exchange for extra food, the villagers can't wait to stay in the greenhouse 24 hours a day to sift insect eggs. Just to get more cornmeal.
Nowadays, when buying staple food in Gongbao Supermarket, you can no longer buy rice. Most of the staple food is cornmeal.
Even if there is rice in the trading market, it is all in the hands of powerful individuals. You may be able to exchange it for daily necessities that are in short supply, but ordinary people cannot afford to exchange rice in large quantities.
The problem of insect pests in vegetables has been solved, but the damage to food is really disappointing.
It had only been a few days, and despite people's best efforts to get rid of the bugs, they still had little success.
Ninety percent of the farmland around Dancheng is corn. Standing next to the cornfield at night, you can clearly hear the sound of armyworms eating corn stalks.
"Kaz...Kaz..."
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