Siheyuan: I am protecting Shazhu, who dares to object?

In a mountainous village in Eastern Europe, called Cui Gu Village, the mountains here are undulating and the terrain is greatly different. Although the land between the valleys is fertile, it is often threatened by natural disasters such as landslides and mudslides. In addition, transportation is extremely inconvenient, and agricultural crops are difficult to transport and sell smoothly, which has greatly restricted the development of the village.

The alliance's mountain integrated agricultural development team came here with a set of agricultural machinery that integrates disaster prevention, farming, and agricultural product transportation improvement functions. With the firm belief of changing the current situation of Cuigu Village and bringing new vitality to this beautiful but disaster-stricken land, they started this challenging assistance journey.

Just as technician Zhang from the team had placed the machines beside the village's grain field, the village chief Petrov came over. Looking at the machines of various shapes and seemingly multifunctional functions, he frowned and asked worriedly, "Technician Zhang, our area has many steep mountains and many disasters. Can these machines really improve our village's agriculture? It's a big problem to transport the crops grown in the fields."

Technician Zhang pointed to the mountain integrated agricultural machinery and patiently introduced: "Village head, look at this mountain terrace builder. It can automatically adjust the working angle according to the slope and terrain characteristics of the mountain, and quickly build solid and regular terraces. This can reduce the risk of landslides and increase the area of ​​arable land. Look at the mountain rail transporter over there. It can flexibly shuttle between the mountains along the track we have laid in advance, and easily transport the crops harvested from the fields to the centralized collection point in the village, solving the problem of transportation difficulties."

Ivan, an old hunter in the village, has been working in the mountains all his life and knows the dangers and inconveniences here. He walked up, touched the tracks of the terrace builder, and said doubtfully, "Young man, that sounds good, but our mountains are prone to landslides. If your terraces are built and they are washed away one day, it would be a waste of effort. And what about the rail transport machine? There are many rocks in this mountain. What if the tracks are damaged or the machine breaks down halfway?"

Technician Zhang quickly explained, "Uncle Ivan, your worry is normal. When building terraces, this terrace construction machine will simultaneously drive solid slope protection piles at the edge of the terrace and the junction of the mountain, and lay anti-scour vegetation nets, which greatly enhances the stability of the terraces and can effectively resist the impact of landslides and mud-rock flows. As for the mountain rail transporter, we use high-strength alloy steel tracks, which are very strong and durable, and there are detection points and emergency repair devices at intervals. Once the track is damaged or the machine fails, an alarm will be issued immediately, and our maintenance personnel will be able to rush to repair it in time without delaying transportation. We can now go to the hillside that is ready for development and actually operate it, and you will understand it at a glance."

Afterwards, everyone brought the machinery to the hillside.

Technician Zhang directed his assistants to start the mountain terrace construction machine. The machine slowly drove towards the hillside, and the huge bucket began to dig the earth. According to the set program, layer by layer of terraces gradually took shape, the slope protection piles were firmly driven into the ground, and the vegetation net was laid.

Then, the mountain rail transport machine began to lay tracks along the preset route. Its installation device flexibly spliced ​​the tracks together, winding and extending through the mountains.

Nicholas, a young villager, shouted excitedly: "Wow, this is amazing! In the past, I wanted to plant crops on this hillside but didn't dare to, and I couldn't transport the crops out. Now with these machines, it seems that all these problems can be solved."

However, after the terraces were completed and cultivation began for a period of time, new problems arose.

After a heavy rain, although there was no large-scale collapse of the terraces, some small cracks appeared on the edges of some terraces. In addition, the erosion of soil fertility by rainwater caused the loss of soil fertility, affecting the growth of crops.

After Technician Zhang learned about it, he immediately took his technicians to the scene to check it out.

While carefully inspecting the damage to the terraces, he said to the villagers who had gathered around him, "The cracks on the terraces are indeed due to our lack of consideration. It may be that the amount and intensity of the rainstorm exceeded our expectations. But don't worry, we will readjust the terrace reinforcement plan when we get back and add some drainage facilities to allow rainwater to drain more smoothly and reduce erosion of the terraces. At the same time, we will also study how to quickly replenish soil fertility to ensure the normal growth of crops."

Uncle Ivan sighed helplessly and said, "Alas, farming in the mountains is troublesome. There are all kinds of problems. I thought these machines would save me a lot of trouble, but it turns out there are still a lot of problems."

Technician Zhang raised his head and said firmly, "Uncle, there are certainly difficulties, but we can't let them defeat us. Mountain agriculture is a complicated matter. We will solve each problem as soon as possible, and things will go more smoothly in the future. We will improve these problems as soon as possible to make our terraces more solid and the crops grow better."

Since then, Technician Zhang has led his fellow technicians and villagers to engage in intensive improvement work.

They dug drainage ditches at appropriate locations on the terraces and brought in some stones to reinforce the edges of the terraces to prevent the cracks from expanding further.

At the same time, technicians mixed special organic fertilizers based on the results of soil testing and spread them in the fields to replenish the lost fertility.

After some efforts, the condition of the terraces has been significantly improved and the growth of crops has gradually returned to normal.

As time went by, the harvest season came. Looking at the heavy crops in the terraced fields, the villagers were filled with joy and busy harvesting. Then they used mountain rail transporters to successfully transport the crops to the village.

Village chief Petrov looked at the bumper harvest and said to technician Zhang excitedly, "Technician Zhang, thank you so much! If you hadn't brought these machines and helped us solve various problems so attentively, how could our Cuigu Village have such a good harvest? The whole village will never forget your contribution."

Technician Zhang responded with a smile: "Village head, this is the result of everyone's joint efforts. As long as we continue to persevere and keep exploring and improving, our Cuigu Village will definitely develop better and better in the future. We can also consider using the natural resources of this mountainous area to develop some characteristic agricultural industries, such as planting some Chinese medicinal materials suitable for mountain growth, or raising some mountain-specific poultry, so that the village's income will be more diversified."

Village chief Petrov's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "Technician Zhang, your idea is great! We do have a lot of wild Chinese medicinal herbs in the mountains. If we can grow them on a large scale, we can earn a lot of money. Mountain breeding is also promising, so we need to plan it well."

Technician Zhang continued, "Yes, village chief. We can first invite experts to investigate and see which Chinese medicinal herbs are suitable for growing in our mountains, and then organize villagers to learn planting techniques and gradually expand the scale of planting. As for breeding, we must first select a good breeding site and take preventive measures to ensure that the poultry can grow healthily."

Petrov nodded repeatedly and said, "Well, you are right, but we have to do it step by step. We can't be impatient. We have to lay a good foundation first and let everyone master the technology. Only in this way can we develop the industry well."

In this way, Cui Gu Village began to prepare to develop characteristic agricultural industries while harvesting crops.

Some villagers followed the experts to the mountains to investigate the growing environment of Chinese medicinal materials, while others went to learn breeding techniques. The village was bustling with activity.

However, in the process of developing characteristic agricultural industries, new challenges have emerged.

Planting Chinese medicinal materials requires relatively meticulous management, and has relatively high requirements for conditions such as soil moisture and light. However, the weather in this mountainous area is changeable, and sometimes continuous rainy weather causes the soil to be too moist, affecting the growth of Chinese medicinal materials.

The farmed poultry also developed some diseases, leaving the villagers at a loss as to what to do.