In my days as a farmer

When it comes to institutional terms such as the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Germplasm Resources, most people will think that they are unattainable and cold. There are generals guarding the gate, and they may have to engage some soldiers with live ammunition. some type of.

But in fact, the branches of these organizations in various regions are actually very down-to-earth, and the canteens inside will also sell locally suitable seeds and seedlings.

But don't get me wrong, although it is the canteen of XX Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Research Institute, it does not mean that the seeds sold here are mysterious high-tech seeds that are produced and sold by various institutions.

As long as you get the seed bag, you will find that the big XX seed industry company is written on the bag, and all the seeds for sale are public seeds, which are exactly the same as the seeds in the Taobao store.

This is because according to Huaguo's regulations, the seeds used for sale must be products that have been approved and entered the commercialization process.

Therefore, even the seeds bought at the canteen of a certain Academy of Agricultural Sciences are basically commercialized species produced by seed companies.Of course, compared to online stores, the seeds of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences can guarantee authenticity and freshness, but that's it, it is impossible to expect to buy any legendary and mysterious varieties here.

However, there are no exceptions. The seeds have passed the national certification but have not been handed over to the seed company for promotion, or the seed company has insufficient confidence in the product and has not regarded it as a key promotion product. These seeds or seedlings are sometimes distributed by institutions and farmers. Sign an agreement, the former provides seeds, and the latter plants, but provides data and samples.

That's right, Xia Dongli's goat beans belong to this situation.

This is not illegal, but there are certain risks.The seeds may be good seeds, but there is basically no market feedback for this kind of seeds. Although the initial investment of farmers is relatively low, the products produced may not be welcomed by buyers.

After a year of hard work, it is not uncommon that the fruits of my own labor cannot be sold, or at a good price.It's not necessarily because the things are bad, but the smell of wine is also afraid of the alleys these days. It is not that simple to introduce a new product to the market and be accepted by the people.

It is not uncommon to rely on products to open up the market, but first of all, the quality and quantity of products are indispensable. The output input of an ordinary family or two farmers may not even be able to hear a splash in the national market. After struggling for more than ten years, you may not have bargaining power.

This was also one of the reasons why Xia Dongli found Chen Li.

Although according to the fruit farmer, their fruit seedlings were bought from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xia Dongli must consider whether the source of the fruit seedlings is legal, as well as its quality and market acceptance.

If the fruit seedlings have not passed the national inspection, even if they are planted, they are not allowed to be sold. There is another important point-whether this is genuine.

Xia Dongli didn't doubt the meaning of this little brother Meng himself. He came here and chose which parking lot was completely random without any instructions. Too high.

He was just worried about whether this little brother had been cheated before.

Every year, there will be cases where farmers listened to the promotion of "experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences" and bought fake seeds, which resulted in delaying a year's harvest.Although the country has set up seed industry stations in all districts and counties, and makes every effort to ensure the safety of seeds every year, the title of "Expert of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences" is indeed too convincing, and almost no farmer can resist this temptation.

After Xia Dongli moved to Xiaojin Village, a lawyer in the author group specially reminded him to pay attention to such scams. Fortunately, it was Assistant Xiao Li, who represented the village committee, who approached him at the beginning. If it was Chen Li who came to him directly Ninety-nine percent of Xia Dongli would not dare to buy what he said.

The delay caused by buying fake seeds does not belong to the scope of agricultural insurance contracting, and judicial channels must be taken.However, such cases often take a long time and it is difficult to obtain evidence. Even if the penalty is awarded, the compensation is not enough, and it is laborious.

Chen Li was originally watching the crows' supervisors on the small soil slope. He was a little surprised when he received Xia Dongli's call. However, Researcher Chen is a professional after all. When Xia Dongli drove to pick him up, he immediately contacted I met my colleagues in the research institute, and then followed the clues to find the right master.

"This should be true." As soon as he sat in the back seat after helping others put the lotus pods away, he reported to Xia Dongli: "The variety this farmer bought is European sweet cherries, and the name is [late jade]. The late flower and late fruit variety bred by the Provincial Research Institute back then. The researcher also remembered selling fruit seedlings, and I asked him to help find the finished product photos of this variety.”

With that said, he handed the tablet to Xia Dongli who was pulling the handbrake, and there was a fruitful cherry tree on the screen.

You may not be familiar with European sweet cherry, but it also has another name called cherries.

Yes, the cherries that were cherries free!

Cherries and cherries are cousins, but just like Chinese roses and European roses, there are huge differences in performance between the two.

Chinese cherries with thin skins have a short fruiting period, while European sweet cherries with thick skins have a long fruiting period. After a long period of cultivation, several varieties can withstand long-distance transportation. Only then did they cross the ocean and enter the Huaguo market.

But in fact, European sweet cherries were planted in China in the 90s, but they did not enter the market until recent years due to traffic conditions.

Due to the different climate and environment at home and abroad, domestic agronomy experts have been working hard to cultivate and promote varieties suitable for China's local climate conditions over the years, and now many of them have been well received by the market.

However, among many varieties, it is inevitable that there will be hidden pearls from the sea, and the variety [Late Jade] belongs to the pearl that has been missed due to problems encountered in promotion.

Xia Dongli poked the photo twice to enlarge it, and saw bright red fruits the size of coins dotted among the green leaves, and the fruit setting rate looked quite good.

"Tanyu is a late-maturing variety with large fruit, a single fruit weight of about 9 grams, small core, and an edible rate of 93.9%." Chen Li put one hand on the back of the driver's seat and explained to Xia Dongli, "The meat quality and peel of this variety They are relatively thick and resistant to storage and transportation. The average sweetness is around 18, and the highest can be 21. The data in all aspects are relatively ideal. And because it is a late-flowering variety, when the temperature is the highest in our flowering and fruiting period, theoretically It can meet its developmental needs. But—”

Xia Dongli straightened his back, silently waiting for the "but".

"The thick skin of this variety means that its fruit is easy to crack if it encounters precipitation during the development period, or if it grows rapidly." Chen Li said very seriously, "This is a big problem in planting."

"In other words, its water and fertilizer are very balanced. It can't be dry or flooded, and it can't be hungry or suddenly top-dressed, right?" Xia Dongli is now a person with some basic common sense in the planting industry. Hearing Chen Li's words He immediately understood the meaning of the description, and understood what he meant - this thing is very delicate, and it is not a variety that novices can play with. It will take a lot of time and energy to grow.

He clicked on the screen, looking at the fruit on the tree, with a hesitant expression, then he raised his head and looked at Chen Li: "I don't seem to have seen this variety in the market?"

Chen Li nodded: "The cultivation direction of late jade is actually aimed at the planting areas in the north. It blooms in late April, begins to set fruit in May, and matures in mid-to-late June, but this growth rhythm just hits the plum rain in the south. It is not conducive to fruit expansion, and it is easy to crack fruit when there is too much rainfall, so it is not easy to plant in the south."

"Cherries can't be frozen when they bloom, and it's cold in most parts of the north. If you want to take care of them, you have to build a greenhouse to protect them from blooming." Chen Li sighed, "And cherries need a lot of heat, and there are only a few in the north. It can be grown in some areas, so the commercial value of this variety is not high.”

He glanced at Xia Dongli with a thoughtful expression on his face, thought for a while, and said: "Xiao Xia, if you want to plant this, you have to think about it, it matures at the end of June, and domestic cherries are on the market at this time. Imported cherries are on the market, and if you want to sell them, you will hit the imported cherries market."

Xia Dongli was taken aback when he heard the words, and looked back at him, as if asking, "Is there a problem with this?"

"Yes." Chen Li patted him, "In our north, the price of imported cherries is basically more than twice that of domestically produced cherries. This is not only a matter of transportation and storage costs, but also price control by importers and some under-the-table issues. Unspoken rules. Originally, domestically produced cherries were taken off the shelves at this time, and the world was dominated by imported products. You suddenly rushed into this market, what do you think will happen?"

This scene is quite scary when you think about it, it feels like you will run into a big boss, but...

He turned around and handed the tablet to Chen Li, and comforted him: "You are thinking too far, even if there are not many cherries in my land, the whole result is not as good as a person pulling a container by a container." imported goods, not to mention that I don’t plan to grow so many.”

He gestured his fingers to Chen Li: "I plan to plant about 100 trees."

Chen Li was taken aback for a moment, obviously he did not expect to hear this number at all, he couldn't help stammering: "Only, only buy 100?"

"Didn't you say that you want diversity?" Xia Dongli looked at the somewhat dazed Researcher Chen, tilted his head and said, "Can 100 trees make a small forest?"

Chen Li opened his mouth, a little dumb.

100 fruit trees may seem like a lot, but scattered on 100 acres of land is only a small piece, which is a veritable grove.

Moreover, this kind of cherries cultivated in the direction of fruit harvesting is considered a dwarf variety, and the requirements for plant rows are not high. Generally, the planting density of fruit forests can reach about 5 to 60 trees per mu of land, even if it is more widely planted, 100 trees It also occupies 3 acres of land.

Although the price of cherries is not cheap, its fruit is small. Even in the full fruit period, the yield of a tree is only about 100 catties. According to the current price of domestic cherries, the price of 100 trees throughout the year can 20 would be nice.

It looks quite impressive, but it’s hard to say whether we can have this output. In the case of no disease, no disaster, no bird food, plus the cost of land, fertilizer, labor, and transportation, we can finally make a profit. It is estimated that less than [-] were obtained.

The agricultural and forestry industry has always been profitable only through intensification to amortize expenses. In addition, Xia Dongli said before that he bought fruit trees for farmers who were about to quit the breeding industry. The price was very cheap. Maybe he would have to buy five or six hundred trees in one go, so he explained the market problem tactfully. I didn't expect this young man to remember diversity.

He couldn't help looking at Xia Dongli with gratified and moved eyes, feeling as if he had seen the growth of a young man.

But before he was moved for a long time, Chen Li suddenly felt a chill behind his back.

What's going on?The air conditioner suddenly turned down?He hurriedly reached out to adjust the air outlet of the air conditioner in the back seat, perfectly avoiding Xun Yao's warning eyes cast through the rearview mirror.

The farmer who plans to sell the cherries is Qian Dazhuang, who is also from Lishu Village. Recently, he has been doing odd jobs in the fruit wholesale market during the day, and only returns to his contracted land at night.

However, because Xia Dongli proposed to see the fruit seedlings, he took a special leave in the afternoon and stood at the gate of the wholesale market waiting to lead the way.

When he saw Xia Dongli's SUV slowly approaching, Qian Dazhuang couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.Although Xia Dongli left him a phone number, if he went back and thought about it and thought he didn't need it, let alone a phone number, even a home address wouldn't matter.

He sat in the back seat of the car and reported the address of his farm to Xia Dongli.While the car was driving, Chen Li struck up a conversation with him.

Qian Dazhuang is also one of the young people in Lishu Village who are more crisis-conscious, so after the popularity of pears in Lishu Village, he did not focus entirely on pear trees, but ran to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences consult.

Lishu Village has relatively abundant geothermal conditions, long-term experience in fruit tree cultivation, and a wholesale market, so he decided to plant fruit trees after asking around. European sweet cherry to grow.

But because of funding problems and uncertainty about whether he could plant them well, he made a batch of seedlings.

"At that time, I was thinking that cherries can actually bear fruit after a certain value. Although the fruit was a little less in the past few years, it was not that there was no harvest, but there were not as many as in the full fruit period." Qian Dazhuang sighed. It's not as good as God's fortune. In the first year, he added fertilizer when the fruit was set according to his experience. He liked the fruit very much and grew very fast, but the peel could not keep up with the speed and cracked.

In the second year, he learned his lesson and did not lose weight, but after a heavy rain, the fruit crackled and fell to the ground, and the ones that did not fall were also cracked.

The first two years can be regarded as a lesson, but the weather was not smooth when the harvest increased in the third and fourth years, and Lao Qian felt suspicious of life when he saw the crackling fruits.

Because of these orchards, he missed the investment in the Lishu Village Resort. Now that the resort is booming and others are starting to share money, and looking at the fruit orchards that cost money every day, Lao Qian doesn't feel so happy.

In addition, during the summer vacation a few days ago, his daughter was depressed for several days, and asked her several times before she hesitated to speak.

It turned out that Lao Qian's daughter was in the second year of high school, and the division of arts and sciences was in front of her eyes, but his daughter's grades were average, and her mind was just like this. She was not suitable for studying, but she was good at drawing. The art teacher at their school asked her if she wanted to take the art student exam.

If you want to be an art student, you can't miss this summer vacation. You have to start tutoring. Art student tutoring is not a small amount. Qian girl refused because she knew that her family didn't have enough money.

Although she was clean and tidy when she refused, she was still young and didn't know how to restrain her emotions. After returning home, she inevitably had a look of regret on her face, which was noticed by her parents.

"My daughter loves us, but I also love my daughter." Lao Qian shook his head with a bit of helplessness and bitterness on his face, "I asked their teacher, and the teacher said that according to her grades, the possibility of rapid improvement in the second and third years of high school It’s not too high, and the probability of getting into a good school by relying on cultural courses is not high, but relying on art is very promising. I didn’t expect her to go to 981, so I wanted to send her to a big city.”

"It's not good for the girl to stay here all the time, I still have to go to the big city..." He paused, shook his head, and looked at Xia Dongli with a pleading expression, "We're not selling out, just, Well, Comrade Xiaoxia, when the time comes, our farm will not only have cherries. You can also see if you want anything else. I also have some water pumps and irrigation machines. At that time, I bought all good brands. If you want them, you can take them. .”

Xia Dongli was taken aback. Farm equipment is a tool for farmers to eat, and they are all sold... "Are you not going to farm anymore?"

"No more, it's too difficult." Qian Dazhuang shook his head, "I'll go to work as soon as the land is refunded and cleaned up, and I'll save money to rent a small shop to buy fruit and so on. Now I'm working with some wholesalers. The relationship is good, and they are willing to give me a good price, and if I buy a car and travel farther, I can always make money."

This model is very common in many places. Go to the wholesale market to buy fruit and then drive to the street to sell it.If they sell cheaply, more people will buy them, and they will leave when they are sold out, so there is no booth fee.

As long as you don't meet the urban management, there is basically no cost.

Xia Dongli nodded, and only said that he would look at it when the time came, but Qian Dazhuang hesitated to speak, and finally did not speak.

So there was nothing to say along the way, and soon arrived at Lao Qian's farm.

Qian Dazhuang directly contracted a small mountain back then, and in order to prevent people from stealing, he also built an iron fence.

But now it may be because the master has the intention to leave, and the once mighty iron fence now looks a little lonely.

Qian Dazhuang got out of the car and took out the key to open the door, probably because of his agitated mood, he pulled out the key twice before pulling it out.The brass lock seemed to be a little rusty, it took him a while to open the door, and just as he jingled the door open, a mangy dog ​​came out from the opposite side of the fence, and started to shake it when it saw Qian Dazhuang Tail.

But the strange thing is that although it flicked its tail, it didn't come closer.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Qian Dazhuang hurriedly waved his hands and said, "This is not my dog. This dog is a nearby wild dog. I usually see it throwing things over when I look at Lin."

As he said that, he waved his hand at the dog and made a gesture of repelling it, and made a sound to keep it from approaching, for fear that this shabby-looking dog would scare the guests.

Watching Qian Dazhuang's movements, the mangy dog ​​stopped flicking its tail a little bit. It might have let out a whimper, but Xia Dongli couldn't hear it clearly because it was too far away.

I saw the dog sitting down on its stomach from a distance, looking at them with a look of "I'm very good, I won't cause trouble".

As a dog father, Xia Dongli's heart was melted by this look. He endured it, but he couldn't hold it back. He squatted down and said "tsk tut" at the dog, and at the same time he took out a small dog from his pocket biscuit.