Chapter 586 Farm Inspection (1)
It was the end of August and early September. Since the Jiaozhou Bay area had a marine climate, the hot summer was slightly dispersed, and the autumn wind suddenly rose, the climate was quite pleasant, and the midsummer was not over and green was still there. Therefore, the mountains, forests and fields were still a prosperous landscape. However, looking at the ridges of the front fields in the village, although the crops were almost mature, it was not yet time to harvest the sickle. When the autumn wind blew, it turned out to be a green and yellow wheat-rolled rice wave.
Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and Wang Yunpeng took a team of soldiers to inspect the farm in Wangjiazhai Village. The farm manager Gao Shi had received a notice and led some of the farm staff to welcome them at the gate of the farm.
Wangjiazhai Village Farm was established at the end of last year. It has been more than nine months since then. It has been around for a long time. Currently, all employees have reached more than 200, including 25 travelers, and Gao Shize's family has 13 people. This is not Gao Shize's family, because 6 of them are minors. In fact, although Gao Shize's family has a population of people, there are no idle people. Most of them find jobs in various departments or factories and enterprises under the Time Travel Group, including Gao Shize's 16-year-old niece Gao Qi and 17-year-old nephew Liu Tongjiang, who are now teachers in Hope School. However, their family is both from farmers, so it is normal that there are more people working on the farm. The Time Travel Group is also run by people from this family on Tianjin farm. In addition to the four elderly people, there are three relatives of the same generation as Gao Shize.
There are 42 local naturalized households and 68 regular employees who settled on the farm, most of whom are the survivors of the People's Army soldiers who died in previous battles, and there are 200 prisoners in the war. Just over a month ago, the farm recently had 65 households and 187 serving prisoners. It turned out that they were the heads and backbone personnel of the landlord alliance that participated in the attack on Menbu Village.
14 people were arrested by 16 landlords who joined the landlord alliance, including some of their relatives, and the ranks, housekeepers, accountants, teachers and others who depended on them. Although the other two landlords ran away, some of their families and relatives were arrested. After trial, except for the 36 people sentenced to death, the other 217 people were sentenced to hard labor, and the service was at Wangjiazhai Farm. Although their other families were not affected, the Travel Group considered that these landlords and their relatives and the dependents were people with certain influence in the local area, so they could not be allowed to remain in the local area. So they were all moved to the farm to settle down, which was also considered as the farm's staff.
Fortunately, at the beginning of the establishment of the farm, there were plans to accommodate prisoners. During the initial construction of the farm, 500 war prisoners were requisitioned to work on the farm, and now it has been reduced to 200. This group of hard-working prisoners are added to the rest. In addition to the families of these prisoners, there are still many people.
Gao Shi also made arrangements for this group of personnel. The prisoners were naturally detained separately, and were managed by time travelers and participated in collective work. The prisoners' families can be assigned a house. However, compared with the formal staff housing of the farm, the prisoners' families have a much smaller house, with only two rooms and a small utility room. Of course, if there are children, the small utility room can also be converted into a small bedroom. As long as they are over 18 years old and under 60 years old, both men and women must participate in work, but they can rest for one day a week.
At the same time, in order to encourage prisoners and their families to work hard, Gao Shi made regulations that the family members perform well in their work and can get the opportunity to visit their relatives once a week. Of course, the time can only be at night so that they do not delay their work; while the prisoners perform well in their work can have the opportunity to go home and get together with their family once a month. After the prisoner has finished serving his sentence, he can choose to return to his hometown or become a formal employee on the farm. If the family members have outstanding performance, they can also become formal employees.
Of course, there are so many prisoners and prisoners, and the safety measures of the farm are also very important. Now the farm is regularly stationed by a platoon of the People's Army. In addition, the militias in Wangjiazhai Village also regularly send a squadron to assist the farm in maintaining public order. If a major accident occurs, all the militias in Wangjiazhai Village will come to support immediately. Therefore, the safety of the farm is basically guaranteed.
Under Gao Shize's leadership, everyone visited the farm. Now the farm has more than 800 acres of land, which is about the size of 10 football fields. In terms of scale, it is not very large, but all kinds of crops are very complete. Most of the land is planted with grain crops, mainly wheat and sorghum, a small amount of rice and corn, and a part of the vegetable field, which planted various vegetables, melons and beans. At this time, most of the grain and vegetables were ripe and growing very vigorously. Most of the rice and wheat grew to the height of the waist, while corn and sorghum have surpassed the top of the people. They also avoided more than ten acres of fruits, mainly apples and peaches. At this time, the fruits have matured and are very happy to fall on the branches.
In addition to grain, vegetables and fruits, the farm also develops a breeding industry. Now it raises 15 horses, 21 cows, 37 pigs, 51 sheep, 13 dogs, and more than a hundred poultry such as chickens and ducks. You can receive more than a dozen chickens, ducks and eggs every day. In addition, it also avoids a pond of about 5 acres and raises dozens of freshwater fish.
In addition to the breeding industry, the agricultural infrastructure in the farm has also been very exciting. Not only does it avoid the horizontal and vertical canals, but it also specifically avoids a fertilizer accumulation area, which is specially designed for the farm to grow and cultivate fattening.
Everyone walked around the farm, and Gao Shizhe also introduced to them that at the beginning of the farm, there were only 350 mu of old fields, all of which were used to plant grain crops. Moreover, the growth of this part of the crop was the best in the entire farm. Gao Shizhe expected that the yield per mu would exceed more than 30% of the local average yield; while the rest of the fields were newly reclaimed at the end of last year and at the beginning of this year, and the harvest was expected to reach only 50% to 60% of the local average yield, but this is a considerable yield. In other words, the newly reclaimed land can reach 30% to 40% of the normal yield is a good result.
In fact, at this time, Wangjiazhai Farm was already very famous in the rural areas of this area. Because the crops grown on the farm are growing very vigorously, far exceeding the cultivation level of other villages, this naturally aroused great interest among farmers nearby. People who farmed know that it is quite difficult to increase the yield of grain by 10%. Generally speaking, if the weather is good, there is no insect or disaster in a year, the yield per mu can be increased by about 10%. Everyone can see that the yield of grain grown by overseas Chinese is definitely more than 10%. Today's climate can only be considered unsatisfactory, and there is still a certain distance from good weather, no insect or disaster. Therefore, for Chinese farmers who make a living by farming, this is of course very attractive. What are the tips for farming overseas Chinese to serve crops so well.
Of course, some smart farmers have discovered the secret of the fertilizer accumulation area, because the fertilizer used by overseas Chinese are transported from the fertilizer accumulation area, and it is not the manure or wood ash fertilizer that farmers usually use. Obviously, there is a secret formula. Chinese farmers in this era not only lack the awareness of specializing in fertilizer accumulation and decomposition, but also farmers who cultivate and produce from families and units do not have enough manpower and material resources to carry out fertilizer accumulation and decomposition. The large landlords only rent fields and collect rent, and do not participate in land cultivation. Therefore, they have no interest in improving farming technology, and naturally they will not engage in large-scale fertilizer accumulation and decomposition. Only a few small landlords or rich farmers have the motivation and ability to carry out special fertilizer accumulation and decomposition because they will participate in farming and have a certain financial resources. Most farmers mainly focus on natural manure, at most they are burning some herb ash or digging some sludge.
Another attractive thing is the mechanized production of the farm. When the farm was established, the Executive Committee specially pulled out six construction machines to the farm, and transformed two of them into ground turning machines, one into a sprinkler, and one of them into a soil piler and two excavators. Therefore, the farm is actually conducting semi-mechanized production now, and the mechanized work efficiency is naturally very amazing. The work efficiency of one machine often exceeds a hundred people, which also makes farmers amazed. This is even more amazing than the farm's planting technology.
When farmers nearby, they would go to the farm to see the production, growth of crops, and mechanical work when they were free. After returning, they all became topics of conversation in the village, and talked about it for other farmers, and even led to many legends. Some legends mean that time travelers were so ignorant that they were the gods, saying that they used secret techniques to farming abroad, and some said that they used fairy techniques to farm.
Gao Shi also took advantage of the situation and organized two special arrangements for nearby farmers to visit the farm, and told them the tricks of farming, including some knowledge of compost and corruption. Most of the farmers who visited were veterans of farming, so they understood the truth at first glance. To put it bluntly, there is no special tricks for overseas Chinese. In the end, it is still necessary to apply fertility enough. But it is impossible for them to carry out compost and corruption like the farm, because with the power of the family, it is impossible to carry out compost and corruption on a large scale. Even if they do a little during the slack farming period, it will only be enough for more than ten days. Only by using the scale of the farm can there be enough manpower and material resources, and someone specializes in compost and corruption on a full-time basis.
Chapter completed!