After returning from the sunflower planting area, Wu Hao and the others immediately came to several huge drying fields at the farm. Various food crops were dried on these drying fields, including corn, rice, and sunflower cakes that were being dumped.
On the huge drying field, several small automated equipment are constantly drying the grain.
On the side of the drying field, several work robots are gathering to collect the dried grains, bag them, and then transport them to the warehouse for storage.
Everyone then came to a nearby warehouse. This huge warehouse was divided into multiple granaries. There were various sensors in the granaries, which could monitor the real-time status of the different grains stored in these granaries at all times.
Such as temperature, humidity, etc.
When needed, specialized equipment will be used to release the grain from these granaries into bags, process it, and then transport it to the mainland for sale on the market.
After walking around the warehouse, everyone came to several processing plants here. The first thing they came to was naturally the sugar beet processing plant.
The entire processing plant is not completely automated or unmanned. In fact, there are still some employees. Although the entire production process of beet sugar can be completely automated, in order to prevent some unexpected situations, someone still needs to be on duty.
Looking at the beets being continuously rolled and cleaned in the drum, Du Xiuming smiled at everyone and introduced them.
"These beets harvested from the fields and transported will be cleaned first to remove the soil on them. On the one hand, this is to ensure hygiene and prevent pollution, and on the other hand, it is also to prepare for the following processing."
While talking, Du Xiuming greeted: "Everyone, please come this way."
"After the beets are rinsed, they are immediately sent to the conveyor belt, and then cut into shreds for juice extraction. The dry and thick beet juice will be dissolved in purified water, and then thoroughly stirred to extract all the sugar in the beets.
Then begin to filter the beet juice solution and filter out all the waste coriander meal inside.
These waste rapeseed meal, as well as beet stems and leaves, green heads, tail roots, etc., can be used as brewing raw materials, extract betaine, etc., and are also high-quality juicy feed.
Of course, these are accessories.
Next, we will clean the beet juice solution that has been filtered multiple times to remove the non-sugar substances contained in it. If it is not removed in time, it will affect the quality of the sugar. And once the sugar becomes thick and crystallized,
, it will be difficult to clear.
Next are the last four important steps before turning into sugar, which are evaporation, crystallization, honey separation, and drying.
The excess water is evaporated, the sugar is allowed to crystallize, the honey is separated, all the sugar is extracted from the residue, and then dried, and finally the finished sugar is produced.”
Du Xiuming pointed to the bags of white sugar that came off the production line, and said with a smile: "The sugar we produce is of excellent quality, and it is now listed as a strategic material for storage by the Corps.
The remaining white sugar will also be dispersed into various markets. Although the price is strictly controlled and cannot be increased, it is relatively stable."
Wu Hao nodded when he heard this and asked: "With this entire process from planting to picking sugar, how much gross profit margin can be achieved?"
After hearing Wu Hao's question, everyone immediately showed interested eyes. Du Xiuming was a little embarrassed about this, and then looked at Zhong Xiaoling aside.
Zhong Xiaoling understood and replied generously to everyone: "At present, the overall gross profit margin of our beet sugar industry is about 45%. After deducting a series of costs, the net profit can be maintained at about 25 to 20%.
Between eighteen.
Although the return is lower than other projects, it is more stable, which is why we chose it.”
Wu Hao nodded when he heard this and said: "Relatively speaking, it's not bad. Let's go, let's go to the next project."
Seeing that Wu Hao did not express his position, nor did he say yes or no, Du Xiuming and Zhong Xiaoling couldn't help but murmur in their hearts. The two looked at each other in understanding, and then followed him.
Next, under the leadership of Du Xiuming, Wu Hao and the others first inspected a sunflower seed oil pressing plant, and then came to a food processing plant, a tomato processing plant to be precise.
Because it is a food processing factory, it is difficult to enter. After everyone changed their clothes and disinfected, they finally entered the automated tomato sauce production factory.
Like other food processing plants, these harvested tomatoes will be cleaned, and because they are food, the cleaning is particularly strict.
After cleaning, these tomatoes will enter the conveyor belt and then be blown dry. Then they will go to the sorting area, where automated equipment will sort and remove some of the tomatoes that do not meet the standards.
For example, those unripe green tomatoes, as well as those tomatoes that are damaged and not cleaned well.
Finally, these screened tomatoes will go to the preparation area. Then these prepared tomatoes will be put into the machine to be crushed and blended into puree, and then proceed to the next step.
After some preparation, these prepared tomato sauces will be put into various prepared containers according to various specifications, then packaged, pasteurized, and finally labeled and boxed.
At the exit, Wu Hao opened a bottle of tomato sauce at will, tasted it, and nodded: "It tastes good, it's very authentic."
"It's not bad. I'll leave in a moment and I'll bring some back." Xu Xiaoya took a sip and nodded.
Zhong Xiaoling smiled and said: "No problem, we have already prepared it for you."
"Where should we go next?" Wu Hao asked.
Hearing Wu Hao's question, Du Xiuming hesitated for a moment, and then said to Wu Hao: "There is also a chili red dye processing factory. Do you want to visit it?"
Wu Hao turned to look at Du Xiuming and asked, "Is there any problem?"
"Well, the environment in this processing plant is not very good. During the processing of this pepper, it will release a pungent smell.
Although we have done a lot of things, such as strengthening the sealing of ventilation and related equipment, there will still be some penetration.
Although we will take some precautions, it will still cause some discomfort to the human body."
Speaking of this, Du Xiuming looked at the crowd and said: "So my suggestion is not to go. If you want to know more, we can introduce it to you, or we can retrieve the surveillance video inside the factory, which can be very useful.
You can intuitively see the operation conditions in the factory.”
When Wu Hao heard Du Xiuming's words, he looked at Xu Xiaoya, Yang Fan and others on the side, then waved his hands and said: "Forget it, no need."