After inspecting the place to learn more about it, Wu Hao and the others immediately arrived at their main destination this time, the intelligent unmanned farm, early the next morning.
What left Wu Hao speechless was that Xu Xiaoya and the others also came with them. They said they wanted to conduct an inspection in advance, but in fact they just came to inquire about the situation. After all, the subsequent management of agricultural and sideline products of this farm has been handed over to the A team.
Therefore, they are also very concerned about the construction of the farm.
The cross-country convoy traveled through the desert for half an hour and finally arrived at their farm.
Although it is said to be a farm, it is actually just a piece of sandy land. The early engineering team has already stationed here and started leveling the entire farm and constructing related facilities.
"Mr. Wu!" A young man with a dark face wearing a straw hat saw them getting out of the car and immediately led others to greet them.
"Xiu Ming?" Wu Hao looked at the dark-faced, weather-beaten young man in front of him and asked with some uncertainty. You must know that two months ago, the Du Xiuming in front of him was still fat and white in the laboratory, so why did he become so cold after not seeing him for two months?
It's like this.
"It's me, Mr. Wu, welcoming you to our Shale Farm." Du Xiuming held Wu Hao's hand and smiled.
"Shale Farm?" Xu Xiaoya next to her asked doubtfully.
Du Xiuming nodded and explained with a smile: "It's just gravel, but we removed the word 'stone' in it, so it's called sand music.
From this literal meaning, you will know that there is nothing to be found here except sand.
In fact, there is another private name, such as silly, silly music, etc., which is more suitable for the living conditions of us people here. In addition to being tired and silly at work every day, we also spend the rest of the time in silly music.
Apart from that, there are no other entertainment options to fill the time.”
Hahahaha... everyone laughed when they heard this.
"Thanks for your hard work."
Wu Hao patted Du Xiuming on the shoulder, and then raised his voice to everyone: "On behalf of the company, I would like to express my condolences to everyone, you have worked hard. This time, I brought you some condolences, which are in the car behind
, this is my small compensation for everyone’s hard work.”
"Thank you Mr. Wu!"
Wu Hao waved his hand and interrupted everyone's comments: "I should thank you. Without you working here, our project would not have taken root so quickly.
This project is our major attempt in the field of new high-tech agriculture, and it is also an important measure for us to assume social responsibility and serve the public.
We hope that this project will be successful so that we can use this technology to completely change our current severe situation of domestic farmland and manpower shortage.
It can also find a solid and feasible development path for the development of our domestic agriculture, provide more people with reliable and high-quality agricultural and sideline products, and ensure our domestic food safety."
Of course, these are all big words, suitable for speaking in public. Although Wu Hao doesn't like it and is not good at it, in this situation, as the leader of the team this time, he must say something.
After saying this, Wu Hao said to Du Xiuming: "Let's go, take us around."
"Okay, please come this way." Du Xiuming nodded, and then led Wu Hao and the others to the temporary station where they worked.
The so-called farm station is actually a few sets of simple board houses and tents built in a relatively flat area. There are some building materials piled nearby, but the foundation of the construction site is still being dug and the work has not started yet.
For buildings in this kind of sand, the foundation must be solid, especially for large buildings. You must know that the sandy soil is relatively loose. If the foundation is not done well, it will easily settle or tilt due to unstable foundation.
Serious situations such as collapse may even occur.
"This is our planned construction area for factories and warehouses. In the first phase of the project, we plan to build five factories and ten large warehouses here to meet the production needs of our farm." Du Xiuming introduced to Wu Hao and the others.
Wu Hao looked at the busy construction site, and then asked Du Xiuming: "Is the control center also built here?"
Du Xiuming nodded, then took out a planning drawing and gestured to everyone.
"The control center, signal tower and other supporting facilities are built here. From the topographic point of view, this is the highest point of the entire farm, making it convenient to manage the entire farm.
In the future, there will be an asphalt road leading from here to the iron gate and then connected to the provincial highway. In this way, the agricultural and sideline products produced by our farm can be transported by road after being packaged in the factory."
"How many acres does this farm cover in total?" Xu Xiaoya asked, wearing sunglasses and looking around.
Hearing this, Du Xiuming laughed and said: "Our first phase is planned to be 600 hectares, and the second phase will be expanded to 1,500 hectares. As for the third phase and subsequent expansion projects, it will depend on the development of the farm."
Xu Xiaoya nodded when he heard this. The 1,500 hectares were calculated to be more than 20,000 acres, which is not too big, but not too small. From the perspective of early development, this scale is quite appropriate.
"What's the specific plan? What to plant?" Xu Xiaoya knelt down and grabbed a handful of soil and looked at it.
Du Xiuming shook his head, then smiled bitterly and said: "As for what to plant, there is a lot of controversy among experts now, but judging from the current situation, everyone is still more inclined to plant drought-tolerant crops such as wheat or corn sorghum first.
Moreover, this type of crops requires relatively low land requirements, which is suitable for the actual situation of our farm when it is just starting out.”
"These three crops have little market competitiveness." Xu Xiaoya said while looking at Wu Hao. In fact, the meaning was very clear, that is, the added value of these crops was relatively low, and they could not earn much money.
Wu Hao naturally understood what she meant, and then smiled, then looked around and said: "In the beginning, there must be a process of adaptation.
I don’t think we should argue anymore. There is so much land anyway, so we should plant some of everything. As an experiment, we will finally analyze what can be planted here based on the actual situation.
Our most important task at present is to seize the time to complete the infrastructure construction and complete the land leveling work of these 600 hectares before next year's spring plowing. We must not delay next year's spring plowing plan."
Du Xiuming showed a worried look after hearing what he said: "The land leveling problem is not big, and the construction progress of the factory, warehouse and control center is also no problem.
I am more worried about two points. First, the laying and setting up of the entire sprinkler and drip irrigation system is time-consuming and laborious. With such a large area and the impact of the severe winter climate, I am afraid that the time is a bit tight."
Seeing Wu Hao and others nodding, Du Xiuming continued: "Second, that is the debugging work of our series of mechanical equipment and intelligent systems. You must know that it is not long before next year's spring plowing, and the relevant mechanical equipment
It’s not in place yet. The research and development project team for the intelligent system has not yet been set up, and there is still a lot of preparation work to be done. The pressure is really great in such a short period of time.”
