Speaking of this, Xu Xiaoya glanced at Wu Hao and then continued.
"You should know that food plays a vital role in the rise of a big country. For a big country, sufficient food is the basis for ensuring national security and stability, and it is also an important factor supporting the sustainable development of the national economy.
For a country with a large population, if it cannot be self-sufficient in food, it will be restricted by the external environment, thus affecting the country's stability and development.
At the same time, for people, eating is the primary issue in daily life. Only when they are full can people's most basic sense of happiness and security be satisfied.
If a country relies on others to provide food and cannot be self-sufficient, it will be restricted by the international market and unable to independently control the country's economic lifeline.
It may even be affected by the international political environment, thus affecting the country's security and stability.
The international environment is relatively stable now, so it is possible that problems in this area have not been highlighted. Once the international situation changes drastically and a crisis occurs, food will inevitably be an important resource controlled by these producing countries and some hegemonic countries.
If we cannot have stable and controllable food supply channels, once a war breaks out, it will have a significant impact on our national defense and national stability.
Therefore, a country that can control food resources can better respond to various crises and even the threat of war and ensure national security and stability.
It can be said that food plays a vital role in the rise of great powers because it is the foundation of everything."
"So we can see that the world's most important grain giants, the so-called ABCD, are all derived from these big and powerful countries. For example, Laomi has three of the four major grain merchants. These four major grain merchants control the global market.
Eighty percent of the grain trading volume can be said to dominate the international commodity grain market.
This is the so-called hegemony, food hegemony. They can control the food prices of various countries at will, carry out precise attacks and suppress the domestic food companies and industries of these countries. They will even cooperate with relevant countries to implement food embargoes on some countries.
, import and export trade controls, etc.
Its influence, destructiveness and threat to national security are no less than those of several aircraft carrier battle groups.
And not only the field of grain, but also the field of grain seeds, fertilizers and pesticides related to agriculture are controlled by international giants. However, compared with the field of commercial grain, we have a certain say in these fields.
a little better."
Xu Xiaoya spread her hands and said: "The rise of a country is all-round. One-sided strength is not strong. Only when it is strong in all aspects can our country be truly strong.
Food security is the foundation of everything and the bottom layer of the pyramid that supports the entire industry chain. If there is a problem with it, the entire industry chain will be affected.
At present, it is difficult for us to solve the domestic contradiction of more people and less land in a short time, and there are no conditions to solve it. Therefore, we have to focus on overseas areas and use the vast and fertile land of some overseas countries to develop our country.
Our own agriculture, thereby getting rid of the constraints and constraints placed on us by other major food countries and achieving self-sufficiency in food.
At the same time, we can also use these overseas agricultural resources to gradually develop our international commodity grain industry, gradually grow and develop in this industry, and thus control a certain right to speak, instead of being led by the nose or influenced by these grain giants.
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After the introduction, Xu Xiaoya smiled at Wu Hao and said: "So, our group has also been exploring the development path of the international commodity grain industry. In recent years, it has also invested a lot of money to establish more than 100,000 acres of grain in several countries.
Large farms, pastures, and cash crop plantations.
After several years of intense construction, some of them have been put into production and operation. However, as labor costs in these countries continue to rise and management work increases, many problems have also been exposed.
One of the biggest problems is that we lack a complete set of intelligent management systems to effectively control all farms, pastures and plantations.
In addition, low productivity is also the key to restricting the development of these farms, pastures and plantations. In particular, the countries and regions where these farms are located lack professional agricultural talents, and relevant domestic agricultural talents are unwilling to go to these less developed countries and
area.
As a result, our farms, ranches and plantations in these countries and regions are facing a severe talent shortage.
Finally, the overall operating cost is higher than we expected. The highest cost of these farms, pastures and plantations is not land, but labor, followed by machinery costs, fertilizer and seed costs, irrigation costs, taxes, etc.
All these messes add up to a considerable expense, and this also leads to our unsatisfactory profits in this area."
Speaking of this, Xu Xiaoya leaned back on her chair, looked at Wu Hao and said: "To be honest, we are encountering difficulties now.
Therefore, the group is now very controversial about this project. There are those who support it, but naturally there are also those who oppose it and demand that the project be stopped as soon as possible to stop losses.
As you know, I have focused all my energy on this project in the past two years. If I stop this project, I may also face unemployment.
Therefore, we plan to work hard again and do our best to reverse the current unfavorable situation of this project.
Thinking of the results of our past cooperation projects in commercial agriculture, as well as the friendship achievements you have made in the fields of intelligent automation and unmanned agricultural technology, and the many eye-catching scientific research results you have achieved in the field of plant technology.
So I came here to talk and see if we can carry out relevant cooperation on this project."
Hearing Xu Xiaoya's words, Wu Hao nodded slightly. To be honest, their previous cooperation with Xu Xiaoya was quite pleasant. Although there were some differences later, they were quickly resolved properly.
But this project and the cooperation with the other party again, and the project was still overseas, made him hesitant.
The main reason is that their current agricultural projects are all in China, and they have never been involved in such overseas agricultural projects. Such a sudden entry into the international market is full of great uncertainties.
Secondly, the company's agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry business has been taken out and a special subsidiary Haoyu Agriculture has been established for management, with his former secretary Shen Ning in charge.
As for the development of Haoyu Agriculture, Shen Ning and the others have currently formulated a complete development plan. If they join this project, it means disrupting the previously developed development plan, which will also bring about many new developments. question.