Farming is a job that sounds simple but is difficult to do.
Especially when facing a large area of land, if you don’t have a concept in mind and don’t know what to do, this feeling of not knowing where to start will be even more prevalent.
Sitting on the ground, feeling the warm sunshine above his head, Somo took out the psionic water from the storage space and took a deep sip.
He handed the remaining water bottle to Moore, who was also sitting next to him with an expectant look on his face. After watching Moore drink it down happily, Sumo showed some "friendly (xie) kind (e)" smile.
"Moore, look at me, master, if I am good to you!"
"Okay! Moore ate well, drank well, and was very happy." Almost instantly, after hearing Sumo's words, Moore stood up, patted his chest, and yelled.
Looking at this look, Oreo, who was lying next to him to bask in the warmth, rolled his eyes disdainfully.
What a flattering bear!
But before the sentence could form in Oreo's mind, Oreo suddenly barked with joy after listening to Somo's next sentence.
"To eat so well, of course we have to play the role of Lei Xiong warriors. These black soils, this is a hoe, come and dig them over for us!"
He generously handed the hoe to Moore's hand. Looking at Moore's confused expression, Somo reached out and patted Moore's furry back.
"Hurry up, good job and I'll give you extra food tonight!"
When he heard about the additional meal, Moore finally came to his senses, picked up the hoe excitedly, and started working.
The work of plowing the ground is simple and only requires physical strength and strength. For the Leixiong clan, as long as they regard the black soil as an enemy on the way to food, they will naturally be very motivated to do it.
Seeing Molqi's extremely fast speed, Sumo nodded with satisfaction, began to plant seeds, and carefully arranged the planting plan.
Spring wheat is very regional. Not all places are suitable for growing spring wheat. The yields of different varieties and planting areas vary greatly. The yield per mu is about 1,000 kilograms. In China, it can only be grown in some areas.
In the wasteland, it is because it is snowing everywhere and there is a rich snow environment, which ultimately creates a growing environment for spring wheat.
For his first planting, Sumo decided to plant a pound of rice within a fixed range to study the relationship between levels and investment.
While Moore was still hard at work plowing the ground behind, he looked at the black soil that had been dug out.
Finding a piece of land that seemed to be the most fertile, Somo got down and began to work patiently.
Farming, in the training ground provided by the system, there is no such weird training.
Therefore, Sumo can only try to figure out his own method based on the experience summarized by the current World Channel owners.
"The water content during seed dressing should not be too high to prevent the seed from being planted smoothly during sowing and affecting the amount of seed used per acre."
"The seeds must be mixed evenly, and each grain of wheat must be mixed with moisture to avoid a high leakage rate."
"After the seed dressing is completed, the wheat needs to be dried for a while."
Sitting on the ground, he separated a pound of disaster-resistant wheat seeds on the ground. Somo extravagantly took out some psionic water and a small basin to ensure that every seed on the ground could fully absorb the psionic water.
of nutrients.
The sun in the wasteland is very poisonous. When the nether energy water began to evaporate, Somo quickly poured all the seeds into the pot and started the second step.
Intensive plowing is required before sowing, which can not only enhance soil fertility, but also break up the bottom layer of the plow to achieve deep, fine, transparent, flat, solid and watery standards.
That is to say, the plowing layer should be deep, and after plowing, harrow it finely, harrow it thoroughly, level it, and make it firm, so that it can be firm at the top and bottom at the bottom, so as to store water and protect moisture.
This point seems easy according to experience, but when Sumo dealt with it himself, he had a headache.
Fortunately, this thing has no technical content, and after spending a little more time, we reached the last step.
As the main food for one-third of the world's population, sowing wheat is not difficult. You only need to be careful and control the amount of sowing and the distance between two ears to ensure the health of wheat.
"Huh, I'm afraid the level won't be high this time. I'm farming while reading the guide. I haven't put even one-tenth of my effort into it, and it's hard to add buffs to the seed level."
Standing on the edge of the field, looking at the leveled ground below, Sumo sadly took out a day's worth of coins from the storage space.
With a slight flick of his fingertips, the coin fell into the ground in front of him. As a wave of slow tremors erupted, the coin began to gradually disappear and merge into the ground beneath him.
At the same time, the land seemed to be affected by some magical power, and the colors on it began to change.
"The way time currency works is strange, but I don't know how effective it is!"
Seeing that the game panel could not identify the black land in front of him, Sumo thought, and the system panel automatically expanded and began to scan the properties of the land in front of him.
I scanned slowly, from the top of the field to the end, and when I pulled it back, I found a surprising attribute panel.
[Black soil-crop planting area-spring wheat]
[Grower]: Somo
【Planting area】:32㎡
[Planting Category]: Disaster Resistance Star No. 2
[Crop Level]: Excellent
[Crop attributes]: Resist low temperatures no lower than 20 degrees below zero, resist high temperatures no higher than 40 degrees above zero, resist insect pests below 5 degrees, resist plant diseases below level 8, immune to nutrient competition among similar plants, immune.
...
[Estimated crop yield]: 1,225 pounds (affected by a series of man-made conditions such as weather and natural factors, it is not the final value)
[Estimated crop maturity time]: 82.3 days (affected by a series of factors such as land, chemical fertilizers, weather, etc., and is not the final value)
[Evaluation]: I can’t say it’s very bad, I can only say it’s so-so.
"Great"
"It's so heavy that I can grow excellent quality crops. I, Somo, am indeed a farming genius!"
Looking at the word "excellent" on the panel in surprise, Sumo ignored the evaluation given by the system!
Who has ever seen someone grow excellent quality crops for the first time?
Of course, there may be reasons for adding psionic water, but it is definitely not the main factor.
The bonus of black soil, the choice of seed model, the weather factors, the excavator plowing the ground, the Moore hoeing...
All the conditions combined can ensure that Sumo, just a beginner, can grow crops of excellent quality.
"Well, the multiplier for high-quality crops is 200 times, which means that it only takes a little over ten hours for the crops to go straight from planting to harvest."
"There are no tools for harvesting, so we can only rely on manpower. It takes about 5 hours to harvest one acre of land. Including rest time, one person is responsible for two acres, and he has to work non-stop for 11 hours to harvest."
"If you do this, you will definitely be mentally exhausted the next day, and you will probably only be able to do one and a half rounds in the next two days. This is still a good situation..."
Holding a shovel and standing on the mountain buns, Somo meditated quietly and began to calculate the specific yield of excellent-level crops with bonuses.
Including the time for harvesting and re-ploughing, it takes three days to work hard, and with the help of King Kong, it shouldn't be a problem to do two rounds.
Taking a median output of 1,000 kilograms from 200 acres of land, the taxed grain collected would be around 280,000 kilograms.
If he wanted to convert taxed grain into flour, Sumo would be unable to process so many kilograms of pure wheat alone even in years of monkeys and horses.
Either they have to find a way to build an automated production line, or they have to spend 10 to 20 percent of their food supplies and continue to hire refugees from the Candlelight Shelter to help process crops.
One after another, and the flour extraction rate of wheat is between 75%, after converting 420,000 kilograms of spring wheat into flour, only...
84 tons!
Based on the current appetite of humans in the wasteland, about one and a half kilograms of flour a day should be a normal food intake. If you work more, this amount will have to be increased to two kilograms.
Everything was calculated based on the worst-case scenario. After some calculations, Sumo got the final value.
If we devote all our attention to spring wheat during a three-day welfare disaster, we can grow enough flour to feed 240 people for a year.
On the contrary, if the number of people in the shelter is kept at about 10-15 people, it can last for eight to ten years.
This number sounds exaggerated, but after Sumo thought about it carefully, it was immediately ruled out!
"Not enough! Even if the shelter doesn't need to be expanded in the future, this little flour will definitely not be enough!"
"In the future, food will definitely be the main currency for transactions. Whether it is used to replace things or taken on a long journey, food will never depreciate in value."
"Besides, I have to set aside enough time to grow other things. Otherwise, if I can't just rely on flour for a year, everyone will be short of various vitamins and die!"
He rejected the idea of planting excellent crops and looked at the vegetable field below. He simply sat down and began to slowly regain his strength.
You only have one chance. The types of things you choose to plant must be nutritious, easy to store, and the yield must not be too low.
Therefore, in all crops, according to Soma's original vision.
It consists of four crops in total.
The yield per acre is over 1,000 kilograms, a great anti-hunger, spring wheat.
Cabbage is rich in carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, crude fiber, protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other trace elements.
Soybeans are a high-quality source of plant protein and are very easy to preserve. Even if they are a few years old, they will not go bad.
It protects human organs and tissues and prevents various diseases. It is called the top pioneer of ginseng and carrot.
In addition to these four types, it is also necessary to plant a round of cotton used to make gunpowder, that is, cotton for smokeless gunpowder, and wait for the future production of cannonballs in large quantities.
If he had enough time, Sumo would also like to try apple tree seeds, which have a growth period of about three years, to see if they can grow fruit.
Finally, in the black land, Somo planned to buy a large amount of medicinal materials and plant them, so that the refuge could have a large and rich resource reserve.
With so many crops waiting to be planted, you must not lose sight of one and choose the more convenient excellent level. Naturally, a vital opportunity will be wasted.
"All crops must be upgraded to high quality and have a flow rate difference of 400 times to ensure that my plan goes ahead as planned!"
The plan was determined and Somo had a direction for crop quality.
Sitting on the edge of the field, Sumo slowly began to reflect on the points that he had failed to achieve in the previous farming steps, and at the same time began to simulate in his mind how to best achieve each step.
After thinking intently, when the sun above his head was setting to the west, Somo suddenly opened his eyes, picked up the shovel in his hand, and picked up the high-yield wheat grain bag next to him, his eyes became extremely focused.
At the same time, the thought ring on his finger also began to emit a dim light, making Soma's attention more focused!
