"In the future, when the county's grain output increases, I will directly manufacture compound full-price feed and sell it to farmers instead of farmers preparing it themselves." Wu Nanhai has great ambitions. "This can further increase production, reduce technical difficulties, and promote popularization."
It’s easier to get up.”
As he spoke, Wu Nanhai rode a 28-barreled pole and took Wan Lihui to a corner of the farm, where a whole piece of land had been leveled. Rows of small trees were planted on all sides, and drainage ditches were dug.
The most conspicuous thing is that there are many large baskets piled up not far from the ground. Although they are covered with many straw curtains, they still emit a pungent odor. Rotten liquid oozes from the ground, and flies are flying happily on it.
At a glance, Wan Lihui saw his brother Wan Lihuang wearing a straw hat, sitting boredly in a straw shed, swatting away flies from time to time.
Wan Lihui covered his nose and asked, "Is it so smelly?"
Wu Nanhai didn't seem to care and leaned the car against the tree:
"Xiao Wan, this earthworm farm will be your brothers' responsibility from now on."
"Okay." Wan Lihui thought. This smelly and dirty job falls on us again - is it because we are farmers? He thought sadly and angrily that his dream of coming to this time and space was to be free.
He was free to play with guns, but now that he has no guns, he has completely returned to his hometown to work.
Even though I think so, I can't show it to my face and say that I will resolutely complete the tasks assigned by the organization.
Artificial breeding of earthworms is a new agricultural technology. The main purpose is to provide protein feed for livestock, poultry, fish, etc. at a lower cost, while processing various organic wastes, turning waste into fertilizer, and eliminating the impact of organic waste on the environment.
pollution. It can also improve soil fertility to a certain extent.
The earthworms Wu Nanhai plans to breed are red earthworms, which are a commonly used earthworm species in the earthworm breeding industry. They are dung earthworms. They like to eat all kinds of livestock manure. They have strong fertilization properties and are suitable for artificial breeding.
"Look, these are the red earthworms we are going to raise." Wu Nanhai opened the wooden box, and there were several 90-150 mm purple-red earthworms squirming inside.
"This thing is easy to raise, as long as the feed is prepared well." Wu Nanhai took them to the basket with a stinking smell.
"Earthworm feed," he said, "comes from a wide range of sources. Basically, organic waste can be used as long as it is non-toxic and disease-free. For example, livestock and poultry manure, plants, peels, bagasse, rotten fruits, etc. Red earthworms like it best.
It's rotten fruits and rotten vegetable leaves - they like the sweet and sour taste."
"Rotten fruits are rare here -" Wan Lihui thought that since Wu Nanhai launched a comprehensive fertilization plan, it seems that no organic matter can escape his clutches. I don't know how he plans to distribute organic waste to earthworms. I don't know what's in that big pit.
What is it? It stinks like hell.
"Rotten vegetable leaves can be used as well. There are also wild fruits," Wu Nanhai seemed to have thought about it for a long time. "Leizhou will ship us a few ships of jackfruit - there are many of them there, as well as sugarcane bagasse." He said.
Pulled down the curtain covering the basket.
In the basket were rotting jackfruits and a lot of sugarcane bagasse. The sweet, sour and smelly smell made him cover his nose.
"These must be composted as soon as possible." Wu Nanhai frowned.
Organic matter used as feed must be fully fermented before it can be used. Earthworms are omnivorous annelids. These organic wastes must be piled and fermented before they can be swallowed and utilized, otherwise earthworms will die in large numbers. So in fact, one of the Wanjia brothers
The main task is to carry out compost fermentation.
Wu Nanhai personally took a shovel and shoveled out various organic waste inside to demonstrate composting.
Before fermentation, livestock and poultry manure must be sprinkled with water and mashed. Crop straw and straw can be cut into short strips with a hoe. Rotten fruits and sugarcane bagasse can be used directly. After they are piled up, water them and mix them evenly.
, make it fully moist, and then pile it on the ground to a height of one meter. The pile should be loose and not compacted, which is conducive to the reproduction of high-temperature bacteria. Then sprinkle water fully, and the moisture content should be between 50-60%.
After the feed is piled up, it is covered with plastic sheeting to keep it warm and moisturizing. If we can't get high-end things like large pieces of plastic sheeting here, we use straw curtains instead. Then we sprinkle water to keep the straw curtains moist.
"After three or four days of accumulated organic waste, the temperature inside can rise to between 50 and 60 degrees Celsius." Wu Nanhai opened his handbag and took out a strong object wrapped with straw rope. He opened it carefully and found something inside.
It is a huge glass rod - this is the latest alcohol thermometer produced by the glass factory. It looks ugly like a vibrator, which is enough to make otakus endlessly daydream.
"Thermometer, you should monitor the temperature of the compost every day. Too low or too high temperature is not suitable. You can turn the compost pile once every half a month and add water. After three or four turns, the compost should be: black
Brown, no odor, soft texture, not sticky. It is ready to use."
Wan Lihui watched Wu Nanhai open up a small pile, put his hand in and grabbed a handful of decomposed feed and came out: "That's it."
This action convinced him: Yes, this is what an agricultural technician should look like.
Then Wu Nanhai took them to make an earthworm bed, piling the decomposed feed into ridges with a width of 80 centimeters and a length of 200 to 300 centimeters, and then watered it. Finally, he poured the earthworms in the wooden box into it.
The earthworms burrowed into the feed almost immediately.
"If you refuse to go in, it means that the feed is not well decomposed." Wu Nanhai said, "This batch is a batch of seed worms brought with the ship. There are only a few dozen. Under normal circumstances, each earthworm bed can be inoculated with a thousand worms. About a thousand.
It will take three to four months to reach 15,000 per square meter, and you can harvest it at this time. Soon the earthworms can be used as feed, and the vermicompost can also be used as feed for fish and shrimp, and can also be used as fertilizer."
Wu Nanhai gave him another mimeographed booklet titled "Earthworms and Fly Maggot Breeding Techniques", with the words "Internal information, for exclusive use of the Committee of Agriculture" printed on it.
"Earthworm farming is relatively simple. The main thing is to keep warm, moisturize and ventilate. The other thing is to process feed."
"If we breed like this, it will take at least a quarter to form mass production capabilities. Is it too late?"
"There's enough time." Wu Nanhai said, "Our loan scale will be small at the beginning - there are not so many chickens, and the demand for formula feed will not be large."
After Wu Nanhai finished explaining, he gave him a list of items, which were all the tools needed for cultivating earthworms, such as rakes and shovels, as well as several masks from pharmaceutical factories.
"These are in your name. You can collect the masks whenever you need them - labor protection must be done, and farm tools and other things must be taken care of."
After looking for it, he got on his bicycle and drove away. The two brothers from the Wan family sat beside the earthworm bed, looking at each other.
"Brother, didn't you say that you can shoot the Japanese with guns when you come to this place?" Wan Lihuang looked at his brother, "I wonder why we are required to do farm work all day long..."
"This -" Wan Lihui was speechless. This reality is far different from casually shooting Japanese pirates with a gun. "Let's build a new countryside first."
"Then why do we come here to build? We could have just gone back to our hometown to build..."
"There are so many reasons!" Wan Lihui finally couldn't bear it anymore, "Go compost!"
The Wan brothers then started the work of building a new countryside in a new time and space.
Wu Nanhai rode his bicycle leisurely through the field ridges. From time to time he met his farm workers on the road. Everyone was very accustomed to this "iron wheeled bicycle", and no one came to watch, except when he passed by.
He stood respectfully and waited for him to pass. As usual, Wu Nanhai wanted to say hello to the farmers and workers. This was not a sign of "being close to the people", but a sign of his kindness to others, which he had always been.
Now he did not return to the office at the farm, but went to the newly built breeding farm.
In the past, the breeding farm was only a small part of the farm, basically a courtyard breeding model. Later, through war seizures, trade and other means, the number of livestock and poultry continued to increase. In addition, in the spring, professional veterinarians like Yang Guigui
Under the guidance of the Committee of Agriculture, the Committee of Agriculture launched a large-scale artificial insemination campaign - the results were remarkable. It was obvious that the population would further expand by early autumn in Xia. The Committee of Agriculture decided to establish permanent breeding before then.
field.
The breeding farm is located near the horse stable originally built for Nick. In fact, the Agricultural Committee has been interested in this land for a long time, and when they built the horse stable for Nick, they thought about buying it together.
However, there is actually a piece of land in this large piece of wasteland, about 200 acres in size, where some peanuts have been planted, but it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.
For unowned land, you only need to go to the county government to go through the formalities and get the title deed for a little money. However, it took a lot of time to negotiate with the landowner. This landowner is a one-dimensional person. Wu Nanhai followed
When Zhang Youfu went to visit him, he really couldn't believe that this man was actually a landlord - the house he lived in had a thatched roof. Although he was as poor as an ordinary small farmer, the landlord still refused to farm this land and he couldn't do anything about it.
It is said that if he sells the land he cultivates, he will no longer be considered a landlord. In order to maintain this false reputation, he is determined not to sell it. After negotiating many times, it doesn't work. Dugu, who knows this, even plans to mobilize his police team to propose marriage.
It's a case of occupation. Zhang Youfu suggested that if the time traveler doesn't want to do it himself, he can forge the land deed, and then go through Master Wang's method and spend a hundred taels of silver to go to the county government to file a lawsuit - he is sure to win.
"No, no." Wu Nanhai shook his head when he heard this. He was unwilling to do this kind of collusion with the government and bullying others from the bottom of his heart. Everyone also felt that this method was too dirty and seriously damaged the image of the Cross-Travel Group -
―The death of the Ming Dynasty is a matter of the Ming Dynasty. We are currently in the primary stage of revolution, and we still need to maintain the image of greatness and righteousness.