I have a paradise

Zhou Xiaoxiao brought Wang Yi to the dormitory, because the conditions here in Lop Nur are limited, and the conditions of the dormitory can only be said to be average. A dormitory is 20 square meters and belongs to a quadruple room.There are air-conditioning and everything. Wang Yi and his party lived in five dormitories.

"Mr. Wang, the dormitory conditions are relatively simple, I don't know if you can live in the habit." Zhou Xiaoxiao said.

"What's not used to it? I have lived in the 8-bed dormitory at school for several years." Wang Yi said with a smile. The dormitory is cleaned and equipped with air conditioning, TV and refrigerator.

At six o'clock the next morning, Wang Yi woke up early.

Because it is located in the northwest, the time here in Lop Nur is one or two hours later than in Central Plains Province. That is to say, it is light at five o'clock in Central Plains, and it's just over six o'clock here.

Workers on the farm get up earlier. Normally they get up at five o’clock and start working after a simple meal. The weather here in the Lop Nur Desert is hot during the day, and it is common for the surface temperature to reach 40 degrees. Work in the evening.

Later, Wang Yi refilled Lop Nur with water. Every time he used rain prayer flags to rain, he adjusted the rain to keep the temperature from being too hot, and because of the rain, it was cool in the morning and evening.After the desert is covered with vegetation, the night temperature here is not as close to zero as before.

Although the environment here is still not as good as the Central Plains area, it is much better than the previous Gobi Desert.Artemisia sphaerocephala is planted in the desert. Because of the sufficient water source, these Artemisia sphaerocephalas are growing well. Wait at most one month for the fruits of Artemisia sphaerocephala to mature.

Artemisia sphaerocephala also changes according to the growth environment. If it is in a desert, drought and water shortage, the growth cycle of Artemisia sphaerocephala will be prolonged. It takes at least a year or even longer to mature. The saccharomyces scoparia here in Lop Nur With sufficient water, it will mature in four months.

Wang Yi contracted more than 8,000 square kilometers of desert in Lop Nur. After Lop Nur was filled with water, more than 4,000 square kilometers were left. Later, Wang Yi contracted some more. Now his farm is almost 7,000 square kilometers. Size.

One square kilometer equals 1,500 acres, and 7,000 square kilometers equals 10.5 million acres of land. The yield per mu of Artemisia scoparia is at most only half that of wheat. Normally, it is more than 400 catties. , The entire farm’s grain output this time is 2.1 million tons.

Central Plains Province is a major wheat-growing province in the country. The output of wheat accounts for more than a quarter of the country. Last year's summer grain output was more than 37 million tons.The output of Lop Nur Farm here reached 2.1 million tons, which is one twentieth that of Central Plains Province. This is just a Lop Nur. The area of ​​the desert in China is 1.3 million square kilometers.

The entire country of China is only 9.6 million square kilometers. These deserts account for almost one-eighth. Except for these desertification, the land area of ​​the country is 2.61 million square kilometers, accounting for a quarter of the total land area. First, the total cultivated area of ​​China is only 1.4 million square kilometers, which is only a little more than half of the desertified land.

So much desertified land has all turned into fertile land. Even if the output is only half of that of ordinary farmland, China's grain output can easily double.This can already be said to involve national strategic issues.Since China imported 130 million tons of grain in 2017, the quantity of grain imports has been increasing every year. Of course, a large part of this is coarse grains such as soybeans.

If these desertified lands in China can grow food, China can completely transform from a food importing country to a food exporting country.

The price of food in China is more expensive than that of the lighthouse country. There are many factors. The cost of the lighthouse country is mainly material and service fees, namely seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and machinery, while the cost of China is land and labor. Household labor per mu of land is about 450 yuan per mu, and the lighthouse country is 70 yuan per mu. China is more than five times that of the United States. The cost of land in the lighthouse country is 160 yuan per mu, and China’s average is 214 yuan.With such a big difference, food prices are naturally high.

A large part of this is because China belongs to a small-scale farming economy, and the lighthouse country implements a large-scale farm economy. It is difficult to develop such a large-scale farm economy in densely populated areas such as Central Plains. However, in the northwest, there is a large area and sparse population. Moreover, these lands were deserts before and are very suitable for large-scale mechanized production.

The current concern is whether Xinghao Artemisia can meet the requirements stated by Wang Yi. If it fails to meet the requirements, these can only be castles in the sky.Now he is here to see if this year's Lop Nur Farm will work.

Only by proving the feasibility of the plan he said can the next thing continue.

Wang Yi followed Zhou Xiaoxiao around the farm. After several months of growth, Artemisia sylvestris had grown to more than half a meter high, and the heavy ears were bent on the branches. Wang Yi reached out and grabbed one and held it heavily in his hand. Yes, you don’t need to look at it to know that the harvest of Artemisia spp. will not be bad.

In addition to these Artemisia spp., there are also many artificially excavated ponds. In addition to irrigation, these ponds can also be used to raise fish.The irrigation system of the Lop Nur Farm is a huge connected water system. The eight main rivers draw water from Lop Nur. The water of the main river flows into the tributaries, and the water of the tributaries flows into various ditches. Where the fields are short of water, the water in the ditches is directly diverted. past.

Because of the Lop Nur relationship, even if Artemisia scoparia is not planted on this land, other crops can be grown. As for the deserts in other regions, it is estimated that Lop Nur does not have such good conditions.Even if Artemisia spp. is planted, the harvest will not be very good in the first few years.After all, the desert is inherently lack of water. Although the planting of Artemisia sphaerocephala requires very little water, no matter how small it is, water is needed.

Planting hundreds of thousands of mu and millions of mu requires a lot of water.It was originally a desert with water shortage, so where did I get so much water?Even if a sufficient water source is finally found, it is likely to cause water shortages in other areas.After all, this land in the northwest has always been short of water.

The best way is actually to start from the outskirts of the desert and plant Artemisia spp. on those lands that have not yet been completely desertified. Let these snails convert these lands that have not yet been completely deserted into normal land, and then rely on these lands for a little bit of change. The depths of the desert extend.Although this approach is slow, the requirements for water resources are reduced, and Artemisia sphaerocephala can also reduce water evaporation. In the end, the groundwater here will not decrease or even increase.