Chapter 169, Shocking Space Agriculture

On December 15, 2020, at the Fuyun Group Space Center in Longling Town, Sanjiang District, Meijiang City, Tang Yunshan, the person in charge of China’s space field, led a large inspection team here. There were a team of top scientists from the Space Agriculture Research Institute, and China after receiving the news. Nong Jiamo, leader of the Ministry of Agriculture, also came with an inspection delegation of more than ten people, as well as an even larger number of famous private entrepreneurs invited by Tang Yunshan.

Among them are the real estate tycoon Lao Wang who was originally ambitious and wanted to enter the space industry, Lao Ma Ge, the big boss of the virtual world industry, Zhang Xianzu, the "future star" who now makes a lot of money from lunar tourism, and Huaxia Food Group The person in charge, Lei Dapeng, and a large team of more than 50 people.

Accompanied by bursts of roars, two huge "Hercules" aerospace planes rushed into space dragging long tail flames. This time, the number of people was really a lot, including the reception staff of Fuyun Group and others. etc., it was almost a team of more than 200 people. For the sake of safety, it was divided into two aerospace planes.

When the time comes to visit space agriculture, it will also be divided into several parts, which will be received by Li Fu, Gu Feng, Luo Xiaoyao and others, and will take them to visit the space farm.

Taking a space plane into space is not unfamiliar to these people at all. Tang Yunshan, the person in charge of the space field, has even been to the moon several times. Except for a few who were a little nervous when they went to space for the first time. , everyone else seemed very relaxed.

The aerospace plane slowly approached Fuyun Group's space farmland. At this time, the scale of the space farmland was already quite large. As the aerospace plane slowly approached, the field of view continued to expand until the entire field of view was covered by the space farmland. Occupying it, you will see a green world everywhere.

"Xiao Li, how big is your space farm now? How much is the investment?"

Nong Jiamo, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, looked at the farmland in space, looking a little surprised, and said to Li Fu beside him.

"The current area is about 250,000 square meters, divided into 25 pieces of space farmland, and hundreds of crops are planted. The initial investment is not too large, and the cost is only about 5 billion Chinese dollars."

Li Fu answered with a smile.

"Five billion Chinese dollars? It's really not too big."

Lao Wang, Lao Ma Ge, Zhang Xianzu and other wealthy people on the side also nodded. They have such a huge space farmland in space, and the investment is only 5 billion Chinese dollars. It is really not much, and it is more than the number they originally estimated. Much lower.

Soon, the aerospace plane slowly parked at the port area of ​​the space farm. People in spacesuits, led by Li Fu, slowly floated and began to enter the space capsules of the space farm to visit the space farm. .

"Please see, this is one of the earliest space farmlands we built. This space farmland mainly grows fruit watermelons."

In a space capsule, through the thick tempered glass, Li Fu pointed at the green and fruitful space farmland and began to introduce it to the dozens of people behind him, including Tang Yunshan, Nong Jiamo, Lao Wang, Lao Ma Ge, Zhang Xianzu, etc. .

Everyone looked at the space farmland one by one. They saw that the entire space farmland was full of green watermelon vines, and huge watermelons vaguely revealed themselves. Even people who did not understand agriculture at all. It can also be seen that the watermelon yield in this space farmland is quite high.

"Can we go in and take a look?"

Farmer Mo looked at the scene in the space farmland, his eyes couldn't help but widen, and then asked Li Fu.

"sure."

Li Fu nodded, then entered instructions into the control computer next to him, and soon the hatch was opened.

Nongjia Mo pushed gently with his hand, and his whole body slowly floated into the space farmland. Tang Yunshan, Lao Wang and others also followed suit and floated into the space farmland one by one.

Entering the space farmland, you feel as if you are in a green ocean world. No matter which direction you look at, there are green watermelon vines. At the same time, because you are in it, you can see it more intuitively. What the entire space farm looks like.

The watermelon vines are spaced very regularly from their roots. The vines have no guidance at all. They are only affected by microgravity in space. The watermelon vines spread everywhere, and there are huge watermelons. They were just floating quietly in the void, and some were very naughty hiding under the leaves of the watermelon vines.

"Boom, boom!"

Farmer Mo kept tapping each watermelon, obviously checking the ripeness of the watermelon, while silently counting the number of watermelons produced on each vine.

"One watermelon vine can produce 15-20 large watermelons, and these watermelons are very well-proportioned. They generally weigh more than 10 kilograms."

Farmer Mo is the person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, and he knows a lot about agriculture. Generally, it is normal for a watermelon vine to produce 3-5 watermelons, and 10 watermelons are considered rare. , but in the huge farmland in front of him, the number of watermelons on each watermelon vine was between 15 and 20, and these watermelons were very well-proportioned. He couldn't help but exclaimed.

"In space, because there is only microgravity, and the sunlight is very sufficient, there is no impact from pests and diseases. Combined with scientific planting and management methods, the yield of watermelons can generally reach ten times the yield of watermelons on the ground. In space, there is no need to be affected by seasons, and agricultural production can be carried out all year round. In this way, the yield can actually be doubled."

"Not only is the yield much higher than on the ground, but the quality will also be several levels higher. There is no impact from pests and diseases, so there is no need to use pesticides at all. Reasonable adjustment of temperature and light will also make the watermelon very sweet."

Li Fu smiled and introduced the advantages of developing agriculture in space to everyone.

"Dozens of times the yield, high-quality agricultural products."

Everyone couldn't help but grasp the key words in their minds.

"If the output is dozens of times that of the ground, and it can also produce high-quality agricultural products, there is a lot of profit space here. The area of ​​this space farm is tens of thousands of square meters, plus the three-dimensional layout, in fact, its area can be doubled tenfold, so the output is really amazing!"

"The entire space farm can plant about 100,000 watermelon vines, each watermelon vine counts as 15 watermelons, each watermelon counts as 10 kilograms, so it can be about 15 million kilograms, each kilogram is 1 yuan, which means that there can be about 15 million output value per time, and one period is 120 days, and three periods can be planted in a year, which means 45 million output value!"

"Li Fu said that his entire 250,000 square meters of space farmland investment is about 5 billion Chinese yuan, which means that the investment in a space farmland is about 200 million Chinese yuan."

The people present couldn't help but start to calculate in their minds. Looking at the layers of watermelon vines around them, just a casual calculation, everyone couldn't help but widen their eyes.

"Even if we calculate it with the lowest data, there is still a lot of potential! As for the quality of this watermelon, it can definitely be sold as the top watermelon, and the profit here is really huge."

Brother Lao Ma couldn't help but shout out.

Everyone else present couldn't help but nod their heads. They all had virtual machines and calculators, and they could easily calculate the output of this space farmland. Then they searched the market price of watermelons and easily figured out the output value of this space farmland.

Combined with the investment that Li Fu said at the beginning, the output and investment ratio came out at once, and everyone couldn't help but widen their eyes and get excited.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, space agriculture actually has such a great prospect. In the past, I just metaphysically thought that any investment in space would be a loss, but now it seems that everything still has to be based on data."

Nong Jiamo also nodded and sighed for a long time.

"In fact, as China's space technology becomes more and more advanced, the cost of this space farm can still be continuously reduced. In space, there is unlimited space and unlimited sunlight, which are advantages that ground agriculture does not have."

Tang Yunshan also nodded with satisfaction. He brought everyone here this time for a clear purpose, which is to guide everyone to space agriculture. Now everyone has seen the broad prospects of space agriculture. Tang Yunshan can see that the people who followed him have been moved.

After visiting the watermelon space farm area, everyone soon came to the rice planting area.

Entering the rice space farm, Nong Jiamo was shocked again, because he saw that these rice actually produced several rice ears, each of which was golden and full of rice grains. The entire rice space farm area was a golden harvest scene.

"Xiao Li, are these genetically modified rice? How can they produce so many ears of rice?"

Nong Jiamo seems to be very concerned about rice, because rice is the main food crop, which is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. It is many times more important than watermelon. For a country with a population of more than one billion, the most important thing for the people is to have enough food.

"It's not genetically modified rice, not even hybrid rice, but very ordinary rice, the rice that our ancestors have passed down."

"In fact, it's not just rice, even wheat, sorghum and other crops can produce multiple ears of fruit in space because there is only the influence of microgravity. For rice, even the most common rice seeds have a single plant yield that is more than twice the highest yield hybrid rice."