With sufficient funding, many experimental fields can be established, and many groups of experiments can be conducted simultaneously.

Many great scientific inventions are actually based on countless experiments.

Scientific research is expensive mainly because the cost of trial and error is very high.

Not long after, Academician Yuan Nongping and Academician Li Zhensheng went to the hotel to rest, but they could not hide their excitement.

He would occasionally exclaim with relief, saying things like, "my country's grain output is on the verge of a breakthrough," and "The Chinese people can finally have enough to eat..."

The following morning, the two academicians eagerly led their teams out of Shanghai to continue their scientific research.

This time, they have a large amount of research funding, allowing them to recruit more talent and go all out.

Foreign headhunting firms subsequently recruited a large number of agricultural talents for Galaxy Agriculture, including many world-renowned agricultural scientists, which solved the talent shortage problem in super seed breeding. However, problems that can be solved with money are not problems.

The headhunting firm also poached a large number of "genetically modified" technology talents from companies such as Monsanto, Cargill, BASF, Bayer, Pioneer, Dow AgroSciences, ADM, and Bunge for Galaxy Agriculture.

By poaching talent from competitors, companies strengthen themselves while weakening their rivals, thus slowing down the development of genetically modified technology in Europe and the United States to some extent.

Moreover, Zhao Ye did not believe that these companies would be more willing to invest money in the field of "genetically modified organisms" than he was.

In 2022, the global seed market was worth $47.2 billion, certainly not more than $40 billion in 1996.

The seed market is still relatively small, but it has great growth potential. Furthermore, seeds are crucial to food security, and Zhao Ye will not allow other companies to control the seed market under any circumstances.

Many people have heard of oil wars, chip wars, and currency wars, but they may not have heard of seed wars.

But many people have probably heard Kissinger's quote: "If you control oil, you control all nations; if you control food, you control all mankind."

Controlling oil and controlling food for all mankind are the national strategies that Kissinger formulated for the United States.

Monsanto will continue to acquire seed companies in the future. By 2014, Monsanto had mastered 90% of the world's genetically modified seed technology and occupied 70-100% of the market for various crop seeds.

Galaxy Agriculture's poaching this time is mainly targeting this company.

Because Galaxy Agriculture is also launching a seed war to control the global seed market and rival Monsanto!

(End of this chapter)