Chapter 268 It’s really not worth it...
Aunt Chen Si didn't hire anyone to work on the wasteland at her family's side. Since there were many people in her family, everyone in the family helped out. Plus, they didn't have to reclaim paddy fields, so they were able to keep up with the progress.
The same was true for the families of Zhao Fa and Deputy Captain Wang. Those busy in the wasteland were all family members, and men, women, young and old all joined in, making it quite lively.
Looking at the reclaimed land in front of them, they all regretted giving the few acres to Zhang Lanxiang's family.
What’s even more infuriating is that it’s almost time for sowing, but their wasteland hasn’t even been touched.
What a waste of natural resources...
However, when they thought about what might happen when Zhang Lanxiang's family paid their taxes in the future, they felt relieved. Didn't they give up part of the wasteland just to make her laugh?
They might think so now, but in a few years, when they see these lands turned into treasures in Shang Ruoting's hands, they will probably regret it. It's really not worth it to make fun of Zhang Lanxiang...
The next day, Tan Chen borrowed the team's tractor early in the morning and went to the city to buy materials for building a greenhouse.
I wanted to transport the materials back as soon as possible and hire people to build the greenhouse before the villagers started sowing.
Yang Mei also gave the money for the materials to Shang Ruoting in advance and asked Tan Chen to help transport the materials back.
Tan Chen had already gone to the city to buy materials last year, so he was familiar with the process again. It only took him three days to prepare all the steel bars and other items.
In addition, their family also wants to build a small breeding farm, and the couple plans to build it together with the greenhouse.
They were busy here, but the Shang family was in chaos.
Shang Ruolian wrote back, saying that she had no money to help her parents' home, and she also didn't know how to build a greenhouse. She only told Zhang Lanxiang to secretly go to Shang Ruoting's place to take a look.
Zhang Lanxiang became depressed after receiving the letter. Not to mention anything else, she had been working on her nine acres of farmland for so long and had only cultivated five acres. Now there were only four acres left. Shang Lichun and Shang Jianguo were so tired that they had started a strike.
Not to mention the wasteland, Zhang Lanxiang can only grit her teeth and swallow her anger as she sees other people's land being reclaimed and even have the enviable paddy fields.
As for when the wasteland will be reclaimed, it is still unknown. In short, there is no possibility of relying on Shang Lichun and Shang Jianguo.
Tan Chen was busy building greenhouses and farms in the fields, and Shang Ruoting was also busy. She started growing seedlings in the greenhouse in her backyard.
The seedlings she cultivated were naturally the high-yield rice seeds she had developed in her previous life.
This high-yield rice looks no different from ordinary rice, and the difference can only be seen when it heads.
If high-yield rice is successfully planted, the ear length will be much longer than that of ordinary rice, and the ears will be tightly connected without any gaps.
The most important thing is that the grains are full, and of course, this also requires adequate fertilizer.
In this era, although chemical fertilizers are not yet used on a large scale, many areas are already using them.
The main reason why chemical fertilizers are not used in large quantities is that their production costs are high and many places cannot afford to buy too much.
For example, the Sihe Village Production Team would purchase a batch of chemical fertilizers every year. Due to the small quantity, they would only use one-third or one-quarter of the amount required for each acre of land.
Therefore, the grain production in Sihe Village has never reached the expected results.
Shang Ruoting is also aware of the harm that chemical fertilizers do to the human body, but this is the overall domestic situation. The population is too large, and if people want to have enough food, they can only use a certain amount of chemical fertilizers.
In particular, the paddy fields she reclaimed were intended to be used as experimental fields for these high-yield rice. Even though the space spiritual spring water is more powerful and healthier than chemical fertilizers, she does not plan to use chemical fertilizers for the time being.
In this way, she can also truly test the yield of high-yield rice here.
Although chemical fertilizer products have been involved in agricultural production in this era, Shang Ruoting knows that the current fertilizer processing is still not perfect.
In the past, just as the 22nd century began, through continuous research and innovation by scientists, fertilizers that were basically harmless to the human body had been developed.
At that time, Shang Ruoting basically used this kind of fertilizer when planting experimental fields.
Although she has not been involved in the fertilizer industry, as a doctor of agronomy, she still knows a little about it.
As far as she knows, the most harmful substance in fertilizers is free acid. In the 22nd century, scientists found substances that can replace free acid through experiments.
This substance is called non-acid and is an extract from the soil.
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