Chapter 384 Harvest
Zhao Fa's family, Deputy Captain Wang's family, and Aunt Chen Si's family all contracted wasteland and planted high-yield corn seeds provided by Shang Ruoting.
After all, they all make a living by growing crops. Although the harvested corn has not yet been dried and threshed, looking at the mountain-like pile of grain in front of them, the yield is higher than that of those people growing crops in fertile fields, and it is not a little bit higher.
While the families were grateful to Shang Ruoting's family, they did not think much about the source of such high-yield seeds. After all, Tan Chen had been in Beijing for so many years, it was not surprising that he could get such high-yield seeds through his connections.
Aunt Chen Si was overjoyed holding the plump corn grains.
Looking at the plump corn in front of her, she wanted to give it a few kisses. Although she had been tired these days, the smile on her face never faded.
Zhao Fa was even more exaggerated. He ran to Tan Chen's house with a bunch of corn in his arms and shouted excitedly as soon as he reached the door.
"Tan Chen, Ruoting, hahahaha... I've been farming all my life, but this is the first time I've seen corn yields so high..."
Tan Chen and his family had just returned from working in the fields. When they heard the noise outside, they all came out.
Tan Chen looked at Zhao Fa with a smile and said, "Captain, our wasteland is not fertile enough right now. If we take good care of it this winter, the yield will be higher next year."
"Yes, it will definitely be higher next year. Fortunately, I followed your example and contracted those wastelands."
When Zhao Fa talked about the time when he contracted the wasteland, his heart bleeds.
Why couldn't he completely trust Shang Ruoting and Tan Chen's judgment at that time? He listened to the instigation of Deputy Captain Wang and wanted to make Zhang Lanxiang look bad, so he gave away some of the contracted land.
Thinking about the few acres of land that were still barren in Zhang Lanxiang's hands, he regretted it to death.
But the mistake has been made, and there is no point in regretting it. With so many gains in front of him, he should be content.
Shang Ruoting and Yang Mei converted wasteland into paddy fields, and the harvest was astonishing.
The seeds were the high-yield rice seeds that Shang Ruoting had just developed in her previous life. Although they were planted in paddy fields that were not very fertile, Shang Ruoting had modified the fertilizer very well and used it in appropriate amounts.
The rice yields of the two families are truly enviable, especially in this place where there are few paddy fields and more dry land, it is even more enviable.
The rice seeds developed by Shang Ruoting had a yield of 1,900 kilograms per mu when she was experimenting on fertile land in the 22nd century. After shelling, minus 70% loss, more than 1,300 kilograms of white rice could be harvested per mu.
Although the fields where her high-yield rice is currently grown are newly reclaimed paddy fields, the yield per mu of unhulled rice has reached 1,400 kilograms. Considering the current situation, this figure is several times that of ordinary rice.
If these rice seeds were planted in more fertile paddy fields, I believe the yield would be almost the same as when Shang Ruoting conducted the experiment in the 22nd century.
Although Yangmei has never grown rice, as someone who grew up in the countryside, she is very familiar with the yield of crops.
Before the rice was ripe, she found that the rice grains were unusually plump, and the ears were much longer than those of ordinary rice.
At that time, she could conclude that the rice yield must be very high, and estimated that the yield per mu could reach at least 600 to 700 kilograms.
As a result, after she and Li Jiasheng finished harvesting the rice and weighed it, they were both stunned...
One thousand four hundred kilograms?
What is this concept? .
It is more than twice or even three times the per-acre rice yield of other families...
Yang Mei and Li Jiasheng were both very nervous. They arrived at Tan Chen's house in a daze, as if they were walking on clouds.
When Shang Ruoting saw the state of the two people, she had roughly guessed the reason. She probably was scared by the rice yield.
"Ruoting...the rice yield per mu is as high as 1,400 kilograms." Yang Mei felt like she was dreaming at this moment. Otherwise, how could the rice yield be so high?
Li Jiasheng was even more exaggerated. He wanted to say something but didn't know how to start...
Zhao Fa was praising the high yield of corn seeds at the moment. When he heard Yang Mei's words, he didn't believe it at all.
"Yangmei, could you have weighed it wrong?"
"Your paddy fields are all newly converted from wasteland. The figure you mentioned isn't the yield of all paddy fields, is it?"
When Li Jiasheng heard Zhao Fa questioning the yield of his own paddy fields, he became anxious.
"Captain, how could we have called it wrong?"
"If you don't believe me, you can go and see for yourself. Our rice yield per mu is really that high."
When Zhao Fa saw Li Jiasheng's confident look, he went from completely disbelieving to half-believing.
"Let's go, let's take a look."
Yang Mei and Li Jiasheng suddenly felt that they were being too high-profile. After all, it was Shang Ruoting and Tan Chen who had obtained these high-yield rice seeds. No one else had said anything, yet they were making such a fuss...
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