Fertilizer plants produce both organic and chemical fertilizers, but organic fertilizers are more common.
Every type of fertilizer can increase crop yield and provide nutrients, allowing crops to grow stronger.
Originally, the surrounding communes and brigades did not believe that Guangming Brigade could produce fertilizer comparable to chemical fertilizers, but after they conducted on-site inspections of Guangming Brigade's crops, they found that the fertilizer was of high quality.
The apple trees that Chen Suwen was in charge of were growing very well. She grafted them after the spring and used fertilizer, which made the apple trees grow even better.
Besides these few acres of apple trees, the other apple trees that Chen Suwen wasn't responsible for were also growing well.
The crops in the brigade were growing very well; compared to the crops in other brigades, their crops seemed to be one or two months larger.
People from the Guangming Brigade also use these fertilizers when they grow vegetables, and those vegetables grow very well.
Especially the vegetables at Chen Suwen's house; the Chinese cabbages she grew were huge, and the mustard greens and other vegetables also grew particularly large.
The yields of melons, beans, and other fruits and vegetables also seem to be very high.
Chen Suwen didn't bring out super-sized sweet potatoes, pumpkins, or corn this time, mainly because she didn't want them to be found at her house.
Otherwise, how would she explain it?
People from the surrounding communes conducted on-site investigations and, after seeing how well the crops in Guangming Brigade grew thanks to the fertilizer, they also believed that the fertilizer produced by this fertilizer factory was effective.
Orders poured in like a spring at Guangming Brigade Fertilizer Plant.
As the person who came up with the fertilizer formula, Chen Suwen would certainly receive a substantial share of the profits.
This made some people in the Guangming Brigade particularly envious and jealous, but they had no way to question the decisions of the brigade leaders.
Without Chen Suwen's formula, the brigade wouldn't have been able to build a fertilizer plant, and of course, wouldn't have made any money.
Now, the fertilizers from Guangming Brigade Fertilizer Plant are sold far and wide, not only in Shandong Province but also throughout the country.
Of course, the fertilizer factory of Guangming Brigade alone could not afford the consumption of crops throughout China, so the higher authorities approached them to cooperate with the fertilizer factory of Guangming Brigade.
In just one year, the Guangming Brigade has undergone tremendous changes.
All the apple trees that Chen Suwen grafted sprouted new buds, and every single one of them grew well.
The other apple trees that received fertilizer also bore a lot of fruit, which brought the production team a profit.
The soybeans that Chen Suwen planted under the fruit trees also had a high yield, with a yield of over a thousand catties per mu, which attracted the attention of the brigade leaders. They decisively kept these soybeans.
With such a high yield of soybeans, we must expand the planting area and conduct several experiments before we can determine whether the yield is truly stable.
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Time flies.
In one year, the Guangming Brigade made a lot of money, and good news also came from Zhou Ling's side.
She became pregnant shortly after marrying Song Che, and continued to work even with a big belly. Later, she couldn't take any more time and took leave to give birth.
In May 1971, she gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, but her biological mother, Comrade Chen Suwen, did not have time to take care of her during her postpartum period.
As for the Song family, Song's mother didn't have much time, so she hired a nanny to come and take care of the children.
The Song family is well-off; someone of Song's father's status can afford to hire a nanny. Since Song Che isn't home, the nanny is taking care of Song's father and mother, not Song Che, so there shouldn't be any problems.
The Song family was very pleased with Zhou Ling's twin children, and they were also satisfied with her intelligence.
With such a smart daughter-in-law, the children she gives birth to will definitely be smart too.
After giving birth, Zhou Ling went back to work after completing her postpartum confinement period. This time, she continued to study under math and other science experts.
She left her two children with a nanny. She didn't have enough breast milk to feed them, so the children were fed formula from birth. Now that she's back at work, she won't let the children go hungry.
After Zhou Ling returned to work, everything went back to normal, so Chen Suwen wasn't worried about her.
Because Zhou Cunzhi would come back to Guangming Brigade to visit his father every time he had a holiday, his skills improved by leaps and bounds, and he did very well at the machinery factory.
Zhou Qingyun also occasionally works as a consultant at the machinery factory, and the father and son are doing quite well now.
Zhou Cunming did well in the army, but he didn't get promoted too quickly in just one year, since he had a long training period when he first joined the army.
Zhou Cunming, who was in the army, didn't need much attention.
After graduating from junior high school, Zhou Cunzong was admitted to high school. He doesn't have much pressure now, but he still studies very hard.
A year ago, he had thought that if his family couldn't afford it, he would stop going to high school.
He can't go to university now, and he's not confident he can get a spot in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, so he doesn't plan to go to high school.
Who knew that the fertilizer factory in Guangming Brigade was now making a fortune, and the brigade's crops were yielding high profits, so his family received a considerable amount of money.
My eldest brother got a job, my second brother joined the army, and my sister got married and got a job. Everything is fine at home.
Even Xu Huixue has now been given a job at the textile factory by Chen Suwen.
Although it was just a temporary job, Chen Suwen believed that Xu Huixue could seize the opportunity, work hard, and becoming a permanent employee wouldn't be a big problem.
Because Zhou Cunzhi and Xu Huixue both had to work, the twins Zhou Xian and Zhou Mei were sent back to the countryside and taken in by Chen Suwen and Zhou Qingyun.
Xu Huixue was not worried at all about her in-laws raising their children well, since all three of their sons and two daughters were excellent, which must be because their parents had done a good job.
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