This is also one of the reasons why corn production increased after the apocalypse.
It didn't grow as big as pumpkins or sweet potatoes, but it produced more ears, so the yield was much higher than before.
Is this true?
"Comrade Chen Suwen, you can't just spout nonsense and make up lies to deceive us." Yao Huijuan looked at the sweet potato in front of her, then at Chen Suwen, her face serious.
This is a big deal.
If such a high-yield grain crop were promoted, how many lives could it save?
The famine from over a decade ago has not yet subsided, and many people in this era are still emaciated.
If we had crops with such high yields, perhaps people wouldn't go hungry.
Yao Huijuan knew that people would still starve to death in this era.
They're a little better off in Guangdong province. Even though there's not much food, they can still eat wild vegetables and barely survive.
But I've heard that in the north, or the northwest, there's no food in winter, and even wild vegetables get covered by ice and snow.
In that situation, many people would starve to death.
If such a large sweet potato could be successfully marketed, if such a large pumpkin really existed...
Yao Huijuan grasped Chen Suwen's hand, "You didn't lie to me, did you, Comrade Chen Suwen?"
Chen Suwen looked at the excited Yao Huijuan and nodded, "Of course I wouldn't lie."
Although she didn't quite understand Yao Huijuan's excitement, she knew how important food was.
She never went hungry. She never went hungry in the post-apocalyptic world, so how could she go hungry in peacetime?
But she understands how it feels to be hungry, so she wouldn't joke about it.
"I found these sweet potatoes and corn on my way back from Tang Town. I was just about to... cough, to relieve myself when I found them."
"Actually, I found the pumpkin first, but the pumpkin and winter melon were too big for me to carry back, so I took the relatively smaller sweet potato and corn instead."
"Comrade Chen Suwen, if what you say is true, I will definitely recommend you for commendation and strive to get you an award."
As for the things Chen Suwen had already dug up, let her take them back; they wouldn't hold it against her for taking collective property.
After all, it was Chen Suwen who discovered it, so giving her a little "reward" is appropriate.
"Aunt Yao, I'd like to go see it too. I've never seen a pumpkin weighing several hundred pounds before," Zhou Min said at the opportune moment, expressing her desire to go as well.
Yao Huijuan looked at her, thought for a moment, and decided to bring the mother and daughter along.
Chen Suwen led the way, while Zhou Min just watched the excitement.
Yao Huijuan went out to find people, but this time she didn't just send a few people from her neighborhood office; she went to find other people who could make decisions.
In the end, Chen Suwen didn't ride her own bicycle, but instead went in the group's vehicle.
The place where Chen Suwen planted things was not far from the urban area of Yangcheng, especially Guangming Road, only about two or three kilometers away.
The group arrived at the foot of the mountain, got out of the car, and followed Chen Suwen up the mountain.
The others who came initially thought Yao Huijuan was joking; how could something so big exist in the world?
Pumpkins and winter melons are only about ten or twenty pounds in size, aren't they?
Even if you plant them very large, the winter melons and pumpkins will only grow to a maximum of forty or fifty pounds.
And then there are sweet potatoes; a sweet potato that weighs four or five pounds is considered large.
But the leaders believed what Yao Huijuan said, and they followed orders, so they could only keep their complaints to themselves.
But when they saw a huge field of pumpkins and winter melons, their expressions of utter disbelief, as if they had seen a ghost, were simply uncontrollable.
There are seven or eight ears of corn on one corn "tree"?
A single pumpkin can grow to weigh over a thousand pounds?
Such a magical thing was something they would never have believed to be true if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes.
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