Chapter 177 Seed Company Site Selection
The glow in the sky was light red and purple, as if rendered with the most vivid colors, covering the sky with a brocade that was eye-catching and beautiful.
There was a raging fire below, the blazing flames reflected on everyone's surprised faces, bubbles were bubbling in the gurgling pot, and the air was filled with a sweet aroma that made people twitch their nostrils unconsciously.
The effect of making sugar from corn stalks is gratifying. The sweet fragrance is blown into the villagers' noses by the autumn wind, attracting their curious inquiries.
"Hey! Whose family is making candy?"
Someone knew about it and immediately said, "It's Haizi's house. I heard they use corn stalks to make sugar."
"Can corn stalks be used to make sugar?" Some people were shocked, while others did not quite believe it.
Who in the village doesn't grow a few corns? They cook the corn kernels and eat them. Corn stalks have little water, so how can they be used to make sugar?
I find it unlikely, but the Ye family is good at planting, why don’t we go and take a look?
This proposal was immediately responded to.
Since there was nothing to do in the fields, the person who spoke stood up and planned to go to Ye's house to take a look.
"Let's go and have a look together."
Several people came to Ye's house, and the closer they got to the yard, the stronger the sweet fragrance became.
In the large yard of Ye Zhen's house, several large iron pots were boiling sugar concentrate and it was time to make sand. Next to them were molds prepared by Grandma Ye and others. They poured all the sugar juice into the molds and let them dry. The result would be known soon.
Just like that, from the time the sun rose to the sky until it set, many people came to Ye Zhen's yard to watch the fun.
Everyone doesn't mind the long time and is waiting to compare the two with sugarcane sugar.
With a lot of people helping out, we finally got the result of making sugar from corn stalks.
Compared with sugarcane, the sugar produced from corn stalks has a lower yield and a lighter taste.
However, corn stalks can be used to harvest corn, but sugarcane cannot be compared.
Moreover, the corn cultivated by Ye Zhen has a high yield, many grains, beautiful appearance and good taste, which has already covered up the shortcomings in making sugar.
"Are these all made from corn?" The village chief also came and looked at the candy in front of him in disbelief.
Compared with the dark red sugar cubes made from sugarcane, the sugar cubes made from corn stalks are dark red in color.
But what does that matter?
The village chief knew that if he planted corn, after harvesting the cobs, the leaves could be fed to livestock, the stalks could be used to make sugar, and the whole corn could be put to use.
This has huge economic significance!
There is little sugarcane planted in their village, but there are many sugarcane growers in other villages, and the fields in the village are all covered with sugarcane.
Planting sugarcane is not easy. It requires fertilizing and watering, and when the sugarcane grows to a certain size, the leaves underneath have to be peeled off to make it grow taller and stronger.
This job is not easy. It hurts when the sugarcane leaves hit you, and if you are not careful, you will get a cut.
Once you get into the sugarcane field, it's stuffy and hot inside, and due to the climate, it's easy to get heatstroke if you stay there for too long.
Corn is much easier in comparison.
In the past, the Shanbei Village was envious because other villages could make a lot of money just by growing sugarcane.
After all, their province is famous for its sugarcane. Whether it's for squeezing juice or making sugar, or selling whole sugar canes, buyers from all over the country drive large trucks to pick them up every year. So why would they worry about sales?
Unfortunately, the land in Shanbei Village is not concentrated, and there are many hills, scattered around. The village chief is envious but there is nothing he can do.
But this time it’s different, they can sell seeds!
"It's the real village chief!" Someone was delighted and interrupted the village chief's thoughts.
“Everyone watched this unfold.”
People around were talking about it, and some picked up the candy and observed and sniffed it.
"This kind of corn is better than sugarcane. It can be planted twice!"
"We grow strawberries, watermelons and potted plants in our village, so we can't grow much corn, right?"
"You're so silly! Can't we plant less and squeeze in some corn in the corners? Then we can sell the seeds after harvesting the corn cobs?"
"I think it's okay, but my family still wants to grow more fruits, and we can still make money from fruits!"
"Yes, yes. No matter how good corn is, it is not as popular as strawberries."
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After hearing this, everyone's enthusiasm gradually died down. When it comes to growing crops, although corn is indeed good, everyone still thinks it is more cost-effective to grow fruit.
The village chief also came to his senses and thought that it did make sense. Corn can be harvested twice a year, but strawberries can be harvested many times.
The key is that the price is more expensive! People from abroad come to buy it.
The village chief is a realistic person. Once he calms down, his thinking becomes much clearer.
But it feels a pity to let go of such good corn seeds.
He asked Ye's father, and was told that it was Ye Zhen who got the seeds. He then went to Ye Zhen embarrassedly to ask about the situation.
"This corn seed is not picky about the soil and is drought and moisture tolerant, but different places have different soil and climate, and the corn grown is also different."
After planting the corn at home, Ye Zhen took the seeds to the valley for experiments, and the corn that grew was different.
Ye Zhen specially picked corns that had adapted to several environments and took them home. He found that when planted in dry land, the corn grains were larger and the yield remained the same, but the corn flour output was higher, making it suitable for grinding corn flour.
Grown in moist places, corn has more moisture, a variety of colors, a nice appearance, produces less flour, and the stalks are sweet.
When planted in a place with sufficient sunlight, enough water and fertile soil, the corn will be sweeter and darker in color. It will not grow old after maturity and will always retain moisture and sweetness, making it suitable for cooking and stewing.
Growing in saline-alkali land, the corn stalks are shorter and thicker, with more fiber and greener leaves. The corn comes in only one color and tastes average. It becomes sticky when cooked. Ye Zhen thinks it is suitable as feed for livestock.
Ye Zhen selected the corns with stable genes from the experiment and kept a lot of them. Some of them could be kept as seeds, but some failed after three generations. Not only could they not be kept as seeds, but all their good genes would disappear, turning them into inferior varieties that could not be planted.
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The consequence of these experiments was that Ye Zhen cultivated more seeds. During those few days, the whole family ate different types of corn for every meal. Now the Ye family has little interest in corn.
Since the village chief asked this, Ye Zhen did not hide it and explained the advantages and disadvantages of the seeds clearly.
Finally, I advertised myself, "Village chief, you have seen what kind of person I am. If any village chief needs me, please help recommend me."
Grandma Ye was quicker. She cracked a large piece of brown sugar and put it directly into the iron pot. She added water and brought it to a boil with the sugar juice in the pot. There were quite a few eggs at home, so she beat some of them to make brown sugar poached eggs, and each person got a bowl.
The village chief drank the hot brown sugar water, which tasted just as good as brown sugar, and was very nice to Ye Zhen.
"Okay, I actually know which villages grow sugarcane, but I'm just making recommendations. I can't guarantee whether people will grow it or not." The village chief didn't finish his words.
Ye Zhen said that there was no problem, she would sell the seeds if she could, and keep them for herself if she couldn't. Her current focus was to cultivate various new varieties of seeds, and she would give them to the country when she had the chance before leaving this world, and she was not in a hurry whether it was sooner or later.
Born in this world, she cannot interfere with too much else, but she can still contribute a little in the form of seeds, as a way of giving back to her family and to the land that gave birth to her.
When the village chief heard that Ye Zhen was not in a hurry, he had an idea in his mind. He asked some more questions about corn seeds, drank the brown sugar poached egg tea, and was about to leave with the other villagers.
Suddenly he remembered that Ye Zhen wanted to buy or rent land, so he turned around and called Ye Zhen.
"I have inquired about the land next to the village company. Because our village company is there, it has driven the development of the surrounding area. The village is unwilling to sell it and they only agree to rent it."
Ye Zhen didn't expect that the village chief knew so many people. The last time she went to the village company, she saw that in addition to the fertile farmland, the surrounding areas were beginning to be dug and constructed. Perhaps the joint venture company in the village was indeed developing well. There were large trucks coming and going, and most of the villagers from the surrounding towns and villages worked here. There were already many small stalls and vendors, and a night market had even been opened.
She knew that it was not easy to buy land in the surrounding area, and it would also be difficult to rent land even if she had no connections.
The village chief was so helpful that he actually negotiated a deal for her. If she couldn't buy the property, she could just rent the land.
Ye Zhen nodded with gratitude, "It's okay. I'll need your help in renting the land when the time comes."
She hit the snake with a stick, and everyone called it by a more intimate name. After all, they all had the surname Ye and their ancestors were from the same family.
The village chief glanced at her with a smile and said, "Okay, then find a time to sign it."
After completing the site selection for the seed company, Ye Zhen planned to apply for patents for corn seeds, strawberry seeds and watermelon seeds.
Intellectual property rights are extremely important. Ye Zhen doesn’t know much about the application process. She only hires professionals to do their jobs, so she pays someone to do it.
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