Whether others farm or not is none of Bai Shuang's business; someone else will take care of it.
Let them do whatever they want. Once they run into trouble, they'll realize how difficult farming is in the apocalypse.
The natural disasters are not over yet, and planting is only temporary. She doesn't want to be greedy and waste too many resources.
They selected a relatively flat ten acres of land near the new foundation that was under construction.
Grandpa Lu said that ten mu was too little. He said that they should plant at least ten mu of grain and vegetables, and five mu of medicinal herbs.
We still had to give Grandpa face, so we added another 5 mu.
We'll use the base's greenhouses; we'll keep our own for now. Anyway, they're public property; if we don't use them, someone else will, and it might just be a waste.
Once the land was secured, construction began.
Ever since Bai Shuang marked out the land, many well-informed people have started inquiring about when construction would begin and when recruitment would start. Everyone is eager to apply.
Employee positions at the Bai family are highly sought after.
Although there are several families now involved in farming, only the Bai family is the most reliable, and they only trust Bai Shuang.
Putting everything else aside, their employee meals alone are enough to make anyone's mouth water.
However, Bai Shuang still used the original planting area's personnel. Since there weren't enough people, they added the pharmaceutical factory's employees as well, and they would discuss the matter further once the pharmaceutical factory started operations.
These people have passed the Bai family's test and are easy to use.
With everything in place, construction began, with Liu Changhong and a man named Liu Yuan from the original planting area temporarily in charge.
After the greenhouse was set up, the base's rotary tiller was used to start turning the soil.
It's best to be careful about the soil in the post-apocalyptic world. Bai Shuang specifically asked Bai Jiu to go to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and ask Pao Pao to take a look.
Having recently moved to the new base, they are currently researching heat-resistant plants, but with little success, which is causing them considerable worry. When Bai Jiu told them to come and check on the soil, they happily came over.
Another scientist also came to take a look; I think his surname was Fang.
Unexpectedly, upon closer inspection, they actually discovered a problem.
There were many grain-sized things in the soil, some black, some white, and some gray. Pao Pao took one, squeezed it with tongs, and water came out. They determined it was an insect egg.
If you plant them rashly, the insects will surely eat them all.
"Insect eggs are laid by insects, but where are the insects?"
Bai Shuang asked them.
"This land was filled in with bulldozers. The insects were probably disturbed when the machinery was moving the earth and ran away."
Academician Fang said.
Bai Shuang also thought it made sense.
They suggested that we not plant them yet, but collect the insect eggs to study them and see if they were poisonous and how much damage they would cause to the crops.
Bai Shuang wasn't in a hurry to plant them, so she put them aside for the time being and collected the insect eggs to study.
Bai Shuang is a pharmacist who mainly studies whether things are poisonous. She found that most of them are non-toxic, and only a few are poisonous and can be used as medicine.
Old Man Pao and his colleagues are agricultural scientists whose main research subjects are the extent to which these pests damage crops.
A few days later, Old Man Pao arrived with a worried look on his face, as if he had no way out.
He told Bai Shuang that these were various mutated pests, with larvae having particularly sharp teeth, and they usually fed on the remaining roots in the soil.
It is extremely harmful to crops. If grains and vegetables were planted with such densely packed eggs, there simply wouldn't be enough for them to eat.
And it might even bite.
Bai Shuang suddenly had a bold idea: "Chickens should eat these, so why don't we raise chickens?"
Old Man Pao's eyes lit up. "Maybe it will work. Let's give it a try. You're the smartest one."
Chickens don't need feed, that's great!
Then Bai Shuang went outside for a while, came back with a hen, and handed it to Old Man Pao, saying, "This is a chicken from the base. You can take it and study it."
Bai Shuang pondered that it would be better to sow pasture seeds, such as alfalfa, all over the fifteen acres of land.
Once planted, insects can eat it, chickens can eat it, and people can eat it as a vegetable. As long as the number of chickens is controlled, the situation of insects and alfalfa can be controlled.
Moreover, chicken manure can also be used to fertilize fields.
Bai Shuang thought about it more and more and felt that this method was good.
If she wanted to grow medicinal herbs and grains and increase the number of chickens, she believed that the land would soon be free of insects.
Bai Shuang won't use her own chickens for now; the chickens raised at the base are in Bai Shuang's space, and she can start experimenting with them now.
At this time, Pao Pao also sent a message to her, saying that the chickens were willing to eat those insects.
This amused Bai Jiu, who was standing next to him. "Hahaha, Pao Pao is Pao Pao, he's so funny. What do you mean the chickens want to eat those insects? Did he even consult with the chickens?"
Bai Shuang also took out two chickens from her space. As soon as they saw the insects, they scrambled to eat them. She even fed one of them a poisonous insect and continued to observe it.
The next day, both chickens were fine. Bai Shuang drew blood from the chicken that had eaten the poisonous insect and found it to be free of poison.
Then feed them poisonous insects and observe them again.
Meanwhile, the other one continued to be fed non-toxic insects.
A week later, the two chickens that had been eating insects were not only fine, but were also getting more and more energetic.
Moreover, the chickens that ate poisonous insects showed no signs of poisoning and their blood was normal, indicating that the insect poison had no effect on the chickens.
Pao Pao's research results were similar to Bai Shuang's, and what he brought back was a hen that had laid eggs. He said he ate the eggs and was fine.
He also asked if he could borrow a few chickens for "research".
Bai Jiu said, "Pao Pao wants to eat eggs."
Bai Shuang: "We don't have many chickens. The ones we have at the base are not enough for us."
However, we can give them some fertilized eggs and incubate them ourselves.
Bai Jiu: "Miss, what do they use to incubate it?"
"We don't need to worry about these things; those scientists are very capable."
"Should we plant alfalfa first, or release the chickens first?"
"Let the chickens out first, otherwise the seeds will be eaten by insects once they are sown."
Just then, Uncle Li hurriedly walked in.
"Shuang, has the land been planted yet?"
"No."
"Let me tell you, whatever you do, don't plant it. That bastard from the Yuwen family planted it more than ten days ago and it still hasn't sprouted."
When I got to the field, guess what?
Bai Shuang and the others laughed: "The seeds were eaten by insects."
Uncle Li: "How did you know?"
Bai Shuang smiled and said, "We've been researching this for a while now?"
Uncle Li frowned. "Human survival is becoming increasingly difficult."
"Don't worry, Uncle-Master, we already have a new approach."
When Bai Shuang told him about her idea of raising chickens, Uncle Li instantly perked up...
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