The current grain production is very low, partly due to soil fertility and pest problems.
The country is also trying to introduce some production lines from abroad to produce phosphate fertilizers, potash fertilizers and compound fertilizers, but the production lines introduced at great expense are all equipment that has been eliminated from abroad.
Fertilizers are in limited supply and are generally allocated to advanced production brigades. Jijia Village has been rated as an advanced brigade for two consecutive years, but it has not received much fertilizer. The most it has received as a reward each time is a tractor, which is a hand-held tractor.
Ji Xiaozu couldn't buy it even if he wanted to spend money. In those days of planned economy, having money but no tickets was useless.
Fertilizer is different from other products and is not available on the black market.
Ji Changgeng repeatedly invited Ji Xia to have dinner in the village, "Let's cook a big pot of rice at noon. It's not easy for you to come back once. Have a good chat with the villagers and have some fun together."
Ji Xia couldn't refuse the kindness, so he had to agree. Ji Xiaozu and Yang Dazhuang hurried to make arrangements. Although the conditions in the village were better now, they didn't have meat to eat every day, mainly because meat was hard to buy.
Fortunately, the village raised two pigs and originally planned to slaughter them for the New Year. Although the time had not come yet, the two of them decided to slaughter the pigs and have a meal together.
"Brother Xiaozu, Xia Xia just mentioned a fertilizer plant and a pesticide factory. Do you think we should go for the fertilizer plant or the pesticide plant?" Yang Dazhuang knew that he was short-sighted, so he followed principles in doing things, listened and watched more, and then drew conclusions.
Ji Xiaozu said, "Don't worry, Xia Xia will make the decision for us. You are still worried that Xia Xia will cheat us, so she will definitely give us the good one. If I'm not mistaken, she should give us the fertilizer plant."
"Why?" Yang Dazhuang asked curiously.
"Think about it, the land needs to be fertile before it can produce a good yield. As for pesticides, they're not used very much in the fields these days."
"No matter what, whether it's the pesticide factory or the fertilizer factory, they have to start working hard. Let's kill the pigs and spend some money to buy two more pigs. I guess I won't have time to eat New Year's Eve dinner at home this year. Next spring, the winter wheat will need to be fertilized. If we can do it two or three times, next year will be a bumper year!" Yang Dazhuang said.
Ji Xiaozu was thinking about the heavy ears of wheat in the wheat fields next year, and he almost floated up while walking.
The two of them went to notify the village butcher to come and slaughter the pig. When the aunts, aunts, and sisters-in-law heard that a pig was going to be slaughtered, they all ran over and said, "Xiaozu, why did you think of slaughtering a pig?"
"Mom, Aunt He Xiang, quickly take people to clean the village canteen. We'll kill the pig soon and cook. Dad wants Xia Xia to have lunch in our village, so we have to have some meat dishes." Ji Xiaozu made arrangements quickly.
When Aunt Cuixiang heard this, she moved quickly and called her daughter-in-law and several capable aunts in the village to go to the canteen to start working.
No one questioned the idea of killing the village pigs to decide what meat to eat during the New Year.
Anyway, every household is well off now and has savings. In the future, the village will not distribute meat anymore, so you can buy it with your own money.
In the cafeteria, several aunts worked very quickly. After a while, several families brought their own old hens and asked them to kill them for Ji Xia to eat.
"These are old hens that I've raised for three or four years. They only lay an egg every few days. After winter comes, they stop laying. It's a waste of food to keep them. I'll just give them to Xia Xia to make soup."
"I have this one too, let's stew it together."
Cuixiang was holding a chicken. She was also planning to contribute an old hen from her home. She was busy, but someone else got there first. "You can take it back and eat it yourself. I have another one at home. How can Xia Xia eat so many by herself?"
"You're allowed to give it to Xia Xia. What's the matter? My family isn't allowed to give it to her. If she can't finish it, you can put it in a snakeskin bag and bring it back for her to eat."
"I'd completely forgotten about it. Xia Xia was pregnant a few months ago, and none of us went to Beijing at the time, so we didn't even bring her two old hens to eat!"
The main reason was that no one knew where Ji Xia lived at that time, and no one could contact her. When we went to look for Xie Sufen later, she had already returned from Beijing.
This chicken must be stewed for Xia Xia to eat.
At the brigade headquarters, Ji Xia, Ji Changgeng, and Yang Muchun had agreed to build the fertilizer plant in Jijia Village. "But we're not sure if there's land available. It definitely wouldn't be good to take up arable land. Also, this thing is pretty polluting, so it can't be built in a densely populated area."
Although the equipment in her space is the most advanced in the 21st century and she has done a good job in environmental protection, and she has made some improvements to further reduce pollution to the environment, the impact on the environment cannot be avoided in any way.
"Fertilizer plants and pesticide factories have an impact on water quality and soil. Fertilizers and pesticides are good things, but the entire production process causes great damage to the environment, including to personnel. In the future, we must pay attention to health protection during the production process." Ji Xia was worried.
She means well, but aren't there many examples of people doing good things with bad intentions?
People nowadays are not so aware of environmental protection because industrial development has not yet been fully developed and has not yet paid a bloody price.
"Then we have to choose a good location!" Ji Changgeng said, "Xia Xia, don't worry. Everything comes at a price, right? But if we don't build a pesticide and fertilizer plant, we'll have to work hard every year to farm, but only get so little food per acre. We'll almost starve for half a year. Isn't that a price to pay?"
That is indeed the case.
"Uncle Chang Geng, we also can't afford the cost of environmental pollution. First, we must choose a good location, making sure it's a safe distance away from our farmland and villages. Secondly, the production equipment I've acquired is very advanced, and the wastewater and exhaust gas have been treated. However, during the later stages of production, we must strictly follow the requirements, otherwise we will harm future generations."
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