Compared to ordinary farmers, Xu Shang has a much wider range of choices for vegetable planting because he owns the Tianya Village Food Store.
After all, farmers would worry about not being able to sell the vegetables or that they would rot in their hands... Boss Xu is not worried about not being able to sell the vegetables. Since the Tianya Village Food Store has a very stable flow of customers, he can even make a detailed plan for how many vegetables he will need every day.
It is obviously easier to make more money if you have more quality choices.
It is not impossible for a vegetable variety to have all the advantages of other varieties. It is just that agricultural experts have to worry about how many brain cells they have to use to optimize a new variety. Every advantageous trait is obtained by their hair.
In addition, some high-profit varieties of vegetables are promoted, such as cherry tomatoes, which can be sold directly at the price of fruits.
It is worth mentioning that compared with today's large tomatoes, small tomatoes like cherry tomatoes are not descendants, but on the contrary are closer to their ancestors.
Tomatoes are actually small from the beginning.
In pursuit of filling their stomachs, humans have worked hard to cultivate small tomatoes into their current large, round shape, but the result has been a series of twists and turns, and with economic development, the shape of the fruit has gone back to the old ways.
In addition to planning the standards and rules for joining the Farmers' Alliance, the chairman repeatedly emphasized one thing at the end:
All produce!
The standards of the Farmers’ Alliance must be strictly observed!
"If there are any unqualified results in the random inspection, the products will be returned at the least and destroyed at the worst! And the losses will be borne by the individual. I emphasize again, if the products are destroyed due to serious quality problems! The grower will bear all the losses!"
Chairman Xiao Xu has no choice but to be so strict.
Take celery, which costs 7.8 cents per pound, as an example.
The pesticide "chlorpyrifos" used in the celery planting process is extremely harmful. After using this pesticide, it can remain in the soil for up to one month.
Eating too much celery residue can cause direct poisoning, which can cause tearing, salivation, sweating, nausea, and headaches. Moderate poisoning can cause muscle cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, and impaired vision. Severe poisoning can cause epileptic seizures, unconsciousness, paralysis, and lung failure, leading to suffocation and death.
And even small doses may have adverse effects on the development of the fetus and children!
Therefore, in the news, we often see cases where celery sold for a few dollars is fined tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, because its harm is really very serious!
But is there really a proper solution to the problem of a poor old farmer who was fined tens of thousands of yuan for selling celery with pesticide residues?
If you fall into this circle, then naturally there won’t be any.
But out of this circle,
Of course!
This is why Xu Shang wants to implement a unified acceptance standard system for agricultural technical instructors and farmers’ alliances!
Some people may ask, since pesticides are so harmful, why do we still use them? Isn't it better for everyone to eat organic, healthy and green food without pesticides?
But the fact is——
The fact that humans can currently have enough food to eat is inseparable from the two major contributors: fertilizers and pesticides!
If you understand how the famine problem has been solved since the founding of the People's Republic of China, you will find that the most direct reason for the increase in grain production is actually the increase in fertilizer production.
The contribution of pesticides is equally significant. Without pesticides, the yield of many crops would not only be reduced, but would even be completely wiped out.
Until humans find a better way to replace pesticides, it is impossible to separate them from actual agricultural production.
Moreover, the harm caused by pesticides is not completely uncontrollable.
The harm of pesticides is mainly reflected in concentration and time.
Over time, pesticide residues will decrease until eventually their toxicity is reduced to a level that causes no side effects and is completely harmless to the body.
But such a degree,
Do you expect an illiterate old farmer to understand?
He knew it was a good idea to buy medicine to kill the insects.
Therefore, the position of agricultural technician is crucial!
Farming requires guidance. Not to mention whether the farming methods passed down from the past are still effective today...it is impossible for our ancestors to know the correct way to use "diphospholipids".
Moreover, after the unified standards are implemented by the Agricultural Alliance, other low-toxic and highly effective agents can be selected.
For example, using neonicotinoid insecticides instead of chlorpyrifos, such as clothianidin and thiamethoxam, has low toxicity, small residues, good insect control effects, and is also beneficial to plant growth.
These substitutes were adopted in later generations, and the use of chlorpyrifos on vegetables was completely banned.
But if there is no unified implementation standard, when farmers encounter insect pests, they will only go to the agricultural product store to buy "insecticides". How can they know which insecticide is less toxic and more effective?
How do we know that some pesticides still have residues one month after being applied?
If you meet a shop owner who doesn't know much but wants to make money, he will recommend high-profit products to the old farmers...
This kind of thing is very likely to happen.
Chairman Xiao Xu then once again emphasized to the villagers the importance of complying with the "unified standards", which is the bottom line that must be followed after joining the Farmers' Alliance system. He also told them that if they encounter problems, they must not think of solving them on their own.
If you have any questions, find an agricultural technician!
It doesn’t matter if the agricultural technician doesn’t understand anything, he can get help!
Dean Tian always understands!
Even Dean Tian doesn’t understand. He has been engaged in scientific research for many years, and he always knows his friends and colleagues. He also has a mentor... Just shake it again and it will be over!
"Oh, right! Your village should arrange for a few people to attend the training class. If they pass the training class, they will become vegetable planting technical instructors in the future. Send about five people. The training will take a month. If two pass, three will be eliminated. Those who pass will be paid by the Farmers' Alliance in the future."
Patriarch Xu nodded excitedly.
It’s great to join the Farmers’ Alliance. Chairman Xiao Xu even arranged a job for me.
There are less than 100 households in their village, and two workstations are already very good. A total of five people can be sent for training. If they are eliminated, it can only be said that they did not learn well enough, and they should be eliminated!
After all, Chairman Xiao Xu said that agricultural safety is of vital importance, and laymen who pretend to know what they don’t are harming others and themselves.
But then again, agricultural technicians are required to know a lot, and it's not enough to just know something as crucial as 'pesticides', otherwise accidents can occur if you're not careful. In such a situation...the income and benefits are hard to describe.
It is no wonder that this profession has not played its due social value.
But this is also an inevitable social law. The wool comes from the sheep. If farmers do not make money, agricultural technicians will naturally have no room for survival.
The key to solving this problem is to launch high-quality, high-value agricultural products.
For example,
"Chairman, we have some good stuff in our warehouse. Do you want to come and see it?"
"Good stuff? What good stuff?"
"This is really good stuff!" Patriarch Xu was sneaky but complacent. He then brought the chairman to a house in the village and took out the goodies he had prepared.
Chairman Xu was stunned when he saw it. As a chef, he immediately recognized the good stuff that Patriarch Xu took out.
Chicken mushroom!
Matsutake!
…Your village even has black truffles! ?
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