Having said that, complaining is complaining, but after all, Lao Wang's affairs are also their own affairs, and everyone knows that they should come or come, and no one can hide from doing farm work, so gradually everyone quieted down and listened to Lao Wang's speech.

However, Lao Wang does not seem to be affected by everyone's attitude, he always has a calm face, and he still speaks slowly and clearly:

"Well, the people who came to the field to help on duty a few days ago have seen that the soybeans, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and peanuts in the field will enter the harvest period around the time, except for the soybeans a little later, there are 120 acres of crops to be harvested before the end of February.

One hundred and twenty acres of land is not much, but it looks like a lot of land, so ah, everyone, I'm afraid I will have to support all of you here to complete the harvest in time.

All in all, here, I have to remind you that your industrial construction will be slowed down in the near future, because the agricultural side needs to dispatch a large number of laborers to harvest crops, and then carry out land consolidation to prepare for the planting of the second crop, which is one of them.

No way! And that's just one of them? Well, everyone couldn't help but be a little discouraged when they heard this, and most of them had to look at the table or the ground and listen patiently to Lao Wang's chatter.

At this time, Lao Wang was still slow and logical:

"Second, because it will soon enter February, seasonally speaking, the end of February is the end of summer in the southern hemisphere, so our eighty acres of sisal and forty acres of sugarcane and sugar beet fields also need to be weeded and fertilized in the field, oh, by the way, there are also wheat and corn experimental fields in the vegetable garden that you also need to help serve, how many people will come to see the situation, but I will definitely not be busy alone.

Therefore, I am sorry for all of you, but in the last month or two, we have to focus our main labor on agricultural production, not on industrial construction projects, so I am here to say hello to you in advance.

In addition, judging from the current situation, the cement plant will be built soon, and then it is estimated that the hydropower station, the sugar factory and the glass factory will be completed, and the construction of these projects will probably be completed this year.

In that case, I would like to talk about the sugar factory in particular, because it is related to agricultural production.

In order to cooperate with the construction progress of the sugar factory, the planting area of sugarcane and sugar beet must be greatly increased, so that at the end of this year, or at the beginning of next year, the sugar factory needs to catch up with the sugar production needs of the sugar factory.

So, in order to expand the planting area of sugarcane and sugar beet, our reclamation work is about to start again, everyone......"

However, at this time, sighs were already in the conference room, and many people were lying on the table and staring blankly ahead, although they didn't know what they were thinking, but this was obviously not a good mood.

So Lao Wang had no choice but to change his sincere tone and say:

"Okay, okay, I know everyone is tired, I'm also tired, don't worry about listening to me first, according to my research, now is indeed the time to expand the sugar beet planting area, sugar beet crops could have been planted in several seasons, and sugarcane seedlings are best in the beginning of spring or around the beginning of autumn, in the southern hemisphere, the beginning of autumn is probably equivalent to the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere, it is now the end of January, it is already the end of summer, and the agricultural time for large-scale planting of sugarcane and sugar beet is coming soon, just right, the harvest of forty acres of land can be used as seedlings.

Therefore, it is the right time to start planting sugar cane and sugar beet next month, and then everyone will have to follow me to work in the fields, everyone, the hardship is a little hard, but it is all up to this, gritted your teeth and survived, once you pass this hurdle, there is a broad road behind, so ......"

The plenary meeting on 28 January ended with the shaking of heads and sighs of the crowd for no other reason than ---- Tema had to go to the fields to do farm work.

The final resolution of the plenary meeting was that the construction of the cement plant was postponed for one month in view of the arrival of the harvest season and the insufficient distribution of labor.

The meeting also further adopted the plan put forward by Lao Wang to expand the planting area of sugar cash crops, and decided to plant 20 mu of sugarcane sugar beet in each autumn this autumn, increasing the total area to 80 mu.

At the same time, for their own food security, sweet potatoes, soybeans, potatoes and peanuts should also continue to be planted, a variety of ten acres, a total of 40 acres.

Then he had to interplant easy-to-grow cassava in 80 acres of sisal fields, which was the number that Lao Wang determined after bargaining with everyone.

Lao Wang also emphasized that according to the yield per mu and sugar yield of these sugar crops in normal years, roughly calculated, these 80 acres of sugarcane and sugar beet can probably only produce about 30 tons of sugar, which is actually less than one-tenth of the cargo hold of the Pride as a commodity for overseas trade.

However, when Lao Wang's words came out, everyone pretended to be confused and didn't hear them, because Lao Wang originally asked for another 200 acres of land to be used to grow sugarcane and sugar beets, but this suggestion immediately made the venue blow up.

Everyone said in unison, you still have to be cautious, Master Wang! After all, it's an experimental planting, so let's not bet on it!

I remember you once said that this is the first time that this sugarcane beet has been planted on a large scale in this climate, so be careful! What if the experiment fails in the event of a climate anomaly?

What? You always say it's no problem!

No, no, no! It's better to be cautious, you always know that as the saying goes, those who drown will be able to water, and the old driver has always been more and more timid the more he drives!

If you are old, you will add 200 acres of sugarcane and sugar beet fields when you open your mouth......

Well, to be honest, don't you know that your brothers were so tired from working in the fields a while ago that they couldn't straighten their waists?

Oh, yes! To tell you the truth, your old wasteland has opened up too much a while ago, and it is beyond the range of our physical strength!

Besides, in addition to the occasional women and children who help you with the old work, plus a few rotations, isn't most of the heavy work done by us?

Now the task of industrial construction is also heavy, obviously we are too busy, and then reclaim the land to expand the area?

It's going to kill us, Master Wang!

Yes, my Master Wang! We're even more tired!

yes, yes!

Spare us, so let's play with the original 200 acres of land, anyway, we won't be hungry for the past two years......

After a period of noisy discussions, everyone's complaints finally worked, so Lao Wang had no choice but to retreat, and was forced to dispel the idea of continuing to reclaim the wasteland, and concentrate on the current 200 acres of farmland and 60 acres of vegetable gardens......

However, Lao Wang still stressed that the reclamation of the land must still be cultivated, but it is only delayed, and the crops of the current 200 mu of land must be intensively cultivated to ensure the quality of work.

Everyone immediately agreed, and they all said yes, yes! We guarantee the quality, well, the seedlings are planted beautifully and neatly......

In addition, we need to dig deeper! Lao Wang said again, and everyone nodded like pounding garlic, and responded one after another, yes, yes, deep ploughing loose soil! We know you've said this a few times, don't worry, we've been doing farm work for so long, and now we're half an agricultural expert......

In short, after finally vetoing the idea of increasing the area of reclamation, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, of course, out of some kind of compensation psychology, they naturally agreed to Lao Wang's request later......

Although February in this archipelago is the end of the rainy season, the rainfall is still very heavy, especially in the days at the end of January, people wear raincoats to work in the fields, but the weather is slippery, for most people, this labor experience is the first time in their lives, so many people work crookedly, wrestling into mud monkeys are small things, some older ones have broken feet to the waist.

As the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to break the muscles and bones, not to mention the personal suffering, but also directly caused the attrition of the labor force.

But fortunately, everyone, regardless of gender, old and young, had "optimized" their bodies in the medical cabin before wearing, so there were no serious problems, but in the end, everyone followed the doctor's advice: people over the age of thirty-five, don't go to the ground in the rain, these older people just do the logistics.