Chapter 518: Developing Liaodong (4)

A large area of land on the south bank of the Hunhe River has been planted with crops, and through the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in the past few years, the variety of crops has also become richer. At present, more than 10 kinds of crops such as rice, soybeans, potatoes, corn, spring wheat, peanuts, cotton, and sweet potatoes are planted in several farms in the Liaodong Plain, in the southern www.biquge.info of Vladivostok, and in the southern plain of Xingkai Lake.

The Northeast region has the largest black soil belt in Asia and the most fertile in the world. In the northern part of China's vast Northeast Plain, on the Songnen Plain between the Daxing'an Mountains and the Changbai Mountains, there is a black soil belt with an area of more than 200,000 kilometers, which is the only large-scale black soil belt in Asia at present. There are only three such black soil belts in the world, the other two in the Mississippi River Valley in the United States and Ukraine in Europe.

The black soil is fertile, the humus is deep, the organic matter content is high, the aggregate structure is good, it is the soil with the highest fertility. The black soil is located in the temperate humid monsoon climate zone, where the annual precipitation is 450-550 mm, and the rainfall is abundant, and the rain and heat are in the same season, which is very suitable for food production. The land in Northeast China is not only fertile, but also flat, with the characteristics of low cultivation cost and light labor.

The Agriculture and Forestry Department of the Far Eastern Company has established six modern breeding centers in Vladivostok, Shenyang and other places, and many excellent seeds adapted to the modern society in Liaodong and the Outer Northeast have been cultivated.

In this era, excellent seeds, various organic fertilizers, and scientific planting methods have made the yield per mu of crops in the Far East very high, setting a record. The Liao people, who have been digging in the soil all their lives, saw that they had planted a lifetime of grain yield per mu during the autumn harvest, and thought that the gods had descended to earth.

In the northeast of modern society, due to over-reclamation, the proportion of cultivated land in the black soil area is low, the forest coverage rate is low, the spring is dry and windy, and the rainfall is concentrated in summer, which is relatively prone to wind erosion and water erosion. Soil erosion has caused the reservoir containing a large amount of sediment, the rapid growth of population and the continuous expansion of cultivated land, and it is difficult to fallow and replenish the land for continuous cultivation, so that the cultivated layer of farmland has become shallow, the ability to retain fertilizer and water has been reduced, and the black soil has become thinner and thinner. As a result, wind, drought and flood disasters will continue, which will bring serious dangers to agricultural production and even sustainable development in the future.

In this era, the land in eastern Liaodong was in good condition, and the water and soil resources were very well maintained. In the next step, the Far Eastern Company will vigorously build agricultural infrastructure in eastern Liaoning, and prepare to launch a number of water conservancy projects for farmland with controlled nature, scientific irrigation, and drought prevention and drainage.

Li Ming and Wang He, under the leadership of Wang Fuhai, learned in detail about the agricultural situation in eastern Liaodong. At present, most of the hundreds of thousands of Liao people have accepted the company's policy of contracting production to households. But there are also some Liao people who prefer to live as before, and the company did not force them to accept this, but let them go to the company's farm near Xingkai Lake.

There, they will become agricultural employees of the company, working on a piece-rate basis every day, earning a work share ticket. The vast majority of these Liao people are honest and introverted, and they only know how to work with their heads down every day. They would rather work for the Far Eastern Company every day than be in debt.

Nowadays, the immigrants under the rule of the Far East, in addition to being employed by various departments and enterprises in the Far East and becoming employees of the Far East, enjoy the policy of providing them with guaranteed production to their households, and the company provides them with houses, cattle, farm tools, seeds, and various daily necessities in the form of loans, as well as enough grain for them to eat until the autumn harvest.

Although the amount of the loan is not small, it can be gradually repaid in the next ten or twenty years, and the interest rate is also very low.

The Far East will also sign land contracts with them and lease the land to them. Someone in the company once proposed to lend the land to the Liaomin, and when the Liaomin repayment is completed, the property rights of the land can be obtained. There are still some people within the company who support this construction.

However, when this proposal was submitted to the board committee for consideration, it caused a great deal of controversy. In the end, he had to vote, but he did not get a majority of the vote. Some of the employees who held this opinion also submitted to the Board Committee that the resolution be voted on by all directors.

The Board Committee considered and approved their application. Although some directors of the board of directors of the company are not allowed to participate in voting, according to the company's regulations, as long as there are more than 80% of the directors on the board of directors, all directors can vote.

But what the directors who insisted on privatizing the land did not expect was that 70 percent of the directors voted against it. Although the directors of the company did not enjoy the right to privatize land in modern society, by this time their class position had changed.

After studying, the board of directors of the company also felt that it was not appropriate to carry out the privatization of the mound at this time, at least not in Liaodong for the time being. In the future, large areas of land in the Outer Northeast, Nanyang, Australia, South Asia and other places will still be developed. Companies will also migrate to these areas on a large scale, and it may be better to privatize the land at that time.

The Liaomin who enjoy the policy of guaranteeing production to the household also have to conduct regular training every year during the winter slack season, and the Liaomin also have the obligation to work when the company builds agricultural infrastructure.

Of course, for the management of rural areas, it is ultimately necessary to implement the system and formulate a sound judicial system. Moreover, it is necessary to let the people of Liao understand the law and know the law, and in the future, they will slowly form a habitual institutionalization and establish a society under the rule of law in which there are laws to follow and those who violate the law must be prosecuted.

After the autumn harvest last year, the immigrants who enjoyed the policy of package production to households tasted the joy of a bumper harvest for the first time. Over the past year, they have worked hard, and every family has a lot of surplus grain left, and each family has raised some chickens, ducks, pigs and other poultry and livestock, and has also made a vegetable garden in front of and behind the house, and planted a lot of fresh vegetables.

Everyone has surplus grain in their hands, as well as poultry, livestock, eggs, vegetables and other agricultural and sideline products. The spontaneous bazaars in the rural areas of eastern Liaodong began to pop up one by one, and they would take out their own grain and agricultural and sideline products and trade them with other Liao people in the bazaars, and adopt the method of bartering in exchange for the items they wanted.

Of course, the work cents are also the common currency in the market, and they use the work cents obtained from the transaction to buy production and living materials.

Because the bazaars are all organized spontaneously, the various bazaars are relatively chaotic. The company had no choice but to set up trading markets in the bazaars where the Liao people gathered. The order of the bazaar was planned, the stalls were built in order, and the market management personnel were strengthened. The main job of these managers is to deal with disputes and supervise sellers to comply with the rules of the transaction and not to commit fraud. R1152