Indochina Peninsula, one of the three major peninsulas in southern Asia. Formerly known as the Indochina Peninsula, also known as the Sino-Indian Peninsula. Located between China and the South Asian subcontinent, it is bordered by the Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea and the Strait of Malacca in the west, and the South China Sea in the Pacific Ocean in the east.

The countries of the peninsula basically began to form centralized states in the 9th and 10th centuries, and several countries were agricultural countries. The peninsula is also rich in water resources and forest resources. The dry season and the rainy season are more distinct, the climate is a typical tropical monsoon type, the water and heat resources are abundant, the dry and wet seasons are distinct, the natural conditions are superior, the land is fertile, suitable for the growth of crops all year round, and the agricultural development potential is huge.

Such favorable natural and climatic conditions enable rice production in fertile alluvial plains such as the Mekong Delta, Irrawaddy Delta, Red River Delta and Chao Phraya Delta to achieve double harvest in one year.

The breeding center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the company, after several years of efforts, has basically cultivated seeds with the characteristics of excellent rice seeds in modern society, and the quality, yield and resistance of rice seeds are very good. It has the characteristics of excellent rice quality, less fertilizer, less medicine, strong disease and insect resistance.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has dispatched a number of experts and technicians to build a number of rice seed production centers in various parts of the Indochina Peninsula in preparation for the large-scale popularization of high-quality rice seeds in the Indochina Peninsula.

Rice production in Indochina is mainly divided into two seasons: the rainy season from May to October, and the dry season from November to April.

The sowing time depends mainly on the irrigation conditions. The low-lying rain-fed paddy fields in the first crop rice are sown in May-June, and the paddy fields with irrigation conditions are sown in July-August, so the harvest period is very long, and some local varieties are not harvested until December. The second crop of rice is generally sown in late December and harvested in March~April of the following year.

In particular, the Siam region has been known as the "granary of Southeast Asia" since ancient times. It is the only net grain exporter in Asia and one of the world's major grain exporters. Thailand ranks first in the world in terms of rice and cassava exports, and is second only to Japan in terms of fish exports.

In the modern world, agricultural products account for six of Thailand's top 10 export commodities, accounting for 40% of the total export value. During the years of food shortage, Far Eastern Company relied on Siamese rice to solve a considerable part of the food shortage.

Another major crop that the company plans to focus on in Southeast Asia is cassava. The main uses of cassava are for food, feed and industrial exploitation. Sixty-five percent of the world's total cassava production is used for human food. It is the main food crop for low-income farmers in tropical wetlands.

As a raw material for the production of feed, cassava meal and leaves are a high-energy feed ingredient. In the fermentation industry, tapioca starch or dried chips can be used to make alcohol, citric acid, glutamic acid, lysine, cassava protein, glucose, fructose, etc., which have important uses in food, beverages, medicine, textiles, papermaking, etc. In China, it is mainly used as feed and to extract starch.

Cassava is sown in two phases, one from November to January of the following year, which is called the pre-dry season crop; The other is in February-April and is called the pre-rainy crop. Its production period is from October to December. Cassava has strong adaptability and good yield, and the general yield of fresh potatoes per mu can reach two or three thousand kilograms. Scientific planting can reach more than 5,000 kilograms.

The company's development of cassava cultivation is mainly due to its high yield per acre, which is particularly drought tolerant, can be grown in almost all types of soils in Southeast Asia, and does not require high nutrients.

In the future, the company will promote planting in a large area in Southeast Asia and India, because the harvested cassava is processed into starch, dried chips, dried potato grains, etc., which is very convenient for preservation. Therefore, the company will include cassava in the company's strategic reserve system in the future. Store in large quantities.

In addition to rice and cassava, the company will also develop sugarcane cultivation in a large area of the Indochina Peninsula. Sugarcane is suitable for planting in places with fertile soil, abundant sunlight and large temperature differences between winter and summer. Sugarcane is a temperate and tropical crop. It is a raw material for the manufacture of sucrose, and ethanol can be refined as an energy substitute.

The rubber industry is one of the important basic industries of the national economy. It not only provides people with light industrial rubber products such as daily use and medical treatment, which are indispensable for daily life, but also provides various rubber production equipment or rubber parts to heavy industries and emerging industries such as mining, transportation, construction, machinery, and electronics. It can be seen that there are many kinds of products in the rubber industry, and the backward industry is very broad.

Far Eastern companies' power machinery systems will be popularized on a large scale, and the demand for rubber will increase dramatically. The output of the industrial rubber industry at the Sakhalin petrochemical base. In the near future, it is simply impossible to meet the company's needs, so the development of natural rubber resources in Southeast Asia has become a top priority for the company.

Natural rubber is native to the western region of the Marayae in the Amazon River Basin of South America, and the local Indians call the rubber tree "tear tree", and use the soil method to make rubber products such as water containers and rubber balls.

Rubber trees like high temperature, high humidity, quiet wind and fertile soil, in the range of 20-30 °C rubber trees can grow and produce rubber normally, planting 6-8 years can be cut glue. The economic lifespan of the solid tree is 35-40 years, the budding tree is 15-20 years, and the growth life is about 60 years.

Indochina Peninsula also has fertile red soil, climatic conditions suitable for the growth of rubber trees, and has unique natural conditions for the development of rubber industry. Thanks to bright sunshine, abundant rain, hot and humid climate, good soil drainage conditions and a traditional industrial base, Southeast Asia has been the world's largest producer of natural rubber.

In modern society, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are among the top three in the world's natural rubber production, accounting for more than 70% of the world's natural rubber production, monopolizing the international natural rubber market supply and influencing the international market price for a long time.

As a traditional agricultural country, Indochina countries such as Annam, Siam, Lancang Kingdom, Chenla and Myanmar in this era had the same favorable conditions for the development of the rubber industry. In the future, the Far East Company will increase rubber production and expand the planting area in the Indochina Peninsula and Southeast Asia on a large scale, and in the future, the Far East Company will build the Indochina Peninsula and all parts of the South Seas into a production base for the natural rubber of the Far East.

Aquaculture is also an important part of the Indochina Peninsula's agriculture, with a large number of natural freshwater fisheries, rich in a wide variety of freshwater fish, and the long coastline provides good natural conditions for marine fishing and marine aquaculture in the Indochina Peninsula.

Although the Indochina Peninsula is very rich in agricultural resources, the level of agricultural productivity in the Indochina Peninsula in this era was very low, and the farming methods were basically in the stage of extensive planting, extensive planting and thin harvesting, and "relying on the sky for food".

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the company has formulated a medium and long-term strategy for the sustainable development of agriculture in the Indochina Peninsula, improved the level of production management, actively cultivated and promoted the utilization rate of traditional excellent varieties, increased investment in farmland infrastructure, and strived to turn the Indochina Peninsula into a new granary in the Far East within a few years. (To be continued.) )