The Industrial Giant Reborn.

Chapter 308 Future Agriculture
In fact, the fundamental reason for investing in animal husbandry instead of direct agriculture in the world's largest high-quality farm is that in the next few years, when genetically modified technology achieves a qualitative breakthrough, global agriculture will be controlled by several major agricultural giants. The most well-known are the four major grain merchants of ABCD.

As every country in the world has its own special agricultural products, theoretically speaking, it is almost impossible to be controlled by a monopoly group. No matter how against the sky, a company can control an area at most, because this requires sufficient influence , and no company can have influence in the world, not even in some regions, even if it is an American oil giant, it is impossible for its ally Europe to have influence that can control a certain lifeline of the other party.

This was indeed true of global agriculture before the 70s. Several major agricultural producing countries controlled their own land. Even South America, known as the back garden of the United States, controlled its farmland itself. Even in this era, any capital can go anywhere South America buys land, but American agricultural giants do not have the ability to buy enough land in Brazil and Argentina, which is basically impossible.

However, with the emergence of genetically modified technology, high technology has begun to affect the entire agriculture. Through genetically modified technology, it is possible to produce seeds that have higher yields, are more resistant to cold, heat, and drought, and are not afraid of certain insects or certain plant infectious diseases. Once the seeds are planted, the productivity of the crops will be greatly increased.

So should countries in South America, Asia, or Eastern Europe use genetically modified seeds?
No, no, they have no choice, because if you don’t use others, then other people’s output is high and the cost is low. In the international market, competition is nothing but death. In the end, in the absence of choice, the global agricultural countries are not allowed to buy this kind of seeds .

However, monopoly groups like ABCD use special technology to prevent these seeds from breeding the next generation, or the production capacity of the next generation after breeding is very low, forcing the global agricultural countries to gradually and completely rely on them.

This is just the first step. The second step is to lock in all the production capacity of a region through the annual procurement contract. Even if you are short of food, but sorry, your country is suitable for growing cotton, so you can all grow cotton. As for food , I can sell it to you at a high price.

This is true of Brazil, Argentina, some agricultural countries in Eastern Europe, and some Asian countries. For example, the well-known Sri Lanka and Lanka went bankrupt. One of the reasons is that local agriculture was controlled by international giants, and then they could not be bought due to the shortage of foreign exchange. Food, triggering bankruptcy.

The third step is to use seeds plus contracts to control global production capacity, and then use these production capacities to fight against countries that have sufficient agricultural control rights. For example, the soybean incident in 2004 is the essence behind it.

In this process, many small and medium-sized countries have lost their food autonomy. For example, many countries in Africa have been able to achieve agricultural self-sufficiency for many years, but because of the Great Plains farms in Europe and the United States + genetically modified technology, the cost has been greatly reduced, and these grains have been dumped. Going to Africa will make ordinary farmers in Africa unable to make any money at all, and finally stop farming at all.

And once there is a problem with the global food supply or is maliciously manipulated by people, Africa will suddenly be short of food. However, local agricultural cultivation takes time. In addition, farmers change jobs, have no agricultural tools, and the land is abandoned. It is impossible to recover in a short time. , In the end, either a huge amount of foreign exchange is spent to buy expensive food, or a famine will occur. In a few years, there will be a huge famine in Africa. The weather is secondary, and the essential reason is this.

In fact, except for some desert areas, the land in Africa is very fertile, not inferior to the mainland. Although the local people may not be as hardworking as the Chinese, even animals know how to store food for the winter. How could they not know, but, in the international Under the years of dumping by the agricultural monopoly consortium, they can only be slaughtered.

In the future, there will be few countries in the world that can independently achieve agricultural autonomy.

Under the general trend, Chen Zhiwen will not continue to do the most basic agricultural planting at this time. Although it is not impossible to make money, but he cannot control it at all. It is better to do animal husbandry. Although meat is also controlled by others, the market No one can rely on high technology to monopolize, and they still have a certain degree of autonomy, and the investment in agriculture is greater, and the risk is higher.

Besides, when Costco is large enough, the internal meat consumption will also be huge, and it is feasible to supply itself.

After the acquisition of Wagga Farm, Chen Zhiwen became one of the largest farmers in the world with this one farm. However, this is just the beginning, because there are several large farms in South America that are interested in selling.

After 1980, the oil crisis damaged the global economy to a very high degree, and European and American countries raised interest rates in order to protect themselves, and even drew a large amount of foreign exchange from developing countries. You must know that developing countries generally develop in debt Yes, now the loss of domestic foreign exchange, the increase of debt interest, the deterioration of the internal economy, and the need for more funds for oil purchases. Under multiple attacks, South America is already facing a very serious sovereign debt crisis. Many rating agencies in the United States have downgraded South America many times. The credit rating of the country, which in turn caused the crazy depreciation of South American currencies, and will exacerbate the loss of local foreign exchange.

In this case, in order to obtain US dollars, the South American government is very anxious. Selling state-owned farms is one of the methods. Even, as long as the money is paid, the edge of the Amazon forest can be enclosed, and the trees inside are owned by investors. , After cutting it down, sell it for money, and then develop it into a farm, and some other abandoned land can also be sold.

Whether it is a state-owned farm, the edge of the Amazon forest, or the wasteland, Chen Zhiwen is more interested. It is not that the wasteland here cannot grow food, and the large grasslands are not short of water, but because there are no people nearby, they cannot be developed. That's all.

Nowadays, buying land in South America is still freehold. Taking advantage of the South American government’s lack of money, it hoards the land first, does not develop it, or develops less, and then develops these lands when its own capital is raised to a higher level.

However, the farms in South America, even if they are in use, are far inferior to the area and quality of the Wagga Farm, and there are many of them. Chen Zhiwen will not go to see every one of them. This matter is left to Henry Morgan. It is very convenient for him, an American, to come forward to do this, and to acquire large farms or land in South America, he also needs to rely on loans from JPMorgan Chase, which happens to kill two birds with one stone.

Of course, out of regulatory considerations, Chen Zhiwen still sent a few Hong Kong Chinese to follow them to play a supervisory role, and then report to himself every once in a while.

After arranging everything, Chen Zhiwen took his own private plane and flew directly from Texas to Hong Kong.

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