my dream forest

Chapter 486 The Dreamy Rubber Plantation

Chapter 485 The Dreamy Rubber Plantation
"It's right to be cautious. My piece of woodland doesn't have any debts, but I may offer a slightly higher price, 500 hectares of woodland, [-] million US dollars. Mr. Feng, here is my business card, you can think about it Call me now. Then I'll take my leave."

Wu Bosheng nodded, stood up and took out a business card.Feng Tiance also hurriedly got up to take it with both hands, and watched the somewhat hunched body go further and further away.

This meeting was undoubtedly arranged by Zheng Xiangtong.So when Feng Tiance saw him again, he didn't even think about denying it.

After Zheng Xiangtong sent Lao Hu, Qi Zhiqiang, and Jiang Shaobo away by helicopter, he said to Feng Tiance: "Brother Feng, Brother Baisheng is a person who does not give up easily. He originally kept the mountains and wanted to make a comeback, but her wife died at the beginning of the year. He was found to have cancer, so he really wanted to sell the land because he was powerless. Hey, the price he offered was a bit high. Mr. Feng, you can weigh it yourself. However, there is nothing wrong with his forest. I, Old Zheng, can guarantee this."

Feng Tiance nodded, expressing that he would seriously consider it.

When Si Keyang returned to the island again, Feng Tiance and Liu Yuzhu and his wife returned to the Cardamom Mountains by helicopter.

Two days later, Liu Yuzhu and his wife bid farewell to Feng Tiance and went to visit Angkor Wat.The two of them then went directly to Phnom Penh from Angkor Wat, and then returned home directly.

Both the couple are very satisfied with this trip to Cambodia.I believe that if there is a chance in the future, Village Chief Liu will visit his old place again.

After Feng Tiance learned about the rubber plantation from various channels, he called Wu Baisheng to confirm that he was willing to buy his forest land.

For 500 million US dollars, Feng Tiance did not make a counter-offer in the end.The money was paid in one lump sum, and all the procedures for the transfer of property rights of the [-] hectares of forest land were also completed within one day.

So far, in the Southeast Mountain Range, he has owned a total of [-] hectares of forest land.

"Congratulations to Feng Dong, I went back to China, and you have expanded the area of ​​your forest kingdom. However, it is more troublesome to clean up the [-] hectares of forest land. All the roots have to be dug out and transported away, which will cost a lot It's nothing."

Qi Xiuyuan, who came back from China, immediately came to congratulate Feng Tiance.The negotiation between him and Yishan County went smoothly this time, and the contract was signed. The efficiency is not generally high.

"Mr. Qi, I feel a little ashamed to say this. Being able to buy the rubber plantation is a little bit of a predicament. But the other party is selling the land to save the emergency. If I don't buy it, it will be cheaper. It's not as complicated as you think. I've ordered a large grinder and just dig up all the roots and dispose of them in place."

The grinder he was talking about was a special machine for woodland.The shape is very similar to a large forklift, except that a large roller device is replaced in front of the front of the vehicle.This device has countless sets of alloy knives, which have the function of cutting and crushing.

That is to say, the roots are dug out and placed in place.When this kind of machine is pushed all the way, both the roots and dead branches will be turned into powder.

Just spread the powder of the trees on the forest land like this, which not only saves transportation costs, but also quickly rots into waste in the ground, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"Then we don't have enough workers in our forest farm. What are you going to plant in the newly added [-] hectares of forest land? It was originally a wasteland."

Qi Xiuyuan's thinking couldn't keep up with Feng Tiance's development speed. He just returned to China, and Feng's wood industry added another [-] hectares of forests.

"Let's use mixed forests. This time I summed up. The main tree species will be planted rubber trees, supplemented by high-value trees such as sandalwood and red sandalwood, and some Phoenix trees, frangipani trees, palm trees, sugar palm trees, etc. will be planted appropriately. Kapok tree and so on."

Unlike the Southwest and Central Mountains, the Southeast Mountains have severely damaged primary forests.Therefore, it may be a good choice to establish a secondary ecological forest dominated by rubber trees.

"It's also a way! But the current international price of natural rubber is not very good, and tapping rubber requires a lot of labor, so the benefits are relatively poor."

Qi Xiuyuan quickly made a calculation in his mind, and felt that the ratio of input to output was not ideal.

[-] hectares of forest land, that is, [-] mu in size.Artificial rubber plantations are generally densely planted with rubber trees. For example, in the rubber plantation in Qiongdao, there are an average of [-] rubber trees per mu of woodland, excluding other associated tree species.

Feng Tiance's forest farm has always simulated the original forest environment. There are an average of about 34 large and small trees per mu of natural forest, because there are many shrubs and herbaceous plants in it.Therefore, based on the calculation of planting 250 rubber trees per mu of forest land, [-] million rubber trees need to be planted on [-] hectares of forest land.

And a worker who taps rubber can only manage a thousand rubber trees, and the tree positions are basically rotated every three days.Because most varieties of rubber trees can be tapped every two or three days.

In this way, the rubber tapping workers plus some management and maintenance personnel will need to recruit about 3000 new workers for the newly added [-] hectares of forest land.

The initial investment in planting rubber trees is huge. The price of a rubber tree sapling varies from a few dollars to tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars depending on the species and growth years.The minimum age for rubber trees to be harvested is six years, and rubber trees aged eight to 12 have the largest rubber production.

Growing seedlings yourself or buying rubber tree seedlings will increase the time cost.The purchase of three to six-year-old rubber trees, plus the cost of planting, requires an investment of tens of millions of dollars at a time.

In the current market, the annual output of each rubber tree is about 250 kilograms, and the output value of a single plant is 2.55 US dollars, 100 million trees, the total output of dry rubber is about [-] tons, and the total output value is [-] million US dollars.

Therefore, Qi Xiuyuan said that planting rubber trees is not very beneficial at present.

"Haha, the benefit is not high, but there is still some money to be made. To put it bluntly, the main purpose of planting rubber trees is not to make money, but to provide more local employment. I am also planning for the long-term development of the company."

Feng Tiance felt that if his company wanted to take root here, it would be a good way to provide more employment opportunities for local people.

Qi Xiuyuan nodded, understood what Feng Tiance meant, and stopped talking.

Next, the two discussed the division of labor.Qi Xiuyuan was in charge of arranging the recruitment of new workers and their follow-up training. Feng Tiance was in charge of cleaning up the rubber plantation, providing mechanical equipment and rubber tree saplings.

The ordered large-scale machinery and equipment will arrive within half a month.As for the recruitment of workers, Qi Xiuyuan was going to entrust the forestry trade union to publish the recruitment information, which was very simple.

Only rubber saplings need to be operated by Feng Tiance himself, which is relatively troublesome.

After urgently purchasing large quantities of high-quality rubber tree seeds, he began to raise seedlings in the space.

First, he opened up a [-]-acre rubber tree seedling site in the plain area of ​​the space, and then he used a fully automatic seeder to sow seeds.This kind of machinery, from sowing to covering soil to watering, is completely controlled by the central computer on the car. It is not easy to work on an area of ​​[-] mu of land in one hour.

In just over 30 hours, Feng Tiance completed the task of sowing the thousand acres of land.

The seeds were all treated with space well water dilution in advance, and after sowing, they were also watered with a 30% dilution.One day after planting, [-] rubber tree seedlings began to emerge.

These seedlings have grown to an average height of [-] centimeters, and they look very gratifying.

The seedlings on his side are progressing very quickly, and the work of recruiting new workers on Qi Xiuyuan's side is also coming to an end.

After receiving the news, Mu En posted the recruitment information in the forestry trade union.The service hall of the trade union not only provides services such as membership registration and labor dispute mediation registration, but also the large scrolling screen will release some recruitment and job hunting information from time to time.

Of course, most of the services are for the union's 30 official members.

And Feng's wood industry jobs are undoubtedly very popular.In a short period of time, more than 1 members submitted application forms.

After careful selection, 3000 people were quickly determined.

"Mr. Qi, new employees still need to be trained first. I mean, let them replant trees in areas A\B."

The felling plan of the primeval forest is about to be completed, but the subsequent work of clearing and replanting the forest is proceeding very slowly.

In the past, it was mainly due to the shortage of manpower. Among the 250 employees, 600 workers were in the No. [-] forest farm, and [-] workers led temporary workers to carry out the daily maintenance of the No. [-] and [-] forest farms.Recently, [-] employees from Zhang Youzhi started working with him to extract incense from musk forests. In fact, there are only [-] workers working in the primeval forest.

These 600 people have to cut and transport timber, and the progress of clearing forest land and replanting trees will inevitably be very slow.

According to Feng Tiance's intention, Qi Xiuyuan gathered all [-] old employees to carry out logging and transportation work.Some old employees responsible for the daily management of No. [-] and No. [-] forest farms were transferred to lead [-] newcomers to start a large-scale afforestation in the virgin forest.

Due to the replanting of forest trees, on average only 600 trees need to be planted in one hectare of forest land.A total of [-] hectares of primeval forests only need [-] million trees to be artificially planted.

If it weren't for the lack of transportation in the jungle, the number of all-terrain vehicles or wild elephants couldn't keep up. This work, which originally only took 30 days, is expected to take one and a half to two months to complete.

Of course, part of the reason was that Feng Tiance's seedlings could not be supplied so quickly.

On the side of the rubber plantation, large-scale machinery and equipment have arrived one after another.However, there was a serious shortage of operators in the forest farm, so Feng Tiance simply outsourced the cleaning work.Anyway, the roads in the rubber plantation are well built and are suitable for large-scale mechanical operations.

Several excavators dug out the rubber tree roots, followed by several grinders for crushing operations.Five thousand hectares of forest land were cleared in less than a week.

So Feng Tiance went into battle in person, driving a seeding helicopter, and carried out aerial sowing operations in the rubber plantation.Of course, the seeds of forest trees such as rubber trees are treated with space well water dilution in advance.

Repeated sowing three times densely, and a lot of seeds were wasted, but after a few days, all the seeds including the rubber tree had sprouted.

The seeds sowed include rubber tree seeds, and there are also few such as small-leaf red sandalwood, sandalwood, golden nanmu, poinciana, kapok trees and so on.But the vast majority are rubber tree seeds, there is no doubt about this.

The rubber plantation is still a no-man's land. After the cleaning professionals leave, only Feng Tiance will appear in the entire forest.

Today, the rubber tree saplings on the space plain are more than one year old under the cultivation of well water dilution.

Feng Tiance cultivated [-] rubber tree saplings in the [-]-acre seedling breeding base on Huxin Island with the space well water, and then exchanged species with the [-]-acre rubber tree saplings in the space.

In terms of outside time, he would go to Huxin Island every three hours. At this time, the age of [-] rubber trees on Huxin Island had reached more than six years.Then he exchanged these six-year-old rubber trees to the Great Space Plain, and the exchanged seedlings continued to ripen.
Repeatedly.

Ninety hours later, the 30-acre land in the Great Plains of Space was densely packed with rubber trees over six years old, with a total of [-].

That night, there was heavy fog in the rubber plantation.In silence, 30 rubber trees over six years old were exchanged with young saplings that had just germinated in the rubber plantation.On average, there are [-] such large rubber trees per hectare of forest land.

There are many other tropical trees, including high-value trees such as rosewood, golden nanmu, and sandalwood, as well as common trees such as kapok trees and sugar palm trees, and most of them are between ten and twenty years old. between years.

The exchange of these tree species has also been completed. For each hectare of forest land in the rubber plantation, there are [-] trees of various tropical trees other than rubber trees.

The fog cleared in the morning, and the rubber plantation was lined with trees and shaded.

This is the no-man's land on the outskirts of the primeval forest, and the No. [-] forest farm is also some distance away, otherwise someone would have to shout about being haunted.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, the remaining rubber saplings can be exchanged in batches.In the end, there will be more than 200 million rubber trees over six years old in these 200 hectares of forest land, as well as more than [-] million other tropical trees.

Not only that, Feng Tiance also expanded the small nursery base on Huxin Island to [-] mu.At the same time, in the mountains and plains of the space, the newly purchased drones are used to carry out aerial seeding and afforestation.

During this period of time, Assistant Wang's work has been fruitful.Forest tree seeds from all over the world were continuously purchased and handed over to Feng Tiance.

For this reason, Feng Tiance specially rebuilt four Daxing warehouses at the foot of the stone castle.Two of the warehouses are used to store various seeds, and the other two are used to park various large equipment and construction machinery.

And in the southeast mountain range, the work of using helicopter aerial seeding for afforestation has not stopped, but now the Wangtian tree is no longer sown, and other tropical tree species have been replaced.

(End of this chapter)