Super Orchard

Chapter 318 Apple's Choice
The sports meeting that lasted for three days came to an end very quickly. More than 100 of all the participating players got awards at all levels, which made the people watching the competition feel very envious and eager to participate in next year's competition.

Among them, the chess competition is the most intense, because there are many participants, and there are no groups to compete, and each game takes a lot of time, so it lasts from the first day to the last day.

Liu Zhichuan and Wang Linjian, who have always wanted to win the chess championship, also won awards, but they were not champions, but runners-up and third respectively. The winner of the championship was an unknown old man. When he won 1 When he received a cash reward of [-] yuan, he was so happy that his beard was crooked.

After the end of the sports meeting, it also indicates that the warm and cold early spring has passed, the weather is gradually warming up, and the land that has been sleeping all winter has begun to wake up and can be cultivated.

In these years, Jinquan Orchard has continuously replenished various agricultural machinery and various production tools, and now there are more than a dozen large tractors alone.

These tractors lined up in a row and set off from the garage in the western orchard, "chug chug" onto the country road, all the way north to Zixia Village, where the staff of the logistics department drove the tractors and began to plow the newly contracted land.

At the same time, the rest of the logistics staff also came to the Zixia Branch Garden. They are building a house in the new orchard, which will be used as an office and meeting room here.

These houses are relatively simple, just ordinary bungalows, but the length and width are greatly increased to accommodate more employees at the same time.

As the self-proclaimed part-time Zixia branch manager, Shen Yangguang was not idle, and was contacting the apple fruit saplings that needed to be planted.

For this [-] mu of farmland, Shen Yangguang plans to plant all apples, but in this way, when the apples are fully ripe, the picking work will become a big problem. When will the [-] mu of apples be picked? ?
Moreover, when these apples are listed together at the same time, it will also have an impact on more than 700 fruit shops. Tens of millions of catties of apples will be sold in the Year of the Monkey?

So Shen Guangguang planned to plant three different kinds of apples here from the very beginning, including early-maturing varieties, mid-maturing varieties and late-maturing varieties. Dividing it into three can not only reduce the workload at the busiest time, but also allow fruit shops to sell apples for a long time without having to store too many apples.

At present, there are early, mid-late and late-ripening apples in China. Early-ripening apples ripen in June and July, mid-ripening apples ripen in August and September, and late-ripening apples ripen in October and November. The months are ripe.

Due to various reasons, very few early-maturing apples are planted in China, and there are not many middle-maturing apples. Most of the planted are late-maturing apples. This is also an important reason why most people think that apples ripen in autumn.

There are actually many reasons for this result. One is that late-maturing apples were planted very early in China and have a broad base for planting. The rest of the early-maturing and mid-maturing varieties were basically bred or introduced later. There is no basis for planting.

Another important reason is that apples are more resistant to storage, and late-ripening apples are more resistant to storage. For example, apples that mature in autumn, as long as they are stored properly, they will be stored in the first half of the year, and they will still be fresh when they are taken out at the turn of spring and summer next year fruit.

For this reason, many planting bases like to grow late-maturing apples, because if they cannot be sold for a while, they can be stored and sold for more than half a year without any problem.

Shen Yangguang originally planned to plant a kind of early-maturing apples that ripen in June, and then plant mid-ripe apples that ripen in September, and late-maturing apples in November. The fruit shop in the country has its own apples available all year round.

But because of the climate in Northeast China, this is not suitable, because the spring here is relatively late. If you plant early-maturing apples in June, you need to bloom in a world of ice and snow, and plant late-maturing apples that mature in November. It needs to be ripe when there is heavy snow, so it is necessary to build a greenhouse to ensure that the apple trees can bloom and bear fruit safely.

Although planting apple trees does not require high-tech greenhouses, only ordinary greenhouses are sufficient, but the ordinary greenhouses used by Shen Yangguang are also high-quality fiberglass greenhouses. The cost per square meter is more than 100 yuan, and the cost per mu is about 10. If the entire 10 mu of farmland is covered with this kind of greenhouse, it will cost a full [-] billion yuan!
Jinquan Orchard has been developing for so many years, and the funds in the account are now less than 20 billion orchards. It takes half of the savings just to build the greenhouse, which is too much.

Moreover, Shen Yangguang still wants to develop orchards quickly, so he needs to invest in the construction of orchards and fruit shops everywhere. Every place needs money. For example, he wants to contract the land of Heitu Village and Daliu Village after a while. If they build greenhouses, Obviously, there may be a gap in the company's funds, which will restrict the development speed of other aspects.

Therefore, unless it was a last resort, Shen Yangguang was not willing to spend so much money at all, so he decided not to build a greenhouse here, but to plant all the apples in the open air.

For these reasons, early apples in June and late apples in November can only be excluded from the options. Shen Yangguang decided to buy early apples in July and late apples in October. The ripening date of the two kinds of apples is relatively close, and there is no need for the existence of medium-ripening apples. Only these two kinds of apples need to be planted.

Considering that the sales volume of early-maturing apples is only three months, and then the late-maturing apples will be on the market, and considering that the early-maturing apples are on the market when fruit sales are booming in summer, Shen Yangguang decided to plant about three in this ten thousand mu orchard. One-third of the early-maturing apples cover an area of ​​[-] mu, and the remaining [-] mu of land are all planted with late-maturing apples.

As for the saplings of these fruit trees, with the supply from the provincial capital research institute and the Southern Fruit Seedling Company, it was quickly finalized, but the purchase of fruit tree saplings this time is different from before, because this [-]-mu orchard needs to be continuously planted for a long time .

If the fruit saplings can be planted in one or two days or two or three days as before, and the fruit saplings are purchased in place at one time, those fruit saplings here will wait for more than half a month to be planted, which will obviously cause the saplings to die, so this purchase The fruit saplings are transported in batches to the Zixia sub-orchard.

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