Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 245 Fully Automatic Vegetable Transplanter
As winter turns to spring, green plants are growing vigorously everywhere, and the Shagang area has entered a stage of vitality.

There is also a new member arriving in the company today.

Zhou Yi rode his bicycle all the way to the newly developed northern farmland area.

The Nongji brothers and Zheng Tao are both here.

Tiema greeted people from a distance using a loudspeaker.

However, the noise from the running agricultural machinery was so loud that the sound was not clear.

Zhou Yi rushed over and saw a new farm machinery parked nearby.

"Chairman, this is Yangma."

Tie Ma introduced: "It is a fully automatic vegetable transplanter that can do the whole process of vegetable transplanting, including hole tray seedling cultivation, soil stabilization, seedling removal, hole drilling, seedling drop, and soil covering. It has 10 years of working experience in Liangshan before. It is a very excellent agricultural machine with a capability rating of D."

The Yanmar is about 3 meters long, 2 meters wide, and 2 meters high. The English letters of Yanmar are on the shell, and it looks like a large four-wheeled motorcycle. It has two front wheels and a small rear wheel, and a series of long racks are supported on the body.

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Welcome, welcome. Our company's vegetable planting has been settled."

Yanma said in a gentle voice: "I am very happy to receive Tiema's invitation and your recognition. The Wasteland Development Company is an organization with a high credit rating and a good reputation."

"I feel very fortunate to be able to work in such a stable place and do the job I am good at."

Zhou Yi plans to continue expanding the scale of arable land this year. The security of the Shagang area is guaranteed, so there is no need to worry about attacks on farmland.

Since he had enough staple food, he thought it was time to grow vegetables and fruits.

Eat a balanced diet.

Only with sufficient and abundant crops on farmland can we develop animal husbandry and produce more meat. This is an indispensable prerequisite.

After hearing this request, Tie Ma said, "Chairman, if we grow vegetables, our efficiency will be very low."

"Transplanting vegetables is an agricultural technology with many processes. It is carried out by special agricultural machinery, and there are requirements for processes such as seedling transplanting. What we do is to cultivate the land and grow common staple foods."

"The main force in planting sweet red melons last year was actually the farmers, who have the corresponding skills and experience. If we want to plant fruits and vegetables on a large scale and increase the variety, we need professional agricultural machinery."

So it recommended this foreign horse.

Zhou Yi looked at the slender black, white and red transplanter and asked, "Why did you leave Liangshan?"

"Because of a disagreement with my employer."

Yanma said: "We work in Liangshan, and the locals have organized a lot of people to learn our technology. After years of learning and imitating, they can also replicate our processes and operations."

"In terms of cost, pure manpower is much cheaper than mine, so apart from retaining agricultural machinery experts, we have stopped renewing contracts with other agricultural machinery. What they actually need is our technology."

"But it is short-sighted to want to completely replace agricultural machinery with humans. The two should complement each other rather than conflict with each other. But the manager over there doesn't think so. He just wants to save costs quickly, but he doesn't respect the discipline of agriculture."

"Even agricultural machinery professionals are only good at one or several aspects, not omnipotent and absolutely correct. I have personally witnessed the continued deterioration of the land, but they are indifferent and just cover up the actual situation to deceive their superiors and subordinates. So I did not renew my contract. That is not where I want to stay."

Human labor replaces mechanical automation.

This is the current situation in the wasteland era.

The annual salary of a member of the agricultural group is 3.6. The salary of the mechanical and electrical life is cheaper than that of the agricultural machinery brothers, but each person needs to plant 12 crops a year.

That is 1200 million mushrooms, equivalent to the cost of 300 people.

Once the skills are learned, someone else will be replaced to do the job, and it is easy for that person to have their salary reduced. But it is not the same at Mechanical and Electrical Life, where they have to pay as much as promised.

Zhou Yi was already very clear about all this.

Yanmar is a farm machinery with a temper. In this respect, it is very similar to its farm machinery brothers. No wonder they recognize each other.

Zhou Yi immediately said: "I will still pay you according to your previous salary of 24 yuan per year. Your job is to grow vegetables in the company's agricultural department. If your professional skills improve, or if you have additional output or inventions, come directly to me for a raise. There is also a special "Wasteland Invention Award" reward. In addition, our company fully covers and guarantees the medical care of our employees."

"This is the condition given by the company. Can you accept it?"

Yanma asked, "What does all-inclusive medical care mean... the company provides medical repair services?"

"That's what I mean."

The transplanter sighed: "No wonder Tiema strongly recommended it to me. Your company's benefits are better than most electromechanical cities."

“I’d love to join.”

So Zhou Yi signed an electronic agreement with it, and the first term of employment was five years.

The agricultural cultivation and breeding cycle is very long, and it takes time to see results.

After officially joining, Yanma immediately started talking about work.

"Chairman, I heard from Tie Ma that you want to open up another 1500 acres of land, 1000 acres of which will be used to grow sweet potatoes, and the remaining 500 acres will be used to grow vegetables?"

Zhou Yi nodded and pointed to the distant coast: "But there is more than just this land. There is also our suspended layer. That is also our specially built vegetable base."

Yanmar's two spherical cameras slowly rotated and focused on the distance.

There are tall towers on the sea, with a wide layer of soil on the top of the towers. There are more and more such suspended layers, looking like giant flat mushrooms growing in the Dead Sea.

These are all the achievements of the Ministry of Land.

“Unheard-of land reclamation technology.”

Yanmar's electronic eyes lighted up slightly: "In the field of agriculture, the biggest limitation is that there is too little land available for cultivation." "If this problem can be solved and the available land can be continuously expanded, the cost of agriculture can be continuously reduced, and this field will have great development prospects."

"Chairman, can this suspended layer technology be replicated on a large scale?"

Zhou Yi shook his head.

Currently, Wu Yi still relies on his ability to control the sand by hand, using pieces of mud slabs to create the suspended layer, but the speed cannot be fast.

"What a shame. But as long as the land is expanding, it's a good thing. It will eventually evolve from quantitative change to qualitative change."

The transplanter continued, "Chairman, it's spring now, which is suitable for growing vegetables. I've checked the local soil, and although it's not fertile, it's up to the baseline. I suggest you choose Chinese cabbage and white radish, two high-yield vegetables."

"According to common varieties of seeds, it only takes 60-90 days for cabbage to form leaf heads and then be harvested. The yield per mu is generally between 1500 and 5000 kilograms, with a wide range. The actual yield can only be determined after the first year's harvest."

“春季播种的白萝卜生长周期大约在50天左右，而秋冬萝卜的生长期则在70-120天。采用标准流程种植，亩产一般在1500-3000公斤之间。”

"It is relatively easy to grow Chinese cabbage and white radish, and the yield is large and stable."

Zhou Yi was shocked.

The yield of these two vegetables was higher than he had imagined.

He remembered that the peanut yield per mu was about 120 kilograms, and the sweet potato yield per mu was 200 kilograms, but the vegetable yield here is ten times that.

Zheng Tao explained: "Chairman, without the soil improvement and crop rotation in the previous year, it would be difficult to grow vegetables. In this regard, Iron Horse and Bronze Bull have laid a solid foundation. They insist on protecting and sustainably developing the soil."

"Vegetable planting requires a lot of manpower in terms of sowing, raising seedlings, watering, weeding, fertilizing and harvesting. In addition, it is necessary to prevent the occurrence of pests and diseases, and harvest in time to ensure the freshness and quality of the vegetables."

Zhou Yi actually feels this way.

The harvest of peanuts and sweet potatoes was handled by the agricultural machinery brothers, but when it came to growing watermelons, Zheng Tao was able to do so thanks to the many retired people from the farming group he recruited to take care of and pick the watermelons.

Zhou Yi thought for a moment and said, "Old Zheng, it seems we also need a farming group."

"Chairman, it would be great if there is one."

"Then what form do you think would be more suitable for our farming group?"

Zheng Tao stroked his beard and said, "In my opinion, we can use the retired members of the farming group as a basis and recruit retired farmers from the three cities in the development alliance and nearby cities."

"Most of these people are over 35 years old, and they are considered old people. Their daily energy, physical strength and endurance are not as good as those of young people. However, they are experienced. What the company needs is refined operations, and there is no shortage of repetitive labor."

"We have free medical support, which can help our employees delay aging, provide them with a safe and stable living environment, and earn above-average wages. We don't have to worry about finding suitable farmers."

Zhou Yi nodded.

That's a good idea.

In Zhou Yi's eyes, these people in their thirties are in their prime. As long as they are guaranteed food and medical care, their work experience will come in handy.

He thought for a moment and said, "Then we should formally set up a farm under the Ministry of Agriculture and call it the United Farm. The salary will remain the same, twice that of other urban farming groups, 2 mushrooms per month. If there are additional technologies and new crop improvements, the salary will be increased on this basis."

"Work is still the same: 4 days on, 1 day off."

"Old Zheng, what do you think?"

Zheng Tao smiled and said, "Chairman, this treatment is already top-notch. With three farm machinery, the farm only needs 40 people. When the vegetable picking season comes, we can just hire some temporary workers."

"Then do it this way. The specific details will depend on your actual situation."

"Chairman, there is one more small matter."

Zheng Tao's expression suddenly turned serious.

"From my point of view, the Ministry of Agriculture urgently needs to increase the number of agricultural machinery, at least two. This year we have to maintain a total of 4000 mu of farmland, and the workload of the iron horses and bronze bulls will increase to 160%. If they are allowed to continue to operate at overload, they will suffer irreversible damage."

"They themselves will not complain, they will only work harder and try to do these things well. But I can't just turn a blind eye, Chairman, we need more manpower."

Zhou Yi pinched his nose when he heard this: "This is my fault. I didn't think it through."

The long-term high-load operation of electromechanical life is inherently dangerous.

The company has Da Vinci in front and Agricultural Machinery Brothers in the back.

They are all overtime addicts.

Zhou Yi said to Tie Ma, "You must tell me about the workload. I sometimes don't think about it in detail. We must seek truth from facts, Tie Ma. If you have any specific difficulties in the future, you must mention them."

"Chairman, I think we can do 4000 acres. Records and limits are meant to be broken," Tiema insisted with some pride.

"Breakthrough!"

Zheng Tao, who was standing next to him, cursed. He pointed at the front of the car and said, "You and Tongniu have been burning up recently. If you keep going like this, the damage will be serious. Don't think that as long as it can still run, there will be no problem!"

"Not every repair can be fixed. I have seen farm machinery that could no longer operate after being overloaded! You may be made of iron, but you are not immortal!"

Tiema was speechless after being criticized.

Zhou Yi also realized the danger: "What Lao Zheng said is correct, I will recruit people immediately. Tiema, you haven't had a rest this year, I hope you can take a vacation first."

He began to think in his mind.

It's time to go out and recruit people in person.

(End of this chapter)