Chapter 050 Industrial Layout (II)
Although Luzon has summer all year round, the temperature in February is still slightly lower, making people feel relatively comfortable.
Lima South in southern Luzon.
In the headquarters building of Haitian Agriculture, Zhang Wei looked through the progress charts of various projects, rubbed his temples, picked up the thermos cup beside him, and took a sip of oolong tea.
The work of building 600,000 mu of sea fields this year, as well as projects such as insect farms, mushroom farms, and feed processing plants, all make him feel under great pressure.
Recently, the head office issued another instruction, asking Haitian Agriculture to prepare an agricultural association.
He had read the agricultural association's plan and knew that it was a very large project. The overall planning seemed to be based on the agricultural association in Japan, but there were some differences.
According to the first phase goal described in the plan, it is planned to establish 80 distinctive agricultural cooperatives this year, involving approximately 80,000 farmers.
He picked up the phone: "Manling."
"Yes, Mr. Zhang, please give me your instructions." Assistant Manling replied.
"Notify the heads of each department to hold a meeting in the fifth-floor conference room at 2:30 p.m. to discuss matters concerning the Agricultural Association. Ask them to come up with a proposal based on their department."
"OK."
2:30 in the afternoon.
More than a dozen department heads gathered in the conference room.
After Zhang Wei arrived, he didn't say any nonsense and went straight to the point: "Let's talk about how to promote the Agricultural Association. The head office has high hopes for us. Don't let us down at the critical moment."
The person in charge of the Haitian Division simply spread his hands and said, "Mr. Zhang, I am also promoting the 600,000 mu Haitian project here, and I don't have the energy to participate in the Agricultural Association."
The insect breeding division and the mushroom cultivation division also seemed helpless.
Zhang Wei also understood them, but he still reminded them: "It is understandable that the Haitian Division does not have time, but the Insect Breeding Division and the Mushroom Cultivation Division still need to make efforts."
"Huh? Are you asking us to promote insect breeding and mushroom cultivation to farmers?" the head of the mushroom cultivation division asked hesitantly.
Zhang Wei asked: "How many varieties of mushrooms does the Mushroom Division currently have in its mushroom cultivation technology?"
"There are currently six varieties: straw mushroom, shiitake mushroom, pleurotus eryngii, wood ear mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, and Flammulina velutipes. These are all common varieties on the market."
Zhang Wei wrote down the names of these mushroom varieties in his notebook, and then wrote the number 12 at the end: "The Mushroom Division is responsible for the technical support of 12 cooperatives. You supply these cooperatives with mushroom strains, and the company will provide them with financial support and sales channels."
"12 cooperatives?" The head of the mushroom business unit frowned, "We have to build large-scale planting factories ourselves. These small factories don't have much cost advantage!"
Zhang Wei waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, the company will not do business at a loss. These mushrooms will be eaten by Fengcao House. As long as they are obedient, we can make them the designated supplier of Fengcao House. Even if it is just to subsidize farmers in the initial stage, we will persist."
In fact, Haitian Agriculture is pursuing scale and monopolizing the market.
Even if other small farmers and small families do it on their own, they have no way to compete with Haitian Agriculture.
As long as the market monopoly is achieved, others will have no choice but to exit the market.
In terms of insect breeding, Zhang Wei also asked the Insect Breeding Division to provide technical support and seedlings, and to provide targeted support to six varieties of locusts, crickets, mealworms, silkworms, scorpions, and earthworms, also for 12 cooperatives.
The remaining cooperative share is made up of fruits, vegetables and aquatic products.
All the products produced by these cooperatives are purchased by Haitian Agriculture, and after processing, they are supplied to Fengzao House or consumed internally by Haitian Agriculture.
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The areas around Limanan and Dart Port were the first to be affected.
In a small mountain town called Sheshan Town, people are talking about the cooperative that has recently expanded here.
As a large landowner in the town, Mr. Basa was obviously resistant and hostile to the arrival of the cooperative.
A young man with yellow teeth asked, "Uncle, should we cooperate with Haitian Agriculture?"
"What cooperation? Do I need those millions? Tell everyone in the family not to cooperate with Haitian Agriculture." The master of Barcelona spit.
His family is a local tyrant and has connections in Manila. Barca itself owns more than 3,000 acres of mountain land, where it grows rambutan and wax apples. It can enter the Manila market through its own channels, so it naturally looks down on Haitian Agriculture.
The farmers in the town are not just the Basa family. Although their family occupies about 33% of the land in Sheshan Town, other farmers are also related to the Basa family.
The problem is that there are differences in closeness. Among them, there are people with good relationships, and naturally there are also people with average or even bad relationships.
As a large landowner, the Basa family owns a lot of land, but the population is not too large, accounting for only about 3% of the entire town's population.
Although the farmers who only have a small piece of land did not show any impatience after hearing the propaganda of the cooperative, many of them were actually tempted. They were just waiting for the first person to take the plunge.
People often like to follow the trend blindly.
The project of the Sheshan Town Agricultural Cooperative is to grow fruits, vegetables and rice.
Soon the first person to eat crab appeared.
A farmer named Luo Le signed the first contract, and his family’s 1.3 acres of mountain mango forest and 0.3 acres of paddy field were included in the cooperative.
To become a contracted farmer of a cooperative, one must grow the agricultural products designated by the cooperative. The price of the agricultural products is fixed and adjusted once a year.
The cooperative also provides insurance to ensure that farmers and cooperatives do not go bankrupt in the event of natural disasters and force majeure.
Seeing the price signed by Basil, which was about 18% higher than the price previously offered by Mr. Barca, other small farmers were also tempted.
When it comes to interests, farmers don't care. Even a small number of farmers who have a good relationship with the Basa family ignore the Basa family's ban.
The head of the cooperative clapped a large stack of contracts in his hands, sneered and said sarcastically: "It seems that in the face of money, Mr. Basa's words are not worth a single peso."
"Boss, will those guys cause trouble?" the salesperson asked worriedly.
The head of the cooperative showed no fear: "Haha, don't forget who is behind us. If he doesn't want to be decent, then we will help him be decent."
Just as the person in charge said, the Barca family is just a small local family. Facing a behemoth like the Fernando family, they dare not resort to .
Next, these small families will feel what malice is.
The House of Abundance, which had complete transportation logistics and food supply chains, quickly opened small convenience stores in various small towns, snatching away the market that had previously been monopolized by these small families.
Contracted farmers can also receive discounts similar to employee benefits, and the cooperative provides affordable pesticides, fertilizers, and farm machinery, as well as professional technical support.
This has made more farmers restless and more and more farmers want to join the cooperative.
Farmers who do not cooperate will face higher production costs, and they will have to find their own sales and transportation channels, and buy their own insurance, which is simply a bloodbath.
Even the big landlords could not bear it anymore.
