Chapter 270： Fertilizer and development direction

"The food planting is all going well, there is no problem.

Regarding medicines, we have never planted them before, so we can only cross the river by feeling the stones.

The biggest problem now is actually the lack of soil fertility. Look here, the soil in the planting box has turned yellow, and there are obvious compactions and cracks. This situation must be solved, otherwise it will affect it in the future. To the yield of various crops. "

In front of a planting box, An Dong leaned over and grabbed a handful of soil, spread it out in front of An Kai, and said with a dignified expression.

The cultivation industry of the shelter has always been inseparable from fertilizer.

The earliest fertilizer was chemical fertilizer. At that time, An Kai found a lot of fertilizer when he went out to search for materials, which supported him to complete the earliest planting industry of the shelter.

Later, as the scale of planting continued to expand, farmyard manure was also used, including Kent, who kept going out to find the fertilizer and barely enough.

But nowadays, as the scale of planting has been expanded and expanded, the fertilizer in the shelter is no longer enough. If you don’t think about it, as Anton said, it is estimated that it will not be long before the production of various crops will start to decrease. It directly affects the development and stability of the shelter.

Fertilizer!

An Kai touched his chin, thinking about the solution in his heart.

There are many ways on the system side.

For example, the most common fertilizer products, as well as higher-end nutrient solutions, and so on.

However, the nutrient solution does not directly act on the soil, but is used for soilless cultivation.

Ankai wanted to do soilless cultivation before, but just thought that the main base would also transfer various heavy industrial facilities, so this project has not been launched for the time being. But now that all the space on the main base has been used, if the next step is to continue to expand the scale of planting, there are only two directions to go. Either continue to expand the planting area, that is, to expand the area of ​​the main base, or it is the project of soilless cultivation, which is superimposed through layers of pipelines, and the nutrient solution is used as the main fertilizer to carry out soilless planting.

Of the two methods, Ankai certainly prefers the second.

At first glance, soilless cultivation seems to be more expensive than soil cultivation, but it is completely different in terms of space utilization. Just blindly expand the planting area, and continue to expand the area of ​​the main base. The low utilization rate is one aspect, and it will be more troublesome for farmers to take care of it.

It is better for an experienced farmer like An Dong. If you have less experience, the area of ​​land that can be taken care of in one day is limited. If there is to be unlimited expansion, more farmers will inevitably be needed, and when the shelter is expanded to a certain size, the load-bearing part must be considered. The room built by the system has its own load-bearing effect, but this has its limits.

If Ankai is not going to make major changes to the overall structure of the main base, the current situation is almost at its best.

It can shrink, but it cannot continue to expand.

In addition, there are some plants that are more suitable for growing in water. The existence of planting boxes actually restricts the growth of this type of plant.

It is very interesting that almost all plants with roots can be planted in soilless cultivation, but some of them are completely unsuitable for planting in the soil.

Another point is that if soilless cultivation is carried out through the system, the growth efficiency of crops will be higher, the yield of various crops will be increased, and even the quality can be improved, etc. In short, soilless cultivation is inevitable in the future of the shelter. The development direction is done early, but the difference is really not that big.

Do it early, you may be more nervous in terms of materials, but you can better enjoy the benefits of soilless cultivation.

If you do it late, you may have more abundant materials. There will be less pressure in this area, but in the process of waiting in the middle, there will inevitably be other pressures, such as insufficient land fertility.

Insufficient fertility of the land is actually very easy to solve, just use chemical fertilizers.

This is also a necessary means of modern agriculture.

Before An Kai was reborn, he had seen it on the Internet more than once, or heard the saying "Fertilizer is not good" among the people around him. Many people think that all kinds of fruits and vegetables produced by modern agriculture are far inferior in taste to all kinds of fruits and vegetables produced when farm manure was used.

An Kai admits that he has never eaten pure farm fat vegetables and fruits. Maybe there are indeed many differences.

However, he believes that the use of chemical fertilizers definitely has more advantages than disadvantages.

A very simple question is that an industrial society requires a large working population. If the peasants are not liberated from the soil, where will the workers in the factory come from?

In order to liberate labor from the land, increasing food production is inevitable.

If there is not enough food to feed enough people, how can we talk about development at that time?

Take his homeland before he crossed as an example. There are more than one billion people. That's not just talking. Don’t have more people a day, just eat one catty of grain. The whole country will consume more than one billion catties of grain in a year. What is it again?

Better breeding, better fertilizers, better pesticides... all these mitigations are indispensable.

Many people just sit in front of the computer and type on the keyboard, saying that this is not good and that is not good. In ancient times, it was good. In ancient times, there was no chemical fertilizer. But in ancient times, people went bankrupt in a natural disaster, sold their children and sold their daughters, and left their homes. On the contrary, modern people can enjoy sufficient food and abundant supplies. Where did these things come from? Falling from the sky? Or did it come from the northwest wind?

Not at all.

This is the result of abandoning part of the flavor and pursuing higher yield under the technological means.

So as long as it meets the standards set by the country and guarantees that it will not be harmful to the human body, Ankai himself absolutely supports pesticides and fertilizers.

Now that he changed to his shelter, that was naturally the same.

As time goes by, the food in the hands of other shelters will definitely become less and less. Except for a few shelters that may be able to produce some underground-grown food on their own, most shelters will inevitably not have such conditions. After the last food is eaten, what will happen to those people, no one knows now. An Kai definitely doesn’t want his shelter to become a slum, so he can’t take the rest, so he must vigorously develop chemical fertilizers, even if the taste of the things he grows will be lacking, but as long as the output goes up, it can be eaten. If you are full, other problems will not be a problem.

Fortunately, the farming industry in the shelter does not require pesticides at all, because there are no insects. Perhaps there will be insect eggs in the soil, but when the combination of soil and wood becomes a planting box, whether it is insect eggs or grass seeds, they are all cleared away. There is no insect infestation, which is a huge good thing. .

As for pesticides, if you want to produce them in small quantities, the chemistry station is fine, but if you want to produce them in large quantities, you must use a pesticide preparation machine.

This is a machine given in the system, which should not be available in the real world.

This is a very large machine with comprehensive functions, which is very similar to the previous machine. One machine can meet all the requirements of the process of making fertilizer.

From feeding, to crushing to grinding, there are various functions such as desulfurization and baking. In reality, this requires a series of machines to cooperate to complete, but from the perspective of the system, only one machine can be used to complete it, not to mention it is more convenient. Of course, not all fertilizers can use all functions, but different types of fertilizers can be selected according to specific needs, and the machine will automatically select the processing flow. What Ankai has to do is to build the machine, turn it on, and fill it with raw materials.

As for the number of machines required, he is still not sure about this. It is always necessary to manufacture a machine first, and then determine the specific quantity according to the capacity of the machine.

At present, the machine materials are sufficient, but the raw materials for making fertilizers seem to be a little insufficient.

Chemical fertilizers, as the name suggests, are fertilizers made through chemical methods. Unlike farm fertilizers, the production process of chemical fertilizers is relatively complicated and uses more materials. However, the advantages are large yields, fast production speeds, and suitable scales. Chemical production.

The shelter is now constantly trading with Ailanta, but it has accumulated a batch of chemical materials. But there is one thing to say, the content of the transaction is often not what they can choose, but it depends on what the other party brings, and then the food is traded according to the value.

If it hadn't been for Herto to be anxious to build a base, he might have turned his head and started laying the subway to Ailan Tower. The survivors of Eranta rely on driving to trade here. The speed is too slow. It seems to be a lot of materials filled with three cars at a time, but in fact it is nothing at all. At the very least, it's not enough for Ankai's side.

If you can establish a sub-base in Ailan Tower, even if you can't swallow the shelter over there, it can greatly increase the frequency of transactions.

But this question has to be considered.

The situation of Elanta is not the same as that of Herto. Elanta has only one super large shelter. Although there are also a number of small shelters, it is not a concept at all compared to the only super large shelter.

In Herto, Ankai and the others can provoke discords, get several large shelters up, and then take the opportunity to profit from them. But in Ailanta, this method will definitely not work.

Not to mention whether the small shelters are opponents of the super large shelters, even if they are, Ankai and the others may not have the opportunity to unite all the small shelters.

The super large sanctuary has a large population and strong strength, and it must have firmly controlled the Ailan Tower. The various disturbances below, not to mention the first time, are definitely not bad.

Once Ankai and the others do something, I am afraid that the super large shelter will be noticed immediately. Today's Ankai shelter, let alone the super large opponent, even if it is face to face with the original Otto shelter. Hard, it's definitely not an opponent. Don't get me wrong, this is not the previous Ankai shelter, but the current level of shelter.

The appearance after adding 700 people, if it were obtained two months ago, it would definitely not be the opponent of the Otto Sanctuary at that time.

After all, among these seven hundred people, there are certainly not many who can really afford weapons and dare to fight. At the peak of the Otto Sanctuary, there were hundreds of combatants. These combatants don’t say anything else. It must be okay to shoot with a gun. Not to mention that the Otto Refuge also has tanks, big bombings, and elite teams. The Otto Refuge is only one of Herto’s five shelters, with such a level of force. So how powerful is the super-large shelter that almost ruled the Ailan Tower?

Of course, in the peaceful era, the city of Elanta cannot match Herto in terms of scale, economy or population, and Elanta does not necessarily have many weapons that can appear in Herto.

After all, Ailanta is just a new port city, not the kind of super city that has been in business for many years and has become famous in the world. But even so, the scale of the urban population of several million is still there. In fact, according to Kent and Master, the administrative area of ​​Elanta, at its peak, had a population of about 15 million. , It can definitely be regarded as a big city.

Another digression, when Herto’s population was at its peak, the urban population was about 15 million, and the total population of the entire administrative region was nearly 30 million, which is worthy of the name of an international metropolis. .

In short, the difficulty of Ailanta's strategy is definitely higher than Herto's side. The various handwritings previously used in Herto are definitely not available in Ailanta.

If you want to attack Ailan Tower, in addition to changing the way, I am afraid that you have to fight for some luck.

But it’s too early to say this. In fact, Herto and the others have just eaten a small piece of meatFive shelters, and now only one Otto has fallen, and there are four shelters. It stands on this piece of land.

In addition, there are hundreds of small and medium-sized shelters, as well as a large number of scattered survivors.

Before Herto was fully developed, Ankai and the others had no energy or ability to attack Elanta.

And Herto wants to be fully developed, no, let alone fully developed, to be able to truly embark on the road of redevelopment, at least those large and medium-sized shelters have to be eaten, and more than half of the scattered survivors can be accommodated in this way. Kick away most of the blocking stones, otherwise you want to develop, and people will cut a knife or create resistance in the back, and then drag Ankai and their emerging shelter into the water, it is definitely not impossible. matter.

So in the final analysis, we still have to work hard to knock Herto down.

After the day turned, An Kai had a brief conversation with Bernard over the phone.

In fact, in the nearly ten days that they took in more than 700 survivors and assigned work for them to regulate their bodies, Herto’s situation has changed again, and this time the changes are even more drastic than before. , People have a dizzying feeling.