#713 - Chapter 713: 400 tons of super rice harvested!
In the following days, headquarters returned to calm once again.
Li Bowen and the others returned with the information and equipment that Dong Hui needed, and the secret development of high-powered bombs officially began!
Of course, Qin Jin instructed Dong Hui to maintain a certain level of secrecy regarding this matter.
The production department now had hundreds of people, and even if a portion of them were transferred to work on certain projects, others wouldn't pay too much attention.
For tasks with high risks, survivors from outside Green Source could be hired.
After entrusting this matter to Dong Hui, Qin Jin stopped monitoring it frequently, as he believed that the production department head would eventually give him a satisfactory answer.
After returning, Li Bowen and the others were given two days off before receiving new tasks and heading out to carry out search operations.
The base was still undergoing major development and couldn't afford to stagnate just because it had made some progress.
There were still many important resources to be collected outside in the world, and if they weren't recovered soon, they would probably disappear from this world completely as time went on.
According to Qin Jin's memories from his previous life, they would encounter a zombie fog within a month, followed by a gradual return to colder weather.
By mid-to-late November, they would enter the same level of icy cold disaster as last year.
At that time, it was estimated that the base would shrink back again, and even helicopters and airships would need to remain in the base for repairs unless there was an important matter.
Therefore, the time left for Green Source was not much.
In the past few days, the research and development department had successively produced new fixed base stations, and Qin Jin began to have combat troops take them to the various city trading branches for installation.
These trading branches had previously established simple walls and defensive circles, and they only needed to set up simple power generation equipment inside to be able to communicate with the base headquarters at any time.
With more connections, it was believed that Green Source would soon have a communication network covering most of Guangnan Province, and they could contact each other at any time if anything happened.
Today was another day worth celebrating!
Because all of the base's super rice had fully matured and was ready for harvesting!
The first batch of super rice that matured some time ago, which Qin Jin had named New Rice, had gradually matured and been harvested in the past few days!
After being weighed by the planting department, the final weight of the rice was as high as 400 tons!
"President Qin! I have not failed you! Our super rice project has achieved great success!"
"All the super rice planted before has been harvested, and the yield per mu is 3-4 times higher than before! Our ordinary rice used to yield just over 1000 jin per mu, but now it has reached an amazing nearly 4000 jin!"
"In addition, our branch bases have been expanding the planting area, and now the planting area of super rice in our headquarters has exceeded 200 mu!"
"With our conditions, we can have three harvests a year, which means we can grow about 1200 tons of rice a year, and even after dehydration and shelling, there will be a full 1000 tons of New Rice!"
In the leader's office, Yuan Mu excitedly reported to Qin Jin, who was sitting in that position.
He couldn't help but be so excited.
Because in this era, food meant life and the future!
As the apocalypse continued, the food left over from human civilization would become less and less.
Even if some granaries had not been destroyed before, the food inside would likely not last long after being obtained by survivors.
Because the storage conditions and consumption rate also had to be considered.
After all, not every force had huge warehouses and low-temperature storage space like Green Source.
With low temperatures, droughts, and occasional heavy rains, even if some forces had huge amounts of food, it would quickly deteriorate and become inedible without professional storage conditions.
Food was definitely one of the most serious problems in the future.
"After this batch of super rice is harvested, immediately carry out soil warming and fertilization to prevent the soil fertility from deteriorating! We don't need to rush too much, just continue to maintain the rhythm of three harvests a year!"
Qin Jin said with satisfaction while sitting in his chair.
He had known this news for days, and now that Yuan Mu had come over, the two were just chatting and expressing their joy.
Yuan Mu nodded with a smile, indicating that he understood.
In fact, with the strength of the Green Source base, it was not impossible to force four harvests a year, but that would put too much burden on the soil.
This would cause unnecessary problems.
The base was still continuing to excavate and reclaim new underground planting areas, and would definitely have more and more food in the future!
Just as Qin Jin said, just keep up with this rhythm.
"Now we can grow about 1000 tons of fresh rice a year. Assuming that an adult consumes about 200 jin of rice a year, we can already feed 10,000 people!"
Qin Jin quickly calculated the answer!
Green Source's current planting speed could feed 10,000 people a year!
And that was with them eating their fill!
According to the current grading system of the base, only a few hundred people could actually eat their fill, and even level 4 personnel could not eat their fill.
Not to mention those level 1-2-3 personnel below, and even more peripheral personnel who didn't even have a level.
He continued to make a simple estimate, and if those who ate their fill were not counted, 1000 tons of grain was enough to feed more than 30,000 people!
This was definitely an exciting number!
However, Qin Jin was not too complacent.
Because don't forget that Green Source also had multiple trading branches outside, and these were the biggest consumers of food.
Trading supplies with survivors outside on a daily basis, measured in tons, could not be kept up with the current planting speed.
Therefore, Green Source had been consuming its inventory.
But it didn't matter.
This consumption rate would inevitably shrink slowly.
Because the supplies outside were not unlimited, and as time went on, there would definitely be fewer and fewer supplies that Green Source needed, and there would even be a situation where there was nothing to exchange.
Green Source was just exchanging some perishable food for supplies that would become more and more valuable in the future, which was a very profitable deal no matter how you looked at it.
"The branch bases are still continuing to expand the underground space, and the manpower invested in it is about to exceed 1000 people! In the future, our planting area will inevitably become larger and larger, which means that there will definitely be more and more food!"
"Your planting department must do a good job in cultivating seedlings and fertilizing the soil. When the soil fertility has recovered, you must plant them."
Hearing the leader's instructions, Yuan Mu naturally nodded in understanding.
The planting department had also been expanding its scale with the development of the base, and the number of people inside had long since changed from the initial few to the current hundreds.
It would continue to increase in the future.
From the current situation, the food situation had stabilized. Even if the projects of Wu Qinuo and Xia Zizhou did not produce results, Green Source could survive in this apocalypse for a long time based on its current state!
(End of this chapter)
