One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Six People Depend on Food for Their Livelihood

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Gu Cheng was curious but did not dare to ask, Ye Han was the opposite, he planned to satisfy his curiosity: "This thing is just left casually, aren't you afraid of losing it?"

"Of course not!" Gu Cheng said, "This thing crawls slowly and can't walk far at all, and every snail has a biochip in its brain that can control the snail's range of activities, so that they can only move in a designated area, and they will definitely not get lost."

"Mercenaries don't steal?"

"I stole it, but the consequences were very serious, so I didn't have the courage to steal it later."

Ye Han was a little confused: "How serious is it?"

Gu Cheng said: "This matter is a long story... The giant snail is not very aggressive. If it encounters other insects, it will be eaten. The shell looks strong, but it can only withstand A little while ago, when the ranch was just opened, because of this loss, the higher-ups thought of many ways, and finally installed biochips on the snails, using the chips to control the range of activities, use the chips to locate, and use the chips to alarm when encountering wild giant insects. "

Speaking of this, Gu Cheng changed his tone: "Then, the higher-ups equipped the ranch with a batch of armed drones, using drones to patrol the ranch. Once the snails issued an attack alarm, the drones could provide nearby support and kill the insects that attacked the snails... After a few years, the insects near Qingtang have almost died. Now there are not only drones, but also many mercenaries guarding the ranch all year round... There will definitely be losses from free-range breeding, but only a few will be lost in a year. "

Now Ye Han finally understood, but he only had a little understanding, and he was still full of curiosity about the snail ranch: "So advanced?" Even biochips are used, this place is definitely the most modern giant insect ranch!

"It's OK." Gu Cheng said indifferently, "There are many similar giant insect farms, both at home and abroad, all of which are insectivorous giant insects... Most of our farms are snails, and some of them raise genetically modified locusts..."

"Locusts?" Ye Han was surprised again.

"Well, locusts with weakened hind legs and wings, but they don't have as much meat as snails, and the meat quality is not as good as snails. They don't have shells and their self-defense ability is poor. Now basically no one raises them."

Ye Han sweated profusely. Thinking about it, it made sense. If he had to choose between snail meat and locust meat, he would definitely choose snails instead of locusts: "Have you raised anything else?"

"There are some ants." Gu Cheng said, "But we don't raise ants on purpose. The main reason is that the border ant colonies are too large. We have been killing them regularly in recent years. You know."

Ye Han really understood.

Nowadays, materials are scarce, and no resources can be wasted, especially food.

Gu Cheng added: "You may not know that 40% of the meat in the country comes from the giant insect ranch. Just think about it, how much insect meat does the giant insect ranch produce in a year!"

Ye Han was a little unconvinced: "No way? I didn't encounter many along the way!"

Gu Cheng smiled: "What you saw were all breeding cattle. Real beef cattle can be sold when they grow to the size of a football."

"Isn't it a waste?"

"Of course not. The giant insects are large and have a long growth cycle. It is too wasteful to kill them when they grow up. The size of a football is the most suitable... Now is not the egg-laying season. When you have a chance in the future, you can come and see the breeding cattle laying eggs. There are hundreds of them at a time. When the eggs hatch, the mountains and plains are full of snails of all sizes, and you can't count them all!"

Ye Han has seen many seas of insects, and the appearance of snails all over the ground can really be imagined: "How big is this ranch?"

From the time he encountered the first giant snail to now, more than ten minutes have passed. The convoy has driven at least ten kilometers. There are at least eighty snails along the way, but there is still no shadow of Qingtang City.

"I don't know much about this, but I know that the ranch is at least dozens of times larger than the urban area!" Gu Cheng said.

Ye Han couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The changes are really huge!"

"Yes, the changes are huge!" Gu Cheng nodded in agreement, "A few years earlier, who would have thought that giant insects could become an industry?"

Both of them said that there have been great changes in recent years, but Ye Han was referring to the period after awakening. The two people were talking about different things. Xiao Yuan and others understood the reasons, but Gu Cheng didn't know at all.

Ye Han suddenly thought of something: "Don't the higher-ups plan to expand the ranch? The meat gap is still quite large now, right?"

"It's indeed not small, but the ranch cost is too high. Meat mainly comes from seafood. Shrimp and crabs are not small in size. Molluscs such as squid, sea cucumbers, and starfish are also beginning to grow in size. They are all excellent sources of meat."

Ye Han nodded in understanding.

Seafood is indeed a good source.

This matter is related to aliens. They have laid out their plans on the seabed, and there are alien giant vines everywhere on the continental shelf. Many aquatic creatures feed on these giant vines, and the marine biological population has experienced explosive growth.

Compared with the high cost of grazing, the cost of fishing is almost negligible, which is simply a huge profit!

If all countries in the world let go of fishing, no matter how much seafood they catch, they can't fill the stomachs of billions of people. However, nowadays, there are only a few countries with this technical strength and dare to go to the sea. In addition, meat is always in limited supply, and the vast ocean is not short of this little seafood.

Now that he knows what he should know, Ye Han is curious about the development of agriculture in recent years.

Gu Cheng did not disappoint Ye Han and introduced the development of agriculture.

In short, the development speed of agriculture is also good.

On the one hand, due to the rapid progress of soilless cultivation technology, various places have established space-style indoor farms. Although there are disadvantages such as high cost, time-consuming and labor-intensive, in order to ensure food security, no matter how many difficulties must be overcome, in recent years, the food produced by indoor farms alone accounts for 30% of the total national output.

On the other hand, based on the progress of genetic technology, key indicators such as the yield of grain crops and their ability to resist pests and diseases have been greatly improved, and the per-acre yield of grain has doubled, which has played a vital role in alleviating food tensions.

As for whether it is genetically modified, haha, who cares about this when you can't even eat enough? To put it bluntly, now even people are genetically modified products, what does it matter whether the food is genetically modified or not?

Another very critical reason is aliens!

It seems to be irrelevant, but when Gu Cheng explained it in detail, Ye Han understood it-in order to deal with humans, the insects released by aliens are all aggressive carnivorous insects. They only like to eat meat and disdain plants that can be seen everywhere. Only those vegetarian wild giant insects have the bad habit of destroying crops everywhere.

This kind of giant insect has always been the focus of Beidu's crackdown. After several years of continuous eradication, the number of giant agricultural pests is now very small. What's even more bizarre is that alien giant insects often feed on wild giant insects, and their contribution to human agriculture is indeed not small.

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