Chapter 896 The Struggle of Seeds《Please Support with Monthly Tickets》

Huizhi Investment Group's research center in the Northeast's planting base is built on the base of the base, covering an area of ​​about 10,000 square meters. But in fact, the construction area is much larger. The tall buildings with more than 20 floors have basically been put into use, and there are about a thousand technicians and experts working in them.

"You actually have such a big research center?" Cuiqi said with some emotion.

Although I have always known that Fan Wubing's career is huge and I have been to the headquarters in Beijing, Shanghai and other places, I never thought that there would be such a large-scale planting base and research center in the Northeast. Zhang Qi couldn't help but sigh in her heart, saying that behind successful people there is always a lot of hard work that others cannot see.

"Just make do with it." Fan Wubing didn't say anything.

After everyone went in together. We arrived at the top floor of the research center building, which is also where the main control center of the entire base is located. Generally speaking, all important work is distributed from here.

"What is your main research direction and do you need so many people?" Zhang Qi asked curiously.

Fan Wubing replied, "It's mainly about food safety issues. You know, the issue of genetically modified foods is a bit hotter now. We mainly do some work in this aspect."

"Genetically modified food?" Zhang Qi nodded and said that he had heard of some.

In order to improve the nutritional value of agricultural products. To produce food faster and more efficiently, scientists use genetic modification methods to change the genetic information of organisms and assemble new genes so that future crops will be highly nutritious, resistant to storage, resistant to diseases, pests, and herbicides, and will continue to produce New genetically modified foods.

There are many plant-based genetically modified foods. For example, bread production requires wheat with high protein content, and current wheat varieties contain lower protein. Transferring highly expressed protein genes into wheat will make the bread have better baking performance.

Another example is tomato, a fruit and vegetable with rich nutrition and high economic value, but it is not resistant to storage.

In order to solve the storage problem of fruits such as tomatoes, researchers have discovered that the enzyme gene that controls the synthesis of the plant senescence hormone ethylene is an important gene that causes plant senescence. If the expression of this gene can be inhibited using genetic engineering methods, then the senescence hormone ethylene The biosynthesis of tomatoes will be controlled, and tomatoes will not become soft and rot easily.

Through the efforts of many scientists in the United States, Little China and other countries, they have developed a new tomato variety that is anti-aging, anti-softening, resistant to storage, can be transported over long distances, and can reduce waste in processing, production and transportation.

There are also many types of animal-based GMO foods. For example, human genes are transferred into cows. The milk produced by cows when they grow up contains genetic drugs, which can be used to treat human diseases after extraction. By introducing the human auxin gene into the pig genome, the pig's growth rate doubled, and the quality of the pork was greatly improved. Such pork is now on the dining table in Australia.

Genetically modified foods are products created using new technologies and are also a new thing. People naturally have questions about the safety of eating genetically modified foods.

In fact, the first person to publicly raise this issue was Professor Pupita of the Roth Institute in Aberdeen, England. The year before last, he discovered in his research that after young rats ate genetically modified potatoes, their internal organs and anti-fatigue system would be damaged.

This caused great concern in the scientific community. The report was subsequently reviewed by the Royal Society, which declared last May that the study was full of flaws.

But also last year, the authoritative British science magazine "Nature" published a paper by John Rossi, a professor at Cornell University in the United States.

It is pointed out that butterfly larvae and other beneficial insects in the field will suffer from stunted growth and extremely high mortality after eating vegetable leaves sprinkled with certain genetically modified corn pollen. There is also some evidence pointing to the potential dangers of genetically modified foods.

But more scientists’ tests have shown that genetically modified foods are safe. Scientists who agree with this view believe that any genetically modified food has undergone a large number of scientific tests before being put on the market. The country and government have relevant laws and regulations to restrict it, and scientists They all also have a very rigorous academic attitude. In addition, farmers will use pesticides to ensure the quality of traditional crops when planting them, while some genetically modified foods that are resistant to diseases and pests do not need to be sprayed with pesticides. Also, whether a food can cause poisoning mainly depends on whether it has receptors in the human body and whether it can be metabolized. The transformed genes have been screened and have clear functions. Therefore, genetically modified ingredients will not accumulate in the human body and will not be harmful.

"As far as I know, this technology is a top-level topic in the world. Does your research center also have such capabilities?" Although she felt that it was a bit impolite to ask this, Cuiqi still expressed a considerable degree of doubt about it. Fan Wubing laughed, "Although we started relatively late, we have been conducting research on related projects since three years ago. We have also made some achievements so far."

Fan's Investment Group's research on genetically modified projects is mainly carried out from two aspects. One is that Fan Wubing himself does not trust the safety performance of genetically modified foods. The other is that although the planting base here produces green and natural Mainly food, but Fan Wubing also considered that once the national legislation opens up the door to genetically modified foods, he will also have the corresponding technology.

Scientific evidence for genetically modified food. It has been entangled in foreign countries since the 1980s. A large amount of scientific evidence has proved that genetically modified food is indeed harmful to the human body and contains carcinogenic substances. Because the consequences of genetic modification of crops cannot be controlled, it first started with dairy cows. Genetically modified milk is on the rise in the United States. The so-called genetically modified cows use hormones to increase milk production. Cows injected with hormones can increase milk production by about 30%, but the average lifespan of cows is also It will be reduced by two years, and cows frequently suffer from breast cancer and other diseases.

This kind of genetically modified cow was invented by the American company Monsanto. Most Chinese people don’t seem to know much about Monsanto. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military spread poison every day in order to fight against jungle guerrillas, causing the death of large tracts of forest. This drug is Developed by Monsanto Company, this drug is actually a herbicide called nanzi.

The harm and impact of Agent Orange were so far-reaching that for decades there was no grass growing in those areas.

Monsanto is also an old company, as famous as DuPont and Dow Chemical. The foundation that supports genetically modified technology is a foundation under Rockefeller. The institutions involved in research and development include Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical, etc. Monsanto has already A joint venture was established in China, and the new cotton tassel that sells well all over the country was jointly developed by this company.

Monsanto's main goal now is to control China's seed production companies. Even India's largest hybrid seed company has a joint venture with Monsanto. As for DuPont, no further introduction is needed. Everyone on earth knows that Pioneer Seed Company, a subsidiary of DuPont, may not be known by many. Pioneer Seed’s seeds are the leader in the corn seed industry, and Northeast China is the largest grain production base in my country. In the entire Northeast market, Pioneer Seed's corn seeds account for more than half of the market share. In order to buy American seeds, farmers in the Northeast have to pay advance payments to the company, and the prices are astronomical, more than ten times higher than domestic seed prices.

The reason why there is such a big gap is because the corn yield produced by Pioneer Seed Industry's seeds is 20 to 30 percent higher than the average, and the survival rate is basically 100 percent.

Domestic corn seeds require three to four seeds to plant a nest, while American corn seeds only need one seed to plant a nest. The yield and efficiency are increased, and the effects of disease resistance, waterlogging resistance, and drought resistance are also very good. The reason why it has such advantages is because this magical seed is a genetically modified corn seed.

Some industry experts say that the female parent of this variety in the United States comes from China. This is not impossible, because a long time ago, the American Pioneer Company came to China for an inspection and picked a few Chinese wild soybeans at the airport. The purity of the soybean is the highest in the world. After taking the soybean back, they relied on this sample to change its genes and cultivate a new variety. Its characteristics of high oil content and high disease resistance quickly conquered the world market, and American soybeans were produced. Thirty-seven percent of total grain exports. China is the world's second largest soybean importer. This kind of soybean is also a genetically modified soybean launched by his company. Chinese products were improved by the United States, and then used high government subsidies to be dumped in China. In comparison, Chinese soybeans are not only high in price, but also of poor quality. , is simply no match for American soybeans.

At present, many domestic seed companies are facing a survival crisis and cannot compete with foreign seed companies. Therefore, they have cooperated with Western powers to operate. Chinese seed companies do not have advanced technology, and the actual control is in the hands of foreign companies. In other words, most of the food and oil we eat are actually American. In control. Therefore, some people have said that the real power to control our food, clothing, housing and transportation does not come from the government or the market, but from Wall Street in the United States. After Fan Wubing briefly introduced the current seed market situation to Zhang Qi, he said to her, "In addition to the above bulk grain seed market, the vegetable seed market is also dominated by foreign brands. Foreign brands account for half of the country. The above share, among which tomatoes, eggplants, cucumber seeds, and chili seeds are all dominated by foreign brands. For example, the Dutch Burita eggplant seeds sell for more than 100 yuan per gram, while the eggplant seeds of domestic companies only sell for less than 100 yuan per gram. They only cost 80 cents each. Whether they are cucumber, tomato, eggplant or other seeds, as long as they are sold by foreign brands, the price is astronomical, which can be compared with the price of gold. "

Shen Manhua also told Zhang Qi, "Most of the vegetable seeds come from Europe. They have no genetically modified ingredients and are just ordinary hybrids. They can be eaten with confidence, but for the West, especially the United States, the purpose of cutting off China's seed and grain markets is not clear. It's not simple. Once the food war starts, the advantage of oppression may be reflected, but whether it is to seize power and make profits or something else, the purpose of using genetically modified food crops for food is more cold-blooded, and genetically modified seeds will cause long-term damage to the land. Genetic contamination will affect the properties of the plant, and some effects may remain latent in the human body for a long time, causing serious damage to the body's ability to prevent obesity.

"Our research center is private and open to the outside world. In fact, we want to find out one thing. Are there any hazards of genetically modified crops? How big is their impact? And if there is no hazard, then we will We need to have the ability to provide a large amount of domestically produced seeds to resist the invasion of foreign seeds," Fan Wubing told Zhang Qi.

"You are really respectable," Zhang Qi said very seriously after hearing this.