Chapter 899 Colored Cotton and Soybeans
1[o]423 Chapter 899 Colored Cotton and Soybeans
Dan Bing and Cuiqi stayed at the planting base for a day. In fact, Tian Manhua called him over mainly to ask for an increase in the scientific research budget. The 500 million previously invested had basically been spent by now.
"What a waste of money!" Zhang Qi said in awe after hearing this. "Fan Wubing said something fair, "The actual research and practice lasted about two years. The investment in one year was less than 300 million, and the average expenditure was less than 1 million per day, which is really not much. You have to know that Mengsandu Company’s scientific research funding per day is two million US dollars, and we can’t compare with others. "
"You can't say that anymore. Shen Manhua explained from the side, "Although the special allocation given by the boss is only 500 million, our actual income here, except for necessary equipment upgrades, is basically invested in scientific research. . Overall, the actual investment is around 1.5 billion yuan. "
"Such a base is very profitable, more than some listed companies." Cui Qi calculated that, leaving aside the construction costs of the planting base, in the past three years, fifteen years have been invested in scientific research alone. Hundreds of millions is indeed a large sum of money, which is rare among other domestic companies. What's more, this is just a farming company, not a high-tech company.
Fan Wubing immediately smiled after hearing this. "You don't know what the domestic currency listing companies are like? There is no comparison with this one."
Zhang Qi knew very well what Fan Wubing meant. The so-called state-owned listed companies had one year of performance, two years of losses, three years of wandering on the edge of asset restructuring, and three years later, they were drowned by countless new stocks. This historical law seems to have never been broken since the birth of the domestic stock market.
However, Cuiqi also discovered a problem, that is, the research conducted in the base were all plant-based genetic modification projects, and there were no research projects on animal genes.
"Research on plant genes is relatively simple, and I don't want to create a large number of freaks in the laboratory." Shen Manhua answered this question.
Fan Wubing didn't say anything about this. In fact, he was also somewhat disgusted with the issue of animal genetic modification. Shen Manhua made this move. It coincided with his idea, but for a scientific experiment, one was given up. The research in this area is indeed a pity.
But think about it, if plant-based genetic modification projects and animal-based genetic modification projects are carried out at the same time, the financial investment will be even greater, at least three times the current investment. It is indeed a bit expensive to spend such a large amount of money on cultivating freaks. It makes people hesitate.
Fan Wubing’s final thoughts. It is also an all-out effort to research the plant-based transgenic project. It would be best if we concentrate our superior forces to attack one area and achieve breakthrough progress in the shortest possible time.
In the past few years, Shen Manhua has made some great achievements here, especially in the research on genetically modified cotton seeds, which has made breakthrough progress.
When talking about genetically modified cotton, one must mention Guo Sandui, a researcher at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences who has made the most achievements in insect-resistant cotton in China. Before he developed insect-resistant cotton, the domestic cotton seed market had been monopolized by the American company Monsanto. of. Later, his insect-resistant cotton seeds quickly changed this situation. Although there is still a market for the genetically modified cotton seeds of the American Monsanto Company, it is already declining, and its market share is constantly being compressed.
The development direction of the genetically modified cotton seeds developed by Fanshi Investment Group, in addition to insect resistance, focuses on the generation of heterochromatic fibers.
"In fact, what this means is that after cotton grows, it is no longer the same white color, but produces various colors according to our needs, and the color difference can be controlled within a small range." Shen Manhua He explained to Huiqi, then glanced at Fan Wubing and said, "This is also a problem that Mr. Fan personally told us to focus on overcoming."
"Colored cotton will grow automatically?" Zhang Qi asked excitedly after hearing this, "Doesn't that mean there is no need for dyeing? Can colorful cotton threads be produced directly?"
Shen Manhua smiled and nodded. "Yes, we thought it was a bit unbelievable at first, but experiments have proved that this idea is indeed feasible, and now we have obtained some satisfactory sample genes in cutting-edge laboratories."
Seeing that Zhang Qi was very interested, Shen Manhua agreed to take her to the laboratory to look at sample cotton.
The security level of the laboratory is very high. Not only does it need to pass identity verification, but it also needs to pass several doorman inspections. The identity of the visitor is backed up in the computer system before entering a room in the colorful cotton genetically modified project research room. As expected, thousands of colored cotton plants are planted here. You can see red, blue, yellow and purple cotton, but some colors cannot meet the requirements of researchers in terms of chroma.
"There really are colorful cottons!" Zhang Zhang
"Naturally grown colored cotton is obviously more environmentally friendly than cotton dyed with pigments. However, from the perspective of genetic modification, we have not yet come to a very clear opinion. Is it good or bad?" Shen Manhua Said aside, "So now we are only strictly controlling their growth in the laboratory, just because we are worried about affecting other crops. We will not consider officially launching this variety until the morbidity or toxicity tests are completely passed."
Fan Wubing was very interested in this colored cotton variety, otherwise he would not have specifically asked to conduct research on this project before.
Some naturally grown cotton is dark brown when picked. In fact, American Indian farmers are very familiar with cotton that is not naturally white, but all these brown cottons that are native to America have fibers that are too short to be machine-made into yarn for commercial use.
After discovering these cottons, American botanist Sally Fox developed a strong interest in colored cotton. She patiently cultivated cotton varieties with darker and darker colors, selecting those with fiber length and strength sufficient to be made into fabrics for making clothes, sheets, towels and gloves. Ten years ago, she founded the Natural Cotton Color Company to sell cotton of various colors.
The varieties currently sold by the company include reddish brown, tan and olive green cotton fabrics.
Because colored cotton is not treated with any of the harsh dyes used in traditional cotton processing, colored cotton can almost eliminate all environmental hazards associated with textile production.
These colored cottons also have a unique but still unexplained characteristic. Their color will deepen after the first twenty to thirty times of machine washing, and then return to the color in the cotton field, but will never become lighter than the original color.
In fact, China began to study and develop colored cotton breeding six years ago, and has now bred colored cotton in colors such as black, green, yellow, red, and purple. It is in a leading position in the improvement of international colored cotton varieties. Two of its strains have been used for field production and product development since the year before last, but they are not very successful at this time and have not been widely used in actual commercial production.
However, considering that the colored cotton varieties of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences are not yet mature, Fan Wubing is worried that their patent issues will affect the actual application and raise the production cost too high, so he decided to go it alone. After all, it is easier to start research on transgenic technology in this area, and the market prospects are better.
In addition, he also has a large production base in Xinjiang, so Fan Wubing chose this project as a breakthrough in transgenic technology. Now it seems to be relatively successful. At most in two years, I believe that the colored cotton project can be launched on the market in large quantities.
Xinjiang has a sparse population and vast land, and has natural barriers that can erect wide isolation belts for colored cotton of different colors, which is very suitable for the display of colored cotton. With the help of this unique natural environment, Fan's Investment Group can easily enter the field of colored cotton. In addition, a number of new varieties with excellent quality and bright colors have been cultivated. It is easy to pass the colored cotton seed certification of the Ministry of Agriculture and obtain the colored cotton seed patent.
In addition, Fan's Investment Group itself has a planting base and actually controlled cotton mills and wool mills, so it is very convenient to produce and process small colored cotton products. It is easy to establish a colored cotton industry chain integrating scientific research, planting, processing and sales, which can not only recover all investments in a short time, but also hope to obtain huge profits.
At present, the research center is conducting stable genetic research on new varieties such as blue, red, and duck egg cyan, and research on colored cotton resistance to cotton aphids and bollworms, striving to make colored cotton rich in color and better in quality.
Of course, among various research projects. Fan Wubing is most concerned about the soybean genetic modification project.
As the largest application in the future. As for the genetically modified project that has the greatest impact on people's daily lives, Fan Wubing asked Shen Manhua to have enough patience and invest enough funds in the soybean genetically modified project. Once this project can make substantial progress, it will not be so easy for foreign genetically modified soybeans to enter the Chinese market.
At least Fan Wubing's idea is very clear. If the government relaxes the restrictions on genetically modified foods, it is better to save money for himself than to let foreigners make money. Anyway, it costs money, and the fat water should not flow to outsiders. At least he will conduct group research very seriously and will not maliciously add any gene fragments of uncertain function to the seeds.
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