Chapter 648 High-Quality Rice Seeds
Tan Qi saw that it was inconvenient for Teacher Wang, who only had one hand, to plant rice seedlings, so she immediately carried half a basket of rice seedlings into the water and came to her side, "Teacher Wang, I'll pass you the rice seedlings. If you're tired, I'll plant the rice seedlings. You help me hold the rice seedlings."
"Okay." Zhao's mother took the rice seedlings from Tan Qi with a smile, and worked while explaining the techniques of planting rice seedlings to her.
Not long after, Shi Du and Shi's mother also came to Territory No. 3. Watching the two people walk in, Tang Huai was very sure that Xia Qing secretly created a group and didn't bring him to play together, and he angrily poked several fat white grubs to death.
Qi Fu and his wife didn't come because they had to help Territory No. 6 plant rice seedlings. The members of the Territory Alliance helped each other, and in less than half a day, the rice seedlings of each territory were planted.
They were the first batch of rice planted in this territory. Not only was it earlier than the ordinary territories that handed over the rice seeds to the Territory Management Department for seedling cultivation, but it was also faster than Territories No. 1 and No. 12, which cultivated their own seedlings.
Although they are not able to build a standardized greenhouse, their alliance has hidden valleys and can rent Yishi, which is a unique condition for raising rice seedlings. There are technical masters in their alliance. After learning the raising technology from Territory No. 7, their rice seedlings grow healthy and strong.
In addition, they have high-quality rice seeds!
The lords of No. 4 and No. 10 looked at the rice seedlings with more normal leaf color in Territory No. 3 with smiles on their faces and hope in their hearts. Because after the rice planted by Xia Qing is harvested, they can exchange seeds with her and plant this high-quality rice with higher stability in their own territories.
When the rice is harvested, they can sell more points and eat healthier food.
Lord No. 15 Tan Qi didn't know what everyone was laughing at, but she was also very happy. She was very happy every time she came to see Xia Qing. Because she was full of energy when she saw Xia Qing.
Just like what her father said, as long as she is willing to work hard and be attentive, she can become an excellent lord like Sister Xia Qing.
The bare water surface just now has rows of green rice seedlings planted, and Xia Qing felt so relieved.
After sending away the allies who came to help, she picked up the only three baskets of green rice seedlings and walked towards the terraced fields.
The rice seedlings that the allies helped to plant just now were the 40 kilograms of J-2 yellow rice seeds exchanged with the third brother and the 2.5 kilograms of LD-8 yellow rice seeds compensated by the Fiery Team. A total of two and a half acres were planted.
The rice seedlings bred from the more than two kilograms of green rice she harvested last year will be planted in the terraced fields to cultivate better quality rice seeds.
Even if better quality cannot be cultivated, the quality of these green rice can be guaranteed to not be reduced by relying on high-quality element soil and pollution-free spring water.
The content of the toxic element in this batch of J-2 green rice seedlings is still 4.7‰, the same as when the rice seeds were harvested in late autumn last year.
What does this mean? This shows that the quality of the seedlings in the Hidden Valley is very high, and that the stability of the J-2 rice cultivated by the idol's scientific research team is also very high!
Not bad.
The 100 green-light rice plants that Xia Qing exchanged with the idol in June last year, and the 40 kilograms of yellow-light rice that he exchanged with the idol last winter, are all J-2.
In short, the J-2 yellow-light rice seeds harvested in the late autumn in Territory No. 7, with a content of more than 6 parts per thousand of the toxic element, were planted with the J-2 green-light rice seeds cultivated in the spring.
For the area where Xia Qing is located, the biggest difference between planting crops during the natural disaster years and before the natural disaster is the toxic elements in the atmosphere, soil, and water sources.
The toxic elements will be absorbed by the growing crops. If the crops have poor resistance to the toxic elements, the toxic element content in the plants will continue to increase. This results in a drop in the quality of the crops for each crop planted.
For example, the green rice with a toxic element content of 4.7‰ harvested in the summer of Territory No. 7 will be yellow rice with a toxic element content of more than 6‰ when it is harvested in autumn after sowing and raising seedlings.
As for the yellow rice with a toxic element content of more than 6‰ that Xia Qing just planted in the open air in the cultivated land, it remains to be verified how much the toxic element content will be when it is harvested in late summer.
Idol said that the stability of this batch of yellow rice planted in the open air is three generations. That is to say, when the third crop is harvested, the toxic element content of most rice will increase to 13-15‰. According to this value, the toxic element content of most of the yellow rice harvested by Xia Qing in late summer this year should be around 9‰.
Three generations of stability is already a seed of quite good quality.
What does rice with low stability look like?
For example, Xia Qing received 400 yellow-light rice H-14 plants with a toxic element content of 10‰ from the Territory Management Department in early July last year, but only 260 yellow-light rice plants with a toxic element content below 13-15‰ were harvested in the fall.
Rice seeds with such a high toxic element content can only be eaten and cannot be saved for seed. Because if they are planted and harvested again, most of them will become red-light rice.
The other 140 of the 400 rice plants either evolved in the toxic rain or had an increased toxic element content, becoming red-light rice that cannot be eaten directly and can only be sold to Zhong Tao at a low price. Zhong Tao will send these red-light grains to the food processing plant in the safe zone. After removing the excess toxic elements, the processing plant will process the grain into food that can be eaten by humans. Most of the nutrients contained in this food have been destroyed.
In other words, the H-14 rice seedlings that Xia Qing exchanged from the Territory Management Department are only stable for one generation for her.
Not only her, but other lords are in the same situation.
So the lack of high-quality seeds is the biggest obstacle that restricts the lords from expanding the area of crop planting. If China wants to stop the people from eating grass-made rations, it must overcome this difficulty.
The lords who make a living by farming naturally joined the team to overcome this difficulty because they have an urgent need for high-quality seeds.
After Xia Qing planted the J-2 green-light rice seedlings with a toxic element content of 4.7‰, she carefully took the last five green-light rice seedlings tied with red lines out of the basket and planted them in the terraced fields.
The variety of these five rice seedlings is BS-6 with a toxic element content of 4.3‰.
"BS" is the abbreviation of Bai San. This is the rice seed that she found in the 400 kilograms of green-light rice grains exchanged from the Bai San base through Yang Jin. It is a rice seed that has not been husked in the rice.
When the rice seeds are husked into rice, the rice germ is destroyed and cannot develop into a plant again.
Xia Qing was able to find these ten unhulled rice seeds. In addition to thanking the workers at the rice planting center of Bai San Base for not strictly screening and checking, she also had to thank Bai San's hulling machine for its poor quality, which failed to completely remove the rice husks.
The rice hulling machine they are using now is probably produced before the natural disaster.
After planting the last few rice seedlings that she had high hopes for, Xia Qing went home to take a shower, wash off the mud on her protective clothing, change into clean clothes, and take out three pounds of green light ribs from the refrigerator. She went to visit her idol in Territory No. 7 to discuss important matters. (End of this chapter)