Chapter 162 [Opinions on Harvesting Grain]
After dinner, Bel Singh found the old housekeeper Jamal and discussed the plan to harvest the mature crops before the rainy season comes. When the rainy season comes, there will be a big rain for three days, a small rain for two days, and drizzle every day. The mature corn or wheat.
After being stained with rain, it needs to be spread out and dried on a large scale. If there is a grain of wheat or a corn that is not dried, it will be packed in a bag and sealed in the warehouse. Then congratulations, a week later, this bag of corn or wheat will heat up inside, and then rot and grow hair. These spoiled grains will make livestock sick.
What's more, eating these corrupt grains is equivalent to eating poison, and you will lose your skin if you don't die. Although more than 60% of the villagers in Lagar are working in Singh Industrial to make money, that is to say, 60% of the villagers have gotten rid of the life of relying on the weather for food and farming, although more than these Liangsheng crops are sold for money.
However, although India is a major grain-producing country, natural disasters occur frequently, and sometimes there will even be famine, and the price of grain is not cheap. Therefore, even if they don't farm, all the food produced will not be sold. Leaving the best food to feed the family for a year can save a lot of living expenses.
This is a necessary means of survival for a poor life, so food security is related to the safety of the entire village and the survival of the entire village. We can't be careless. Bel Singh personally came to the room where the old Jamal housekeeper lived. As soon as he entered the door, he saw something that the old housekeeper was recording on the desk.
Although the room is not big, it is fully furnished and has a lot of living facilities. It is also a sunny house, which is very suitable for the elderly to live in. Seeing that Master Singh actually came to his room, he must have something to do with him. The old housekeeper quickly put down the pen in his hand and stood up with a smile, invited Bel Singh to sit on the sofa, and then poured a cup of black tea himself, and then sat on the side and asked. "Master, you have something to do with me so early in the morning."
It's still early now. It's almost one o'clock in the afternoon. Think about it. It's still early at this time. You can imagine how terrible the habit of going to bed late and getting up late in India is. Belsinger took a sip of black tea, then frowned and looked at the black tea in the cup and said.
"Butler, this tea is not right? Why is it so bitter? Didn't I ask Lina to arrange that you drink the same black tea as I drink? How come there is not enough tea to drink?"
The old butler smiled, shook his head and said, "How can it not be enough? My share is one pound of black tea per month, which is enough for me, an old man. In addition to giving some to little Jamal, the rest is for me to collect. I can't bear to drink such good black tea."
What kind of words are these? One pound of tea per month, you can drink it freely every month, so there is no need to collect it. But the old butler Jamal is old, and he used to live a hard life. He is very frugal in life. This is the living habit of the elderly.
Let him go, so Belsinger didn't dwell on this issue too much, but frowned and asked Jamal butler. "Old housekeeper, the rainy season is coming soon, and the crops in the field are ripe. Should we organize people to harvest now? If these ripe crops are exposed to the rain, there will be great losses."
The old housekeeper looked at Belsinger with great satisfaction, and was very moved in his heart. The young master he raised with his own hands finally grew up. Knowing the importance of food and how important it is to preserve food, he nodded with great satisfaction and said with a smile.
"Yes, even if you didn't find me today, I would find you tomorrow to discuss the harvest of grain. But 60% of the adult men in our village work in Singer Industrial Group. If they come back to harvest grain, it will definitely delay the production of the factory."
"So I plan to do this, organize all the remaining adult men in the village, and help these families working in Singer Industrial Company to harvest for free. If they don't want to, let the families where these men work pay more or less. The most important thing is to collect the grain first."
Who disagrees? I will deal with them. We live in the same village and have been neighbors for hundreds of years. Seeing that the neighbor's man worked at Singh Industrial Company and couldn't go home to rush to harvest the grain, should he just stand by and watch? Seeing that the grain was destroyed by rain, and then deteriorated and moldy, this way of survival, which was what Bel Singh despised the most.
To put it in a younger way, it was selfishness. When you grow up, it means that he is happy when he sees others suffer losses and face difficulties. This is a perverted heart. We are all neighbors, and we all live in the same village. There are hundreds of people helping to harvest grain. What's the big deal? I want to see who dares to ask for it, and whoever asks for it, I will punish him? So Bel Singh shook his head very dissatisfied.
"We are all old neighbors, old relationships, living in the same village, we will see each other every day, and when we encounter difficulties, it is the old brothers of neighbors who help us. Still charging money, I want to see who dares to charge it, and I want to charge money for helping, so should I increase the tax? Really, I want to see who dares to charge, and I will punish him to death."
The old housekeeper Jamal knew exactly what kind of temper Master Singh had, and quickly changed the subject and asked with a smile. "Master, now that the road is built, after we harvest the grain, why don't we hire a truck to go to town and sell it directly in town? We don't need to store it in a warehouse. If it gets moldy and rots, we will be the ones who suffer the loss. I think it's more cost-effective to sell the grain immediately after it's harvested."
Belsinger smiled and shook his head and said, "I fully supported this in the past, but now the old housekeeper has a different approach. The breeding goats of the black goats raised on the hill behind our house, plus the ones brought by Lina, have more than a thousand breeding goats."
"The pregnancy rate has reached 98.7%. In addition, the black goats have a high reproduction rate and produce a large number of lambs. If we don't add protein and nutrition to these pregnant black goats during pregnancy, the lambs born will not be healthy. Yesterday I got another good news. The ten dromedaries were not three males and seven females, and six of them were successfully pregnant. In addition to the fattening sheep, I think the food we produce is good enough to be eaten, and it is impossible to sell it outside."
The old housekeeper smiled bitterly, patted his head, sighed and said, " It's old, the shepherd mentioned this to me a few days ago, how could I forget it. Now the number of breeding sheep has almost doubled, and the drought period of more than a month has put the grass into a dormant state. "
"It will take half a month after the rainy season for the growth to resume. Those pregnant black goats and dromedaries need food supply. It is also the time when nutrition is needed. It is still a problem whether the food that has been increased to eat so much food can be eaten, and of course it cannot be sold."
"Master, I will organize the remaining people in the village to harvest food in the afternoon. Don't worry, there are not so many other people in Lagar Village. It is impossible to help neighbors harvest food and charge them. "
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This is more like it. If someone charges and is caught, I will kill the chicken to scare the monkey. I will see who dares to charge at that time. It's not the same as being greedy for money, so Belsinger smiled and nodded and said.
"Well, you organize the remaining people to harvest the crops. Although it's free, we can't treat them unfairly. Let our family select a few eliminated breeding rams and slaughter them during the autumn harvest to replenish everyone's bodies and increase their physical strength."