Super Ranch: Brothers come to Africa to farm

Chapter 468 Special saffron!
With such an incident, Wang Lu also decided to allocate some manpower to harvest these tobacco fields first. Anyway, the harvesting of sisal fields has also entered the final stage, and there is no rush at this moment. At least the harvest can be completed before the rainy season arrives.

And these tobacco fields must be harvested before the rainy season. Otherwise, when it rains almost every day in the local rainy season, the tobacco leaves that have absorbed the rainwater will turn yellow even if they have absorbed enough water. If it turns green again, if you want to harvest it again, you have to wait until it turns yellow again, which will be troublesome.

Therefore, generally when planting tobacco leaves, if there is a shower after the tobacco leaves have matured and turned yellow, it is basically necessary to organize an emergency harvest to avoid turning green again.

This also saves my father and father-in-law from rolling cigarettes all day long. It’s hard for me to say that they can only cut off the source of their raw materials.

As for the purchaser of these tobacco leaves, it is naturally the Agricultural Reclamation Group.

Of course, the Nongken Group itself does not have tobacco business, but it is a large state-owned enterprise after all, and its brother units can also be talked to. In addition, Wang Lu's special status, so it was easy to contact the domestic China Tobacco Group, and All the tobacco grown by Wang Lu was rounded.

As for transportation, just go with the Farm Reclamation Group. The sisal has to be transported back to the country anyway.

Soon a large number of people gathered in the tobacco field to pick all the yellowed tobacco leaves and send them directly to the baking room for drying.

These drying rooms were also built by Wang Lu after he decided to grow tobacco leaves. Local tobacco farmers basically use wood burning to dry tobacco, which not only consumes a lot of wood, but is also inefficient.

Wang Lu's drying room uses a professional high-temperature oven, which will not cut down a large amount of forest to provide drying fuel, and is more efficient.

Wang Lu's father and father-in-law saw that only the green tobacco leaves were left in the tobacco field, and they could only look at each other helplessly. Now the source of happiness for the two brothers was completely taken away by Wang Lu. !

In addition to the tobacco fields, the saffron planted in the Woulu Mountains is also fully mature.

Wang Lu specially harvested some and dried them, and gave them to his mother-in-law and mother to soak in water for daily drinking. The benefits of this stuff to women are self-evident, especially since Zhou Rou had gone through a childbirth and her energy and blood were somewhat depleted. , saffron can just replenish her.

Harvesting in tobacco fields takes several rounds, and sometimes it takes several days before the next batch of tobacco leaves officially turns yellow. During this period, manpower can be organized to harvest the saffron.

Wang Lu looked at the saffron in full bloom on the mountaintop, which was completely a sea of ​​purple, and he couldn't hide the joy in his eyes.

Especially when Wang Lu squatted down, picked a saffron plant, put it in his hand and observed it carefully, Professor Zhao who was accompanying him said excitedly:

"These are all special-grade saffron that are all red and have no yellow roots. They have the highest economic value. They are all found on this mountain. Even in the place of origin, the special-grade rate of these saffrons is not so high. It is simply unbelievable. !" Seeing the excitement of Professor Zhao, the expert, Wang Lu also hurriedly observed. Sure enough, the most valuable stamens among the purple petals of saffron were basically all red. Except for the three orange-red stamens, the other pistils Basically, everything is as Professor Zhao said, no yellow roots!

You know, for ordinary saffron, it is considered good if you can find one or two stamens that are all red and have no yellow roots in one plant, so this kind of saffron is classified as a special grade.

However, Wang Lu randomly selected a few samples from the hilltop covered with saffron, and found that almost all of the pistils of these saffron plants were of the highest quality, and there were very few second-rate ones.

You must know that the price of these special-grade saffron in China can be as high as [-] kilograms!
The value that the special-grade saffron produced from the saffron in several surrounding hills can create for Wang Lu is enough to imagine!
Because the land in the pasture has basically been systematically transformed, these saffrons are not only of high quality, but also of high yield. The stamens that can actually be used in one acre of saffron can produce one kilogram. Even in the place of origin, this The number is only 0.9 kilograms at most, and the lower output is only 0.5 kilograms, which is not enough.

Because only the stamens of saffron can be used as medicine, the annual output in the world is only about 250 tons. Wang Lu roughly estimated that he would have two to three hundred acres of land in these hills.

Even after deducting costs, etc., these saffron can bring in more than 1000 million yuan in revenue.

It may not seem like much, but if compared to the income of only 4000 yuan per acre of sisal land, it is already ten times as much. This is quite scary. One acre of land can produce crops worth tens of thousands of yuan. ··
As long as Wang Lu expands the scale of planting in the future, it will also become a stable source of income for the ranch.

After these saffrons are picked and dried, they will also be purchased by some domestic traditional Chinese medicine companies. After all, the saffron produced in Wanglu Ranch was originally tested by the laboratory, and it is rich in active ingredients that are almost the same as those of saffron from the place of origin. Exactly the same, even the content is much higher.

Of course, domestic Chinese medicine companies that have grown these products should also conduct certain tests, but Wang Lu believes that the data will not be too different. After all, there is a bug in the system, and there is no such thing as an accident.

At least my mother-in-law, my mother, and Zhou Rou, a new mother who has only given birth for half a year, all said that after drinking the saffron soaked water cultivated in their own pasture, the effect was good, and at least their overall strength seemed to be sufficient. Quite a bit, and my spirit is much better. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, this is a symptom that should occur after Qi and blood are replenished.

Zhou Rou even recommended these saffrons to Princess Kate, and brought some saffron into the daily necessities provided for the royal family. A few days later, Princess Kate also wrote a special letter, exclaiming the miraculous curative effects of these saffrons, hoping that Zhou Rou can provide more saffron next time, and she even included it in the royal family's purchase list.

Wang Lu also received an email from Crown Prince William.

Wang Lu clicked on His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's email with some confusion. Could it be that he hoped to supply more saffron?Didn't Princess Kate already say this? There's no need to look for her again?

(End of this chapter)