frightfiction Chapter 357 Plant Experiment
Chapter 357 Plant Experiment
Tang Qiu was amused by Li Yiyang's exaggerated expression: "You are exaggerating. Besides, you don't have a girlfriend, why do you go to bed so late in the middle of the night?"
Li Yiyang looked at Tang Qiu speechlessly: "Who said that you have to stay up late if you have a girlfriend? Do you think I live like an old cadre like Yan Jingqi? We young people naturally have our own lifestyle!"
Tang Qiu shrugged: "You are just free. It seems that there is too little work every day, so you have time to stay up at night."
Li Yiyang looked at Tang Qiu warily: "What do you want to do?"
Tang Qiu smiled and said, "The Agricultural University has been researching new planting techniques recently. I'm very interested in them. So, I'll leave my class to you, the dean, from now on."
Li Yiyang was speechless: "No, you didn't come for a whole month in October. You only have a few days of work a month. You can't spare the time?"
Tang Qiu nodded: "I might as well talk to Xiao Zhang directly and ask him not to arrange my work. According to the current time, after the technical research is completed, it will be almost winter vacation. I will go home for the New Year this year. I really don’t have much time to spend in the clinic. Dean Li, you were idle before and had no time to sleep, but now you are busy and have no time to sleep."
Li Yiyang looked at Tang Qiu and laughed out of anger.
But Tang Qiu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Do a good job! I'm going to pick up the kids from school."
After saying that, he took the children's pick-up passes from Li Yiyang and left.
Li Yiyang had no choice but to watch Tang Qiu leave.
Fortunately, since the clinic opened, the reputation of the Affiliated Chinese Medicine Hospital of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has spread. Now many people come here to visit, and even if Tang Qiu is not there to keep the place in check, the impact on the clinic is not that great.
Tang Qiu was not joking. It was Dr. Yan who called him specifically to ask Tang Qiu to participate in this research.
Dr. Yan has been at Tang Qiu's house for more than two years. Whether it is the vegetables and fruits grown by Tang Qiu's family or the vegetables in the village, Dr. Yan will go to investigate and study them whenever he has time.
He found that the vegetables and fruits grown by Tang Qiu restored the original taste of food, which was completely different from the food produced by hormones. However, the yield was not lower than those foods.
Dr. Yan has long been envious of this planting technology. However, the conditions for this planting are too harsh. Watering and medicinal materials are indispensable, making it not suitable for popularization at all.
Therefore, he wanted Tang Qiu to research a crop that was more efficient, healthier and better for the human body.
Tang Qiu didn't dare to promise this before, but with space, this may not be impossible. However, these things require farmland for experiments. Tang Qiu thought of the experimental fields of the Agricultural University and simply went to the Agricultural University to apply.
Unexpectedly, as a student of the veterinary department, she was actually able to apply for the experimental field of the plant department.
She used to farm casually, following the method of growing medicinal herbs. Now that she has agreed, she will study these crops from the fundamentals.
Originally, Tang Qiu wanted to make drastic changes, but after she did some research, she found that such changes were not suitable for China today.
Nowadays, most people just want to have enough food and clothing. They don’t care whether the plants are healthier, but they care whether they can produce more food and sell it for more money.
Is it because they don't care? It's because they need the money more.
It is already difficult for ordinary people to keep up with the pace of society. It is an unwise choice for them to popularize healthier products with similar output but obviously more investment.
Therefore, even if Tang Qiu developed such a planting technology, it would not be popularized. This is the reality.
Therefore, instead of working hard to reform the land and optimize planting, it is better to develop a fertilizer that is more suitable for Chinese farming on this basis.
It can increase the yield of crops and reduce the capital investment of crops. At the same time, the crops are also healthier.
So, Tang Qiu divided the experimental field into several parts and started conducting experiments.
First of all, she divided the fields into five large areas, using fields without fertilizer, fields with farmyard manure, common fertilizers on the market, medicinal powder made from medicinal herbs she researched herself, and fields with medicinal powder mixed with ringo fruit powder.
Then, each plot was divided into four types: direct planting, soaking in commercially available pesticides, soaking in Chinese medicinal materials, and soaking in ringo fruit powder. Spinach was planted on each of the five plots of land.
Because it is already late autumn and the weather has become much cooler, Tang Qiu did not cover Dapeng, but instead added data to study the frost resistance of crops.
Every day, Tang Qiu observes these data on this land.
Spinach itself is very cold-resistant. Even if it is only watered but not fertilized, the spinach will grow well. However, it is naturally worse than other plants.
Tang Qiu made a table, including statistics on germination rate, cost, later survival rate, survival rate, and pest rate.
After half a month, the harvest from the fields that were not fertilized in advance was naturally worse.
The ones that grew the best were naturally the ones that had ringfruit powder added. However, Tang Qiu did not write down this data when she did the experiment. She was just curious about the effects of the ringfruit ingredients and had no intention of promoting this idea.
What Tang Qiu didn't expect was that the effects of chemical fertilizer and Chinese medicine powder were not much different. Moreover, chemical fertilizer was obviously cheaper than Chinese medicine powder. A month later, when the spinach was harvested, Tang Qiu took the spinach grown with chemical fertilizer and Chinese medicine powder to the laboratory.
The inspection data showed that spinach with Chinese medicine powder had no chemical residues and was naturally better.
Such experimental results did not make Tang Qiu happy, because she had reached a bottleneck.
If you want to reduce costs, you can either combine Chinese medicinal materials with pesticides or combine chemical fertilizers with Chinese medicine. Although this will reduce chemical residues, the overall effect is greatly reduced.
This is not what Tang Qiu wants to see.
So Tang Qiu sealed the data, she felt that she didn't understand it thoroughly enough, so she simply started to study the current crop planting.
In this research, Tang Qiuzhen found something different.
It turns out that not only vegetables, but other plants also need to be fertilized, weeded and pest-controlled.
Tang Qiu only calculated the cost of fertilizer, but did not add these expenses.
Although Tang Qiu's Chinese medicine powder has a high one-time cost, it can reduce the insect resistance of plants and the growth of weeds, thereby reducing costs.
Thinking of this, Tang Qiu regained hope.
However, because the weather is getting cooler now, these data can only be studied next year.
Tang Qiu looked at the large field of vegetables. After collecting the spinach with ringfruit powder and destroying the field, he handed over the remaining spinach to the school cafeteria.