Fu Song didn't know, so he shook his head: "Why?"

Song Xinming pointed to his head: "I can't figure it out here, and I can't do it even if I have any skills. My eyelids are too shallow!"

Fu Song was curious about him and asked quickly: "What do you say?"

Song Xinming said: "Those old orchards are nearly twenty years short and thirty or forty years long. They are all old varieties, such as Daguoguang, Xiaoguoguang, Green Banana, Red Banana, Marshal Huang, Autumn Flower Skin, and Red Jade. Although the yield is high, the potential is basically over. If I contracted the old orchard, I will graft the new varieties immediately. Red Fuji is good. The technicians at the agricultural technology station said that Red Fuji has high yields, easy storage, good sales, and high prices. If the grafting this winter and the management can keep up, it will bear fruit next year and a bumper harvest year after year. I would bet that if they are guarding one acre of three-point land without any progress, I would bet that they will have to catch up in a few years."

"Okay, third brother-in-law! You can only go far when you are safe. I'll be relieved if you think so." Fu Song gave him a thumbs up.

After Song Xinming's reminder, Fu Song suddenly realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding before.

In the 1980s, the apple varieties with a larger planting area in Mucheng area were not Hong Fuji, but local varieties such as Guoguang and Jinshuai. It was not until the 1990s that Hong Fuji became the main apple varieties in Mucheng area.

In addition, due to backward management technology, the output cannot be compared with ten years later.

Song Xinming waved his hand: "I'm thinking about it myself, I'm embarrassed to praise you."

Fu Song didn't think that Song Xinming was just thinking about it, and this third brother-in-law was very capable.

In the previous life, Song Xinming first started planting apples, then peach trees, later planting cherries, that is, big cherries, and later planting strawberries in greenhouses.

When the policy was relaxed and land was transferred, I went to Hebei to rent 100 acres of land and supply it to the nearby capital.

It can be said that Song Xinming is full of energy and has a good vision. He is very good at seizing the opportunity and always enters the new industry by stepping on the point.

Fu Song asked again: "How much did Hong Fuji buy last year? How much did he make?"

"A pound of 46 cents, and gross income is about 600 yuan. As for the net profit, I just made a return."

"46 cents? I have to buy a pound of red Fuji in Mucheng for one pound, four, and five cents. This is too dark."

"Normal, there is no way to do this. The cost of transportation, storage, preservation, and sales channels must be calculated." Although Song Xinming only graduated from junior high school, it does not mean that he is a rude man and is a clean and clear person in the fruit industry.

"Are you going out to find sales or waiting for someone to come and buy it?"

Song Xinming smiled bitterly and said, "It would be fine if I had a way, but I couldn't get it out even if I had a way. I could only wait at home to buy it, so the price was decided by others."

Fu Song suddenly remembered something and asked: "How much are the prices of apples of different levels?"

Song Xinming was stunned for a moment, looking confused: "What are the different levels?"

No, is it that Apple is not classified now? You are so stupid!

"It is to classify the size, weight, and appearance. To put it simply, the bigger and heavier the more you have, the brighter the color, the more damaged the appearance, the higher the grade, and of course the more expensive it sells."

Song Xinming's eyes widened: "Three, aren't you fooling me? Why have I never heard of it?"

Fu Song said laughing and cryingly: "What am I doing? Fruit classification has been available abroad for a long time. The higher the grade, the more expensive it is. You won't all sell it together, right? Then you will lose a lot. You can even select twenty or thirty high-level ones from one hundred. The price of these twenty or thirty is often more than selling it with 100 kilograms."

Song Xinming was so distressed that he almost cried: "Why didn't you say it earlier? Oh, I'm so sorry! If I hadn't heard you, I wouldn't have known it!"

Fu Song rolled his eyes. I only knew about it after the 1990s in my previous life. If it weren't before, I would have known it much as you!

"Also, I just saw a lot of fruits with insect eyes, and some of them were pecked by birds. I'll give you a trick and put a bag on it."

"Bag?"

"Well, you can put a transparent plastic bag or a paper bag. You can also put a layer of medicine on the inner wall of the bag to prevent pests and diseases. It seems that putting a bag can make the fruit grow bigger. As for the principle, I don't know it. They all read it in the book, and I don't know whether it is true or false. If you are interested, why not go to the county's agricultural technology station to consult and seek technical help."

Song Xinming nodded like a chicken pecking at the rice: "Okay, okay, it's too late today, I'll go tomorrow morning."

After saying goodbye to Song Xinming, Fu Song started an in-depth investigation alone.

Thanks to his work permit, those who didn't want to pay attention to him saw that he was a university teacher, and when they heard that he was engaged in academic research, they suddenly felt unaware of it. Facing Fu Song's inquiry, they knew everything.

After nearly a month of investigation, Fu Song found that the apple planting area in Ying County and Nanping County has become a considerable scale, among which old orchards account for less than one-quarter. Three-quarters of the apple orchards are newly developed, most of which were only launched last year and this year.

Among these new orchards, 80% were converted from arable land, and many of them were irrigated land with higher yields per mu.

In just a few years, the planting structures of the two counties have undergone earth-shaking changes. If it weren't for seeing them with your own eyes, Fu Song wouldn't believe it.

This year, the weather has been good, there is not much rain and plenty of sunshine after entering summer, and the apple harvest in autumn is a foregone conclusion.

But Fu Song was not happy. He suddenly remembered Ye Shengtao's "Crossing Three or Five Dolls More". Increased production and harvest did not mean increased income.

Although only two counties were investigated, Fu Song could imagine the problems in the apple cultivation industry in the entire Mucheng area, such as aging varieties and serious homogeneity, backward management technology, unstable market, and completely dependent on the market conditions, and extremely poor risk resistance.

Not only that, during the investigation, Fu Song also found that the blind development of economic crops, especially apple planting in Mucheng area, has had a great impact on the existing agricultural production structure. More and more arable land has shifted from grain planting to cash crop planting. Perhaps it will not take long before the overall grain yield reduction problem will arise.

For this reason, Fu Song also specially found many village cadres to understand the situation, and found some things from their unclear words.

Since Mucheng implemented the family contract responsibility system in 1982, the country has greatly increased the purchase price of grain and implemented the method of unified purchase and over-purchase price increase and subsidy for production means, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of farmers. Grain production and harvest year by year. By 1984 last year, the problem of difficulty in selling grain occurred for the first time. Therefore, starting from the beginning of this year, the unified purchase of grain was changed to contract ordering.

The so-called contract order price is the "reverse 37" price, that is, 30% is based on the original unified purchase price, and 70% is based on the original over-purchase price, which is lower than the original unified purchase price plus the over-purchase price. In this way, farmers' income will be greatly reduced compared with the previous one. At the same time, subsidies for means of production are cancelled, which will increase production costs.

Costs and benefits increased and decreased, and the benefits of growing grains greatly decreased, which damaged farmers' enthusiasm for investment. As a result, farmers reduced the area of ​​grain planting and reduced grain fields, which on the contrary greatly increased the planting area of ​​cash crops.
Chapter completed!