The graphene separators and films were all produced in factories in the New Malaysia Special District. The more advanced ones were directly produced by industrial-grade 3D printers.
They were busy until early July. Half of the 400,000 acres of seabed planting area was developed, and tens of thousands of seabed planting units were laid on the seabed with a depth of 100 meters. Through the thin and strong graphene film, rows of emerald green plants could be seen in the culture tank. They were thriving under the weak LED light source.
A total of ten offshore platforms were distributed in the area. Each platform had twelve staff members and two Celestial Trade bodyguards responsible for security. Each offshore platform had to manage thousands of planting units. It seemed a bit difficult, but in fact, it was not.
A series of work such as watering, fertilizing, sowing, changing the soil in the culture tank, and so on could be automatically completed by the planting units. Only in a few emergencies would staff be required to enter the water with submersibles.
The surrounding waters became an oxygen-rich environment for the growth of fish because of the oxygen emitted by these planting units. In order not to waste such an excellent fishery, Jiang Chen planned the area above the planting area as a marine fishery. He built a floating breeding base to raise sardines, salmon, cod, and lobsters and other common species in the seafood market, while producing fish oil and other by-products.
Because of the oxygen-rich environment, the growth of these fry was much faster than those raised in the wild. The meat would be more delicious, and it was easier to accumulate fat.
In addition, the feces of these fish could also be collected through special equipment as a natural organic fertilizer!
Farms and fisheries complemented each other, which was the so-called circular agriculture.
As soon as mid-August this year, vegetables produced in Xin could be seen in the farmers' market. And by the end of this year at the latest, Xin's food market would reverse the situation of zero exports and turn from a major food importer to a granary on the Pacific Ocean!
Cargill doesn't sell farms?
[Ha, I don't care!]
However, for such a situation, Australia's SunRice was not so happy to see it happen.
SunRice, which monopolized the entire Australian rice market and more than half of the agricultural market, only had competitors in Asia, Thailand and Vietnam. However, now a new marine farmer had emerged and started to grow vegetables on the seabed. This was obviously not a good start.
Originally, they were quite optimistic about Xin's farm product market. After all, Xin's arable land area was not proportional to its population, and its ability to withstand the price fluctuations in the global food market was almost zero. However, now, Xin used this shocking method to get rid of its dependence on Australia's agricultural products, which was unacceptable to the senior executives of SunRice.
Just as Xin Ocean Agriculture announced the construction of fisheries above the submarine farms and the implementation of "three-dimensional agriculture", Cargill held a board meeting to discuss countermeasures for the changes in the Asian farmers' market.
Since the start of the meeting, there had been endless arguments at the conference table. The shareholders of Cargill were very complicated. Although there were only one or two real decision-makers, this kind of meeting couldn't exclude qualified shareholders.
"It's not just a submarine farm. I heard that they plan to build a submarine ranch!"
"Are these monkeys peeling coconuts on the island planning to turn the entire shallow waters of the western Pacific Ocean into farmland?"
"We must think of a way to stop them!"
"But Xin is a country, we can't convince the Congress to interfere with them, right?"
"What resources are available to us?"
"USDA? The level is not enough! "
"Use dumping! We can crush their submarine farms with low-priced food! "A shareholder knocked on the table with his knuckles and shouted.
"It's difficult! If Future Group is determined to enter the agricultural market, they won't care about losing money at all! With their financial resources and influence, they are at least at the same level as the B City Consortium … "
At this point in the meeting, it unexpectedly quieted down.
Yes, Future Group was also at the same level as the B City Consortium. Although the four major companies in A, B, C, and D all had the shadow of consortium investing behind them, Cargill was a privatized company, and its main assets were in Asia. Its interest relationship with the major consortia was not so close, and its market value was only between 40 and 50 billion US Dollar.
Fighting a price war with Future Group with a market value of more than hundreds of billions, wasn't it asking for trouble?
Even if they were in the high-tech industry, and the market value was somewhat inflated, no bank would be willing to refuse such a big player if they casually took out some assets as collateral. Unless the UA government felt it was necessary to intervene, they would not be able to go to Future Group themselves as it would be asking for trouble.
The CEO of Cargill put his arm on the table, and his fingers repeatedly rubbed his sore brows.
If he knew this would happen, he would have sold the 400,000 acres of farm! Anyway, the northern part of Australia wasn't fertile land. The fertile land was concentrated in the east and south. Now, if Xin entered the food market, their market share in Asia would be cut off.
Submarine farms?
The territorial sea area of Xin was too frightening, and the area of cultivated land on the seabed left too much room for people's imagination.
…
"Yesterday morning, we received a notice from the United Nations Marine Protection Organization. Greenpeace sued us, arguing that our work on the seabed has seriously affected and damaged the ecological environment of the Pacific. A professor at the School of Biological Research at Columbia University supported this view, claiming that according to the analysis of the mathematical model he established, the 400,000 acres of seabed arable land may completely change the living habits of local fish, thus causing a large-scale marine ecological disaster. "
"In addition, Greenpeace held a demonstration in front of the Xin Embassy in the UA State of California and played a marine protection documentary on an iPad to protest the Xin government's contempt for nature."
In the presidential palace, Zhang Yaping faced the secretary's report with a headache.
"Greenpeace … where did Greenpeace come from?"
Greenpeace was initially a civil rights organization to oppose nuclear testing during the Cold War, but now it had evolved from non-violence to a model of anti-civilization organizations. As for why? In their eyes, from chemicals to genetically modified organisms, all industries were "devil elements" and must be eliminated; from Apple computers to canned tuna and mineral water bottles, they were all useless things that were poisonous and harmful for thousands of years.
Any country and organization would have a headache if they were entangled by these people.
Compared with the unknown Blue Dolphin International Organization that once entangled Future Group, Greenpeace was undoubtedly more organized and much more difficult to deal with. Now Greenpeace learned from the lessons of their "predecessors" and bypassed Future Group to directly pressure the Xin government.
Although it didn't hurt, it was still troublesome!
"This group of saints have nothing better to do. Don't they know that people in the world are still hungry?" Zhang Yaping slammed the document on the table and cursed angrily.
In fact, what he really wanted to scold was Jiang Chen. Every time something happened, he had to clean up after him.
After he calmed down, Zhang Yaping said to the secretary.
"Call my chief of staff. We have to hold a meeting on this."
"Yes!"
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