Chapter 926： Machine plowing road

Chapter 926: Machine Plowing Road

Dodoma City, Lolingen Town.

“It’s a waste of good crops to be pushed away like this. If you put it in the Far East, it would be despised by others!”

Wang Weimo, an old farmer in East Africa, couldn't help but lament after watching the land he had worked hard for decades being bulldozed by everyone.

"Dad, you can't hold on to the old ideas. Our East Africa is different from other places in that we have a lot of land. I heard that the second largest country in the world is East Africa. This land is nothing to East Africa." Wang Weimod His son Wang Lun persuaded him on the side.

"What do you know, you little brat? You don't feel bad for selling your farmland. When I was in the Far East... your grandfather and grandma didn't starve to death, but they were pretty much the same. Now we can't waste it just because we have more crops! What kind of world is this? The second largest country, it can't delay the value of this land," Wang Weimo said, hating how iron cannot be transformed into steel.

This made Wang Lun people numb. He couldn't bear to hear his father talking about his life in the Far East. Although his father's life in the Far East Empire was indeed difficult, Wang Lun and other new generation East Africans had not experienced it, so those " "Hard" days are like a fantasy to Wang Lun.

Of course, when Wang Lun was a child, he might have loved listening to his father talk about life and legendary experiences in the Far East, but no matter how attractive the story was, he would have become tired of it after listening to it for more than ten years, not to mention the fact that it was mixed with preaching.

"Okay, dad, tell me you're tired! You drink some water first. It's not that I don't understand or don't cherish the crops. I also know that it's a pity that the crop fields are destroyed. But if our country wants to develop, we must adopt new technologies and new ideas. This The tractor-taught road must be repaired. If you think about how the small field ridge can be passed by something as big as a tractor, it will probably collapse as soon as it is pressed down."

Wang Weimo glanced at the "iron lump" in the distance and said disdainfully: "That tractor, isn't it for plowing? I don't think there may be cows to use it. It broke down within a week after arriving, and it was taken apart. It took me a long time to get it done, and I didn’t resist it at all.”

Wang Lun comforted him: "That's different, technology will improve. In the past, domestic tractors would break down in half a day and only repair them in one day. Later, it would break down only once every two or three days, and now it only breaks down every one or two weeks." Once a failure occurs, the progress is visible to the naked eye, and we may not encounter this situation again in the next few months, or even two or three years.”

From the time tractors began to be popularized in Mozambique to now, the performance of tractors in East Africa has been greatly improved. Under this premise, the East African government has begun to promote tractors in other agricultural areas.

“It’s not unreliable now. There are few people in our town who have seen tractors. Before, it was only people from the city who came to knock out the pile of scrap metal.” Wang Weimo dismissed his son’s excuse.

"Hey, everything has a process. A few years ago, we had electricity in our town. Didn't you say it was of no use? It's not so good now. The replacement of animal power by machinery is the general trend. I was born a few years ago, otherwise I would have read a book. , You see how smart we are, they can mess with electricity. The same is true for tractors. Not many people know about it now, but there will definitely be more in the future. "

These words have struck Wang Weimo’s heart. With the help of compulsory education in East Africa, a large number of “new youth” have been born in East Africa. Unlike their parents’ generation, they all have a certain culture and vision.

Of course, Wang Lun, the eldest son of King of the East Wind, Vimod, did not catch up with this trip, because he was born in the Far East and was already six years old when he first came to East Africa.

The age of six was actually not that old in East Africa at that time. The first batch of people to receive compulsory education was because the immigrants from East Africa had not yet had children at that time and there were few school-age children. Therefore, there were many primary school students aged 12 or 3.

But in Wang Lun’s time, compulsory education in East Africa had just started, so it was only promoted in cities and towns at first. However, the town of Lolingen, where Wang Lun was located, had not yet developed at that time. It was not even a village and could only be called a colonial stronghold.

Therefore, there was not even a primary school in the Lorraine base at that time, and Wang Lun naturally could not have the opportunity to receive education.

However, this opportunity allowed several of his younger brothers to catch up. After arriving in East Africa, Wang Weimo, the previously malnourished adult men, regained their second youth and could afford to have children and raise them, so there were more Wang Lun. Four brothers, there should have been six, but two have died in infancy.

In fact, according to his father, he had an older brother, but he died at birth in the Far East.

Now his brother's bones are still in the Far East. This is also a regret in the hearts of his parents. Originally, death at an early age was considered unlucky. Now that the family has immigrated to East Africa thousands of miles away, it is even more pitiful to think about it. However, the times are like this. I can only hold my forehead and sigh. "You're right, I'm old. I'm useless and can't keep up with the changes of the times!" Wang Weimo sighed.

“Dad, what are you talking about? You are the treasure of our town, the evergreen tree.” Wang Lun persuaded.

Wang Weimo is actually only fifty-three years old, but in a country like East Africa, ordinary people are relatively long-lived. People like King Constantine of East Africa who are nearly a hundred years old are truly rare evergreen trees.

Even if Wang Weimo feels it is a pity, the reform of rural areas in East Africa will not change. Because of the development of tractors and automobiles, many original farm roads are obviously no longer adaptable to the new changes of the times.

Therefore, the farm roads in Lolingen Town also need to be improved. It is not too far from Dodoma City, so it is also a pilot area for high-standard farmland construction in East Africa.

With the development of the times, the high-standard farmland in East Africa has also been updated to the second generation. There are three main aspects of the work. The first is to merge farmland to adapt to mechanized operations. The second is to upgrade the technology of irrigation canals, mainly to convert the fields originally used to lift water. Windmills and other methods were replaced by new technologies such as water pumps. The third was to build mechanized farming roads to facilitate the operation of large machinery in farmland for mechanized harvesting. This was nothing more than strengthening and widening farming roads.

This is also the reason why the town of Lollingen backfilled some farmland. If people and cattle were used on the previous farming roads, horses would naturally have no problem, but replacing them with more cumbersome tractors and cars would not be a problem.

In addition, the second generation of high-standard farmland in East Africa should also have supporting measures such as the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. However, these are currently the shortcomings of East Africa, so it mainly relies on farmyard manure or imported fertilizers and pesticides.

Of course, East Africa is not completely dependent on imports. Priority can still be given to some developed domestic cities and coastal cities, and areas with a certain chemical industry base.

For example, the upper-level city of Lolingen Town, Dodoma, has small chemical companies, but the output can currently only meet the needs of the surrounding areas of the city. Although Lolingen Town is close to Dodoma City, it is not a suburb of Dodoma, so it is Relevant pesticide and fertilizer quotas cannot be allocated.

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The first town.

 Minister of Agriculture Goldstein is reporting on agricultural improvements across East Africa. In order to facilitate management and promote mechanized farming, the Ministry of Agriculture has divided the country into regions.

Goldstein: "Now East Africa has formed nine major agricultural areas and several small agricultural areas. The nine major agricultural areas are the eastern coastal plain area (including northern Mozambique, Kenya, and the coast of Tanzania), the East African Plateau area (Tanga East of Lake Nyika), Great Lakes region (also mainly distributed in the East African Plateau), Mesopotamia region (Shabelle and Juba river basins), Central Plateau region (mainly in the Katanga Plateau and Matabele Plateau), Mozambique Region (Southern Mozambique Plains), Lake Malawi Region, Angola Region, South Africa Plateau Region.”

“In addition to these nine major agricultural areas, such as the Azande Plateau, the Nile Basin, the Congo rainforest, Southwest Africa, etc., are subject to various constraints and have not yet formed a large-scale agricultural scale.”

“Among the nine major agricultural regions, the central plateau region and Mozambique region are developing the most rapidly and have the potential to surpass the Great Lakes region.”

(End of this chapter)