.9oo22[o]423 Chapter 896 The struggle of seeds "Please support for monthly votes"

Huishi Investment Group's planting base R&F Center in the Northeast was built on the base, covering an area of ​​about 10,000 square meters. But in fact, the building area is much larger, and the high-rise buildings with more than 20 stories have basically been put into use, with about thousands of technicians and experts working in it.

"You actually have such a big research center?" Cuiqi said with some emotion.

Although I have always known that Fan Wubing's career has been very big and has been to the headquarters in Beijing and Shanghai, I never thought that there was such a large planting base and research center in the Northeast. Zhang Qi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, saying that behind successful people there are always many hard work that others can't see.

"That's just use it." Fan Wubing didn't say anything.

After everyone entered together, they arrived at the top of the research center building, which is also the location of the overall control center of the entire base. Generally speaking, all important tasks are divided from here.

"What is your main research direction? You need so many people?" Zhang Qi asked curiously.

Fan Wubing replied, "It's mainly food safety issues. You know, the problem of genetically modified foods is hotter now. We mainly do some work from this aspect."

"GMO food? Zhang Qi nodded and said that he had heard of some.

In order to improve the nutritional value of agricultural products and produce food faster and more efficiently, scientists use genetic modification methods to change the genetic information of organisms and combine new genes, so that future crops have high nutritional, storage resistance, disease and pest resistance and herbicide resistance, and continuously produce new genetically modified foods.

There are many plant-based genetically modified foods, such as bread production requires wheat with high protein content, while current wheat varieties contain low protein. Transferring highly expressed protein genes into wheat will make the bread produced have better baking performance.

For example, tomatoes are a kind of fruit and vegetable with rich nutrition and high economic value, but they are not resistant to storage.

In order to solve the storage problem of tomatoes, researchers have found that the enzyme gene that controls the synthesis of plant aging hormone ethylene is an important gene that causes plant aging. If the expression of this gene can be inhibited by genetic engineering methods, the biosynthesis of the aging hormone Yifeng will be controlled and the tomato will not easily become soft and rot.

Through hard work, many scientists from small China and other countries in the United States have cultivated new varieties of tomatoes. This tomato is anti-aging, softening, storage-resistant, and can be transported for long distances, reducing waste in processing, production and transportation.

There are many types of animal-based transgenic foods, such as human genes are transferred into the body of cattle. The milk produced by cows when they grow up contains gene drugs, which can be used for the treatment of human diseases after extraction. Human auxin gene is transferred into the pig genome, and the pig's growth has doubled and the pork quality has been greatly improved. Now such pork has been invited to the table in Australia.

Genetically modified foods are products created using new technologies and are also a new thing. People naturally have questions about the safety of eating genetically modified foods.

In fact, the first person to raise this publicly was Professor Pipite from the Aberdeen Rot Institute in the UK. He found in his research two years ago that after eating genetically modified potatoes, young mice will damage their internal organs and fatigue-free systems.

This attracted great attention from the scientific community. The Royal Society then reviewed the report and announced in May last year that the study was full of loopholes.

But also last year, the authoritative British scientific journal Nature published a paper by John Rossi, a professor at Cornell University in the United States. It pointed out that the butterfly larvae and other beneficial insects in the field will have malnutrition after eating leaves with some kind of genetically modified corn pollen, and the mortality rate is particularly high. There is currently some evidence to point out the potential dangers of genetically modified foods.

However, more scientists' experiments have shown that genetically modified foods are safe. Scientists who agree with this view believe that any genetically modified food has conducted a large number of scientific experiments before it is launched. The country and the government have relevant laws and regulations to restrict it. Scientists also have a very rigorous attitude towards academic research. In addition, farmers will use pesticides to ensure quality when planting traditional crops, while some genetically modified foods that are resistant to diseases and insects do not need to be sprayed with pesticides. Also, whether a food will cause poisoning depends mainly on whether it has receptors in the human body and whether it can be metabolized. The converted genes are screened and have clear effects. Therefore, genetically modified ingredients will not accumulate in the human body and will not be harmful.

"As far as I know, this technology is a world-class project. Does your research center have such capabilities?" Although it seems a bit impolite to ask this, Cui Qi still expressed a considerable degree of doubt about it. Fan Wubing laughed, "Although we started late, we have started researching related projects three years ago. We have also achieved some achievements."

Fan's investment group's research on genetically modified projects is mainly carried out from two aspects. One is that Fan Wubing himself does not trust the safety performance of genetically modified foods. The other is that although the planting base mainly produces green natural foods, Fan Wubing also considers that once the national legislation opens up the genetically modified foods, he must have corresponding technology.

Scientific arguments for genetically modified foods. Since the 1980s, it has been entangled abroad. A large number of scientific evidences have proved that genetically modified foods are indeed harmful to the human body and have cancer-causing substances. Because the consequences of genetically modified foods in crops cannot be controlled, they first developed genetically modified milk with cows. The so-called genetically modified milk is to go to the United States for milk-floating and voluntary hormones. The cows after injecting hormones can increase milk production, and milk production can increase by about 30%. However, the lifespan of cows will be reduced by two years on average, and cows often suffer from breast cancer and other symptoms.

This genetically modified cow was discovered by Monsanto in the United States. Most Chinese people don’t seem to know much about Monsanto. During the Vietnam War, the United States believed that it attacked the jungle guerrillas and spread poisons every day, causing large forest deaths. This medicine was prescribed by Monsanto. In fact, this medicine is a herbicide, called Nano.

The harm and impact of orange agents are very far-reaching, and in those places there have been no grass growing in those places for decades.

Monsanto is also an old company, as famous as DuPont and Dow Chemical. The foundation that supports genetically modified technology is a foundation under Rockefeller. The institutions involved in the research include Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical, etc. Monsanto has established a joint venture in China at this time, and the best-selling cotton seeds in the country were developed by this company in cooperation.

Monsanto's main goal now is to control Chinese seed production companies. Even India's largest hybrid seed company has a joint venture with Monsanto. As for DuPont, there is no need to introduce it. People on earth know that many people may not know about DuPont's Pioneer Seed Company. The seeds of Pioneer Seed Industry are the leader in the corn seed industry. The Northeast is the largest grain production base in my country. In the entire Northeast market, Pioneer Seed Industry's corn seed industry accounts for more than half of the market share. In order to buy American seeds, farmers in Northeast China have to pay advance payments to the company first, and the price is sky-high, which is more than ten times higher than the domestic seed price.

The reason why there is such a big gap is that the corn output produced by Pioneer Seed Industry is 20% higher than the average level, not to mention twenty or thirty percent, the survival rate is basically 100%.

Domestic corn seeds need to plant a nest with three to four seeds, while Americans can just plant a nest with one seed. This improves yield and improves efficiency, and has good resistance to diseases, waterlogging and drought resistance. The reason for this advantage is that this magical seed is genetically modified corn seeds.

Some industry experts say that the mother of this variety in the United States comes from China, which is not impossible, because a long time ago, the American Pioneer Company came to China for inspection and picked several Chinese wild soybeans at the airport. The purity of Chinese wild soybeans is the highest in the world. After taking this soybean back, they relied on this sample to change their genes to cultivate new varieties. Their high oil volume and high disease resistance characteristics quickly conquered the world market. The soybeans in the United States are 37% of the entire grain export. China is the second largest soybean importer in the world. This soybean is also the genetically modified soybean launched by its company. China's things are improved by the United States, and then they use high government subsidies to be dumped in China. In comparison, China's soybeans are not only expensive, but also of poor quality, and are not a rival to American soybeans at all.

At present, many domestic seed companies are facing survival crises and their competitiveness cannot compete with foreign seed companies. Therefore, they operate in concert with Western powers. Chinese seed companies do not have advanced technology and their actual control is in the hands of foreign companies. That is to say, most of the food and most of the oil we eat are actually controlled by Americans. Therefore, some people have said that the real power to control our food, clothing, housing and transportation does not come from the government, nor from the market, but from Wall Street in the United States. Fan Wubing briefly introduced to Zhang Qi.

After the previous seed market situation, he said to her, "In addition to the above bulk grain seed markets, the vegetable seed market is also the world of foreign brands. Foreign brands account for more than half of the country's share, among which tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber seeds, and spicy plate seeds are all the world of foreign brands. For example, the Dutch Bulita eggplant seeds are sold for more than 100 yuan per gram, and the domestic enterprises' eggplant seeds are only sold for 80 cents per gram. No matter whether they are cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant or other seeds, as long as they are sold by foreign brands, it can be compared with the gold price."

Chen Manhua also said to Zhang Qi, "Most of the vegetable seeds come from Europe. They do not have genetically modified ingredients, but they are ordinary hybrids. They can be eaten with confidence. However, for the West, especially the great power of the United States, Gong Duan Chinese seeds, the purpose of the grain market is not simple. Once the food war begins, the advantage of being suppressed may be reflected. However, whether it is to seize power and make profits or otherwise, the purpose of using genetically modified grain crops is more cold-blooded. Genetically modified seeds will cause long-term genetic pollution to the land. They will affect the characteristics of plants. Some effects after consumption may lurk in the human body for a long time, causing serious damage to avoid losing weight.

"Our research center is private and open to the outside world. In fact, it is to figure out something. Does the harm of genetically modified crops exist and how much influence is it? Also, if there is no harm, then we must also have the ability to provide a large amount of domestic seeds to resist the invasion of foreign seeds." Fan Wubing said to Zhangqi.
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