Chapter 1041 New Agriculture
The technological innovation of water pumps in Kapolan City is also a microcosm of the development of the agricultural field in East African countries in recent years. Of course, water conservancy is not only related to agriculture, but also has a huge impact on cities and shipping.
The natural precipitation in Kapolan City is relatively low. Without advanced and complete water conservancy facilities, it would not be possible to become a new cotton planting base to be built in Bohemia Province.
For example, cotton can be grown in the eastern part of Bohemia, and rainfall is relatively abundant, but the quality of cotton is not as good as in the western region. Generally, the quality of cotton in arid or semi-arid areas is better, and planting cotton and other crops in these areas is a priority. The solution is the water source problem.
The most prominent one in this regard is the cotton growing area of Somalia. The water conservancy construction in Somalia has made the Shabelle and Juba river basins become world-famous agricultural production areas.
The same is true for Kapolan City. The construction of its water conservancy facilities began in the 1980s, and developed rapidly and basically took shape in the 1990s. The completion of such water conservancy project construction in just a dozen years naturally required the help of black workers.
As a relatively young country, East Africa’s exploitation of black labor has reached its peak in the past two decades. Without their efforts, East Africa’s national agriculture would not have been able to quickly catch up with other countries.
Even the United States, which has a relatively short history, has a history of large-scale modernization and development for hundreds of years. East Africa has closed the gap with Europe, the United States and other regions in just a few decades. The sacrifices involved must be astronomical.
The investigator of the Kapolan City Water Conservancy Bureau was not in a hurry to leave after completing his work. He himself was quite interested in the agricultural development of Kosha Town. As someone who often dealt with agriculture, the two generations of East Africans also witnessed it with their own eyes. This has led to great changes in the agricultural development of East African countries.
Kesha Town was originally developed from a village. In the early days, it only planted some food crops, including wheat and corn. With the development of agriculture and changes in national agricultural policies in recent years, Kesha Town has begun to extensively plant cash crops such as cotton and tobacco.
Especially, it only took seven years for the scale of cotton planting to grow from almost zero to number one in the city.
During the First Five-Year Plan period, the cotton planting area in Kesha Town increased the fastest. On the one hand, it was the improvement of water conservancy facilities, and on the other hand, it was the improvement of mechanization efficiency. Of course, the most important thing was the policy change, which promoted the development of Kesha Town. Agricultural transformation and development.
Walking in the fields of Kesha Town, you can see large-scale cotton fields. These cotton fields are all large in size, with a standard geometric distribution and are divided by water canals.
“There are more and more tractors in the town now, and the field plans are getting larger and larger to adapt to this new agricultural machinery farming model. In the past, farming was mainly carried out by livestock.” Tal introduced to him.
"The output of tractors is getting higher and higher now. The agricultural machinery station in our town now has a total of 28 tractors. If we include the surrounding villages, there should be more than 40 tractors. They are all newly allocated in the past five years, and Equipped with corresponding agricultural tools.”
The tractors used in Kosha Town are basically produced by Harare City. As for Kapolan City, where Kosha Town is located, it is a city with a relatively weak industrial base in the province, and its industry is only limited to some light industry fields.
This is not a secret, but is one of the key industrial projects of Kapolan City during the Second Five-Year Plan. In addition, Kapolan City will also build a cotton gin factory to adapt to the increasing cotton planting area in Kapolan City.
So during the Second Five-Year Plan, Kapolan City was allocated a total of two modern factories, a small-scale fertilizer factory and a medium-sized cotton gin factory. This shows that industrialization in East Africa is not easy now. On average, the resources that can be allocated to more than 600 cities in East Africa during the Second Five-Year Plan are very few. Some cities do not even have a modern factory. This is also the current dilemma of East Africa's industrial development.
Of course, East Africa's Second Five-Year Plan obviously has more advantages than the First Five-Year Plan period, and East Africa is in the early stages of industrial development. The path to early industrialization is bound to be tortuous, but as time goes by, the speed of industrialization will also increase. is getting faster and faster, especially East Africa, which has an absolute advantage in emerging industries.
"During the Second Five-Year Plan, it was quite difficult to allocate industrial resources. This is still the case in our province. The difficulties in other parts of the country can be imagined. Of course, compared with the past, the development of East Africa in these years is obvious to all. I don't know about other places. We know very well that in our city’s case, the industrial and agricultural output has increased by more than 30% compared with before the First Five-Year Plan.”
“The towns and villages below are also developing very fast, especially in agriculture. By the time the Second Five-Year Plan is completed, the scale of agriculture in our city will probably more than double what it was before.”
During the Second Five-Year Plan period, Kapolan City responded to the provincial government's plan and focused on increasing the cotton planting area. Today, Kapolan City's cotton planting area ranks second in the province. If it is doubled, it may become the province's largest cotton planting area. The largest cotton planting base.
The confidence for Kapolan City to expand the cotton planting area comes from the conditions of water conservancy facilities. If Kapolan City’s water conservancy facilities were not perfect ten years ago, even if it wanted to expand the cotton planting area, it would not have had this condition.
As the westernmost part of Bohemia Province, Kapolan City still has a lot of available land. As for the labor force, although the black population has decreased rapidly in recent years, the city's birth rate is relatively high, so there is no need to worry about the labor force.
Cotton picking requires a large amount of labor to be completed manually. After all, East Africa does not yet have mature cotton picking technology, which is a pity.
Of course, at the beginning of the 20th century, there was no better method for cotton picking in the world's major cotton-growing countries. Even in the western United States, manual methods were still adopted. In the past, the southern plantations of the United States were mainly completed by black slaves. This work.
Of course, cotton picking in East Africa mainly relies on the cooperation of domestic nationals and black workers. Of course, with the rapid decline in the number of black workers, this also makes East Africa more urgent to develop new agricultural tools.
Not only cotton, but also crops such as rice, wheat, etc. have similar needs. However, due to the complexity and difficulty of picking cotton, the progress of agricultural tool development is not ideal.
Mechanized planting of rice and wheat has already been introduced, but because the technology is still immature, it cannot be promoted on a large scale like tractors.
During the Second Five-Year Plan, the main technological changes in the agricultural field in East Africa were to increase the output of tractors, pesticides, and fertilizers, and to further improve farmland water conservancy construction.
As for the further development of agriculture, it is mainly limited by the difficulties of technological breakthroughs, but difficulties do not mean that there are no achievements.
With the development of education and industry in East Africa, the development of new technologies in East Africa is accelerating, and scientific research achievements have increased significantly. Especially during the First Five-Year Plan, a large number of new technologies were applied, which greatly improved the progress of East Africa's industrialization. Therefore, during the Second Five-Year Plan, East Africa The government will further promote the application of new technologies in agriculture and industry.
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